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
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Here are some of this week's books worth special mention:
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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
Read more…With Maleficent coming out this question occurred to me. DC has Faust and Morgana La Fay, Circe, Talia, and marvel has their own version of Morgana Le Fay and a few others, but when I think of evil magical users in comics I think mostly of the ma
Read more…I always loved the minor heroes and villains like the Elongated Man, the Swordsman, Hourman, et al. Even characters who appeared only once or twice can be interesting. Certainly there can be untapped potential as well. These are some I always had a s
Read more…One of my favorite books growing up in the 70s was The Defenders with their seemingly mismatched yet powerful though hardly stable roster. But it was clear that they won because of the leadership and mystic prowess of DOCTOR STRANGE and the sheer pow
I know there was Johnny Thunder and in the tv show Isis, but are there other characters who had to say a word to transform?
Read more…From the looks of Previews this looks darn interesting. I'd always pick up a Groo issue anyway.
Read more…Feldstein: The MAD Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein!
Grant Geissman
IDW (2013) $49.99
The history of E.C. Comics is inextricably bound to Al Feldstein’s career: first as artist, then writer, and finally as longtime editor of MAD magazine. T
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