Ask a comics fan about his favorite artists and he can rattle off a list of names without a moments hesitation. Rarely do those lists include artists who work in a humorous vein. To give the folks who put the "funny" in funny books their due I came u
Read more…I was watching the Kirk Allen Superman serial Superman versus the Atom Man when I realized I couldn't recall if there was ever a Lex Luthor in the 1952 tv series. Was there?
Read more…I apologize if this has already been posted. This news is about a week old.
Anyways Marvel will have an event this Summer called Secret Wars that will be a combining the 616 Universe with the Ultimate Universe. After Secret Wars we'll get an All-New
Read more…Hope this goes through and that it's good. Would love if it had some of the A-list characters plus some unknowns.
Read more…Press Release
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis out Jan. 27
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, the next entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Original Movies, is available today -- January 27, 2015 -- from Warner Bros. Home Entertain
Read more…This morning I finished The Sixth Gun Book 7: Not the Bullet, But the Fall. I only recently read that the creators' creed for the title is "no one is safe" (just like The Walking Dead). That's certainly proving true here. The previous collection had
Read more…UNCANNY INHUMANS #0
CHARLES SOULE (w) • STEVE MCNIVEN (a/C)
Variant Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI
Connecting Variant by JIM CHEUNG
VARIANT COVER BY SIYA OUM
INHUMANS 50th ANNIVERSARY VARIANT BY TBA
AVENGERS VARIANT COVER BY TBA
WTD VARIANT COVER BY TBA
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Read more…It seems standard now, but aside from Arkham (which may have been the first) most of the comics I remember reading as a kid showed supervillains in normal prison garb in normal prisons. I'm sure even Lex was in a normal prison in one story.
Read more…Marvel Comics is supporting the film with a new Ant-Man series beginning this month, and this prose novel arriving in July. Copyright Marvel Entertainment Inc.
Ultron nearly destroyed humanity in the 10-issue, 2103 series Avengers: Age of Ultron, but
The "main" cover to Star Wars #1, which has many, many variant covers. Copyright Marvel Entertainment Inc.
The "main" cover to Darth Vader #1, which will also have many variant covers, coming in February. Copyright Marvel Entertainment Inc.
The "m
I thought it would be nice to have a catch-all thread for the current status of various comics characters. As for definitions:
Alive: Said character has appeared in the last year.
Dead: Said character is (currently) dead to the best of knowledge.
Read more…I've been studying Roman history and I remembered an annual where Thor and Loki ended up being involved in the Trojan war and at the end of it there was a promise that the next years annual would showcase the true founding of Rome. Some of the legend
Read more…UNCLE SCROOGE #1
JONATHAN GRAY, RODOLFO CIMINO (W) • ROMANO SCARPA (A) • GIORGIO CAVAZZANO (C)
Subscription Variant: DEREK CHARM
Blank Sketch Variant
FC • 48 pages • $3.99
Wak! Disney’s richest epic hero returns! In “The Wrath of Gigabeagle,” the McD
Read more…DOCTOR WHO: THE NINTH DOCTOR #2
Writer: CAVAN SCOTT
Artist: BLAIR SHEDD
32pp / FC / $3.99
On sale: 04/08/2015
Don’t miss the second thrilling installment of Weapons Of Past Destruction – an all-new miniseries adventure featuring the Ninth Doctor –
Read more…VALIANT COMICS
BLOODSHOT REBORN #1 [VALIANT NEXT]
Written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by MICO SUAYAN with JEFF LEMIRE
Cover A by JUAN DOE
Cover B by MICO SUAYAN
Cover C by DAVE JOHNSON
Cover D by LEWIS LAROSA
Valiant Next Variant by MICO SUAYAN & TOM MULLER
V
Read more…Had an unexpected day off, so I plunged into several Marvel cartoons someone gave me on VHS, including 1960's Cap and Sub-Mariner, 1966 Spider-Man, 1981 Spider-Man (the solo, not Amazing Friends), 1982 Hulk, RoboCop (huh?) and even the 1996 version o
Read more…In comments that I have made here and in Mister Silver Age's forum (may it rise again), I have asserted that the DC Multiverse (Pre-Crisis) had contained several versions of Plastic Man and, by extension, Blackhawk. But then I started thinking down a
Read more…IMAGE COMICS
JUPITER’S CIRCLE #1
story: MARK MILLAR
art: WILFREDO TORRES
covers A/B: FRANK QUITELY
cover C: BILL SIENKIEWICZ
cover D: GORAN PARLOV
APRIL 8 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50
The most celebrated superheroes in mid-century America seem to hav
Read more…DARK CIRCLE COMICS
THE SHIELD #1
NEW ONGOING SERIES FROM DARK CIRCLE! “Daughter of the Revolution, Part 1” Since the dawn of the republic, whenever her country faces its blackest days, she returns: a spirit of the revolution sent to fight for what i
