What do you think of ratings , as they are applied now to comic books , especially now that the Code is officially 100% kaputo and it seems like many companies have adopted the same system/set'o'lettes that Marvel uses ?????
For reference , what is
Read more…Briefly, among other things, this is going to be my thread where I try to get caught up with the modern Doctor Who universe before the incoming Doctor's run officially starts, figuring that this would be an excellent -- ulp:-) -- "jumping (back) on"
Read more…I mentioned this in my " Ratings " post , but I saw about $&1/2 episodes of 50s TV series " THE RIFLEMAN " , with Chuck Connors , on AMC this weekend .
It was one of those old TV series I was aware from , but had never seen .
Now I have :-) .
I
Read more…Jason's review of Shaman got me hankering for some more "year one" era Batman goodness, so I thought I'd delve into my back issues, pick up where he's planning on leaving off, and take a look back at Legends of the Dark Knight.
This time around, I'
Read more…While its long-term survival was a long shot, I'm really sorry to see this one go. I don't think it necessarily got off on the right foot, both with its marketing (pitting it against the Green Team) and an opening issue the kept a lot of readers at a
Read more…I bought the new , anniversary issue , 'TEC #27 (96 pages , 88 of them comics) yesterday .
I liked it !!!!!!!!!
Ur , SPOILERS .
Of course , pizza and Coke (" Mexican sugar " and Zero , both) , and a bit of chocolate and 90s commercial rock/rap
Read more…I'm pleased to say the Silver Age Pro-Fan Trivia Challenge will return to C2E2 again this year! It will be held at 2:30-3:30 on Sunday, April 27 on The Twitch Stage on the show floor, whatever that is.
Join moderator Mr. Silver Age as four (or more)
Read more…Per The Beat: DC to spend $250,000 on Vertigo marketing
I think is noteworthy, in that comic book publishers very rarely advertise their books outside comic book specific avenues. Really noteworthy, because it is for the Vertigo imprint which isn't
Read more…With DC starting another weekly series and Figs anxious to continue his Morrrison-athon, this seems like a good time to take a look back at 52.
<SPOILER ALERT> .... Due to the amount of plot building and foreshadowing in this series, spoilers aplen
Read more…The discussion about problems with superhero movies got me to thinking about the essence of some comic book characters. I would like to get as many comments as possible on what exactly comprises the definitive version of Green Lantern. Who is the re
Read more…Can Anyone confirm if the First appearance of Bizarro in the newspaper strip appears in the Superman Dailies Volume. I've looked at some reviews and it's not mentioned and I haven't come across any copies I could look at to check myself.
Read more…In about March of 1966, DC comics added go-go checks across the top edge of the Superman issue for that month.
The practice was continued until issue #199, a race between Supes and Flash, just prior to the 200th issue about Nov.-Dec. 1967.... lasting
The second collection opens with confusion: a ten-year old girl named Katie Lawrence is remembering her life and the fall that killed her, with Elle as witness. Elle comes to in Katie's body, with two urgent missions. First, she needs to correct the
The above is a scan of the program of the first Dallas Fantasy Fair (DFF) that was held in 1982. The man who ran the show, Larry Lankford, I found out last week passed away on Christmas.
Unbelievably he was only 53 at his time of passing. Which meant
Read more…Artist Becky Cloonan has been increasingly visible, illustrating such projects as Gerard Way's The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and several issues of Brian Wood's Conan the Barbarian run. But she still feels the urge to self-publish: to create
Happy Valentine's Day to all of you out there who have found true love!
The Baron honors your love, and urges you to celebrate it in all its truth, beauty and diversity, wherever it may take you...
...and he urges you to remember just this o
Read more…Back in “the old days” (many years ago it seems, but not all that long ago, really) when I first started watching Doctor Who, I confused “The Moonbase” with “The Tenth Planet” as the first Cybermen story. I think that’s because “The Moonbase” has all
Read more…World's Finest #177
August 1968
Cover art: Ross Andru & Mike Esposito
Story: Duel of the Crime Kings!
Writer: Jim Shooter
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Mike Esposito
Lex Luthor is stuck in Gotham Jail (I wonder why he is in that jail?), and fashions a
Read more…Welcome back, Legionnaires, for another startling Comics Guide! This one is chock-full of not only a lot of new and interesting books (see "The Captain's Picks"), but an unusually large number of previews -- especially Image, Marvel and Valiant. This
Read more…I was going through some old comics when I came across a reprint of the original Galactus story and I wondered -yet again- if some ideas shouldn't be left alone. The idea of knowing what the nullifier did, of learning the Beyonder survived Secret War
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