I found the subject matter interesting enough to pick this up. So far I've read the Jacosta article and found it enjoyable. I never really thought she worked well with Machine Man, I wanted a romance between her and the Beast, but I've noticed that s
Read more…I've been going back and forth with myself on this since yesterday, wondering if I should even ask given how everyone knows how I feel about marvel. But I think this question doesn't go as much to marvel as it does to simple story logic. Scott and co
Read more…I didn't want any of you Kirby fans (there must be a few, I figure) to miss this eBay listing. Pricing -- not to mention explanations-- like this don't come along everyday!
As the seller notes, it's the Holly Grail of Kirby art! I don't know who she
Read more…To be perfectly honest I never understood the accolades heaped on Milt Caniff, but the light bulb went on this weekend. Looking for something different to read from the comics world, I checked out The Complete Terry and the Pirates volume 2 from the
Read more…A good issue. Characters are explored and expanded, The MM's first reaction to Victor "Who's this freak?", Tina's flirting with Doc, who doesn't seem to mind it as much as he did in the past, and even Grid revealing what he's searching for. After rev
Read more…Matt Kindt continues his fascination with classic detective fiction in this original graphic novel for First Second. Detective Gould has never met a crime he couldn't solve. But he is confronted with a series of crimes that seem both eccentric and
Read more…The Captain's Comments
It's a week chock-full of first issues, and for a change they're not all Marvels!
Dyamite has an exceptional week, with the first issues of Solar: Man of the Atom and Captain Action Cat: The Timestream Catastrophe, and the 100t
Read more…Just a quick recommendation for Daredevil #1.50 (that’s one point five zero rather than simply one point five for Daredevil’s 50th anniversary and because the first story is set some 10+ years in the future when Matt Murdock is 50 years old).
The boo
Read more…I just discovered this Batman series on Netflix after refusing to give it a chance during its initial run, and I wish I knew what I'd been thinking. Pure silver age goodness. Seeing 'Mazing Man and the Creature Commandos animated was probably the hig
Read more…The New Warriors’ New Vision
In 1990, Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley launched a new comic book series for Marvel. The basic premise behind the new team -- the Hollywood pitch, if you will -- was that it would be a young Avengers. However, nobody th
Read more…Has anyone seen this? It's supposed to be released in May but it looks like some people have already seen it.
Read more…I'm sure most of you are familiar with this series, but just in case...
From Wikipedia:
Read more…Teen Titans is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics characters of the same name, primarily the run of stories by Marv Wolfman and Georg
What if everyone was a super-hero? Everyone from the boy who delivers your pizza to the mail carrier is a superhero. Or at least they have powers. This is the city of Neopolis. This is the story, or series of stories, of what a police station set in
Read more…All-Star Comics #63
Nov.-Dec. 1976
Cover art by: Rich Buckler & Wally Wood
Story: The Death of Dr. Fate
Writer: Paul Levitz
Pencils: Keith Giffen
Inks: Wally Wood
This is pretty much the definition of an average comic book. From the story to the a
Read more…They started a new adventure in the strip today -though I am going to miss the space coupe and such- featuring Lee, a black female officer. Got me thinking, I remember reading Dick Tracy for the first time as a kid and the strip then featured Liz hel
Read more…It can be fun. Sara in the KODT series is usually portrayed as the level headed female of the all male group. While the other three members of the group use the game to hack and slash and have fun with greed even if they do play lawful good character
Read more…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrying_Irving I only upon the other day ran into the comics-oriented and -inspired phrase " marrying Irving " .
I think it's a good one !!!!!!!!!!!
I do recall that we ,here at CC's , discussed the eventual developmen
Read more…Say this today, it was on the ME tv channel and they've been running Dragnet. I dvr it sometimes if there is an episode I sort of remember from when I was a kid. I remember this one for some reason and this was long before I knew what comic books or
Read more…I don't know in which thread I wondered about this, but a while back, I wondered what the first canceled New 52 title to be relaunched with a new number 1 would be. Hawkman seemed like a decent contender; OMAC, on the other hand, was a real long shot
Read more…It's this Saturday and Sunday, in Asbury Park, NJ! Anyone going? I'll be there on Saturday.
The panel highlight for me will be an 11 a.m. discussion on lettering between Todd Klein and John Workman. I've never been to a lettering panel in all my yea
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