As I said before in another thread, I bought Dark Knight III yesterday. I loved it.
I won't spoil anything yet, just in case anyone else actually wants to read this. However, I will say that this is the best artwork I have ever seen from Andy Kubert.
Read more…It’s that time of the year, again.
The season when the cable stations fill their time slots with holiday-themed films. The old black-and-white classics and the modern Technicolor wanna-bes. Usually leading off the seasonal schedule is the appropria
Read more…To be perfectly honest, I thought the premise of this series was untenable and was car-crash curious to see how bad it could be. In my biggest surprise of the week, this has turned out to be my favorite first issue of the new Marvels I have read so f
Read more…Here's a place to discuss the new titles coming out of Convergence, and the new directions for existing titles. This first week saw the release of
Action Comics
Bat-Mite
Bizarro
Midnighter
The Omega Men
Batman Beyond
Green Lantern
Green Arrow
Justic
Read more…In Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Krysten Ritter’s Jessica (left) is best friends with Rachael Taylor’s Trish Walker. Credit: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix
Marvel’s Jessica Jones uses the color purple as a thematic element for David Tennant’s Kilgrave, who in t
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Worried that you won’t be able to find the perfect gift for the fanboy or fangirl in your family this holiday season? Fret not, O mundane one, and simply consult the Captain Comics Holiday Gift Guide below!
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Say, why didn't any of you tell me that I was doing the links wrong to the Facebook page? I'm doing them correctly now, but geez, there are a lot of bad links in previous Guides! Anyway, on to this week's funnybooks!
DARK HORSE COMICS
ADAM.3 #4 (OF
Read more…Silver Vol. 2
Stephan Franck
Dark Planet Comics
Creator Stephan Franck had a Kickstarter campaign for the second collection of his vampire/crime noir series Silver. As a backer, I've already read the digital edition, which contains Issues 4-6 of t
Read more…"At present, we consider Superman to be about 32. Lois Lane and Lana Lang are a year or two younger."
In my last entry, I showed that, during the Silver Age, Superman editor Mort Weisinger established the ages of the Man of Steel and most of his su
Read more…My wife and I watched the first four episodes of The Last Kingdom the other night, and the TLDR is that we enjoyed it enough to continue watching.
The last kingdom of the title is Wessex, which was the last redoubt of the Saxons as the Danes (Vikings
Read more…DARK HORSE COMICS
TIME TRAVEL FUNNIES!
THE ROOK #2 (of 4)
Writer: STEVEN GRANT
Art/Cover: PAUL GULACY
Cover: JESUS ABURTO
FC, 32 pages, $3.99, Miniseries
H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine never seemed so real to Restin Dane—especially since he’s living
Read more…ALL NEW WOLVERINE #2
AMERICAN VAMPIRE SECOND CYCLE #11
ANGELA QUEEN OF HEL #2
AQUAMAN #46
AQUAMAN #46 LOONEY TUNES VAR ED
ARCHIE #4 RENAUD VAR CVR F
ARROW TV ARSENAL AF
ART OF JOSE GONZALEZ HC (C: 0-1-2)
ART OPS #2 (MR)
BART SIMPSON COMICS #99
BATMA
Hey, they can’t all be gems, folks.
In 1938, National Comics (that which would become DC Comics) launched Superman in Action Comics # 1. In a phenomenally short period, he would become an icon of popular culture, not just in America, but around the
Read more…DC ran more back-up stories than Marvel in the 70s/80s. The Marvel ones that spring to mind are the brief revival of “Tales of Asgard” in Thor in the early 80s and “Tales of Atlantis” in Sub-Mariner in the 70s. The episode depicting the sinking of Al
Read more…I decided to read this series after I first read about it. This is Warren Ellis’ version, and he has gone straight to the source, the novels not the movies, for inspiration. He even makes a case for Bill Tanner being Bond’s best friend. If you don’t
Read more…Jupiter’s Legacy is a generational comic series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. Jupiter’s Circle is its prequel, written by Millar and illustrated by Wilfredo Torres. I read both series for the first time over the weekend, not in the order they wer
Read more…I’ve been looking forward to this one… for longer than one might imagine. The Avengers, as a group, has been around for a long time (a fact pointed out in the “And there came a day” introduction: “…but that was a while ago.”). I had always hoped to s
Read more…Back on the old board, the previous series (one of them anyway) had quite a strong following. I eventually started buying the collections just so I could participate in the discussions. I bought the new #1 in a hope to recapture some of that feeling
Read more…The Zygon Invasion
1)I'm glad they finally addressed the Zygon issue from "Day of the Doctor", which I always thought was one of the biggest plotholes in that episode.
2)I liked the Osgoods' "Doctor Who" outfits.
3)"Doctor Disco"?
4)Nice picture of th
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