Frankenstein Alive, Alive!: The Complete Collection
Steve Niles, story & script; Bernie Wrightson, story, layouts & art; Kelley Jones, art
IDW Publishing, 2018
The final horror collaboration between writer Steve Niles and artist Bernie Wrightson bega
Read more…Ice Cream Man Vol. 3: Hopscotch Mélange
W. Maxwell Prince, writer; Martín Morazzo, art; Chris O'Halloran, colors
Image Comics, 2019
The stories in this volume go deeply into the relationship between the Ice Cream Man and his nemesis, the cowboy Caleb.
Read more…The Beauty Vol. 5
Jeremy Haun & Jason Hurley, story; Thomas Nachlik, art; Nayoung Kim, color; Thomas Mauer, lettering & design
Image Comics, 2019
This collection brings together two story lines from earlier volumes. Gang-banger Timo and transgender as
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Sep. 18, 2019 -- Alex Segura, the co-president of Archie Comics, has been telling an entirely non-comics story for many years. Starting with 2013’s Silent City, Segura related the travails of Miami P.I. Pete
Read more…I know we don'y usually get into politics here, but I wanted to make sure that you all knew that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has quoted the Incredible Hulk.
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Sept. 3, 2019 -- A few weeks back, DC Comics promised to bring a long-abandoned, fan-favorite super-team back to its pages, and sure enough, the Legion of Super-Heroes reappeared in all its old (and updated)
Read more…Art by Dan Jurgens. Copyright DC Comics.
Titans: Burning Rage reprints stories heretofore seen only in Walmart-exclusive comics, and the first issue stars (from left) Beast Boy, Starfire, Raven and Robin III.
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Age
You are looking at the meeting room of a unique and exclusive club, the Mystery Analysts of Gotham City, experts at the business of solving bizarre mysteries . . .
Thus began one of the more fondly remembered features of Julius Schwartz's "New Look"
Read more…Black Badge Volume One
Matt Kindt, writer; Tyler Jenkins, illustrator; Hilary Jenkins, colorist
Boom! Studios, 2019
The Grass Kings team of Kindt and Jenkins reunite for this thriller, which basically is a Young Adult version of Kindt's Dark Horse ser
Read more…Oblivion Song, Volume Two
Robert Kirkman, writer/creator; Lorenzo De Felici, artist/creator; Annalisa Leoni, colorist
Image Comics, 2019
Nathan Cole begins this second chapter on trial, explaining how the original experiment had gone horribly wrong, a
Read more…I'm creating a list and history of Martians in Comics and Comics about Mars.
John Carter
J'onn J'onzz
Exigius 12½
Marvin the Martian
The Martian Ambassador
In my larger project to display some of my favorite comics on the wa
Read more…From DC's December solicitations, a cover by Amanda Conner for Harley Quinn: Villain of the Year (an awards-show spoof of Year of the Villain).
I present to you: BLACK MANTA IN A TOP HAT.
#BlackMantaInaTopHat
Read more…So, how did you do?
Actually, by my tally, you all---the four of you who participated: Philip Portelli, Jeff of Earth-J, Fraser Sherman, and my old pal, Eric Sofer, the Silver-Age Fogey---did very well, which hasn’t surprised me for a long time. Yo
Read more…I’ve been putting this discussion off for a long time. I bought the first couple of sets a while ago when Big Finished announced that they weren’t going to do any new pressings of physical CDs once those they have in stock are sold. The business mode
Read more…Finally got around to seeing AVENGERS: ENDGAME last night, and mostly enjoyed it (like almost all the Marvel movies, I loved the early scenes and the character bits, was bored to tears by the big, endless fight at the end). It got me to thinking thou
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Who do we think 1st discovered Superman's greatest weakness?
Jonathan Kent
Chris Stanley
Lex Luthor
Jason Trask
Bruce Wayne
Archie Andrews
Read more…Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil
Written by Jeff Lemire; art, letters, and colors by David Rubín
Dark Horse Books, 2018
Despite the title, this prequel set in the Black Hammer Universe is mainly about Lucy Weber uncovering the truth abou
Read more…House of Whispers Vol. 1: The Power Divided
Written by Nalo Hopkinson; illustrated by Dominike "Domo" Stanton; colors by John Rauch
DC Vertigo, 2019
Unlike the other series, this one is something new: it does not relate to either earlier Sandman or DC
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