The piece in the July 3d NEW YORKER about David Pecker, the head of the company that owns the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and many other mags, provide s me with a topic springboard for some things I've meant to ask here for a while. Time-Warner spun off it's p
Read more…Today, from In Stock Trades, I received a box containing Doug Moench and Kelley Jones's Batman. This was like a huge dream come true for me. Next thing they'll tell me, they will publish Batman: Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1.
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The week of Oct. 9 saw the season premieres of the four inter-connected superhero shows on The CW based on DC Comics, which constitutes a data dump of extreme importance to lovers of geek culture. This must be
Read more…Seven to Eternity Vol. 1: The God of Whispers
Written by Rick Remender; Drawn by Jerome Opeña; Color art by Matt Hollingsworth
Image Comics, 2017
Remender and Opeña introduce a new fantasy world here, a strange combination of Western and high fantas
Read more…Jackson Beck, because I fully believe that that man could've made anything - even, for example, a lazy slob getting up to get himself a snack - sound like a world-shattering adventure.
Read more…The Washington Post profiles Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner: "This Married Couple Helped Make Harley Quinn One of the Biggest Names in Comics"
Read more…Sherlock Holmes was born on January 6, 1854, the second of five children born to Sigurd and Violet (Vernet) Holmes, including older brothers Sherrinford and Mycroft, (1) and younger sisters Cecilia and Enola. (2)
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As I recently mentioned elsewhere, the “A Cover a Day” and “A Cut From a Cover” discussions have reawakened my interest in DC Comics of the Silver Age. There’s no way I’m going to be able to acquire even a small number of the comics I’m looking for a
Read more…Batman 32 (the conclusion of "The War of Jokes and Riddles") is out today, and we get to learn what Catwoman's answer is to Bruce's proposal from a few months ago. (And we also get to the point of the story he's telling her -- quite literally.)
What
Read more…Instead of starting a new thread each time a random topic occurs to me, it seems like a better idea to have one discussion thread wherein i can grumble or pontificate as needed.
So, here we are...
First up:
In my ongoing Comics Archeology projects, a lo
May God bless those killed, and those injured, and the other survivors, and the families of the victims.
Read more…In the 1966 season of Satuday-morning kid-vid, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera had accomplished a remarkable feat. In Space Ghost, they had created an original super-hero whose cartoon was running neck-and-neck in the ratings with Filmation’s powerhouse,
Ever since Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, the showrunners have continued to introduce interesting and unique alien races (or “monsters” in the parlance of the show’s fans). Quite often, though, species new to the audience will be introduc
Read more…"Did Someone Say 'Team'-Up?"
Written by Sholly Fisch
Art by Dario Brizuela
Scooby and the gang team up with the Challs to battle the villainous Multi-Man, with help from the Sea Devils, Cave Carson and his pals, the Secret Six and Rip Hunter and hi
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Sure, a lot of movies and TV are based on comics these days. But as a lot of the current genre material demonstrates, that leaves a lot of wiggle room for directors and showrunners.
Michele K. Short/AMC/Sony Pi
Showcase #66, featuring B’wana Beast (DC, Feb. 1967)
“The Birth of B’wana Beast”
Written by Bob Haney? Pencils by Mike Sekowsky. Inks by George Roussos. Cover by Sekowsky and Joe Giella. Edited by George Kashdan.
The setting is a new country in Ea
Read more…I've started a thread on Golden Age comics before. My idea was to review runs or portions of runs, but that turned out to be difficult to do; Golden Age features sometimes changed direction in significant ways, so to get a full overview of a long-run
Read more…It's confirmed: Wolverine is coming back from the dead. So are Jean Grey And Prof. X (although I haven't heard much about the latter lately). I guess Cyclops is the only one who'll stay dead. Figures.
Read more…A secret agent resigns, then wakes up to find himself imprisoned in ‘The Village’ — a bizarre community with a cheery veneer, but an underbelly of mystery and threat. All occupants of The Village have numbers instead of names, with our secret agent f
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