The other day, I was reading one of the old Dollar Comics issues of World's Finest -- a complete run of these is one of my current collecting quests -- and in a Hawkman story, I encountered a familiar face. The character, an elderly fortune teller na
Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow th
Music? What song? By whom?
Podcasts? Which ones? Who's on it?
The whir of your hard drive while you defrag?
Whatever you're listening to, share it with the Legion of Superfluous Heroes!
Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his olde
A while back, DC announced a new line of reprints, called DC Finest, that packages about 500 pages of comics from various eras into a $40 softcover. From all appearances, it looks to be an attempt to mimic Marvel's successful Epic Collections line, i
I turned my nose up at Marvel's Star Wars comics in the late '70s/early '80s. Fast forward to the early 2K's when I found new volumes of the Dark Horse series of tpbs reprinting it on clearance at Half Price Books. I snatched them up thinking "How ba
My wife and I are currently in Day 2 of a blackout, thanks to a storm which knocked out about a quarter of the city's grid. It doesn't look like we'll get power soon. While I'm waitiing in the dark, what are YOUR worst blackout stories?
This thread is a companion to the "A Cover A Day" discussion. Click here to visit that discussion. It is intended for the discussion of potential new themes and topics for "A Cover A Day", voting on these themes, and the gathering and reporting of
Over the past couple years, DC has been releasing facsimile issues of the giant Limited Collector's Editions they printed at tabloid-size in the 70s. They've reprinted Superman vs Wonder Woman, Superman vs Muhammed Ali, various Batman
A quarter of Memphis lost power Saturday while we were watching The Odyssey a few miles from home. The Theater retained power but, alas, my neighborhood did not. We still don't have power, and too many cell phone towers are down for phones to use TLE
So - I know I've only been here a week, but I thought I might be able to brighten up everyone's lives a little with a new thread devoted to comical cartoons based around superheroes. I have loads of funny material that I've picked up over the years.
I am very much looking forward to this show, despite the fact that it spun off from my least favorite show of the franchise (DIS I mean, not TOS). When DIS premiered, I was prepared to accept enhanced special effects and redesigned sets, but I was no
