I don't know about you guys but I'm a sucker for books about comic books. I have a large number (probably more than twenty) and most of them are devoted to the golden or silver age. I'm always looking for more to add to the collection, and last week
Read more…Like it says ~ In US syndication , how many syndicated newspaper strips that would be described as " Continuity strips " are still running , including rerun ones ? Also , when did each of them start ?
I will intend this as being about " serious " c
Read more…Recently reading up about a 1960s cafe/space in New York City called Caffe Cino , which was an early place for the " Off-Off-Broadway " movement of that period (on Wikipedia) ~ the listing , in a paragraph titled " Conflicts between avant-garde and c
Read more…I note this as a curiosity, I've been scanning my comic book collection into iPhoto for a while now and when my computer died last weekend I got a new mac mini with a new iPhoto program. I was looking at Howard the Duck 24 and when I zoomed into
Read more…Silver Surfer #98
November 1994
Cover art by: Joe Phillips
Story: Temptation: Power
Writer: Ron Marz
Pencils: Jim Hall
Inks: Tom Christopher
There isn't much I like about that cover, but it does actually look like the Silver Surfer is surfing on a
Read more…I spotted a flyer for it today in my LCS. www.collectiondx.comsrgm
Looks more like collectables than comics but I thought I'd mention it.
Read more…Legion of Super-heroes #305
November 1983
Cover art by: Keith Giffen & Larry Mahlstedt
Story: Violet's Story
Writer: Paul Levitz
Pencils: Keith Giffen
Inks: Kurt Schaffenberger
Legion Roll Call: Braniac 5, Chameleon Boy, Shrinking Violet, Colossal
Read more…Legion of Super-heroes #273
March 1981
Cover art by: Rich Buckler & Steve Mitchll
Story: A Murderer--Among Us?
Writer: Gerry Conway
Pencils: Jimmy Janes
Inks: Frank Chiaramonte
Marte Ida Allon, Colossal Boy's mom and president of the United Planet
Read more…I collected (and read!) all the Kitchen Sink L'il Abner books starting in the 80s. Sadly, they didn't sell well enough to continue. Meanwhile, post-Snoopy v. Red Baron keeps churning out the junk that Schulz sold his soul to Met Life to produce...but
Read more…I see we've talked some about Batman Zero year over here. However, it seems to have gotten lost amongst other Batman talk. So I thought I'd start a thread devoted to Zero Year. I've read two issues so far and the annual which just slightly ties into
Read more…This is a thread of special memories for comic fans.
This is where you will find us sharing that first, most initimate moment, when a comic book story or issue transcended meer pulp entertainment and made us sit up and take notice.
Most everyone can
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Hello Legionnaires, I'm thrilled to announce that "The Downward Spirals -- Volume 1: Twisted Tails" is now available for order! You may be familiar with my effort to document the lives of my band of hockey-playing possums over at the "What Are You B
Read more…I just found an old notebook that had my comics logged in from the 1982-83 period when I was a junior in high school. The grand total was 1564. The last time I took a count, I was past the 30,000 mark!! Anyway, I didn't count torn, raggedy or coverle
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Have you seen "Super" starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon?
It's a comedy-drama about a man compelled to become "The Crimson Bolt" and while it starts out funny, it quickly veers off into "Kick-Ass" territory.
I highly recom
Read more…Someone (Kurt Busiek? I don't remember) posted a link to this week's comic strip from Comic Critics! It's a strip about a couple of people who create a regular video reviewing comics.
I laughed my butt off, and I'm now reading my way through the ar
Read more…http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=20&weekday=tue I don't mean that in a NSFW way. It's a scary story you scroll down to read. It's in Korean, but you really don't need the words. If you can scroll down and not be really a b
Read more…Why can't Marvel make good comics anymore? Back in the 1970s, those comics were good. Spider-Man was fighting real villains like Green Goblin and Big Wheel. Now we've got a stupid goblin wannabe and idiots like The Spot and The Answer. Who comes up w
Read more…http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31312 Take a look and then come back to discuss...
Read more…https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800947514?profile=original
Take a look at the above promotion my comic shop sent me this week. I think the increase in single issue prices (even with the reductions from DC and Marvel last week)
Read more…The long-running strip 'Cathy' will have its last daily on Oct. 2 and its last Sunday on Oct. 3, as creator Cathy Guisewite wishes to spend more time with her family.
