I don't get to spend as much time in the Cave as I used to, and now I'm having trouble finding my way around.
Anybody remember where we keep the extra cases of Bartles & Jaymes?
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Fantastic Four, premiering Aug. 7, is one strange movie. I don't mean on the screen, although it very well may be. Behind the scenes, though, it's complicated.
Let's tackle the movie first, which needs a lot
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Never actually read anything of his. Any recommendations of a good one to start with?
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In a past thread, Lumberjack asked me what exactly the New Pulp movement is.
For those who came in late...
Believe it or not, the pulp genre is alive and well today, and basically divided into three categories.
There are companies such as Nostalgia V
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer Complete Edition
Dusty Higgins, artist; Van Jensen, writer
Top Shelf Productions
Finally catching up with Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer now that it’s been collected. Very enjoyable, despite the seemingly silly premise. I rem
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
The strength of some graphic novels, like the prose kind, is the power to make you think. Such is the case with Just So Happens by writer/artist Fumio Obata (Abrams ComicArts, $24.95).
The narrative is fai
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DARK HORSE COMICS
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RICARDO DELGADO (W/A/COVER) AND RYAN HILL (C)
On sale Aug 5
FC, 32 pages, $3.99
Miniseries
Ricardo Delgado’s wordless tale of survival continues in this exciting new installment of the mu
Read more…I am in San Francisco at (what is now my) mailboxes place on Market Street with an INCREDIBLY crappy by-the-hour machine , however , when I may post more at leisure , a review of the new ARCHIE #1 will be available to discerning CCRT-ers !!!!!!!!!:-)
Read more…Here at a few (mostly) non-super-hero titles from publishers other than Marvel/DC I've sampled recently.
Nameless - (Grant Morrison, Image)
Frankenstein Underground - (Mike Mignola, Dark Hourse)
Joe Frankenstein - (IDW)
Secret Identities - (Image)
D4
Read more…The Fuse, Vol. 1: The Russia Shift
Story by Antony Johnston; Art by Justin Greenwood
Image Comics
The Fuse is an orbiting energy platform, a five mile long jury-rigged steel city stuffed with a half million people. It's not considered a desirable
Read more…What character, hero or villain, has the outright dumbest origin? For instance, Chemo came about because a world renowned chemist tossed failed chemical experiments into a clear plastic figure of a man because it amused him to do so. Any chemist wor
Read more…Lazarus: The First Collection
Written by Greg Rucka; art & letters by Michael Lark; colors by Santi Arcas
Image Comics
I read the first arc of this series over a year ago, in electronic form. This collects the first two arcs (Issues #1-9) in a bea
Read more…Nailbiter, Vol. 1: There Will Be Blood
Story By Joshua Williamson; Art By Mike Henderson
Image Comics
"Nailbiter" is the nickname given to the latest serial killer from the small town of Buckaroo, Oregon--the sixteenth in a long line. Naturally th
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UNIVERSAL CITY, CA (July 28, 2015) – USA Network announced a pilot pick-up
Hero or villain, who's got the best origin? There are obviously those that really stick in the imaginations of many people, such as Batman's, Superman's and Spider-Man's. Who else has a great origin in your opinion? Why does one work better than ano
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BATGIRL #42
BATGIRL ANNUAL
DARK HORSE COMICS
CONAN/RED SONJA (HC)
Writers: GAIL SIMONE, JIM ZUB
Art/Cover: DAN PANOSIAN
Colors: DAVE STEWART
Pencils: RANDY GREEN
Inks: RICK KETCHAN
FC, 96 pages, $19.99
HC, 7″ x 10″
Comics superstars Gail Simone and Jim Zub!
Gail Simone and Jim
Read more…Tom Mandrake -- of Spectre and Batman fame -- sent us this notice:
I wanted to reach out and tell you about the Kickstarter campaign for my new graphic novel Kros: Hallowed Ground. We've only got two weeks left to fund this dream project!
Please che
