ABE SAPIEN #15
Writers: MIKE MIGNOLA, SCOTT ALLIE
Art: JUAN FERREYRA
Cover: SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
On sale Aug 13
FC, 32 pages, $3.50
Ongoing
Roger returns!
Before the Black Flame, Hell on Earth, and the death of Roger, Abe faces a creature that threatens
Read more…I have to say I'm nut sure which Ragdoll this is, but I think it might be a re-boot of the original, not the one in the Secret Six. Even so Simone as a gift for this type of crazy villain (or villainess, it's hard to tell with Ragdoll). There is some
Read more…Avengers #158
April 1977
Cover art by: Jack Kirby & John Romita (these are the 2 that GCD and CBDB agree on)
Story: When Avengers Clash!
Writer: Jim Shooter
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Inks: Pablo Marcos
Man, that Wonder Man costume is really hard for m
Read more…This was the first Marvel Annual I bought, Fantastic Four Annual #3, 1965. I had only been reading Marvel for a few months by this time, so seeing all these characters in one story was quite a revelation to young Hoy. It also was my first comic book
Got this press release from DC today, which is just a glorified link. But the stuff they've posted is pretty interesting -- from an old fan's POV:
Today we posted new, exciting details on DC Comics’ September publishing event on DCComics.com, includ
Read more…I wanted to share this interesting sighting of Silver Age comics. The Naked City was a TV show that ran from 1959-1963. Season 4, episode 1, original airdate 9-19-62, episode title "Hold For Gloria Christmas", had the following comics connection. At
Read more…EDITOR'S NOTE: After assembling the Comics Guide throughout the week, and spending six hours writing and editing it today (Sunday, April 27), I have accidentally deleted it.
Yes, the whole damn thing. Twelve takes, an untold number of man hours, a c
Read more…With Archie being dead in another part of the Archie universe... Just strange. It's amazing how the character are and are not like the Archie characters I've always known. Archie is still ernest, determined, Betty is still sweet, Veronica is still a
Read more…One of the things I do like about this book is the sharp contrast between the two main characters and how they can be traced to the differences of their fathers. Helena (in her case her mother as well) is subtle and moves about in costume, hugging
Read more…THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS
Here are some of this week's noteworthy books:
Archie 1000 Page Comics Bonanza (Archie, $14.99): One of the greatest innovations in recent years at Archie Comics -- and there have been plenty -- has been for the publisher to ac
Read more…I bought the book header-title'd above to-day , after seeing it in a local (" real ") bookstore .
Inquiring after that at my LCS , I was told that it had been offered to comics shops as well , briefly .
It's a series of " semi-scholarly " (I hope
Read more…I enjoyed the first issue. Clear artwork and an intriguing non-linear chain of events. Good storytelling all around. Set in the '30s, black and white, with a Universal Studios moster movie feel. won't say it was decompressed, but it did end all too
Read more…BO, PLUSHY GANGSTA: KINGDOM OF BO (TPB)
Writer/Art/Cover: PAVEL BALABANOV
128 Pgs./ Mature Readers/FC/$14.99
Are the legends of Bo, the “teddy bear” gangsta, true? And, did we just say teddy bear gangsta?! You’re about to find out-- when the soul of
Read more…...are we just a bunch of old , well , the metaphor I might use might not be liked by the Mods...Basically , did ANYBODY here do ANYTHING on FCBD ???
Read more…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
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