Since I'm off this week, I decided to go through my upstairs closet for the first time in at least ten years, if not more. The long boxes contain books between 1996 and 2000, roughly. This was when I returned to comics after quitting cold turkey for
Read more…Vulture.com profiles Ramona Fradon. She discusses Aquaman, her work at DC, and how the comics have changed, in front of and behind the scenes. No mention at all of her work on the Brenda Starr comic strip, however: "The Woman Who Made Aquaman a Star
Read more…Something’s happening; https://www.cnet.com/news/mad-magazine-is-shutting-down-say-reports/
Read more…HEROES IN CRISIS EXPANDS TO NINE ISSUES
Artists Lee Weeks and Mitch Gerads Join Tom King and Clay Mann in Revealing More Secrets of Sanctuary
Beginning September 26, Eisner Award-winner Tom King’s new limited series, HEROES IN CRISIS, introduces a n
Read more…I've been doing a reread of Brian Bendis's Superman/Action run this past week -- with the publication of Action 1009, he's reached 24 full issues, plus a short in Action Comics 1000. And I've found some interesting threads to consider.
1) On his rece
Read more…Is Harley keener in any of the comics? I read he wasn't and the actual character that becomes iron lad was named Nathaniel richards but I came across this article
Harley Keener (Earth-SD01)
It says harley keener becames ironlad in a multiverse.
Read more…I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very depressed.
In 1985, DC put out Crisis On Infinite Earths (COIE), a maxi-series designed to deconstruct and reassemble their super-hero properties so new readers could more easily understand what was goi
Read more…Sneak a peek inside Tee Franklin & Alitha E. Martinez’s horror series JOOK JOINT
PORTLAND, OR, 09/24/2018 — Image Comics is pleased to reveal a chilling preview excerpt from the forthcoming JOOK JOINT by Tee Franklin (BINGO LOVE) and Alitha E. Marti
Read more…I've been obsessively following Comic-Con International: San Diego coverage, because I knew I was going to write something about it, but didn't know what that something was. So I wrote it all down -- and learned a lot! And as a lifelong journalist, I
Read more…From Bleeding Cool: "After Twenty-Six Years, DC Comics Rumoured to Close Vertigo"
It seems some Warner Bros. suit questioned why more Vertigo properties aren't fodder for movies, and learned that's because most of them are creator-owned. The reaction
Read more…Brian Michael Bendis's second Wonder Comics offering was mostly wonderful.
First, the writing was nice and crisp and flowed nicely. It didn't seem to drag anywhere. Bendis and David F. Walker turned in a great script on this one. We were taken throug
Read more…There are a few things that are worth discussing in this thread.
Am I the only comics fan who's NOT all that worked up over the MCU? I've seen at most a third of the MCU pictures and have no real great desire to see any of the rest of them, (I haven't seen any DC movies either, not since the Batman one that kill
Read more…How about comic book stories being re.ade by new regeimes, or the same one, after the original version? The most famous here might be Mort Wesinger's remakes of earlier Superman stories. Did this practice on Superman predate Mort's tenure?
The theo
Read more…I never read any of the MAD magazine knockoffs of the sixties. However, in recent years I got a little curious about SICK, the magazine that provided most of Joe Simon's daily bread in that decade. It doesn't seem to have been really popular with com
Read more…From Newsarama: "DC Seeking New MANAGING EDITOR To Oversee Entire Comics Division"
Read more…Double the Vampblade AND the voodoo queen Zombie Tramp!
Katie Carva is a comic shop manager by day and the Glarkian space vampire hunter Vampblade by night. Lately, things have been going on a downward spiral for her. Her hometown of Detroit and he
Read more…The above quite pessimistic, but reasonably argued, article appeared on The Beat (w/different title there) recently. I can't link now.
Read more…The American Cartoonist has posted a notice (I can't link) that the King Features Syndicate THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN newspaper strip will switch to reruns of prior strips on March 25, rather than continue on with Roy Thomas assuming the credited scri
Read more…In a Cosmicbook.com story, it was stated that DC is cutting back their line considerably, with going from about 17 titles in January to 74 quoted. Ethan Von Schriber (Sp??) was quoted saying that comics shops were closing at a " frightening rate ".
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