Tales of the Legion of Super-heroes #315
September 1984
Cover art by: Terry Shoemaker & Karl Kesel
Story: Judgement!
Writer: Paul Levitz
Pencils: Terry Shoemaker
Inks: Karl Kesel
A trio of Legionnaires are hot on the trail of Ontiir in Dark Circle
Read more…The Impossible Astronaut
1)"Says she's going to some planet called 'America'."
2)"I wear a Stetson, now. Stetsons are cool."
3)"Space 1969".
4)"I'm 1103."
5)"Or, 'Hello', as people used to say."
6)"My life in your hands, Amelia Pond."
7)"Hippie." "Arc
Read more…Oct. 10, 2013 -- We can learn a lot of lessons from old horror comics.
These lessons weren’t evident until recently. As most comics fans know, horror comics – and comics in general – were nearly wiped out when public hysteria panicked comics publishe
Read more…Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be another bumpy Comics Guide!
First up this week is a big new title from Valiant Comics: Unity #1, the publisher's first team book. It's clear Valiant has high hopes for it, because they've buried me in press rel
Read more…Justice League Dark Volume 2: The Books of Magic
Collecting Justice League Dark #0, 7-12; Justice League Dark Annual #1
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Mikel Janin
DC Comics, $16.99, color, 224 pages
There's a lot to like about Justice League Dark, but
Read more…I realized while scanning this in, this comic is the oldest one I own. I wasn't even around in 1951. Was Veronica ever not sexy?
Read more…Oct. 29, 2013 -- There’s been a rash of good, scary books in the comics world, and the spooky season gives us an excuse to talk about them.
At the top of my list is Zombillenium (NBM, $14.99), more a spoof of horror stories than a genuine chiller. Bu
Nov. 6, 2013 -- The Walking Dead has conquered comics and TV. Now zombies are coming for your favorite board games.
Coinciding with Halloween, USAopoly has released Walking Dead versions of old favorites Monopoly and RISK. As if those games weren’t c
Read more…Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #87
September 1965
Cover art: Curt Swan & Sheldon Moldoff
Story: The Arena of Doom
Writer: Jerry Siegel
Art: Al Plastino
Hey Superman learns that Brainiac is a robot! After getting Brainiac to put Jimmy Olsen's brain bac
Read more…Candy for Halloween? That is so 2011.
Instead, you could get – and keep or give away – free comics! Because Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. and most comic shops have teamed up to give away free funnybooks just before All Hallow’s Eve.
It’s called Hal
Read more…So I just read that Marvel and Netflix have reached agreement on 5 series'. Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones will each get a 13 episode series culminating in a Defenders series.
Here's one link. What do you think? I think Marvel's do
Read more…The second Justice League Dark collection opens with Peter Milligan's last issues as writer, parts One and Three of the "Rise of the Vampires" story done as a crossover with I, Vampire. The TPB tries to minimize the crossover by leaving the part numb
Read more…Has anyone here been watching " HIGH SCHOOL USA " which is part of Fox's Saturday late-night " HIGH-DEF ANIMATION DOMINATION " series ?
( " AXE COP " is rather more the leading/receiver of more publicity/" A-side " in it . )
It spoofs the " typical t
Read more…As Thor: The Dark World is set to open, I thought that I would pay tribute to the biggest draw of the Marvel Movie Universe: Tom Hiddleston AKA Loki, God of Mischief! He is the most interesting character they have right now and deserves his own film!
Read more…1)"Melody"?
2)"Oh, don't give me those blank looks."
3)"We're the thn-fat gay married Anglican marines."
4)A Sontaran nurse?
5)"This is the day he finds out who I am."
6)"Demons run when a good man goes to war."
7)"We are not fools."
8)Danny-Boy?
9)"
Read more…1)"She didn't."
2)"You've redecorated. I don't like it." A callback to "The Three Doctors".
3)"Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All".
4)"I'm the Doctor. I work in a shop."
5)"Silver rat" - a Cybermat?
6)So,Amy's a famous model now?
7)"Petrichor - for the
Read more…I recently read an entire year’s worth of X-Men comics in a single weekend. Well, technically it was only ten months but, with Marvel double shipping some months, it was more than 25 single issues.
The Adventure
For starters, it was a lot of f
Read more…Let's try something new this week: Let's lead with the comics the publishers are most proud of, judging by the press releases and previews. They're not really my picks, even though I plan to pick up a number of them, as it's the publishers who are br
Read more…Oct. 1, 2013 -- Papercutz bills itself as “the industry’s leading children’s graphic novel publisher,” and – judging from its current output – that could very well be true.
Once upon a time that title would have gone to Harvey Comics, which transit
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