The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1– The Faust Act
Kieron Gillen, writer; Jamie McKelvie & Matthew Wilson, artists
Image Comics
A story about twelve gods who incarnate as humans every ninety years, only to die two years later. They’re young, pretty, an
Read more…Hey, remember back in the Silver Age when the Black Widow was a member of the Avengers? Yeah, about that...
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Read more…MARVEL TAKES OVER HOLLYWOOD FOR MARVEL’S "AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON" PREMIERE
Watch the red carpet world premiere of Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" on Monday, April 13!
THIS GOES LIVE MONDAY, APRIL 13!
Marvel proudly invites one and all to expe
Read more…Note: Much as I enjoy working on the Earth-44 timeline, I can imagine that for the casual reader, it may be a bit much to take in, being something of a massive wall of text. I've decided to try to do something that is somewhat more limited in scope.
Read more…The Teen Titans Project, Part XVI:
Total Chaos (1992)
I’ll be honest, I prefer writing about comics I like. It’s much more enjoyable. But it’s important, every once in a while, to write about comics I don’t like. For one thing, it shows that I’m
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
While comics aren’t in any danger of becoming a girls’ club, many recent graphic novels are female oriented, either in subject matter or protagonist. The quality is uneven, but they’re worth a look.
Take,
Read more…What covers grabbed your attention when you were growing up? I've been looking at the cover of 2000 AD #4 (1977). It caught my imagination when I was a kid and I still think the situation idea a strong, dramatic one. The image doesn't fully live up t
Read more…(Continued from A Super-Hero Timeline)
Notes:
(1)I confess to a fondness for this character, though said fondness does not especially extend to wanting to re-watch his old adventures. The date is mostly arbitrary, derived from the fact that he debut
Read more…With his return in Chaos War: Dead Avengers, the Swordsman has reappeared in the Marvel Universe after thirty-five years. His death was the first true Avenger fatality and one that had, until now, stuck. The French Fencer debuted in Avengers #19 (Au'
Read more…The challenge here is to post an interesting COMICS TRIVIA QUESTION. The successful responder wins the right to post the next question, and so on.
Here's my question to start. Marvel Tales #29 reprinted the turning-point Green Goblin story from Amaz
Read more…When I got a tablet for Christmas, I signed up for Marvel Unlimited. My first couple forays into the library were relatively self-contained. I read what I hadn't picked up of Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four (which became FF, and then later the two
Read more…I recently picked up the whole series on disk. Since there's 26 episodes of this and 39 of Super Robot Red Baron, I waited until I'd watched the first 13 episodes of the latter, until I started this. That way, if I watch one episode apiece of each (t
Read more…MIKE MIGNOLA DISCUSSES THE IMPENDING END OF "HELLBOY"
Just ran across this. At Emerald City Comicon Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Editor-in-Chief Scott Allie discussed the impending end of the Hellboy universe. There's no definite date given, and appar
Read more…While watching TV this evening, I saw a promo for the new Mad Max movie, and I remembered that I've never seen any of them. I suppose I just never really cared to.
There are a number of other movies that many think are part of the shared experience
Read more…Pretty Deadly Vol. 1 – The Shrike
Kelly Sue DeConnick, script; Emma Rios, art & cover; Jordie Bellaire, colors; Clayton Cowles, letters
Image Comics
Kelly Sue DeConnick has made her name primarily writing Marvel superhero comics, so this occult horro
Read more…I thought I'd share this bit of convergence/coincidence/synchronicity with my pals on the Ask Mr. Silver Age Forum. For a while now I've been collecting Henry Pym related sketch cards from Fred Hembeck, who auctions dozens of characters on eBay nearl
Read more…The other night, I was at a party and used the word "cromulent". After looking it up on our phones and proving that it was indeed a word, someone asked me where I'd heard it before. I explained that I'd picked it up from comic books (more specificall
Read more…http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/4746055445/christianimages Can you think of others?
Read more…New Comics for the week of 04/08/2015
Abe Sapien Dark & Terrible V1 # 22
Adventure Time Marceline Gone Adrift V1 # 4
All New Hawkeye V1 # 2
Angela Asgards Assassin V1 # 5
Ant-Man V1 # 4
Arrow Season 2.5 V1 # 7
Astro City V1 # 22
Avengers Millennium V
Velvet Vol.1 – Before The Living End
Ed Brubaker, writer; Steve Epting, artist; Elizabeth Breitweiser, colors
Image Comics
If you like a good spy story, you've come to the right place. Brubaker is rightly known for his crime comics (especially Crimin
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