J.M. DeMatteis is 56 today. Bwa ha ha ha!
Read more…The game consists of adding new episodes to those which have been suggested. For example: the first player might post: A new, female Green Goblin hits New York. Spider-Man tries to capture her, but also finds himself attracted to her. Disturbed by t
Read more…Air Hawk, a.k.a. Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors, was an Australian adventure strip created by John Dixon. After the daily version was started the Sundays were handled by Mike Tabrett, Hart Amos and Keith Chatto. I didn't have the opportunity to fol
Read more…One thirty one were the issues at DellSeventy five at Gold KeyTwo fifty eight by the end of the runThe last fifty two at DCThe House of Ideas started over at oneFor a twenty nine issue run thereNot counting annuals (of which there were three)That is,
Read more…For a while, my list of "I'll buy that someday" included the Showcase Presents reprints of the Flash. If money were no object, I would buy the Archives in a second ... but my budget is limited, so the Archives - at full price, anyway - are not an opt
Read more…Most years, we start a Christmas loot list letting everyone know what wonderful stuff we received. This year, I thought it might be fun to try a change of pace. So what did you give this year? I'll start. Ana and I gave the girls their own Nintendo
Read more…I am borrowing Travis' idea but I am narrowing the subject matter. I bought a large Batman collection from a friend of mine. I am pulling them out of the box as my friend had them. In the case of a multi-book story line I am going to set the book asi
Read more…So I finally got the TPB of Batman: The Black Glove today, and on the cover it proclaims "The Prequel to Batman: RIP!" And that got me pondering a semantic point... It's always seemed to me that a prequel is a later-told story that precedes the even
Read more…(oh, you'll groan in a second) I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on two DC series from the 70's and early 80's - Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales. I don't much about either, except that "Western" for a time starred Jonah Hex before he g
Read more…It looks like the Sgt. Rock movie is back on, however it is now planned as a sci-fi movie. I'll pass.
Read more…Back in the Sixties, when the Superman Family were forever meeting/romancing doubles of themselves, I remember editor Mort Weisinger's lettercol telling us more than once that everyone on Earth has 17 doubles (so how many must there be across the uni
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I just read Cars: Radiator Springs #3 to Alex as his bedtime story. Well, I read it but I didn't understand half of it. I understood the English half just fine. It was the half in Italian that left me mostly clueless. Yep, this comic aimed at kids--A
Read more…Courtesy of Comic Book Resources Of biggest note to me: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comes to an end with #50. That will mark the second series I've collected entirely in trades.
Read more…We spent a lot of time on the previous board debating and discussing the Comics Should Be Good list of the top 100 comic book runs. Well, they're at it again, this time with a list of the top 100 comic book storylines. The master list can be found h
Read more…http://www.tcj.com/?p=1827 Fascinating stuff!
Read more…“Every… comic book version of the Bible that I’ve seen contains passages of completely made-up narrative and dialogue, in an attempt to streamline and ‘modernize’ the old scriptures, and still, these various comic book Bibles all claim to adhere to t
Read more…Has anyone read any of the following comic books?: Adventure Comics no. 4 http://ifanboy.com/comics/dc_comics/adventure_comics/4 Dark X-Men no. 1 http://marvel.com/catalog/DARK_X-MEN.2009.1 The Brave & The Bold no. 29 http://www.dccomics.com/dcu/c
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