CONVERGENCE #5
Written by JEFF KING
Art by ANDY KUBERT and SANDRA HOPE
Cover by ANDY KUBERT
Variant cover by TONY S. DANIEL and MARK MORALES
1:25 Variant cover by JEROME OPENA
1:100 Cyborg sketch variant cover by IVAN REIS
On sale MAY 6 • 32 pg, FC,
Read more…Hero or villain, who's got the best origin? There are obviously those that really stick in the imaginations of many people, such as Batman's, Superman's and Spider-Man's. Who else has a great origin in your opinion? Why does one work better than ano
Read more…What character, hero or villain, has the outright dumbest origin? For instance, Chemo came about because a world renowned chemist tossed failed chemical experiments into a clear plastic figure of a man because it amused him to do so. Any chemist wor
Read more…COMICS GUIDE FOR MARCH 11, 2015
Titles listed in the Comics Guide come from the weekly list at the Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. website, and are subject to change. The information in the Comics Guide comes not only from Diamond but from solicitati
Read more…It seems standard now, but aside from Arkham (which may have been the first) most of the comics I remember reading as a kid showed supervillains in normal prison garb in normal prisons. I'm sure even Lex was in a normal prison in one story.
Read more…I apologize if this has already been posted. This news is about a week old.
Anyways Marvel will have an event this Summer called Secret Wars that will be a combining the 616 Universe with the Ultimate Universe. After Secret Wars we'll get an All-New
Read more…This morning I finished The Sixth Gun Book 7: Not the Bullet, But the Fall. I only recently read that the creators' creed for the title is "no one is safe" (just like The Walking Dead). That's certainly proving true here. The previous collection had
Read more…VALIANT COMICS
BLOODSHOT REBORN #1 [VALIANT NEXT]
Written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by MICO SUAYAN with JEFF LEMIRE
Cover A by JUAN DOE
Cover B by MICO SUAYAN
Cover C by DAVE JOHNSON
Cover D by LEWIS LAROSA
Valiant Next Variant by MICO SUAYAN & TOM MULLER
V
Read more…Thought you might find this interesting. I know a fair amount about American comics, some about Japanese comics, and a little about British comics, but almost nothing about comics in the rest of the world.
Read more…COMICS GUIDE FOR FEB. 11, 2015
Titles listed in the Comics Guide come from the weekly list at the Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. website, and are subject to change. The information in the Comics Guide comes not only from Diamond but from solicitatio
Read more…Just something I was thinking of...with as much time as he spends sitting in his chair, it amazes me that his legs still work.
Read more…As many of us know, DC's big three back during the 1940's was Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. At the same time, Timely had their own big three of Captain America, the Human Torch and Namor.
I've been thinking about it recently, and I'm just a tad
Read more…13 COINS HC (MR)
6 VOYAGES OF LONE SLOANE GN VOL 01 (OF 3) (MR)
ABE SAPIEN TP VOL 06 DARKNESS SO GREAT
ADVENTURE TIME FIONNA & CAKE CARD WARS #1 (OF 6)
ALIENS VS ZOMBIES #1 (OF 5) (MR)
ALL NEW X-MEN PREM HC VOL 07 UTOPIANS
ANT-MAN ANNUAL #1
AQUILA
This is meant as discussion of the style of political cartoons and similar politically inclined comics material ~ Keeping indications of one's own political opinions down , if not off altogether , and comments ABOUT political stuff - more in the vein
Read more…I've had the Superman and Shazam! companion volumes since childhood, but this one didn't come my way. But I picked up a Taiwanese copy at a sale on Saturday and I thought I'd blog the stories.
Although I only learned to read in the 70s, most of my e
Read more…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
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