I'm volunteering again at this year's Heroes Convention in lovely Charlotte, NC. They are calling us Sidekicks this year, complete with badges and yellow t-shirts. It's a good idea: makes the volunteers easy to spot on the floor, and helps when you'r
Read more…What about the often-told ~ favle?? ~ of comics shops that deal with not wanting to order something little-known by simply teeling you that something that is published and available is not available, does not exist? Has anyone here ever run into thii
Read more…Has anybody read any of the "American Comic Book Chronicles" by TwoMorrows?
If you're unfamiliar, it's billed as a historical look at the history of American comic books by decade -- although some decades are split in two. So far they've published 19
Read more…Starting with a 2-issue miniseries, DC Millennium, which walks the reader through 1,000 years, ending at the Legion's doorstep. Millennium is by Brian Bendis and a variety of artists (one for each time period), and the Legion proper will by by Bendis
I’ve probably mentioned on more than one occasion that Jonathan Hickman is one of my favorite writers. I consider his runs on Avengers and Fantastic Four to be among the best ever for those titles. So I was happy to hear about his new X-Men project.
Read more…I usually only post in the Mr. Silver Age Forum, so a lot of you fine folks probably don't even recognize my name, but I was in the CBGxtra forum for years and years, and have hovered over the Mr. Age section since it was launched. Anyways, I wanted
Read more…I begin with my traditional spoiler space picture of someone who has nothing to do with the topic at hand:
Alan Hale Sr. & Jr. (To quote Russell Johnson: "At one point, the two men looked almost exactly alike."
Issue #1 covers from the beginning o
Read more…Justice League of America Annual #2 (12/84)
Writer - Gerry Conway Editor - Alan Gold
Penciller - Chuck Patton Inker - Dave Hunt
Cover Art – Chuck Patton & Dick Giordano
“... The END of the Justice League!"
Lets deal with that cover first.
I love it!
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I have wanted to start a thread like this for a long time, but I am now getting around to it. This thread is not only for the official Elseworlds books, but also for books not in continuity, like unofficial entries into the Imaginary Stories category
Read more…Did you just pick up a new title at the comic shop and want to let people know about it? Here's a thread to tout your new faves.
I picked up two new #1s this week.
The first, Fairlady, was a book I'd been looking forward to for a while. Written b
Read more…Surprisingly, I search on this website reveals no talk of Robert Loren Fleming and Trevor Von Eeden's Thriller. I discovered these in a box of mine last weekend, still in their individual bags and still marked .50 each! I noticed Trevor Von Eeden's n
Read more…From CBR: "Harsh Realm and Espers Creator, James Hudnall, Passes Away"
The news was announced on Facebook by his friend Matt Cossin.
He started out at Eclipse after time in the Air Force, and also worked for Marvel and DC. I best remember his graphic
Read more…Can someone tell me if an Aquaman Archives Volume 2 exists? A national book chain has such a book listed on it's website, complete with ISBN number. Everytime I look it up it is listed as "out of stock, unavailable". I find no trace of it anywhere e
Read more…I don't know anything about Vault's Heathen, but apparently it's going to become a movie. I've seen stories about that movie finding a director at Variety, Hollywood Reporter and this press release:
Twilight Director Catherine Hardwicke Signs on to
Read more…Charles Soule Teases THE END for Daredevil?
New York, NY—September 21, 2018—Charles Soule’s long-running tenure on DAREDEVIL is coming to an end … and he is not leaving Matt Murdock in a good place.
Is this THE END for Daredevil?
This October, Charl
Read more…King Features Syndicate's COMICS KINGDOM has changed its page layout, and the effect on my phone is that the strips are too small to read and, unlike the way it was before, I can't stretch the size of the on-screen image to make it readable. There's
Read more…From The Hollywood Reporter: "Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95"
Read more…Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic book lovers e
