Not a lot of interest (to me) this month.
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: They’ve solicited a volume of Ms. Marvel for October release. There are a whole lot of volumes of current series I’d rather see than jumping so far into the seventies.
IDW ARTIST’S EDITION
Read more…Welcome to another edition of the world-famous* Captain Comics Comics Guide! It's another big week, as manga has made a comeback and a number of publishers are shipping first issues. The bad news: There's something amiss with Archie. But we'll get to
Read more…Al Feldstein, the writer/editor who helmed EC's famous horror titles and took MAD magazines to its greatest circulation, has died at age 88. A titan has passed.
HERE'S a brief obit from ICv2.com.
Read more…Saw this today and I loved it.
Anyone else?
Please know that you should expect MAJOR SPOILERS in this thread...
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
Free Comic Book Day is back, bigger and better than ever. So big, in fact, that the following guide is necessary
First, the details: On Saturday, May 3, participating comic shops will give away free comics. (To
One of three S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarriers engages in combat in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. All photos © 2014 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
April 15, 2014 -- Captain America: The Winter Soldier has blo
Read more…This graphic novel tells the history of “The Turk,” the mechanical chess player of the 18th and 19th centuries. It has been serialized online over the course of six years, and has finally been collected in printed form. The story itself is true, but
Read more…Here's a thread to let people know of upcoming and recently released comics that can be picked up and enjoyed, no strings attached, with nothing more to buy, ever! No salesman will visit your home!
The first alert goes to Superman/Batman #10 (on sal
So, Marvel provides a digital code with all of its $3.99 books. DC also sells certain books as a print/digital combo pack. There's no reason we shouldn't be sharing these, and getting twice the comics for our money!
So I propose to let this be a pla
I remember him best for his role in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, although I know he had a long and varied career. I especially remember him as being one of the few British actors to be able to do a convincing American accent.
Read more…My column for this month's Comics Buyer's Guide has been posted to my Columnist section of the CBGxtra Web site. It's at:
You can com
Read more…Can anyone remember what issue of the comics that was based on? For Free Comic Book day I think my LCS is going to have a sale on back issues and I'd like to keep an eye out for it.
Still remember it as one of the more brutal fights Diana ever
Read more…I picked up a bunch of comics at the Asbury Park Comicon today, including a handful of the Charlton kung-fu series Yang. When I was looking on the GCD to see how long the series ran, I discovered something interesting. The original 1973 series ran 13
Read more…1)Another story where only one episode is available - in this case, the first episode. It's quite eerie and atmospheric, what there is of it. Supposedly, the Yeti were altered to make them less cuddly than they were in "The Abominable Snowmen", but
Read more…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
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