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What I would do with the JSA (Spoilers for Doomsday Clock #12)

Well, the JSA is back in continuity, but it's obviously not precisely the same JSA as before.  (See illustration below)

Since that is the case, I think DC should make a few tweaks to the characters' back-stories, mostly moving them away from having

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Fan of Bronze: Kamandi Without the King

Of all of JACK KIRBY's 70s DC work, the book that lasted the longest was Kamandi the Last Boy On Earth which lasted fifty-nine issues but not with the King at the end. #33 (S'75) was the last issue that was written, drawn and edited by Kirby, #37 (Ja

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Red Tornadoes

THE GOLDEN AGE RED TORNADO:

My relationship with the Red Tornado (both of them, actually) goes back to Justice League of America #110, specifically the double-page pin-up of the Justice Society of America by Murphy Anderson (which originally appeared

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Night Girl Question

Was it ever specified how Night Girl's powers worked? Did it really need to be at night, or could they function in darkness as well? And if the latter is true, why would she carry around a variation of Dr. Mid-Nite's blackout bombs (aside from the ob

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Sandmen

Sandman Archives volume one (and only) features the first 22 Sandman stories from Adventure Comics #40-59 and New York World’s Fair Comics #1-2. NYWFC #1 beat Adventure Comics #40 to print, but Adventure Comics #40 was probably prepared first. In an

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R.I.P. Marty Pasko

I just saw this post by Alan Brennert on Facebook:

"We're all braced for bad news during these terrible times, but nothing could have prepared me for the call I received this morning telling me that my old and dear friend Martin Pasko passed away la

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This Week in Comics: May 11-17

With new comics coming back to shops this month, but schedules still in flux, I'm trying to keep up with what's available each week -- not just new comics, but TV/movies/online comics-related events as well. I see no reason that I should keep my rese

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WonderCon at Home

https://www.comic-con.org/wca/wonderconhome

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Jack Kirby's The Demon

I first read Jack Kirby’s The Demon in l1987. I remember because I know I read Matt Wagner’s limited series and John Byrne’s Action Comics #587 first. It was also right around this time I first read Alan Moore’s treatment of the Demon in Swamp Thing,

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Peter Cannon - Thunderbolt: Watch

Cap reviewed this graphic novel back on January 19 (see p. 462 of “What Comic Books Have You Read Today?”), but it took me a while to track it down. I had a half-page of notes already written in my head based on what I thought it was, but after actua

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More bad news for IDW

According to various news reports, IDW lost $800,000 in Q4, and $5.2M for 2019. Worse, they're not expecting to be profitable for 2020, either. They promise a return to profitability in 2021.

Here's the story from ICv2.

From the story above it appear

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ONE HUNDRED BEST JUSTICE LEAGUE STORIES

I found this DC "greatest hits" on markdown for $3, so even though I knew I wouldn't agree with its choices, I bought it.

Robert Greenberger's text is pretty much what I expected: it's a list of touchstones for hardcore fans, discussing thing

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Well, here's the validation I needed today. (Shameless twitter brag.)

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Silver and Bronze Quiz! FOES OF THE JLA, part three

As with part two, each question this time has at least two answers:

Edit: The above line is mostly true, but it isn't correct for Q.30. Except one could count that character as two or even three characters!

21.What villains who first appeared as JL

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Silver and Bronze Quiz! FOES OF THE JLA, part two

Here's part two of my epic quiz on JLA foes. Note that it's a Silver and Bronze quiz. That might be counterintuitive.

I mean to post the answers at intervals once all three parts are up, so there's still time to respond to part one, here.

This time

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John Byrne's Wonder Woman run - opinions?

So I picked up Wonder Woman 101 in a dollar box the other day (well, a 3 for $5 box but I digress).  It's the first issue of John Byrne's 3 year run on the title, and it was 1995-1998, so in my opinion, Byrne's best days were behind him at this poi

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Little Orphan Annie

I has now been six months since I stepped away from Little Orphan Annie, much longer than I had intended to. It occurs to me that it would be nice to have all those posts in one place. As soon as I get them moved here, I will continue from where I le

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Comics shipping Jan. 22, 2020

We haven't done this in a while. We should. Here's the list from Diamond, as of Jan. 16:

ABLAZE

GUNG HO #2 (MR) $3.99

KIDZ #1 $3.99

MIRKA ANDOLFO'S UNSACRED #3 (MR) $3.99

VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING #4 (MR) $3.99

ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT

MIRACULOUS TALE

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Frank Miller Daredevil... and Elektra

I recently completed a discussion of 13 volumes of Marvel Masterworks - Daredevil over in the "What Comics Have You Read Today?" thread. While I'm waiting for the 14th, I thought I'd skip ahead to Frank Miller's celebrated run. I didn't start read Da

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" ST: TMP " 40versary Fathom Events Showing

This September 15th and 18th, Fathom Events is putting on 40th Anniversary showings of STAR TREK:THE MOTION PICTURE continent-wide in various muliplexes.

An article in alt-weekly SF WEEKLY (yes, they still exist!)

writes about it (Can't link, I soww

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