Oct. 3, 2019 -- On Sept. 25, People who gave the debut episode of Stumptown a try met an unusual woman, one whose life is a mess, but whose ability to manage violent, unpredictable situations is nonpareil.
I thought I woulds start a thread where anyone can toss out their favorite Halloween reads during this time of year. I know I personally like horror comics year round, but especially during the month of October.
Monstress Vol. 4: The Chosen Marjorie Liu, writer; Sana Takeda, artist Image Comics, 2019
The big event in this arc is Maika meeting her father. She doesn't trust him, or the coalition he is building. Her connection with the Ancients gives her a specia
Brian Michael Bendis's second Wonder Comics offering was mostly wonderful.
First, the writing was nice and crisp and flowed nicely. It didn't seem to drag anywhere. Bendis and David F. Walker turned in a great script on this one. We were taken throug
50 years ago someone gave me a copy of Cheyenne Kid #72. It was then that I discovered comics and started to amassed a collection that was at one point nearly 3000 books. I still have the Cheyenne Kid & other comics I have kept. I sold others to get
My first comment is that it didn't feel like a three-hour movie -- it felt like they packed four hours of story into it. I felt sometimes like I was drinking out of a firehose. Maybe it was because I loved just ab
They were aimed at roughly the same age group, though some DC titles skewed younger than others.
Yet Marvel in the 60s only occasionally indulged in really oddball villains or cover concepts. For every Paste-Pot Pete type at Marvel, DC must have tu
Cap suggested twice that I lead this discussion, so here it is. I decided at the last minute to put these series in a thread of their own rather than to fold them into “What Comic Books Have You Read Today?” (The “plus” is the various series leading
The tl;dr is that Feige is become Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Comics, with president Dan Buckley answering to him, and EIC C.B. Cebulski answering
Aug. 22, 2019 -- We’ve enjoyed a flood of news about the The CW’s upcoming “Crisis on Infinite Earths” epic lately. Now that the waters seem to have crested, it’s time to assess – and ponder the maybes and th
Are there certain things you notice in movie after movie, TV show after TV show, that nip at your suspension of disbelief, because they keep happening as if they're the most normal thing in the world, but they aren't normal at all?
The Quantum Age (From the World of Black Hammer) Jeff Lemire, writer; Wilfredo Torres, artist; Dave Stewart, colorist; Nate Piekos, letterer Dark Horse Books, 2019
This story begins in "Spiral City, One Hundred Years From Now." The teenage superhero te
B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know, Vol. 2: Pandemonium Mike Mignola & Scott Allie, story; Sebastian Fiumara, Mike Mignola & Laurence Campbell, artists; Dave Stewart, colors Dark Horse Comics, 2019
Hellboy is back--reunited with Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien--bu
