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
Read more…It 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 l
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…Each year, the World Science Fiction Convention announces the Hugo Awards for the best Science Fiction of the previous year in various categories. In years when no Hugo Awards were made 25, 50 or 75 years ago, the convention may give Retrospective H
Read more…For most of my life, I never thought I would ever stop reading comic books. But these days I find myself buying fewer periodical comics than ever before. That’s because every time I pick up a highly-touted first issue in a new direction, I flip throu
Read more…| 50 years ago someone gave me a copy of Cheyenne Kid #72. It was then that I discovered comics and started to amassed a collection that was at one point nearly 3000 books. I still have the Cheyenne Kid & other comics I have kept. I sold others to get |
Last year I bought the Swamp Thing Omnibus and the Punisher Omnibus on the same day. Although I chose to read the Swamp Thing Omnibus first, it had been my intention to read the two back to back, but when I finished the Swamp Thing one I decided to m
Read more…WOLVERINE #1:
Now that my “Frank Miller Daredevil” discussion is nearing the end of Miller’s first run, I find myself in the mood to read the 1982 Wolverine limited series, also by Miller (with Chris Claremont). Wolverine was only Marvel’s third lim
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The first character called "Ka-Zar" came from the pulps, but when Martin Goodman decided to publish comic books, he moved that character over to his very first, Marvel Comics #1. The first Ka-zar was a boy whose parents' plane crashed in the African
Read more…I've been a fan of Marvel's monsters for as long as I've been reading comics. This discussion will be divided into two "phases." Phase One will be "The Monster Age" and will focus on monsters which will cross over into Phase Two, "The Marvel Age," pa
Read more…I felt like writing a quiz. But I had a fair number of questions I liked, so it'll have three parts.
Only stories set in the old DCU and dating from the Silver or Bronze Ages are eligible. Justice League of America #261, the final issue of the origi
Read more…I first heard of him in the late 80's/early 90's. My best friend from college was gay, and I went with him to a gay bookstore in downtown Boston, where I discovered the works of cartoonists like Cruse, Alison Bechdel, Diane DiMassa, and others
Read more…So finally I'm going to post about the series of Timely Comics one-shots from 2009 to celebrate Marvel's 70th Anniversary through their Golden Age. I hope to note the retcons, contradictions and points of contention. As I said before, I could not fin
Read more…Did anyone read Incoming #1? My LCS was sold out. What did it have to say about this?
I know some of you were following Wonder Woman during G. Willow Wilson's tenure, although I don't know about now. Anyhow, here's the press release:
AN ALL-STAR COLLECTION OF CREATIVE TALENT CELEBRATE WONDER WOMAN THIS JANUARY IN LANDMARK ISSUE
Ove
Read more…What are the different Clans (Houses) of the planet Krypton?
I see:
-El
-Van
-Ur
-Ak
-Var
-Zee
-Zor
-Wah
-Zod
-Lar
-Gand
-IL
Who do we think 1st discovered Superman's greatest weakness?
Jonathan Kent
Chris Stanley
Lex Luthor
Jason Trask
Bruce Wayne
Archie Andrews
Read more…Story I suppose there'll be tariffs on vibranium now.
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