With the demise of Diamond's website and Previews, the task of knowing what's to come — and what to order, in the various ways we do it — has gotten harder. Would it be useful to have a list of advance solicitations? Here, for example, is Marvel's fo
We begin with "Dead of Knight", by Zeb Wells and Greg Capullo. The Joker summons Deadpool to Earth-Zero (It's a long story.) to help him deal with Batman. Batman cleverly plays the pair of them off against one another. Now, I've always despised Deadp
BATTLEWORLD #1 (OF 5, $4.99) is by Christos Gage (Superior Spider-Man) and Marcus To (X-Force). It's the same as, or similar to, the Battleworld in Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars. Or maybe Jim Shooter's. But the ch
The original cover, by John Byrne and Terry Austin, is cover-dated to october 1980.
In chronological order by cover date, these are covers that I know of that I consider to be clear enough homages. Thanks to the Grand Comics Database for the images
How do you suppose it came to be that "Captain" became the military rank most often adopted by super-heroes who did adopt a military rank as part of their super-hero code-name?
Sure, once it became established as a popular choice, there was probably
At some unspecified point in the future, Booster Gold is captured by the evil version of the LSH, minions of Darkseid, and sends Validus backward through time in hope of somehow alerting Superman that the future "is already lost." It not a very well-
MARVEL/DC DEADPOOL/BATMAN #1 ($6.99): Wait, this is here already? Honestly, I haven't been breathlessly anticipating it. But it's bound to be the best-selling book of the month, if not the year. It includes:
When Neil Gaiman's Sandman began in 1989, I made a conscious decision not to buy it. I wasn't looking to add any new titles to my pull & hold at the time; if anything, I was looking to cut back on a few. When I learned that the new Sandman would have
Alex Raymond drew the Flash Gordon Sunday page from 1934 through 1944. From 1990-1993, Kitchen Sink Press reprinted the entire series in six hardcover volumes, on slick paper, in horizontal format. From 2011-2014, IDW reprinted the series in four lar
NOTE: NING's photo-placement tool stopped working early Tuesday, and wasn't fixed by Tuesday night. I had to go with just the art I that was already uploaded before the tool broke.
This could have been another list, but I decided to make it a timeline, because I like seeing when characters existed in relation to one another. I like seeing who mightve been contemporaries, and what plausible crossovers might exist.This is just a
The latest addition to Oni Press's "EC" imprint is Blood Type, a four-issue limited series featuring a single character, a vampire named Ada, spun out of a single story from Epitaphs from the Abyss #3 about a vampire in a lifeboat. This series picks
I've just received word that Jim Shooter passed away of esophogeal cancer, which he's been battling for some time. I realize that for many he's been a controversial figure i
Charlton's Blue Beetle was not the first... he was not even the first named "Dan Garrett." The original Blue Beetle was a police officer in his civilian identity who first appeared in Mystery Men Comics #1, published by Fox Publi
My earliest memory of Tarzan (I think) is watching the movie Tarzan's Three Challenges on television. (This would have been circa 1969.) By the time I read my first Tarzan comic book, I was already familiar with the Ron Ely television show as well as
It's difficult these days to discuss a television show when all of the episodes drop at once and everyone watches at his own pace, but the Paper Girls discussion (short as it was) went all right, so let's try one for Sandman... let's say an episode a
Here is a complete episode guide for the strip. All art is by Jack Kirby, inked first by Wally Wood and later by Dick Ayers. The only credited scripters were Dick and Dave Wood, but it is widely believed that Jack Kirby wrote the later scripts.
Nexus: the Newspaper Strips, Vol. 1 - "The Coming of Gourmando
I haven't read this yet. But I've got so much to say about it that I wanted to get the other stuff off my chest first. In 2016, Baron & Rude launched a HUGE (think Marvel "MONSTER"-size)
