I spotted Bride of Frankenstien, Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde (Spenser Tracy version), Forbidden Planet and Thing From Another world. Good line up.
Read more…Saw a quick commercial for it today.
Read more…To help us appreciate comic book art I'd like to start a sort of forum game. Respond to this post with a "GIVE ME AN ARTIST!" message and I will will assign you a comic book artist.
RULES UPDATE!
I'll list an artist and everyone who wants to join in
Read more…As several new books demonstrate, history can be fun.
First up in order of awesomeness is Star Trek: Federation – The First 150 Years (Titan, $29.95). As you can guess from the title, it’s a history book of events that haven’t happened yet – and yet
Read more…A few months back TCM showed Billy the Kid versus Dracula, at the Arisia convention next week they'll be showing Bonnie and Clyde versus Dracula, I've read the Holmes/Dracula file by Saberhagen, he's fought Thor, Howard the Duck and the X-men in marv
Read more…Yes, Virginia, there is a real “47 Ronin” story. But it isn’t exactly the same one in the movie that premiered Dec. 25!
Which isn’t to say that film, starring Keanu Reeves, is a bad thing. Actually, it looks fantastic – in both senses of the word.
In
It’s an Avengers World, and we’re just living in it. Literally!
That’s not just because the Avengers movie made a bajillion dollars (although it did). Or because the number of Avengers titles at Marvel Comics have been expanding (although they have).
Read more…I saw The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug AKA The Hobbit 2: Electric Boogoloo today and thought it was an exciting movie and great middle to the trilogy. What caught my eye (besides the obvious!) was:
Saw both of them and I'm a little glad I didn't buy the dvd's when they were first put out. Both of them are good, but I can think of episodes of JL and JL:U that I liked better.
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It's that time of year again. No, I don't mean it's time to stuff your face with egg nog and candy canes. It's time to reflect on the best comics of 2014. Here's your chance to have your say. Every member of Captain Comics' Comics
Read more…There’s always the end-of-the-year rush. Pundits hurry to produce top ten lists and year-in-review columns. Partiers mob the liquor store to pick up last minute supplies. And comic-book publishers put out as many comic books as they can, probably to
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I’m back. As I mentioned in part one, I had a huge stack of comic books waiting for me at my local shop as the comic book companies tried to get everything published before the end of the year. I had so many new comics, in fact, that I didn’t ha
Read more…I've lately read through a couple of John Byrne's IDW offerings, namely Trio and Triple-Helix. They're both essentially pastiches of series' that he's worked on before, namely Fantastic Four and X-Men.
So far, I've found them to be paced briskly,
Read more…Here’s what caught my fancy this month.
ALLEY OOP SUNDAYS: Between this volume (which starts at the very beginning) and the LOAC Essential (which reprints the dailies starting with the first time travel story), my prehistoric time-traveling caveman i
Read more…CAPTAIN COMET is an anomaly among super-heroes, being neither a Golden Age character nor a Silver Age character. He debuted in Strange Adventures #9 (Ju'51) and ended his run in #49 (O'54). While he had some reprints in the late 60s/early 70s, the Sh
The second (and final) Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E. collection leads off with the last two stories by departing writer Jeff Lemire. They are far more consequential than two single issue stories would normally be. In "The Spawn of Frankenstein" Fr
Story from CBR.
This isn't much of a surprise since Disney recently bought the rights to Star Wars and has owned Marvel for a few years now. The move won't happen until 2015.
I never read many of the Star Wars comics from Dark Horse, though I am a
Read more…I read recently the first two issues of Amazing X-men by Jason Aaron. This is the return of Nightcrawler. However, Kurt's not back yet.
The story starts in heaven with Kurt mopping about his days when he was alive. Then there's an attack on heaven b
Read more…I'm coming in cold but had no trouble getting the concept and the storyline looks good.
Read more…The Superior Spider-Man Volume 3: No Escape
Reprinting Superior Spider-Man #11-16
Writers: Dan Slott, Christos Gage (script issues #11-13)
Artists: Guiseppe Camuncoli (issues #11-13), Humberto Ramos (issues #14-16)
Marvel Comics, $17.99, color, 136 p
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