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 ".
Read more…HARBINGER WARS 2: AFTERMATH #1
Written by MATT KINDT
Art by ADAM POLLINA
Colors by DIEGO RODRIGUEZ
Letters by DAVE SHARPE
Cover A by RAÚL ALLÉN
Cover B by LEWIS LAROSA
HW2 Icon Variant by FELIPE MASSAFERA
The Valiant Universe will never be the same!
Read more…This is what I gave:
"By the early 1980's, DC Comics continuity was somewhat tangled, with their characters existing on several different "Earths" (Earth-One for the Silver Age versions, Earth-Two for the Golden Age versions, Earth-Three as a sort "
Read more…I am preparing to watch the Travolta%Newton-John movie of " Grease " full
-through for the first time ever. I just never got around to watching it all before. I saw the original Broadway production as a teenager in the 70s, finally enough, but I don
Read more…I'm going to start a thread here where we can find out about the availability of book editions and what's in them. Quite frankly, this would help me find out about the book availability of various stories, but I'm sure we can talk to each other. (We
Read more…AVENGERS #700: Celebrate the Landmark Anniversary Issue with a Cover from David Finch!
New York, NY—October 2, 2018—There’s no rest for the heroes who protect Earth…not even when it comes to the Avengers! Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will find themselve
Read more…So earlier this afternoon, I did finally come across my collection of Amalgam Comics, the Marvel/DC crossover where they literally combined the universes and characters into one world. It was from the late 90's, and it was a really awesome experience
Read more…It's a couplish days till AVENGERS: ENDGAME fully opens in North America. To-day, there will be a stunt of a number of theaters running all 22 MCU movies in order in mega-MEGA-mega marathon...and, after it being announced as bring in only 3 theaters/
Read more…From Bleeding Cool: "Comics Archivist and Publisher Greg Theakston Has Died, Aged 65"
Before digital image manipulation (i.e., Photoshop), the prevailing method of creating images of old comics was "Theakstonization" -- soaking an old comic in a chem
Read more…Captain Kirk Crosses Paths With Fellow Captains Picard, Janeway, and Sisko in Star Trek: The Q Conflict
The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager Collide for the First Time in Six-Issue Comic Book Crossover
SAN DIEGO, CA
Read more…I've just read that Kazuo Koike passed away on Wednesday at the age of 82. He was best known for writing Lone Wolf and Cub and Crying Freeman, but he did write a couple of stories for Marvel, too.
Read more…Here's a story from ICv2.com about IDW taking some steps to deal with their downward-spiraling situation. (They lost $36 MILLION last year.)
It's likely it's for sale, although it's possible they're looking for a deep-pocket partner.
I haven't been
Read more…AHOY Comics's first publication is coming out today: The Wrong Earth #1, by Tom Peyer and Jamal Igle. It looks like an absolute blast: The Silver Age version of a character (Dragonflyman) is transported to the dark, grim-and-gritty world of a later i
Read more…Story Kazuhiko Katō, better known by his pseudonym "Monkey Punch", has passed away. He was most famous for creating the manga Lupin III. I've never seen any of it, but I have seen references to it in many manga and anime that I have seen. One of the
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