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THE DELINQUENTS #1 (of 4, Valiant, $3.99): The new kid on the block launches a miniseries combining the stars of their two funniest books, Quantum & Woody and Archer & Armstrong. It's superhero-ish action, but should also serve as an antido
Read more…It's funny when I was a kid growing up watching BSG and Buck Rogers I didn't realize at the time that Buck Rogers was in a sense a reboot. Same premise as the old one really, man out of time, but updated with special effects and attitudes. Dated look
Read more…I've been far too busy to pay attention, but in Pandora and Batwoman today there were the 'five year ahead' notices for the next issues, does that mean that the storylines I've been following are now in the scrap heap permanently and they'll pick up
Read more…Here's the story in USA Today:
I've been hanging onto the DC train for years waiting for a clear opportunity to jump off, and here it is. Anything they publish from that point on, I'll read the reviews and, if it seems like something I'll like, I'l
Read more…As some may remember from the old board I have a ton of comic books that I have never read. My goal is to read at least one a day (yeah right), and when it strikes my fancy to do so to review that comic here. Once again join me as I plow through year
Read more…Another interesting press release:
There’s a Fine Line Between Good & Evil – Your First Look at the
Avengers & X-Men: AXIS Inversion Looper!
Prepare yourself for the marquee comic event of the fall, kicking off in the must-read Avengers & X-Men: A
Read more…For those interested, Project Gutenberg has posted the very first issue of The Fantasy Fan, from September 1933 amongst its public domain offerings.
The debut fanzine (long before the term was coined) features contributions from: Julius Schwartz, Mor
Read more…AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #4 (OF 9)
RICK REMENDER (W) • LEINIL FRANCIS YU (A)
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
INVERSION VARIANT BY CLAY MANN
YOUNG GUNS VARIANT BY DAVID MARQUEZ
ACT II: INVERSION
• The fate of the Red Skull decided.
• A founding Avenger quits.
• The
Read more…WONDER WOMAN #36
Written by MEREDITH FINCH
Art and cover by DAVID FINCH and RICHARD FRIEND
Lego variant cover
1:50 B&W Variant cover by DAVID FINCH
1:100 variant cover by DAVID FINCH
Blank variant cover
On sale NOVEMBER 19 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RAT
Read more…All New X-men Volume 1: Yesterday's X-men
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Stuart Immonen
Spoilers to follow:
This series follows shortly sometime after the events of AvX. Basically for those who don't know by know, in AvX, Cylcops and his band
Read more…From Brave and the Bold 105, 1973, page 13. Diana's going to help Bruce on a case and an angel appears to her. This is the only time I know of that it happened, did the angel ever show up in her regular title?
Read more…Hey Guys,
I just wanted to make everyone aware that I am writing a Creator-Owned super-hero title at Rocketblast Comics titled Energyman. I am writing and lettering the book and the art in the first issue is by Francesco Conte!
Digital copies are av
Read more…My Iron Man collection is pretty much limited to the first Michelinie era - I have all but a handful of IM 116-154. Other than that, almost nothing. I recently browsed through an Iron Man index, released no doubt to coincide with the recent movie. It
Read more…I'm watching the Doctor Who story "The Tenth Planet", a story notable for the first appearance of the Cybermen and the last appearance of William Hartnell in the lead role. I've never noticed it until now, but in the first episode, a character at an
Read more…Fairest: In All The Land
Written by Bill Willingham, illustrated by A Wonderland of Artists
Vertigo Comics
At first glance this original graphic novel from the Fables spinoff series Fairest looks like a collection of very short stories, a more ext
Read more…In Superman #304 (O'76), we are introduced to DOCTOR JENET KLYBURN, a beautiful, red-headed scientist attached to STAR Labs. She was brilliant and helpful to the Man of Steel and Superman came to depend on her for support.
But was she intended to be
Read more…#1 for 1 Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth #1
Writer: Malachai Nicolle
Art/Cover: Ethan Nicolle
Colors: Dirk Erik Schulz
On sale Nov 19
FC, 32 pages, $1.00
One-shot
When the so-called “real” police find out about Axe Cop’s bad guy chopping antics, they team up
Read more…Pencils down!
This is exactly the way I like one of my quizzes to play out. Everyone who took a shot at it did respectably well, either by getting the right answers to most of the list, or by being the first to nail one of the trickier posers. Betw
Read more…It's not that it doesn't seem to have much to do with the story as much as the images of the JLA members with drawn images behind them doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't look bad artistically, it just seems kinda off somehow.
Read more…A press release of interest:
Original Iron Man & Avengers artist Don Heck gets his due in new TwoMorrows hardcover
In 2010, TwoMorrows Publishing produced a biography of Vince Colletta, the controversial, much-maligned, but highly prolific inker
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