So I went to http://comics.org/series/3345/covers/ looking for a certain THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN issue and saw , not only something that reminded me of a (Self-hating comment ~ spectacularly nerdish/what the Brits call " anorak/trainspotter/saddo/
Read more…As many of you know, I teach fifth grade.
Fridays in my classroom are "comic book Friday", which means that, during silent reading time, my students are allowed to read comic books instead of their regular novels. Yes, even though I'm a comic book en
Read more…So there's not a whole lot about Marvel or DC that I enjoy now, except I have found this weird little batch of books that I've really enjoyed recently. It started with Hawkeye, then in the horribly-named but massively entertaining Superior Foes Of S
Read more…Invincible Volume 1: Family Matters
Writer/Letters- Robert Kirkman
Pencils/Inks- Corey Walker
Colorist- Bill Crabtree
Introduction by Kirk Busiek
Published by Image Comics
Collects issues 1-4
I first heard about Invincible around 2003 or 2004 when I
Read more…I'm sure sonmeone here will know this (I'd lay a shade of odds on it being Mr. SA or the Commander who answers this, but I'm sure they're not the only ones), but I'm having trouble finding it on the interwebs..
What issue did Gail Manners first a
Read more…I was in the LCS and the conversation mentioned that another version of the Green Goblin was going to appear. I questioned why there were no new villains and the guy behind the counter said that it was all money. According to him new villains and cha
Read more…THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS
Every week Marvel hogs the Comments section with a flood of number ones, and this week is no different. But at least we get to start with a number one from another publisher: Dynamite. Because Flash Gordon #1 comes out this wee
Read more…I saw , bought same , this MEGAMIND - BRILLIANTLY BRILLIANT, semi-book/semi-prestige format ( Actually , it's fairly smaller than a standard comic book . ) pub to-day .
I'd seen and gotten #s 2 and 3 of the standard-format funny book mini-series f
Read more…O Capn' , on occasion when I journey to your employer's page , I see reference to the Com'l Apel as being a " Mid-South " paper , that is the phrase it uses for the area it covers .
Just now , I noticed an ad for a chain of tanning -arlors on the C
Read more…I don't know much about Adam Strange but last I looked he knew all about alien worlds. Did I miss part of the reboot?
This was a get together issue with Stargirl (in a new costume I think) and Animal man being asked by Adam Strange to help him with
When we last left the JLD, Zatanna and Timothy Hunter had just disappeared through a dimensional portal, to places unknown. In the first issue here ("Enter the House of Mystery") the group discovers that the so-called Books of Magic that triggered
Read more…Deadman has a brief confrontation with a drunk Constantine (who last issue not only ran out on all of them but got tossed out of the House of Mystery by the house itself) and flies off. Zatanna is trying to adjust to her new role as leader, something
Read more…Return of the Vampire
While most comic book fans are captivated by zombies, another classic monster is making a comeback. Or coming back at least. Three vampire comics returned from hiatus in the past month, introducing new situations and storylin
Read more…Read issue #1 earlier. Three origins in this one.
Superman: They had to start with Supes, I suppose. Pretty much the familiar origin, told with alternate voice-overs from Lara and Ma Kent. Apparently, New 52 Lara was a soldier, which I'm pretty s
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
April 1, 2014 -- Last week, the box office charts domestically and internationally were topped by different American movies – and both have comic-book roots.
The big hit was Captain America: The Winter Soldier,
Read more…Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
Comics can be many things, from quiet dramas to flights of fancy to superheroic clashes of good and evil. But some times – maybe the best times – they’re just fun.
Case in point: Steve Mannion’s Fearless Dawn, bro
Read more…So I buy 5 different Avengers issues of what I thought were 5 different title down at the ol' LCS , moved in part by an employee there's expression of enthusiasm for Marvel today , saying that Marvel's gotten back to good storytelling or similar . Tw
Read more…Law & Order's stock in trade, from the beginning, is the "ripped from the headlines" story -- taking an incident that happened here on Earth-Prime and spinning a thinly disguised version. But the other day, I caught I rerun that followed a news story
Read more…When a hero has been around for 50 years, there are bound to be various interpretations. When I started reading Daredevil in the late 70s / early 80s, Frank Miller was first the artist and later the writer and artist on the title. He put a stamp o
Read more…( spoilers-ish ) These last 2 nites , I saw , on SyFy , their marathon of the original B&W THE TWILIGHT ZONE series .
Something like 40 hours taken up , so 80 episodes , 1/2 of the half-hour episodes ? ( Towards the end of the series it went to a
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