Usually I think that the modern printing methods are a bit wasted on comics. It's nice to see a good blur effect and brighter colors but to me it's mostly been an excuse to ramp up the price. Tales of Honor is a space opera though and in this case th
Read more…There’s a new John Constantine in town. But as two recent trade paperbacks demonstrate, he’s the same old “hellblazer.”
Yes, I’m talking about the same Constantine who starred in the movie of that name in 2005, starring Keanu Reeves. That film was ba
Read more…I was reading one of the Godzilla titles just now and the fairies of Mothra are showing a human a diagram on a stone wall that classifies the monsters now attacking Earth and she points out that they missed Godzilla. I remembered the scene in the
Read more…Sometimes it seems like I just get used to a character at DC and they kill him off. This issue featured three deaths, maybe more. It also featured Lex taunting Batman, a battle between Lex's motley assortment of villains and the crime syndicate and j
Read more…...I bought it to-day !!!!!!!!!!! Cheap - for five bucks !
Read more…At my LCS I bought the TPB 2day (Cut down on the abbreviations , PDQ ? :-)) of the MARVEL MASTERWORKS , FANTASTIC FOUR , Vol. 10 , by Lee and Kirby (+ Jazzy Johnny) !
It contains the LOST ADVENTURE " directors' cut " of that Jack Kirby story , whic
Read more…I sometimes wonder if any comic book world with superheroes has ever had a competent government. The world government of Earth 2 locked up the people who could helped it prepare for this latest crisis and harassed and tried to lock up others and it's
Read more…This blast from the past appeared in CBG #1579 (Feb 20, 2004), just about a decade ago:
The Mighty Jane Foster!
Don Blake’s nurse came thisclose to marrying the Thunder God of her dreams.But she ended up marrying somebody else instead.
Dear Mr. Sil
Read more…Welcome to another edition of Comics Guide! This week we have a treat for you, and all you have to do is get through my blitherings about the week's notable books. Let's get to work!
THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS
It seems every week brings a couple of "All
Read more…Having finished the colossal SPACE CONQUERORS! project at my blog, today I was finally able to set up a page devoted to TIM HOLT / RED MASK from Magazine Enterprises in the early 1950's.
Most of the covers are by Frank Bolle, with a few by Frank Fraz
I finally took the advice someone gave me 6 months ago, and started my own Jack Kirby Facebook group.
I kinda had to. This one [PERSON I DON'T LIKE], one of the 2 reasons I stopped contributiing to the GCD site 5 years ago, managed to fool one of t
Here is a thread on which to discuss the Oscars - the Academy Awards - for this year , 2104 .
They will be on this coming Sunday . I meant to put this up before , actually !!!
Perhaps we can even do some live discussing/posting:-)...........
Read more…FOREVER PEOPLE #1 / Mar’71 – “IN SEARCH OF A DREAM!”
When Jack Kirby went to DC in late 1971, the first thing he did were the first issues of FOREVER PEOPLE, NEW GODS, and MISTER MIRACLE. However, in order to get a quicker return on their “investme
Valiant Comics, which went out of business about 12 years ago, made a comeback under new ownership in 2012. And it only took the new guys two years to achieve Unity.
Unity is the name of Valiant’s version of “Avengers” or “Justice League” – it’s a bo
Read more…Adventure Comics #333
June 1965
Cover art by: Curt Swan & George Klein
Story: The War Between Krypton and Earth!
Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Pencils: John Forte
Inks: George Klein
Members of the Legion are on an archaeological dig when they discover
Read more…There was a time when Archie Comics was famous for being rigidly conservative. Now it’s gaining a reputation for being the most experimental comics publisher in America.
Most of the company’s progressive efforts aren’t obvious to the casual observer.
During the Silver Age, Batman teamed with the majority of DC's solo heroes but not all. Here are some puzzling omissions:
5) Supergirl--despite one weird team-up with Wonder Woman, the Maid of Might never worked with the Caped Crusader as a teen. But
Read more…I rather liked it. The personalities are not exactly the same as the were, Tina seems a bit more mature and Gold a lot more pushy, Lead a little slower, Iron more agressive, but Mercury and Tin were pretty much as I remembered them from the last t
Read more…1959, Gregory Peck, survivors of a nuclear war wait in Australia for the end. I look at this now -and most of the post-apocalyptic stuff I saw in movies and tv for most of my life- and it all seems very... I don't know. Strange? It was the big
Read more…I didn't make it last week, I'm not going to make it today. I've finished my making video game homework, I'm working on my intro to computer graphics homework, I've got to go over those &*#$&*#@$&(@#$ word problems for a math test tomorrow and if
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