So, What Are You Reading These Days? (besides comics)
Just bringing this discussion over to ning... What books are you reading right now that don't have a narrative driven by images as well as words?
Read more…Just bringing this discussion over to ning... What books are you reading right now that don't have a narrative driven by images as well as words?
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MARVEL COMICS
"Gang War"
DAREDEVIL: GANG WAR #1 (OF 4)
Written by Erica Schultz | Art and Cover by Sergio Davila
Elektra Natchios, former assassin turned Daredevil, has been recruited by Spider-Man to stop New York
Read more…22 November 1963, if you are old enough to remember it, was a day that shook you down to your very core. It didn't matter if you were young or old, a Democrat or a Republican. The idea that the President of the United States could be gunned down in
Read more…Between 1987 and 2004, Fantagraphics Books published 50 softcover volumes of Hal Foster's masterpiece Prince Valiant from the beginning (February 13, 1937) through strip #2271 (August 17, 1980). In 2012, the same publisher began a rerelease of the sa
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NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
BATTLEWORLD #3 (OF 5), $3.99: I don't suppose Marvel is recycling ideas any more lately than they always have. But man, everything at the "House of Ideas" feels like a rerun these days. Because now Venom is goin
Read more…As Captain comics mentioned in the "Comics shipping Nov. 19" thread, this volume completes the 1970s iterration of Ghost Rider. Not only that, but thanks to PS Artbooks, the 1950s iterration of Ghost Rider is now available in its entirety as well.
Now
Read more…A while back, DC announced a new line of reprints, called DC Finest, that packages about 500 pages of comics from various eras into a $40 softcover. From all appearances, it looks to be an attempt to mimic Marvel's successful Epic Collections line, i
Read more…I read this on DC Universe, and it was decent. The art was a bit generic, but more detailed than is usual for a digital comic book. Maybe it was created for print, and they're just running it online first for the promotion. (Six-month discount on DC
Read more…Every week, one item or another in my pull and hold stands out for me above the rest in one way or another. Sometimes it’s a periodical, sometimes a graphic novel, sometimes a collection. Does that happen to you? If so, let’s hear about it here. It c
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One of the books that I got as regularly as possible growing up was Brave and the Bold as I loved the team-up concept. Of course, my other favorites included Marvel Team Up, Marvel Two-In-One and the later DC Comics Presents. The star of B&B was BATM
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NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #16 (LEGACY #980), $4.99: Spidey is being attacked by Darkman! Does Liam Neeson know about this?
Written by JOE KELLY
Art by JOHN ROMITA JR.
THE RESOLUTE SPIDER-SLAYER!
Part of being Spider-Ma
Read more…Okay, time for another Supergirl discussion.
This one follows...
In previous years, this was a memory box so we didn't miss any good nominations for the Cappies. With the Cappies hypertimed away, that doesn't mean we have to discontinue these threads. I've always liked going back at the end of the year and seeing
Read more…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…Damian Wayne (S.O.B.) is the fifth "official" Robin (but the eighth by my count). Captain Comics posted something the other day that confounded me:
I actually like the Damian Wayne Robin. All of the problems with adding Jason Todd, Tim Drake and Steph
Read more…This painting by pulp artist H.J. Ward, best known for his Spicy Detective covers, hung for years in the DC offices.
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TOP 10 PUBLISHERS
NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
1776 #1 (OF 5), $4.99: I found Neil Gaiman's 1602 perversely compelling, in that it seemed to have no reason to exist and did strange things with modern characters. I found Jack Kirby's Captain America Bicentenn
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