Writer Greg Rucka and artist Michael Lark depict a dystopian future in Lazarus. I'm going to borrow the cataloging summary to describe the setup: "In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is
Read more…I know a lot of people get tired of characters who get bumped off in comics coming back to life. Me, I just don't care. It has seemingly always been this way. It was happening well before I was born, and will continue (if comics are still going I gue
Read more…Defenders of the Status Quo
The villain’s time machine has run amok. Dinosaurs are rampaging in downtown Dallas. Soldiers in blue and gray are firing muskets at each other in a crowded amusement park. A futuristic man with a personal jetpack on hi
Hey everybody,
Here's an interview I conducted with Mimi Pond for the Village Voice, about her graphic novel Over Easy.
THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS
Here are some of this week's books worth special mention:
Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays 1934-36: Dark Horse has begun reprinting the adventures of the time-traveling caveman with the name derived from a French phrase favored
Read more…One aspect of the earlier years of Superman that has been all but totally forgotten is the concept of Krypton as a planet of Super-people , people with super-strength , leaping ,etc. powers not unlike the " faster than a speeding bullet " powers of t
Read more…This volume collects a four-issue miniseries set in the 30 Days of Night universe, with an unusual set of creators: writer Joe R. Lansdale and artist Sam Keith. The concept again proves itself to be quite flexible. The story centers around a group
Read more…THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS
Here are some of this week's books worth special mention:
START ME UP
Two big summer stories launch this week with single issues.
The biggest is Original Sin #0 (Marvel, $3.99), which is numbered accurately -- it isn't the firs
Read more…Marvel keeps adding to this, and it's adding up to quite a lot. So I thought I'd post it for you guys to comment.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. welcomes you to The Art of Level 7
Top Artists Deliver Unique Vision of Marvel’s First Live-Action TV S
Read more…As some may be aware, there have been some interesting movies coming out of South Korea in recent years. (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mister Vengeance and I Saw The Devil are some of my faves.) And the directors of these films are now getting work on Amer
Read more…http://www.gocomics.com/heartofthecity/#.U2vtt91lih8 Today's strip may be just the start. Heart's mom dragged her to the library and insisted she find a book, Heart found a graphic novel and her mother is afraid that it may be Manga.
Read more…First of does anyone know why the word "ha" is over Lois's shoulder on the cover?
Puzzling
Very puzzling
Still a good cover.
I'm not sure if I like Superman being back to life at all. Part of this new 52 was he, Batman and Wonder Woman dying
Back again with the Bad Boys of Science. The main focus in the first few issues here is on Harry Daghlian (the guy in the containment suit who looks like a radioactive skeleton) and his friend Enrico Fermi. Their relationship is far more complex th
Read more…Avengers #157
March 1977
Cover art by: Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, and Dan Crespi
Story: A Ghost of Stone!
Writer: Gerry Conway
Pencils: Don Heck
Inks: Pablo Marcos
The Beast, Yellowjacket, and Iron Man are working in a lab in Avengers Mansion when t
Read more…I'd like to inagurate this as a thread for Spider-Man discussion...and , as of now anyways , spoilerless comments about the new " The Amazing Spider-Man 2 " movie ,w hich I have not seen yet...I was thinking of maybe seeing it to-day , 6/6/14 , when
Read more…Dick Ayers, a legendary Silver Age artist and inker, especially on Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, died at age 90. HERE'S a short bio from ICv2.com.
Read more…Here's someone who goes all the way back to the earliest days of Marvel's Golden Age. Thanks to Marvel Masterworks, a lot of his GA stories have been reprinted. He appeared in the Silver Age before Captain America. Before he got his own series in
Read more…Here's the press release. How can this be? Do these books have a different distributor than Diamond? Why is this the only place I'm seeing these numbers?
PAPERCUTZ'S STILTON SALES PASS THE 1,000,000 MARK
TIME-TRAVELING MOUSE AND HIS SISTER ARE “BRIN
Despite the movie reboot, the Fantastic Four's place in the Marvel Universe has dropped in importance behind the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Hulk and even Iron Man. But they are important to the MU, as we all should know. They were the stand
“The Court-Martial of Sergeant Fury”
Editor and writer: Stan Lee Art: Jack Kirby (pencils), George Roussos (inks)
The case of The United States Army v. Sergeant Nicholas Fury reconvenes.
The prosecution has rested after presenting an air-tight ca
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