I receive ham from Heritage Auctions , listing their comics stuff ~ Well , most recently , I received on which had news of a comics character ~ an SA one ~ being sold outright .
AND his domain name !!!!!!!!!!!
Since this i
Read more…Does anybody want to remember TV GUIDE magazine back when it was a digest , in its heyday when it sold something like 20 million copies a week ?
Back at the CBG boards we had a line discussing TVG when it went magizine-sized .
About that time , i
Read more…I got the Stargirl cover and it's kinda cute. Still slowly getting the team together on this but some good explanations. Couple of strange jumps too. We start at the base in Canada. Miiyahbin and her friend Heather are looking around and are attacke
Read more…Batman #354
December 1982
Cover art by: Keith Giffen and Dick Giordano
Story: Showdown
Writer: Gerry Conway
Pencils: Don Newton
Inks: Alfredo Alcala
Newly appointed Police Commissioner Pauling has stripped Batman of his Special Deputy status, and
Read more…A scene from a "Roy of the Rovers" comic.
Over at my world-famous (ha-ha) blog, I review a hefty hardbound book collecting a long run of soccer comics starring "Hot Shot Hamish," a big palooka from the Hebrides of Scotland.
As I did a little bit of
Read more…"Okay, I'll bite. Did Paladin even have a first name? Or a last name for that matter?
"They did an origin episode in the last season of the series titled 'Genesis', I believe, where he told his origin to a young man someone had sent to kill Paladi
Read more…BEST BETS
ANGRY BIRDS #1 (IDW Publications, $3.99): One of the most widely played video games gets its own comic book. It's hard to guess how the game could be turned into an ongoing series, but IDW has done more with less.
ARMOR HUNTERS #1 (of 4, Va
Read more…One more press release of interest:
I don't usually post PR about e-comics, but this one sounds like it might be of interest to the Legion:
VIZ IS NOW ON COMIXOLOGY
More than 500 VIZ Media manga titles are now available on comiXology throughout North America including NARUTO, ONE PIEC
Read more…I mean ~ What DO they ?????????????????????
I am thinking of something , which will springboard a continuity comment ~ but what am I thinking of ???????????
No , it's not that they , off-panel , go out at times on chaste " Terrorize every buffet
Read more…The Teen Titans Project, Part I:
The “Ginchy Gear” Years (1964-1967)
Silver Age Teen Titans comic books are a strange animal. They’re widely beloved as some of the worst comics ever made. Yes, you read that right. They’re awful. They’re terri
Read more…March: Book One
Written by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin
Art by Nate Powell
March tells the story of Congressman John Lewis, from his childhood in rural Alabama, to his key role in the Civil Rights movement, and finally his career in Congress. This book
Read more…Doom Patrol #1 (December 2001): "--Doom Patrol!"
Written by John Arcudi, art by Tan Eng Huat
As the cover says: "4/5 new! All different!" The cover picture is amusing - it's a head shot of Robotman with the other members reflected inhis face, and him
Read more…NEW BLUEWATER TITLES FOR JUNE 4TH!
JUSTICE MACHINE: OBJECT OF POWER
Pages: 96
Writer: Mark Ellis
Artist: David Enebral & Ivan Barriga.
Digital Price: $9.99
Print Price: $17.99
The gears of justice roll on in a new graphic novel by best-selling author
For those of you who do not know, my father Joseph Portelli died last week. He was 80 years old, in bad shape and went to his Maker in peace. I was and still am both grieving and grateful. I miss him yet am thankful that his pain is over. All the cer
Read more…I have hopes for this based on Courtney Crumrin. The art is good and the fish out of water part is familiar territory for Naifeh's.
Plus I like the idea of a girl with a pet elephant :)
To start there are five kingdoms in the lowlands and a kingdom
Local started out as a collection of twelve done-in-one short stories, each set in a different North American city, and featuring a young woman named Megan McKeenan. It was planned to come out once a month for a year, but wound up taking over two
Read more…Delighting My Daughters with Comics
Comic books have been a family affair from the beginning, at least for me. My mom used to buy comics for my brother and me for long car rides and camping trips and I trace my love for comics back to her. When I b
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
May 20, 2014 -- Two men have died in recent weeks whose names you’re unlikely to know, but whose work you’ve probably enjoyed.
That is almost certainly true of Al Feldstein, who died April 29 at the a
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