Hopefully someone can answer this for me. On one of the older incarnations of this board there were several polls conducted. I think they were done by Culture Vulture and dealt with "greatest runs," "greatest mini-series" etc... I was wondering if th
Read more…Aug. 26, 2013 -- Back in the days before Hollywood made comic-book stories familiar to the masses, and most folks thought superheroes were kid stuff, we comics fans knew better. We knew that certain characters told some universal truth, or touched a
Read more…Legion of Super-heroes #273
March 1981
Cover art by: Rich Buckler & Steve Mitchll
Story: A Murderer--Among Us?
Writer: Gerry Conway
Pencils: Jimmy Janes
Inks: Frank Chiaramonte
Marte Ida Allon, Colossal Boy's mom and president of the United Planet
Read more…Last weekend 2 GUNS , with Denzel Washington and Marky Ma- Uh , Mark Wahlberg - was the #1 BO champeen .
Two weeks before that , " R. I. P. D. " opened .
Though receiving unfavorable - Delayed until the actual opening day , no advances !!!!!!!!!
Read more…I can't , now , find:
(1) A recent post in which a recent ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN was complained about .
(2) That " Comic A Day " about a 25-page era LSH where a character ` with an INTERESTING! futuristic name appeared .
Read more…Our discussion in Superman's Trials & Tribulations about how often Mort Weisinger used continued stories prompts me to post my (two-part) column from CBG #1527-1527 (Feb 2003) discussing that topic. I've edited it into one column so you can just keep
Read more…...Okay , what about:
the 5 (if GCD is absolutely correct) Spider-man titles - series and one-shots - issued during this century with the title of SPIDER-MAN FAMILY (or some close variant of that) (plus a TPB bearing that title , listed but non-pic
Read more…Dudes~Do any of you have recentexpenences with mail,U.S. Maildelivered,subscriptions to modern-day comic books?
I might want to be gettin' some for a few,the Lou might have to "go away",heh heh:-) to finish off some old matters/mistakes!:-),and,um,I
Read more…I was skimming the channels yesterday and landed on a My Little Pony 90 minute special, where one of the pony's goes through a magic mirror and ends up a human girl. There were some fun bits because she is used to grabbing things with her mouth, n
Read more…I saw the premiere of Arrow tonight, forsaking Survivor which I can see later On Demand. I don't watch too many scripted shows these days, except for the WWE! *Zing* I wonder how much Smallville's version had to do with this. Or if The Hunger Games w
Read more…From Image comes Ghosted by Joshua Williamson, Goran Sudzuka and Miroslav Mrva, all of whom I am unfamiliar with. It stars Jackson Winters, a thief so cool that he ignores the brutality and violence of prison life, waiting for death to free him. To h
Read more…Last week, my wife to be Tracy and I attended Fan Expo 2013. This was my first big convention, and for Tracy, a lot of firsts - first time flying, first visit to Toronto, first time on a subway car, etc. We arrived Tuesday night, spent all day Wedn
Read more…I spotted the Previews description and the magazine is going to have final columns and comments from Maggie Thompson. Thought I'd mention this in case anyone missed it.
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We're at the conclusion of the Trinity War ... and the onset of Forever Evil. Here's a good place to talk about what's been revealed, including:
Why Superman killed Dr. Light!
The identity of the Outsider!
The identity of the traitor in one of the le
Read more…Another series-ending collection. I'm not sure anyone here has been reading it--at least past the first few issues--but I thought I'd see if anyone wants to discuss it. The first three issues remind me of many of the things I've liked about the serie
Read more…This is a great time to be a Captain America fan. With two ongoing series written by Ed Brubaker (Captain America and Secret Avengers) several limited series either already begun or on the way, I thought it would be nice to have a thread in place to
Read more…I've sat through the NEW 52 and only bitched a little. I'm actually enjoying most of the Marvel NOW books. I understand that books are written for me exclusively, and when I don't like a book, I normally walk away from it quietly without much grousin
Read more…Has anyone been reading this? I read issues 1 and 2 yesterday. They were funny. I had worried that they wouldn't be, because Christopher Priest, the original writer, is off the title. But James Asmus (who writes Gambit, but I don't read that...) does
Read more…The Adventure Time Encyclopedia
Abrams Books
Martin Olson
19.99
What could have been presented as a character guide, such as Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe or DC's Who's Who, takes a little side-step here. The Adventure Time Encyclopedia d
Read more…The below is derived from dialogue given in the various episodes of the program. Currently it only covers the history of the island prior to the arrival of the castaways on the island. Eventually, I intend to cover the events of the series itself.
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