I recently picked up a Man-Bat special from 1984 that reprinted three of his earliest appearances. They weren't bad, but they didn't blow me away. I also have a book & record comic that i think is an original story, and I've read his self-titled seri
Read more…Don't count on receiving all your Marvel titles this week. My LCS manager told me yesterday and CBR confirms that many Marvel books were damaged in transit from the printer to Diamond Distributors. Marvel's going back to press and the affected books
Read more…I think April's is already out, but I just finished my March one today.
Some of you might enjoy this extended essay on the Watchmen and it's place in superhero comics history.
Who Sent the Sentinels? by Andrew Rilstone
It's very long - about 60 pages, but I loved it. There's a lot of genuine insights here, as he com
Read more…I am the very model of a modern major general, I've information animal and vegetable and mineral, and nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, and iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium. The quick brown fox something something the lazy dog, Spoiler, spo
Read more…At the start of the 70s, the Super-titles consisted of Action Comics, Superman, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Superboy and Adventure Comics (starring Supergirl). These were all being edited by Mort Weisinger, except Superboy which he’d left in 1968. Weisin
Read more…So the one thing that struck me when reading Siege #3... ...am I really supposed to believe that the Fantastic Four and the X-Men were just standing around watching this humongous superhuman battle on TV without feeling any obligation to do anything
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Where you're from and your life experiences alter who you are and how you react to events. Take a look at this writer's take on the topic...
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Marvel is proud to announce the return of Marvelman to shelves everywhere with the release of Marvelman Classic Primer #1 in June! Who is the mysterious Marvelman? And just why is he one of the most enduring super heroes of all time? The answer
Read more…I'm toying with the idea of opening a comic shop here in my hometown within a few years. I know there are some here who are current or former shop owners or employees; plus in general you gals and guys are some of the smartest cats I know. Any advice
Read more…Anyone know of an online archive or even just a big master list?
When the Legion returns to their own book in May, it will be the older, original Legion not either of the reboots. The question is "Will we read about heroes in their thirties with complex backstories or would we rather have them young again or agai
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DeHaven wrote the amazing "It's Superman!"...possibly the best Superman story ever told, so I'm very much looking forward to reading his examination of Superman as an icon.
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My comic book club (which is almost three years old now!) is picking the next six months or so of titles, and I needed to pick the boards' brain on a few titles. The ones we're voting on are: Fables: Legends in Exile Zot! Swamp Thing: Love and Death
Read more…In the past, we've discussed our comics reading habits: the wheres, whens, how manys and for how longs. Well, over the last several weeks, Saturday morning breakfast time has become my favorite time to read comics. Mrs. Beyond and I usually have the
Read more…A while ago I bought the last issue of Dan Slott's run because it purporeted to contain an explanation of the mis-characterization and the continuity problems which did and do plague today's MU. It did, but I didn't realize that part of my enjoyment
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