Meet Bonnie Taylor, the high-flying stewardess who ended almost every story with a broken heart. She cruised the skies for over two years, from Nov. 1963 through Dec. 1965/Jan. 1966, in DC's romance comic, Young Romance. Peter Parker never knew so
Read more…Ask not what your Comics Guide can do for you, ask what you can do for your Comics Guide! (Which is read it, of course.)
Let's start, as usual, with the books with press releases and previews:
PUBLISHERS PICKS
ALL-NEW X-MEN #19
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
A behind the scenes sort of movie that I just spotted on BBC America. I hadn't heard about this but according to the schedule they are doing a lot of Doctor Who tomorrow with a new team up episode with the Matt Smith and David Tennent. Meanwhile the
Read more…The latest creator-owned Jonathan Hickman series has the credits Story By: Jonathan Hickman;
Art By: Nick Dragotta. It's notable that the TPB collection doesn't show the subtitle anywhere, nor does it contain the usual blurb summarizing what the stor
Read more…Some final thoughts on how DC’s JSA comics addressed the early years of the ‘War on Terror’. This third column will focus on how the Princes of Darkness storyline looked forward to what it would involve in the longer term.
JSA #41 – 51 (published
Read more…I'm not reading either book. Are any of you? What are your thoughts?
Read more…Has anyone noticed a small one-dollar book that snuck onto the shelves this month?
It's part of the Hundred Penny press reprint line from IDW.
It's a reprinting of THUNDER Agents #1....featuring Dynamo, Noman and the Iron Maiden....
How nice to see
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The Interpretation of Art
Or
The Art of Interpretation
So begins a fascinating set of interconnected storylines that DC published in JSA, between December 2002 and September 2003. JSA was a comics series that gave us the latest incarnati
Read more…I've been sitting on this for a couple of weeks now, trying to see what I could find out myself and these questions may be more speculative than factual. Still the Original Teen Titans always get shunted aside for the New Teen Titans so here's to Com
Read more…There are also discussions about the 60s JLA/JSA team-ups and the 70s JLA/JSA team-ups so feel free to read, comment or add on to those as well!
JUSTICE LEAGUE # 183-185 (O-D'80): Where Have All The New Gods Gone?/ Apokolips Now!/Darkseid Rising!
B
Read more…I just saw this movie the other night and all I can say is....wow.
It's like they took a comic book and turned it into a movie. If you've read comics for any length of time you'll recognize the story pattern and tempo, the fights are massive and comi
Read more…In book-length collections , what stuff gets included ~ and what gets LEFT OUT ?????????
How about censorings/expurgation , whether for legal or changing tastes , eh ?????????
Some collections (as I'll call all book-length collections here , though I
Read more…Welcome to another Comics Guide, with your humble Captain as your guide, historian and court jester. Let's start, as usual, with the books the publishers have been pushing with PR and previews:
PUBLISHER PICKS
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #2
Script: Robert
From the Las Vegas Press Enterprise: "LAS VEGAS: Madame Tussauds Devotes Room to Marvel Heroes"
Read more…In my last article The Justice Society of America vs the War on Terror, I argued that issues 41 and 42 of JSA, published in late 2002, added up to a rather rueful look at the build-up to the war in Iraq, which would begin in 2003. The message only co
1)"Pterodactyls are vermin. Do not feed." "Do not feed the flying pests!"
2)Dickens!
3)"Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill"?
4)"Knitting for Girls"?
5)"The skulls eat them." Awesome.
6)"I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away." I'm gl
Read more…Mile High Comics is having an auction of stuff they had lying around, and one of the items is so cool that Chuck Rozanski is opening the bidding to people by phone. It's the complete color guide to FF #88 in its original folder.
He expects it to go
Read more…Thoughts for comics and stuff that will be coming out in January...
