We haven't done this in a while. We should. Here's the list from Diamond, as of Jan. 16:
ABLAZE
GUNG HO #2 (MR) $3.99
KIDZ #1 $3.99
MIRKA ANDOLFO'S UNSACRED #3 (MR) $3.99
VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING #4 (MR) $3.99
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MIRACULOUS TALE
Read more…So finally I'm going to post about the series of Timely Comics one-shots from 2009 to celebrate Marvel's 70th Anniversary through their Golden Age. I hope to note the retcons, contradictions and points of contention. As I said before, I could not fin
Read more…The New York Public Library has released its list of the 10 most often checked out books since 1895.
1. The Snowy Day, by Exra Jack Keats (1962)
2. The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss (1957)
3. 1984, by George Orwell (1949)
4. Where the Wild Things Are,
Read more…Beyond Commander Benson's examination of Batman's "New Look" period which began in 1964, I was always puzzled that the Caped Crusader was so behind the times as far as his Silver Age "entry" in Detective Comics #327 (Ju'64). View the cover of Detecti
Read more…Hello Everyone.
Hope this isn't too forward of me, but while there have been numerous short stories in recent years, I now have a new book release!
HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, BOOK 3: FEMME FATALE is now available on Amazon in both print and Kindle
Read more…Lazarus, Vol. 6: Fracture I
Greg Rucka, writing; Michael Lark, art; Santi Arcas, colors
Image Comics, 2020
It's been a long wait for Lazarus to resume, but it picks right up from Volume 5, and begins two years after the previous collection Lazarus:
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Jan. 16, 2020 — So “Crisis on Infinite Earths” has wrapped up. How’s everyone doing? Jazzed about that ending? Tired of all the whinging over Oliver Queen’s death? Wondering why The CW scheduled a five-week
Read more…Briggs Land Volume 2: Lone Wolves
Brian Wood, script; Mack Chater, art; Lee Loughridge, colors; and others
Dark Horse Books, 2018
Grace Briggs is now in charge of Briggs Land, but the situation is still far from settled. With everyone on edge, it may
Read more…The Complete Suiciders: The Big Shake
Lee Bermejo: writer; Lee Bermejo, Alessandro Vitti, Gerardo Zaffino: artists; Matt Hollingsworth, Jordan Boyd: colorists
Vertigo Comics, 2016
This collection includes both Suiciders miniseries, beginning with "S
Read more…Story I first became aware of him from his SNL appearances. It was later that I made the connection that he was the co-creator of Get Smart!
Read more…If so, how have you fared? Is there one system over another you prefer? Do over-the-air antennae work? How do you get local shows? What have you given up to settle on one provider over another?
I'm looking at going with Sling and an OTA antenna for l
Read more…I noticed one day that I use a lot of metaphorical expressions picked up over the years (mostly as a child from family) whose origin I haven't any idea about. I know what I mean, others know what I mean, but I don't know what they mean in a literal s
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Jan. 9, 2020 — Last year ended with a bang — a big bang, really — of Geek TV.
The clutch of shows released in the last month or so is just a prologue for the avalanche of genre television announced for 2020;
Read more…Ice Cream Man Vol. 4: Tiny Lives
W. Maxwell Prince, writer; Martín Morazzo, art; Chris O'Halloran, colors
Image Comics, 2019
After Vol. 3's look at the relationship between the Ice Cream Man and his nemesis Caleb (the cowboy), this is another installm
Read more…Effigy: Idle Worship
Tim Seeley, writer; Marley Zarcone, Jesse Hamm, Jen Vaughn, Mike Norton: art; Ryan Hill, color
Vertigo Comics, 2015
Great concept behind this series: a child star named Chondra Jackson who played a space cop on the kids' TV show S
Read more…Building Stories
Chris Ware
Pantheon, 2012
Reading Ware's Rusty Brown recently reminded me that I had never gotten around to Building Stories. Physically it's like the anti-library book: a box containing fourteen printed works in various sizes, shapes
Read more…While looking at the TCM movies for late night/early morning gems, I was shocked to see Mystery Science 3000 listed on the IFC channel over it in the menu for 1 AM. At first I thought that it was the MST3K: The Movie but no, it was "The Crawling Eye
Read more…When Iron Man 2020 was first introduced in the Machine Man limited series in 1985, I thought to myself, “That’s gonna come back to bite ‘em in the arse 35 years from now!” In retrospect, I don’t know why I thought Iron Man 2020 would be any different
Read more…Well, the JSA is back in continuity, but it's obviously not precisely the same JSA as before. (See illustration below)
Since that is the case, I think DC should make a few tweaks to the characters' back-stories, mostly moving them away from having
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