I've been scanning these into my computer as a Christmas gift for Luke. Roy Thomas, Len Wien and Marv Wolfman were the writers and I've often thought it one of the best break up stories. There was a slow and deliberate build up with the loss of R
Read more…As a bit of a departure, I'll be covering a character I doubt many of you have heard of. He called himself the Bat-Man and three were a few comics about him back iin period of the late 1930's-early 1940's. I wonder whatever happened to him, as I thou
Read more…With the Netflix series scheduled to drop Aug. 18, I'll be writing about its comics counterparts. What are your favorite issues, themes, stories, characters or memories of Defenders? I may use 'em in a column!
An old thought surfaced as I was commenting on the "super-telepathy" thread, one i've never written about. To wit: The super-powers that we, as human beings, have imagined for millennia that are preposterous but somehow seem plausible to the point th
Read more…I bought new comics (and old) yesterday and ACTION COMICS #985 and #986 were among them.
It occurred to me, when I looked at the numbers, that we are REALLY close to reaching ACTION #1000!
I used to imagine when ACTION would reach #1000 as a young fa
I'm thinking about doing a story about Defenders "must-read" stories. It wouldn't be actual Defenders comics, of course, but instead stories about the TV roll call. Here's what I'm thinking about. Y'all feel free to chime in with your favorite ones o
Read more…From Slate: "How Does a Batman Comic Book Writer Work?"
This is one of a series of podcasts on Slate that focuses on the making of Batman comics. This installment interviews writer Tom King. I haven't listened to it yet myself, but the introduction s
Read more…One of the comics picked up yesterday had an in-house add for The Adventures of Jerry Lewis. On the cover it shows him facing a barbarian while Wonder Woman (not in her normal costume, a red top and white skirt) is promising him help. Anyone ever
Read more…I thought it might be interesting to put together a list of features that started in the back pages of a title, and graduated to the lead slot, or the lead slot in another title. I'll add to the list any suggestions.
I'm counting features as eligibl
Read more…Day 2: Friday, 7/21: Day 3: Saturday, 7/22: Day 4: Sunday, 7/23:
I don't know if I need to say this -- y'all probably know -- but I'm putting the information officially released from San Diego on the Facebook page. Go there to comment, or c
Read more…Today's issue of New Super-Man, in addition to featuring exciting adventures with the Super-Man, Bat-Man and Wonder-Woman of China, ends with the return of a character first seen about eighty years ago on the cover of Detective Comics #1 (March 1937
Read more…It seems to me that Commissioner Gordon and Perry White ought to have figured out that Bruce Wayne is Batman (Gordon) and Clark Kent is Superman (White).
Why?
Because they're both intelligent people with a great deal of experience in professions
Read more…PRESS RELEASE
AN ANIMATED NEW COMIC FOR HARLEY QUINN AND HER BEST PAL…BATMAN
The digital series includes a prequel and sequel to the animated film this August
It’s the team-up we’ve been dreaming of as the cute psychopath Harley Quinn joins the br
Among the things I tend to pick up on my back-issue dives are comics that came out in my “golden age” -- approx. 1976 to 1985 -- but that I either had no interest in or just didn’t have the money to buy at the time. DC was my favorite publisher as a
Read more…Dark Days: The Forge came out this week, and considering it's the Next Big DC Thing, I assume some of us are reading it. It brings a lot of older DC concepts back, an starts exploring some new ones, as well. And it seems wholly differentiated from th
Read more…Okay, this is what I get for not paying attention to comic book news.
I went to load up about a month's worth of Marvel comics onto my iPad last night, because that's how I prefer to read them. When I went to upload them, it turned out I didn't get t
Read more…I am about halfway into the second trade of this book. There is no reason I should be loving this series as much as I am. These characters are deeply flawed, but there is something to like about most of them.
Has anyone else read this?
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