Saga Volume Four
Brian K. Vaughan, writer; Fiona Staples, artist
Image Comics
The action picks up here with baby Hazel as a toddler, as promised by the ending of the previous volume. The family is undercover: Marko is a house husband (who wears b
Read more…One of the bloggers here had a post a ways back about the warehouse of a record club that used to advertise in 1970s comics being located in his area - now deserted and slated for blow-down , I suppose .
I searched ~ and could not find the post .
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East of West Vol. 3
Jonathan Hickman, writer; Nick Dragotta, artist; Frank Martin, colors
Image Comics
This collection has the subtitle "There Is No Us" all over the Web, but I can't find it anywhere on the book itself. It is a good summary of th
Read more…COMICS GUIDE FOR FEB. 18, 2015
Titles listed in the Comics Guide come from the weekly list at the Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. website, and are subject to change. The information in the Comics Guide comes not only from Diamond but from solicitatio
Read more…The Sculptor
Scott McCloud
First Second
Scott McCloud has been so influential as a comics theorist--most notably in his book Understanding Comics–that his work as a cartoonist can be overlooked. It doesn't help that his most substantial creative
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Frankenstein Underground #1 (of 5), comes out in March.
Cover by Mike Mignola. Copyright Dark Horse Comics.
Frankenstein Underground #2 comes out in April.
Cover by Mike Mignola. Copyright Dark Horse Comics.
Frankenstein Underground #3 comes o
I realized today, apropos of nothing, that I could name five comic-book characters off the top of my head that were modeled on movie stars. Fred MacMurry was famously the inspiration for Captain Marvel, while Marvel's Fandral was based on Errol Flynn
Read more…I note this as a curiosity, I've been scanning my comic book collection into iPhoto for a while now and when my computer died last weekend I got a new mac mini with a new iPhoto program. I was looking at Howard the Duck 24 and when I zoomed into
Read more…The retcon is official--Tony was now in Afghanistan, not an undisclosed Asian country, when he got the shrapnel in the chest and met Yinsen. It works for me, but it was a bit disconcerting to the anal retentive continuity geek that still lurks in th
Read more…An interesting read from Vulture.com: "The Hidden Story of Harley Quinn and How She Became the Superhero World’s Most Successful Woman".
The piece details Harley Quinn's origins and history, and notes that she is the best-selling female character in
Read more…My computers been giving me problems for months and finally went over the weekend. Even though I can't really afford it I went and got a mac mini. Looking at it now I'm struck by two things, 1) it's about the same size as my ZX-81, the first comp
Read more…The Teen Titans Project, Part IX
New Faces (1985)
1985 was a year of change for the New Teen Titans. Not that any year is static in a comic book series but 1985 was more turbulent than most. Characters came and went. Even more noticeably, artis
Read more…BLOODSHOT REBORN #2 [VALIANT NEXT]
Written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by MICO SUAYAN with JEFF LEMIRE
Cover A by MICO SUAYAN
Cover B by DAVE JOHNSON
Cover C by RAUL ALLEN
25th Anniversary Variant by RAFA SANDOVAL
Variant Cover by MARGUERITE SAUVAGE
Variant C
Read more…YOU DON’T SAY
NATE POWELL (w & a & c)
A celebrity glares. A community burns. A child’s heart breaks. A recipe summons a ghost. A dying woman makes her peace. An art form sustains the spirit. In You Don’t Say award-winning graphic novelist Nate Powell
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CONVERGENCE #1
Written by JEFF KING and SCOTT LOBDELL
Art by CARLO PAGULAYAN and JASON PAZ
Foldout cover by IVAN REIS and JOE PRADO
Variant cover by TONY S. DANIEL and MARK MORALES
1:25 Variant cover by BRIAN BOLLAND
1:100 BATMAN sketch var
Read more…Huge announcements from DC today: 24 new titles are launching in June. Among them are:
Starfire
Midnighter
We Are Robin
Dr. Fate
Earth 2: Society
Mystic U
Dark Universe
Black Canary
Green Lantern: The Lost Army
Constantine: Hellblazer
Cyborg
Justice
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INJECTION #1
Story: WARREN ELLIS
art / covers A & B: DECLAN SHALVEY & JORDIE BELLAIRE
MAY 13 / 24 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Once upon a time, there were five crazy people, and they poisoned the 21st Century. Now they have to deal with the corrosion
Read more…NBC is floating the notion of bringing back Law & Order for a 10-episode limited series, says Deadline Hollywood Daily: "NBC Eyes ‘Law & Order’ Limited Series"
No details on what story they might tell, but they have approached Chris Noth, Sam Waters
Read more…A slow boil for me. Scary like several earlier ones, but somehow, much harder to understand. I had to see this at least twice, maybe three times, before I had a real grasp on what the HELL was really going on. Watching it again tonight, I noted a lot
Read more…THINGS GET WILD IN GOTHAM WHEN BATMAN TAKES ON THE PENGUIN’S EVIL ANIMILITIA
AS WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASES
BATMAN UNLIMITED: ANIMAL INSTINCTS
BLU-RAYTM COMBO PACK, DVD and DIGITAL HD
ON MAY 12, 2015
All-New DC Comics Original Movie Fo
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