JAY LYNCH , the underground-era cartoonist also remembered for his work on Topps' Wacky Packages and much else , has died . He was 72 and had cancer , apparently going fairly fast after a diagnosis
NARD 'N PAT and PHEOBE AND THE PIGEON PEOPLE (the
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I went to load up about a month's worth of Marvel comics onto my iPad last night, because that's how I prefer to read them. When I went to upload them, it turned out I didn't get t
Read more…Comments for books shipping March 1, 2017.
Once again, my overlords have determined that I only need nine hours for a weekend, which took place Monday. I clipped my nails, and, uh, took a shower and, uh, watched a TV show. I might have eaten a couple
Read more…I'll be reposting Cap's Comic Guide collection reviews to this thread to make them easier to link to for the index.
Read more…Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden
Rick Remender (Writer); Sean Murphy (Artist); Matt Hollingsworth (Colorist)
Image Comics, 2016
Co-creators Rick Remender and Sean Murphy get their dystopia on with Tokyo Ghost. They've both done stories in this kind
Read more…He reportedly died from complications for an undescribed surgery. Here's the story from the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/arts/bill-paxton-dead.html?_r=0
My wife came to know him from Big Love, but I knew him from all kinds of
Read more…Printing on newsprint and selling the issues at 1.50 doesn't seem to me to be a bad idea. Can it work?
Read more…ACTION COMICS #974
Written by DAN JURGENS
Art by PATRICK ZIRCHER, STEPHEN SEGOVIA and ART THIBERT
Cover by CLAY MANN
Variant cover by GARY FRANK
32 pg • FC • $2.99 U.S. • RATED T
This issue will ship with two covers.
“MILD MANNERED” part two! The mys
Read more…In chapter seven of that seminal work on the history of comics, All in Color for a Dime (Arlington House, 1970), Jim Harmon wrote:
Now all superheros have their weaknesses, or at least they ought to. Making them totally invincible and invulnerable m
Read more…Captain America #193 (January 1976) "The Madbomb - Screamer in the Brain!"
1)"The trial of the Falcon is over" - What was the trial of the Falcon about? Don't recall ever hearing about that one.
2)Leila - The Falcon's (I assume) girlfriend is anoth
Read more…Today, for Presidents Day weekend, I was still getting over a nasty case of the head cold--a sinus infection plus bronchitis. I've had it for about a week already, I got some antibiotics, but I'm still plugged up in the head. I felt justified in layi
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No Spoilers ...
Just saw this with The Lad today, and it's as fun as the trailers suggested it would be. I'll need to buy this one, because I know that I missed way too many jokes.
On
Read more…The Sheriff of Babylon, Volume 1: Bang. Bang. Bang.
Tom King (Writer); Mitch Gerads (Artist)
Vertigo Comics, 2016
The setting is Baghdad, 2004; the story begins ten months after the fall of Baghdad. Saddam Hussein is gone, and American occupying fo
Read more…Reviews for books shipping Feb. 15, 2017.
Sadly, I was assigned much overtime this week, so I don't have time for capital-R reviews -- I didn't even have time to read very much. But we can still be friends, right? We can talk. It's not like I'm just
Read more…Just something that popped into my head this morning: how did MOgo patrol his sector of space? Presumably he was locked in orbit around a star so he couldn't just move around willy-nilly. Did he create constructs to do it for him? Was this question e
Read more…Clean Room Vol 1: Immaculate Conception
Gail Simone (Writer), John Davis-Hunt (Artist), Quinton Winter (Colourist)
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Clean Room is centered around a self-help movement/cult run by a horror fiction writer named Astrid Mueller. The
Read more…Reviews for books shipping Feb. 8, 2017, including:
• ALL STAR BATMAN #7
• BLACK HISTORY IN ITS OWN WORDS
• DIVINITY III: SHADOWMAN & THE BATTLE OF NEW STALINGRAD #1
• EARTH 2: SOCIETY #21
• EMPOWERED AND THE SOLDIER OF LOVE #1
• HAL JORDAN AND THE
Read more…Today's issue of New Super-Man, in addition to featuring exciting adventures with the Super-Man, Bat-Man and Wonder-Woman of China, ends with the return of a character first seen about eighty years ago on the cover of Detective Comics #1 (March 1937
Read more…The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Vivek J. Tiwary, writer; Andrew C. Robinson, illustrations; Kyle Baker, illustrations.
M Press, 2013
Captain Comics Review gave extensive coverage of this book in November, 2016. I finally got around to rea
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