What’s the Furthest Place from Here? Vol. 2: Safe as Houses
Tyler Boss & Matthew Rosenberg, storytellers; Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, lettering
Image Comics, 2023
At the end of the first collection the family called the Academy was disbanded and its me
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THE HEROIC AGE, PART FOUR (A.D. 1971 - A.D. 1980)
During this period, the human race began to cooperate ever more closely as attacks by kaiju and alien invaders continued to proliferate.
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MARVEL COMICS
ALPHA FLIGHT #3 (OF 5)
ALPHA FLIGHT BY JOHN BYRNE OMNIBUS HC (NEW PTG)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #36
CAPTAIN AMERICA #2
CAPTAIN MARVEL #1
DAREDEVIL #1 2ND PTG
DAREDEVIL EPIC COLLECTION: MIKE MURDOC
Read more…Having seen my good friend Jeff's latest TV-based discussion, Jeff Watches Torchwood, I thought, "Since Jeff is posting about a current program that he's watching for the first time, I ought to post about an old program that I'd be watching for what
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ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
Year: 1963
Author: Ian Fleming
THE PLOT
James Bond woos a mob boss' daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps involving beautiful wom
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MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY WELLS VOL 6: DEAD LANGUAGE PART 2 TP
ASTONISHING ICEMAN #3
AVENGERS INC #2
CHILDREN OF THE VAULT #3 (OF 4)
COSMIC GHOST RIDER: DUEL IDENTITY TP
CRYPT OF SHADOWS #1
DARED
Read more…Amazon Prime Video is going to release a James Bond-themed TV reality competition show. I'm not sure how contestants on 007: Road to a Million can use their license to kill without being arrested, but I am a bear of very small imagination.
Here's the
Read more…2020 ended (DEC) with a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. 2021 began (FEB 11) with a conjunction of Jupiter and Venus. Even in these days of social distancing, star gazing is distant enough. Here's a preview of some of the top astronomical events of
Read more…Bill Mumy has posted on Facebook that Mark Goddard has passed away. I know that he did a lot of other things, but I (as I suspect is true of many of us) remember him best as Major Don West on Lost in Space.
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Damn Them All Vol. 1
Simon Spurrier, writer; Charlie Adlard, illustrator; Sofie Dodgson, colors
BOOM! Studios, 2023
As the story begins, we meet Ellie "Bloody El" Hawthorne who is introduced to magic by her uncle Alfie, an infamous magician and occu
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Phyllis Coates, the First Lois Lane on Television, Dies at 96
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GARTH ENNIS TACKLES JAMES BOND
This is quite a coup for Dynamite. Ennis has written some great war stories, as well as Preacher, The Boys, Hitman and a nine-year run on The Punisher.
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W. Maxwell Prince, writer; Martín Morazzo, illustrator; Mat Lopes, colors
Image Comics, 2023
This miniseries from the creators of Ice Cream Man was first published by IDW in 2016-17 under the title The Electric Subli
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MARVEL COMICS
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MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #35
AVENGERS #6
BLADE #4
CAPTAIN AMERICA: TRIAL OF CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS HC
CAPTAIN MARVEL: ASSAULT ON EDEN #1
CAPTAIN MARVEL: GENIS-VELL BY PETER DAVID OMNIBUS HC
Read more…It's the anniversary of the date Dr. No (the movie) was released. Here's the email I received from "Miss Moneypenny":
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Ok, so, because I'm up at a ridiculous hour; so I can get to work, at a ridiculous hour, I frequently hear Coast to Coast AM on my way to the office. Coast to Coast has been promoting "Marveleous Entertainment" comics, written by Marvin Sunderland. I
Read more…BEST OF SIMON & KIRBYS MAINLINE COMICS HC
Story: Joe Simon
Art: Jack Kirby, Chris Kirby
Cover: Jack Kirby
Publisher: TwoMorrows, $49.95
Published in 1954-55, Mainline Comics was Joe Simon and Kirby's own publishing firm. Simon and Kirby were the clos
Read more…Some time back (I can't find the thread) some of us discussed the Twomorrows publication Our Artists at War, which is a comprehensive (AFAIK) collection of commentary on the war comics of the 60s and 70s. One of the highlights of this genre was the
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