You know the drill.
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ALL NEW VENOM #6 ($4.99)
AMADEUS CHO: 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 ($5.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #3 ($4.99)
ANNIHILATION OMNIBUS HC ($125.00)
AVENGERS BY JED MACKAY VOL 4: STORM TP ($24.99)
AVENGERS EPIC COLLECTION VOL 12:
Story A lot of folks may remember her for her role as Gladys Ormphby on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, but ssince I was a touch young for that show, I first encountered her on the Saturday morning kids' show, The Lost Saucer. It was only later that I s
Read more…“Every… comic book version of the Bible that I’ve seen contains passages of completely made-up narrative and dialogue, in an attempt to streamline and ‘modernize’ the old scriptures, and still, these various comic book Bibles all claim to adhere to t
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION: COMING HOME TP ($44.99)
DOOM ACADEMY #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
DOOM’S DIVISION #2 (OF 5, $3.99
EARTH X TP ($44.99)
FANTASTIC FOUR #31 ($3.99)
FANTASTIC FOUR VS. GALACTUS TP ($17.99
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DC FINEST: SUPERMAN FAMILY — THE GIANT TURTLE MAN TP (DC COMICS, $39.99)
There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when this book disappeared from last week’s ship list, but lo, our patience has been rewarded. Giant Turtle Man coll
One day back in late 2024 I determined I had enough "Frankenstein" comics and decided not to buy any more.
MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN STARRING BORIS KARLOFF:
My newfound resolution was soon put to the test in November with the release of Mary Shelley
Read more…Thought I'd try re-posting my latest update of this. There's more than a few characters on the list that probably either stretch or exceed your definition of a "super-hero". I've tried to clear out most of the most egregious ones, but there's a few I
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 ($4.99)
AVENGERS #25 ($4.99)
COSMIC X-MEN OMNIBUS HC ($125.00)
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP TP BY ROB LIEFELD: BLOOD OF THE DRAGON ($17.99)
DEADPOOL / WOLVERINE #4 ($3.99)
EDDIE BROCK: CARNAGE #3 ($3.9
I've changed the title of this thread from "Comic Book Sales Trends in 2016" because I keep coming back to it.
My friendly neighborhood comics shop, Fantom Comics of Washington, DC, breaks down what sold at the store in 2016. This information, of cou
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As has already been noted elsewhere on this board, today's "Aquaman" DC Finest edition completely comprises the contents of 2003's Aquaman Archives Vol. 1 (and only). I have read that volume twice in the the last 20 years and have no desire to read t
Read more…I have started this project three or four times in the past but have always abandoned it before completion. Today I am going to abandon my usual prolix introduction and get right to it.
#1-2. GERRY CONWAY: Gene Colan lobbied hard for Tomb of Dracula,
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Marsh was perhaps best-known as the star and co-creator of Upstairs, Downstairs, but she was in wide range of other TV programs and films. As a Doctor Who fan, I remember her from her appearances in "The Crusades", "The Dalek Master Plan" an
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GODZILLA VS. HULK #1 (MARVEL, $4.99) is by writer Gerry Duggan and artist Giuseppe Camuncoli.
I haven't read Godzilla vs. Fantastic Four yet (although I plan to), so I don't know how that turned out. (I'm sure everyone's fine.) But t
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BLACK WIDOW MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION VOL 1: ITSY-BITSY SPIDER TP ($49.99)
CABLE: LOVE AND CHROME #4 (OF 5, $3.99)
DAREDEVIL: UNLEASH HELL RED BAND #4 (OF 5, POLYBAG, $4.99)
EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #8 ($3.99)
FANTAST
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 (MARVEL, $5.99) is by writerJoe Kelly and artists Pepe Larraz and John Romita Jr. Jeff of Earth-J and I have discussed earlier our willingness to experiment with this restart of the title, even though it seems to
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The first issue of the first mini-series sets the tone: light and humouous. As the story opens, Hercules returns to Olympus "after years of wandering and adventure upon the world of men" and disturbs Zeus's "Day of Reflective Silence." In a fit of ra
Read more…Since the fall of Krakoa, Charles Xavier has been locked up in Graymalkin Prison, formerly the the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, in Westchester, New York.
I confess that I don't know entirely why; I stopped reading the Krakoa books about two y
It begins.
Next month, DC Comics will split in two. When "Absolute Power" comes to an end -- and we have a thread on that HERE -- something happens that creates, for lack of a better term, a new Earth-2. This new parallel universe will be published i
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