THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS
Every week Marvel hogs the Comments section with a flood of number ones, and this week is no different. But at least we get to start with a number one from another publisher: Dynamite. Because Flash Gordon #1 comes out this wee
Read more…I saw , bought same , this MEGAMIND - BRILLIANTLY BRILLIANT, semi-book/semi-prestige format ( Actually , it's fairly smaller than a standard comic book . ) pub to-day .
I'd seen and gotten #s 2 and 3 of the standard-format funny book mini-series f
Read more…O Capn' , on occasion when I journey to your employer's page , I see reference to the Com'l Apel as being a " Mid-South " paper , that is the phrase it uses for the area it covers .
Just now , I noticed an ad for a chain of tanning -arlors on the C
Read more…I don't know much about Adam Strange but last I looked he knew all about alien worlds. Did I miss part of the reboot?
This was a get together issue with Stargirl (in a new costume I think) and Animal man being asked by Adam Strange to help him with
When we last left the JLD, Zatanna and Timothy Hunter had just disappeared through a dimensional portal, to places unknown. In the first issue here ("Enter the House of Mystery") the group discovers that the so-called Books of Magic that triggered
Read more…Deadman has a brief confrontation with a drunk Constantine (who last issue not only ran out on all of them but got tossed out of the House of Mystery by the house itself) and flies off. Zatanna is trying to adjust to her new role as leader, something
Read more…Return of the Vampire
While most comic book fans are captivated by zombies, another classic monster is making a comeback. Or coming back at least. Three vampire comics returned from hiatus in the past month, introducing new situations and storylin
Read more…Read issue #1 earlier. Three origins in this one.
Superman: They had to start with Supes, I suppose. Pretty much the familiar origin, told with alternate voice-overs from Lara and Ma Kent. Apparently, New 52 Lara was a soldier, which I'm pretty s
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
April 1, 2014 -- Last week, the box office charts domestically and internationally were topped by different American movies – and both have comic-book roots.
The big hit was Captain America: The Winter Soldier,
Read more…Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
Comics can be many things, from quiet dramas to flights of fancy to superheroic clashes of good and evil. But some times – maybe the best times – they’re just fun.
Case in point: Steve Mannion’s Fearless Dawn, bro
Read more…So I buy 5 different Avengers issues of what I thought were 5 different title down at the ol' LCS , moved in part by an employee there's expression of enthusiasm for Marvel today , saying that Marvel's gotten back to good storytelling or similar . Tw
Read more…Law & Order's stock in trade, from the beginning, is the "ripped from the headlines" story -- taking an incident that happened here on Earth-Prime and spinning a thinly disguised version. But the other day, I caught I rerun that followed a news story
Read more…When a hero has been around for 50 years, there are bound to be various interpretations. When I started reading Daredevil in the late 70s / early 80s, Frank Miller was first the artist and later the writer and artist on the title. He put a stamp o
Read more…( spoilers-ish ) These last 2 nites , I saw , on SyFy , their marathon of the original B&W THE TWILIGHT ZONE series .
Something like 40 hours taken up , so 80 episodes , 1/2 of the half-hour episodes ? ( Towards the end of the series it went to a
Read more…Okay, I'm off to watch the first night of Jay Leno's last week of shows.
Read more…Amazing Spider-Man #235
December 1982
Cover art by: John Romita, Jr. & Al Milgrom
Story: Look Out There's A Monster Coming!
Writer: Roger Stern
Pencils: John Romita Jr.
Inks: Frank Giacoia
Spider-man is in a lab run by the Brand Corporation in whi
Read more…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
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