COVERS: I recently threw a few possible nominations for “Best Cover” into the ol’ Cappies memory box, but with Alex Ross doing a whole series of Marvel 75th anniversary covers there are likely to be more in the future.
MARVEL FIRSTS: THE 80s: Vol. 2:
Read more…(Collects Journey Into Mystery #622-626)
Writer: Kieron Gillen
Artist: Doug Braithwaite
Journey Into Mystery was relaunched in 2010 with issue 622. In it, Kieron Gillen took the reborn ‘Kid Loki’ and made him the star of a highly entertaining, and r
Read more…Another show I'd forgotten about as I work my way through the vhs collection and put it on DVD. Queen of Swords, a female Zoro. Last week I found an episode of Cleopatra 2525 and I've found a few sit coms that didn't last a season or even one or
Read more…Moderator John Dunbar here.
As many members of the Comics Round Table are aware, the Number One Rule of this Board is "No Personal Attacks".
The moderators have, more than once, explained this rule and what it encompasses. There have been posts mad
Read more…Welcome to another Comics Guide! I am your humble narrator and tour guide, Captain Comics. After my "Captain's Comments" and you're into the Guide proper, my comments will be in blue. Meanwhile, The Baron has dropped by the Cave again, and in an unre
Read more…From Marvel Entertainment
Oct. 9, 2012
The Future of YOUNG AVENGERS Is Marvel NOW!
Superstars Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie Usher In A New Age Of Teen Heroes!
New York. NY—August 9, 2012— This October, a brand new team arrives on the scene to sho
Read more…This Vertigo miniseries starts from an unlikely premise: it is set in a post-Victorian England where the upper classes have voluntarily taken the Cure and become vampires ("the Young") to escape the lower classes, many of whom have been turned int
Read more…Gerald Conway has come to Collinsport in pursuit of a dream. For the last few months, he's been haunted by visions of the House by the Sea. Now Gerald is staying at the House, he's beginning to uncover its dark past. Warlocks, vampires and murderers
Read more…We were talking about Johnny and Sue in the FF thread and I thought about Wanda and Pietro and the difference between them. Sue was protective of Johnny sometimes, but she never considered him her property as I often felt that Peitro did with Wand
Read more…Creepy Volume Sixteen
Collecting Creepy #73-77 (Aug 75-Feb 76)
Artists & writers: Various
Dark Horse, B&W and color, $49.99, 380 pages
Every time I forget how much the 1970s sucked, something reminds me. This week it’s Creepy #73.
That was the first
Read more…I just realized that I've always thought of them as a couple but she premiered solo. And did he meet her or her mother first?
Read more…This guy, not a comic fan, got a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1(1963) as a wedding present from his brother-in-law, a comic fan. Now he selling it at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. The owner's son Corey AKA Big Hoss and his goofy sidekick,
Read more…Any Hall of Fame is bound to be at least partially subjective, especially one in the humanities. An athletic Hall of Fame can at least aspire to a veneer of objectivity based on statistics. But an artistic Hall of Fame falls within the province of
Read more…Adventure Comics #351
June 1966
Cover art by: Curt Swan & George Klein
Story: The Forgotten Legion!
Writer: E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein
I never realized so many anecdotes I had heard about the Legion over the years to
Read more…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
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