There have been a lot of characters in the JLA over the years, and lots of them really don't fit my idea of who the League is. The ones I left out tend to fall into two categories:
After being cancelled in 1972, the Teen Titans made a couple of appearances in Brave & Bold as its members went their separate ways. However during the 52 and 100 Pagers, several of their stories were reprinted, most with that gorgeous Nick Cardy art
Read more…Regarding “Outlawed”: I think that if I lived in a “super-hero” universe, I would be doubtful about having kids fighting crime, especially in unsupervised situations.
I never really thought about it until Courtney Whitmore joined the JSA, when it
Read more…GENRE TV
Stargirl, "Stars and Stripe Part One" (DCUniverse, Aug. 3)
Stargirl, "Stars and Stripe Part One" (The CW, Aug. 4)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Brand New Day" (ABC, Aug. 5)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Second Contact" (CBS All Access, Aug. 6)
Doom Pa
Read more…I was going to say "villain teamup" stories, but some stories may bring in two villains and have them fight one another (and maybe the hero) for the whole story.
Some of the best include:
Debut story of THE SINISTER SIX
The first JLA/JSA crossover
Read more…In no particular order, here are the conventions that have been cancelled or postponed because of concern for COVID19/Coronavirus. All Round Table members are invited to add or update the list.
Read more…So, I was re-reading some of the old reading project threads I'd done int he past, and it made me want to tackle something new. However, I think this time around I'd like some input from people here on what they'd like to see.
Here are some of the o
Read more…...can he continue to report on his own activities as Superman? Doesn't the need for journalistic impartiality mean that the Planet has to assign a different reporter to cover Superman? Isn't the impartiality of every "Superman" story that "Clark" w
Read more…How many characters at work-for-hire publishers have been taken to other publishers, usually by their creators, re-named and used again?
The other day I was reading about Marvel's Helstrom TV series (or what little we know about it), and the reporter
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Just heard of his death. This leaves Sergio Aragones as the last of the great MAD Magazine artists of my youth still alive..
Always liked his work on movie and TV parodies.
Read more…Hello All, My wife and I were going to go to SDCC this year and cosplay as BB and DD but as you know it was cancelled. She doesn't want to waste her costume so she'd like to make a short video starring BB and DD. Could anyone give me issue numbers
Read more…Going through some Wizard magazines from 1995, I was amused by some of the prices for the debuts for some big name heroes who have appeared in movies and TV! If only I could give my younger self some advice!
Apparently Marvel has a bit of a problem with its two new titles, New Warriors and Children of the Atom where all the buzz appears to be mostly negative. This always amuses me because if you don't like a book, just don't buy it but nowadays everythin
Read more…Last year (or maybe two years ago...time flies) I tried to start up a reading club, trying to get everyone to read the same set of Commissioner Gordon stories along with me. It failed, and understandably so, since not everyone probably had the same i
Read more…So, given that we have all of this free time these days, I decided to use it to good advantage and dive into the Manga One PPiece. For those of you who have never heard of it, it's one of the most popular comics in the world today and has been for ye
Read more…It has been five months since I bought The Adventures of Tintin Complete Collection box set, but I’ve only just started reading it. The delay was due to the first story, “TINTIN IN THE LAND OF THE SOVIETS” (first serialized 1929-30). Hergé‘s style is
Read more…The Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime, the Grinning Ghoul, the Harlequin of Hate has been the Batman's inescapable nemesis since 1940. Despite his infamy, he is one of DC's most recognizable and profitable characters starring or co-starring in four ma
Read more…DC Cuts Ties with Diamond Comic Distributors
The publisher will no longer distribute through the industry leader in comics distribution
In a seismic shift for the comic book industry, DC has cut ties with Diamond Comic Distributors. The announcement
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