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
SPOILER ALERT: Everything about this collection was very carefully kept secret--especially the issue number of the final issue. Even now the solicitations for the collection avoid mentioning that it is the finale! There is no
Sept. 25, 2019 -- Summer’s over, school’s begun … but the drumbeat of genre material on screen, in print and on TV continues unabated. Fall will be (in some cases literally) fantastic. Let’s preview:
Do you have a favorite comic that the cover wraps around to the back. I enjoy displaying my comic book collection almost as much as reading them. I've collected various wrap-arounds which include Worlds Finest #255, X-Men #1 and
