Did I imagine it, or was there an Inhumans comic a few years back which had a scene that implied that Maximus - while ostensibly a prisoner - used his mind control powers to force Medusa to - how to say it? - perform "orally" for him. And I don't m
Read more…There doesn't seem to be a thread dedicated to reactions to this show, so I'm creating one
Vulture interviews the great Hal Linden, "TV Legend Hal Linden on Broadway, Barney Miller, and Six Decades As an Actor"
Read more…I know this forum focuses mainly on older works of the Silver Age, but we aren't without our discussions on modern books as well. I wanted to start a thread to talk about modern collected editions and original graphic novels out of pure selfishness.
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He was a prolific composer, composing for a wide variety of TV shows, but is probably best remembered for his work on Doctor Who. He composed for the following stories in the original series:
Planet of Giants; The Crusade; The Chase; The C
Read more…MYSTERY INC. & THE DARK KNIGHT UNITE AS WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT AND DC ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE SCOOBY-DOO! & BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD ON DVD AND DIGITAL STARTING JANUARY 9, 2018 TOGETHER AGAIN AFTER 45 YEARS IN AN ALL-NEW ANIMATED FILMBUR
November 2 was the 90th birthday for Steve Ditko. What would Spider-Man and Dr. Strange have been without him?
Read more…(Continued from The Heroic Age, Part Three)
THE HEROIC AGE, PART FOUR (A.D. 1971 - A.D. 1980)
A.D. 1971:
Character Debuts:
It's that time of year again!
We've done this before (here, here, here, here, here and here), but now it's time for this year! This is a place for comments about any and all shows, but especially for shows that don't generate their own threads.
Docto
Read more…Will Eisner says not. I have my own opinion, but what do the rest of y'all think?
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I thought it might be fun--especially after our great Halloween haunted readings--to have a reading list for the No-Man's Land (pun intended) that is the month of November (well, Christmas tends to creep forward more and more in front
Read more…Craig hasn't posted the link to his Ask Mr. Silver Age article about the 1960s Harvey Heroes in Comics Buyers Guide #1680 (Aug. 2011) yet, so I'll try to be helpful and get some discussion going here.
The theme of this issue is comics we'd like to
Read more…Sometimes my brain goes on odd tangents.
Pre-Crisis, was there ever a discussion about how being shot with a bullet felt to a Kryptonian? We all know that they could easily shrug off the projectiles, but did they actually feel them at all? Did one de
Read more…When a thread gets long enough will it eventually start a new page, or will we have to scroll down for half an hour to get to the new replies? Or is that something that can be set up from the users end or from the moderators end? Thanks,
Read more…"The Blood of the Norns" ("The Death of the Mighty Thor" Part 1)
Written by Jason Aaron, Art by A Whole Bunch of People
Plot: The framing story is the Odinson (who apparently has lost an arm and acquired a talking dog) defending the Norns from an a
Read more…Fear the Walking Dead returns from mid-season hiatus Sept. 10. Here's the SDCC trailer.
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If you were a kid and a comic-book fan from the fall of 1967 through the summer of 1968, Saturday mornings were television heaven. Super-heroes had taken over kid-vid; between nine a.m. and two p.m., there was nothing but. Those of us who were tel
As difficult as it may be for some of you youngsters out there to believe, there was a time when Marvel Comics wasn’t the overwhelming, cross-media monolith of the comics industry. In the early and mid-1960’s, Marvel was the Avis of comics publisher
If you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen that our ten year old cat had one, yes, one kitten three weeks ago. She had one litter nine years ago, and nothing since. But mother and baby are doing well, and for you cat aficionados out there, her
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