Sometimes, it’s not so hard to come up with ideas for my column. You guys bring them to me.
Case in point, last’s month’s entry, when Dave Elyea posted:
I’d love to see someone figure out when most of the Superboy stories were set---up until the off
Read more…ACTION COMICS #46
ACTION COMICS #46 LOONEY TUNES VAR ED
ADVENTURE TIME FIONNA & CAKE CARD WARS #5
AGATHA H & VOICE O/T CASTLE GIRL GENIUS NOVEL HC
ANDRE THE GIANT GN CLOSER TO HEAVEN
ASTONISHING ANT-MAN #2
ASTRO CITY #29
ASTRO CITY LOVERS QUARREL HC
Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) combines the best elements of the character’s personalities and costumes from her many iterations in the comics. Photo by Darren Michaels/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. © 2015 WBEI. All rights reserved.
James Olsen (
Southern Bastards, Vol. 2: Gridiron
Jason Aaron, writer; Jason Latour, art & color
Image Comics
Aaron and Latour achieve the seemingly impossible in this arc: they make Coach Boss a sympathetic character. The story of what it took to take him from
Read more…Raise your hand if you believe that the character of Aunt Harriet was created by the producers of the Batman television series, which ran from 1966 to 1968. The folks who frequent the Captain Comics site are, by and large, a comics-savvy bunch. Yet
68 LAST RIGHTS #3 (OF 4) CVR A JONES & FOTOS (MR)
68 LAST RIGHTS #3 (OF 4) CVR B ZORNOW & FOTOS (MR)
8HOUSE #5 YORRIS PART TWO (MR)
A-FORCE PRESENTS TP VOL 02
ABADDON GN
ABE SAPIEN #28
ADVENTURE TIME #46
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ADVENTU
DARK HORSE COMICS
ARCHIE ARCHIVES: PROM PRANKS AND OTHER STORIES (TPB)
Writer/Penciller: BOB MONTANA
Inks/Colors: Various
FC, 240 pages, $19.99, TPB, 7" x 10"
Dark Horse and Archie Comic Publications present the archive library series everyone’s talk
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Tribune Content Agency
In 1941, Green Arrow and Speedy debuted as the protectors of Star City. After more than three seasons, the TV show Arrow has finally caught up with the comics -- in more ways than one.
Astute viewers of Arr
Read more…OK, a gap opened up in the Sourcewall, see, and out dropped disks of the old 60's Marvel Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man and Sub-Mariner cartoon. It's been close to forty-five since I've seen them last, and I never even knew they was Thor and
Read more…Gunnar Hansen (March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015), best known as Leatherface in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, passed away yesterday from pancreatic cancer. He was offered a part in The Hills Have Eyes but turned it down, since at the time he w
Read more…Hinterkind was a recent Vertigo "ongoing" series that made it as far as 18 issues (ending in May, 2015). There are three TPB collections. When I read the first one in January I commented:
After reading the first issue via Comixology months ago, fina
Read more…It's a huge week in comics -- or "YOUUUUUGE," as Trump would say -- with lots of first issues, previews, press releases and great comics worth mention. Hold on to your wallets, and let's go ... !
DARK HORSE COMICS
ARCHIE VS. PREDATOR (HC)
Writer: ALE
As we've discussed new Number Ones HERE and HERE, I've begun to notice that LGBTQ characters have become so commonplace they're hardly worth mention (because we're not mentioning them). I mean, when Batgirl got a trans roommate and lesbian character
Read more…I have meant to post about this here for the longest time here , now I want to do it before it completely loses its topicality ~ Therefore I am doing it two monthsish before its next topical moment .
A San Francisco politician named Dr. Leland Yee
Read more…Coffin Hill Vol. 1 – Forest Of The Night collects the first seven issues of the Vertigo "ongoing" series from writer Caitlin Kittredge and artist Inaki Miranda. The series made it to 20 issues, not a bad run in the current market (the last issue was
Read more…AGE OF APOCALYPSE TP WARZONES
ALIENS VAMPIRELLA #3 (OF 6) CVR A HARDMAN
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #3
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #3 DELLOTTO VAR
ANGEL AND FAITH SEASON 10 #20 MAIN CVR
ANGEL AND FAITH SEASON 10 #20 NORTON VAR CVR
ANGRY BIRDS SUPER ANGRY BIRDS #3 (OF
"Eclipso" debuted in House of Secrets #61 (1963). At the time House of Secrets already had a regular lead feature, "Mark Merlin", and the two divided the title between them.
It's tempting to describe House of Secrets as the first split-book. But Act
Read more…Hey, guys, here's a thread to discuss the books that have come out new from Vertigo since earlier this month with the big attempt at a comeback for the mature readers imprint. Let's see how it goes.
Read more…This is one of those anime that is sort of a must-watch if you're an anime fan. Since it's the show's 20th anniversary, I figured I'd take another look at it. From what I've read, it was meant to be director Hideaki Anno's critique of the whole mec
Read more…New Number Ones
It’s been awhile since I wrote a review column about current comics so it seemed like a good idea to put one together about all of the new launches debuting this month.
Axcend #1 (Image): I was a little iffy about picking this one
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