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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
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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
Read more…Happy
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
Read more…It hasn’t been just too long since I last read the complete run of Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon, but I’ve never before read Flash’s “topper,” Jungle Jim, in its entirety. Now that IDW’s “Library of American Comics” has completed its reprint of The Com
Read more…Though I still miss her old solo series of just a short time ago I have to admit that this title has given me one of the best Zatanna's I've ever seen. Resourceful, strong and confident. Powerful enough to be leader but not so much that she overshado
Read more…Cause the current strip strongly hints that he has now in his search for Annie.
Read more…I gotta take a break from a biology text book and as I was reading a few old comics I noticed a similar theme for some heroines. As I notice more I'll post them.
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