I looked all over for a thread dedicated to this title, but couldn't find one.
I read issues #2-5 this morning. I really like this. I'm not sure why I like this one, because my cranky old man ways normally hate stories about teenagers. I had read iss
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Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick
Written By: Matt Fraction
Art By: Chip Zdarsky
Suzie and Jon both have the same bizarre ability: when they have an orgasm, they stop time. They meet at a party Suzie has thrown as a benefit for the local libra
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100th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL – FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (Marvel Comics, $3.99): This is the first in a series of comics that will publish one per week in July, looking at the Marvel Universe of 2061 -- 100 years after Fantastic Four #1 launched that
Read more…Press Release
Kapow! BATMAN 66 #1 Blasts Off Today
DC Entertainments New Digital-First Comic Featuring DC2 Interactivity Now Available for Download
Holy high tech, Batman! Today marks the release of highly anticipated new Digital-First comic BAT
Read more…So this last week, my copy of Marvel Masterworks #186 shows up. This reprints the Avengers #112-119 and the appropriate Defenders issues to complete "the Avengers/Defenders War".
SPOILERS: SPOILERS GALORE BELOW:
Now, I've been looking forward
Read more…In another thread, we've been discussing which of the Avengers knew their secret identies.
This brought up the confusion over the membership of the villian's group, "Zodiac" and just who were their original line-up.
It seems to me that Cornelius Van
Read more…Veteran Actor dies at the age of 98.
I loved him in just about everything I saw him in.
Read more…It's amazing what can take off in our society. On my other screen I'm looking at a 1969 add for Saturday morning cartoons and on it from CBS are Dastardly and Muttley, Perils of Penelope Pitstop, the Archie Comedy Hour featuring Sabrina, The Monkey's
Read more…My first Avengers story was Marvel Triple Action #22 (N'74) which reprinted Avengers #28 which was the return/debut of Henry Pym as Goliath. I commented on this at Mister Silver Age's forum. In a nutshell, Pym can only stay giant-size for fifteen min
Read more…For a long time — I wanna say at least as far back as immediately post-Crisis; I'm not sure how actively it was stated before then — it was more-or-less established canon that the start of the superhero age (the appearances of Superman and Batman & e
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McClatchy-Tribune
If you’re looking forward to How to Train Your Dragon 2, which premiered June 13, you’ll be pleased to know there’s already a sequel out – in print.
English publisher Titan Comics has launched a new series chroni
Do we not have a thread on this? The movie's been out for weeks!
My wife and I finally got a chance to see it (we work different schedules, so movie-going is sometimes difficult to arrange), and we really, honestly enjoyed it.
The moviemakers ma
Read more…I am still working on my 2012 New Year’s resolution to read all of the Marvel Silver Age comics in the order in which they were printed. It’s been slow going, but today I finished the titles published in
August 1964.
Previously I had posted that Au
Read more…Attracted by the Alan Davis cover, I bought The Mighty Thor #18 for the Alan Davis art within. It’s been a while since I’ve checked into the doin’s of my favorite Norse god. Last time I checked, Loki was a woman; now s/he’s a young boy. There have be
Read more…I recall seeing Fantastic Four Annual #4 on the spinner rack within a month or two of my starting to buy the Fantastic Four with issue #55.
I flipped through it, to try to understand WHY there were two human torches fighting on the cover.
Clearly, on
Read more…Anybody watching Continuum? I recently got hooked after a marathon viewing session. Bought Season 1 on Blu-ray and then downloaded the rest. Initially, I decided to give it a shot because I liked Rachel Nichols in Alias and I'm a sucker for time trav
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Collects Happy #1-4
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Darick Robertson
Image Comics, $12.99, color, 96 pages
Maybe I expect too much of Grant Morrison, but after reading this I wondered why it was written.
Here's the description from the back of
Read more…As part of All-New Marvel Now!, this month we see the debut of a new She-Hulk series, by writer Charles Soule and artist Javier Pulido. My thoughts on issue #1 (SPOILERS, naturally):
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Before the story gets under
Read more…This is an odd bit of Kirby- one that I remembered reading and enjoying back in the day, so when it was recently released and collected, I picked it up. Let's see what I can find to say about this.
I'll note that it's inked by Mike Royer, since I k
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