How many folks here have checked out Jonathan Hickman's East of West from Image comics? In typical Hickman fashion it's an alternate history/sci-fi with some horror thrown in. It also is highly entertaining yet 4 issues we're only starting to see how
Read more…1)So, he actually took the two little kids with him. It wasn't that long ago that he dropped off Amy and Rory because traveling with him was too dangeroeus, now he's dragging two kids along.
2)"Cybermites" - This, I imagine, was what the Cybermats we
Read more…I see we've talked some about Batman Zero year over here. However, it seems to have gotten lost amongst other Batman talk. So I thought I'd start a thread devoted to Zero Year. I've read two issues so far and the annual which just slightly ties into
Read more…Howdy, and welcome back to the Greatest Comics Guide in the Universe (TM)! This week plays catch-up on 2013 and falls on a holiday week, so I'm not recommending anything in particular. But there's good stuff, which I suspect you'll find on your own.
Read more…1)And now we come to what I like to think of as the Doctor Who answer to Crisis on Infinite Earths, with the Doctor and all of his spin-offs fighting a twisted guy with his army of faceless drones who wants to destroy all of the universes. Geez, they
Read more…1)"Handles"? OK, carrying a severed head around with you is a bizarre idea. Kudos to them all for managing to make Handles' death somehow poignant.
2)"Tereleptils" - a callback to "The Visitation".
3)"I'm OCD. What's their excuse?"
4)"How those Cyb
Read more…Like the previous volumes, one story to the next has nothing to do with each other. This is a series very episodic in nature. Most of the stories involve Torpedo and his flunky, Rascal taking on some sort of job, and then adventure ensues. Wrapped up
The end is coming for all of your favorite fairy-tale characters.
Well, obviously, that’s not entirely true, given all the movies and TV shows based on myth, legend and folklore currently littering the pop-culture landscape. It’s easy to see why that
Read more…So, in the wake of the cancellation of Legion of Superheroes with August's issue 23, DC will soon be publishing Justice League 3000. (Presumably it's set in 3013, despite its title.) Written by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis, and drawn by Kevin Magu
Read more…Anyone have advice on how to do this? Now that I can convert the albums I have to digital files I'd like to date them as well, and few of them have dates. Two I grabbed at random are "Ted Nash, the music of Frank Comstock from Starlite records" and "
Read more…During my last visit to my could-become-mine LCS , I bought EERIE #3 , Dark Horse's current-day revival of it .
It cost $3.99 , offered two entirely new (I assume) stories and one filler in B&W , and one eight-page reprinted Wally Wood story , in c
Read more…I was transferring some old Buzz Lightyear of Star Command cartoons to DVD and I got to the episode where Buzz meets his evil other dimensional counter part. Just like Kirk did, and Batman has Owlman... How many heroes don't have evil twins? I can't
Read more…The “fumetti” format is hit or miss (mostly miss) with me, but John Byrne has written some pretty good Star Trek comics, so I thought I’d plunk down my 64 bits (yes, admission price is eight bucks) and take a chance. For the most part, I’m glad I did
Read more…My first exposure to Doc Savage was the first issue of Marvel’s b&w magazine. I read some of the novels, but they just didn’t capture my interest the way James Bond or Tarzan novels did. I really like the characters and associated elements; I just wi
Read more…1)And the damned statues again. This is an inherent problem with having the show-runner be the main writer. Writers fall in love with their favorites, and tend to overuse them unless there's someone to restrain them, i.e., the show-runner. But when t
Read more…Trying to keep myself busy so I was scanning this one in and I wondered.
Read more…Cooking comics isn't a genre you see too often in American comics. Sure this about cooking, but it is more than that. It takes place in a future Los Angeles , were chefs now rule. Here chefs can literally get away with murder, and reservations (or re
Read more…I know they have a bit of a bad reputation because the art, but the stories in this issue remind me of the old style horror comics. Book ended by a conflict between the main characters the three stories shift art styles and tone, the best one being t
Read more…I still don't like what they did with the character's design. That being said this issue reminded me of She-Hulk 50 and I love to be able to browse this many different styles of comic book art in one reading. Complete satire on comic books and even t
Read more…Regardless of what time zone you live in, the 50th anniversary special is still hours away as I post this.
To commemorate the occasion, below are a couple of timelines.
The first is a list of the official (the BBC only considers televised episodes ca
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