THE BLACKHAWK FILES
Blackhawk is a favourite character of mine, as I see him as US comics' great fighter against totalitarianism. My interest is partly due to Dick Dillin's long run on the feature, but he didn't begin to pencil for the series until
Read more…AIRWOLF AIRSTRIKES, VOL. 1
MIKE BARON, JEFF MARIOTTE, MARC ANDREYKO, BARBARA KESEL, ROB WORLEY, MARC BERNARDIN, ADAM FREEMAN (W) • JEAN FROES, FABIANO NEVES (A) • BILLY KING (C)
TPB • FC • $17.99 • 144 pages
HAWKE, Santini, and the coolest attack cho
Read more…I bought Showcase Presents: Sea Devils Vol. 1 recently. I have a mix of reasons for being interested in the feature. I'm drawn to undersea adventure for its potential. I've become interested in DC's non-super teams of the Silver Age as they're a corn
Read more…8HOUSE: KIEM #3
Art / Cover: XURXO G. PENALTA
Story: BRANDON GRAHAM
August 19 / 32 pages / Full Color / Mature Readers / $2.99
A new 8HOUSE storyline starts this issue with amazingly detailed art by XURXO G. PENALTA as an astral projection soldier is
Read more…DARK CIRCLE COMICS
THE SHIELD #2
Script: ADAM CHRISTOPHER, CHUCK WENDIG
Art: DREW JOHNSON, RACHEL DEERING, KELLY FITZPATRICK
The Shield #2 CVR A Reg: DAVID WILLIAMS
The Shield #2 CVR B Variant: STEVE RUDE
The Shield #2 CVR C Variant: EVAN SHANER
The
Read more…Archie is really on a roll these days. Not only is the vastly entertaining The Fox returning this week to the publisher's quirky adventure line, but the long-delayed second issue of Sabrina has finally arrived (see below).
THE FOX #1
Plot/Art/Cover:
Since they're offering a link to a whole movie, I thought this press release worth posting!
Chicago, IL (May 4,
DOCTOR WHO: THE NINTH DOCTOR #2
Writer: CAVAN SCOTT
Artist: BLAIR SHEDD
32pp / FC / $3.99
On sale: 04/08/2015
Don’t miss the second thrilling installment of Weapons Of Past Destruction – an all-new miniseries adventure featuring the Ninth Doctor –
Read more…The May issues of the Convergence crossovers each include an 8-page preview of one of the new or returning titles DC will be publishing in June. They're also all available to read for free, both on Comixology and here on the DC website. The stories a
Read more…"Eclipso" debuted in House of Secrets #61 (1963). At the time House of Secrets already had a regular lead feature, "Mark Merlin", and the two divided the title between them.
It's tempting to describe House of Secrets as the first split-book. But Act
Read more…With this month's THOR #8, we get the BIG REVEAL on the identity of the mysterious "Lady" Thor. It wasn't as shocking to me as I thought but I wasn't thrilled by it. It wasn't mind-blowing or world changing. In fact, it seems to be an odd echo of wha
NEW BOOKS 4-22-15
ADVENTURE TIME #39
ADVENTURES OF BASIL & MOEBIUS HC V1 (MR)
ALL NEW X-MEN #40
ALTER EGO #132
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #17.1
AMAZING X-MEN #19
ANGRY BIRDS #10
ARMY OF DARKNESS ASH GETS HITCHED TP
ART OF THE UNCHARTED TRILOGY HC
AVENGERS
DC has pulled the Joker variant of Batgirl #41 which echoed the events of The Killing Joke for being too violent to women, especially since it brings up Barbara Gordon's horrible shooting and sexual abuse and adds to the culture of victimizing women.
Read more…I'm thinking about writing a column for early May that would be checklist of the better Ultron stories. But whether I do or not, I'm curious which Ultron stories the Legionnaires favor. Age of Ultron? The new Rage of Ultron OGN? The West Coast Avenge
Read more…I've been studying Roman history and I remembered an annual where Thor and Loki ended up being involved in the Trojan war and at the end of it there was a promise that the next years annual would showcase the true founding of Rome. Some of the legend
Read more…I've never followed either the movie series of the comics series, but this is one of Dynamite's most tenacious franchises, so there must be a sizable fan base. And with Steve Niles writing and Jae Lee doing the covers, I can see why!
ARMY OF DARKNESS
Read more…IMAGE COMICS
JUPITER’S CIRCLE #1
story: MARK MILLAR
art: WILFREDO TORRES
covers A/B: FRANK QUITELY
cover C: BILL SIENKIEWICZ
cover D: GORAN PARLOV
APRIL 8 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
The most celebrated superheroes in mid-century America seem to hav
Read more…UNCLE SCROOGE #1
JONATHAN GRAY, RODOLFO CIMINO (W) • ROMANO SCARPA (A) • GIORGIO CAVAZZANO (C)
Subscription Variant: DEREK CHARM
Blank Sketch Variant
FC • 48 pages • $3.99
Wak! Disney’s richest epic hero returns! In “The Wrath of Gigabeagle,” the McD
Read more…SECRET WARS #3 (OF 8)
JONATHAN HICKMAN (w) • ESAD RIBIC (a)
Cover by ALEX ROSS
Variant cover by ESAD RIBIC
Connecting cover by SIMONE BIANCHI
VARIANT cover by MARGUERITE SAUVAGE
ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
DR. GWENDGE VARIA
Read more…Supergirl is coming to TV next season with a lot of buzz and speculation which is great but I do worry about this new interpretation of Our Kara, if indeed that's who she's going to be. She has always been a paradox over at DC as a necessary spin-off
