I'm curious what everyone's long-term favourite titles are, and by that I mean the characters or teams that have had more than one set of creators or interpretations that you've greatly enjoyed.
My Choices:
1. Justice League - There are three disti
Read more…Hello, I've deleted the thread that some of you may have noticed me posting here. I may try re-posting it in future when I can work out a less awkward way of doing it. In future, if you see me positng a thread title d"Test" or something similar, ple
Read more…Perhaps we have covered this ground before, but I find I am developing an interest in some of this material that wasn't there before.
That is, the more I hear from 1970s Marvel fans, the more that I hear there are some gems in the rough...that some
Read more…1)Watching this again, it struck me that it reminded me a bit of some of the Pertwee era "anti-imperialism" stories like "The Mutants", with the Doctor as the "benevolent white guy" coming in and getting the "bad white guys" to stop being mean to the
Read more…This is where my Golden Age (as Mister Silver Age wisely says) begins. Though that's not entirely true as my first comic was Justice League of America #103, but I read this one two or three years later.
I'm also going to split this up by issues at le
Read more…...And I'll say I used to follow the Phantom some but haven't recently and Figs'll say how he admires the original , King Features Syndicate universe , Phantom but stays away from Rupert Murdoch papers and so does not see him in the medium he was des
Read more…Pre-Marvel super-heroes, Atlas had all those gioant monsters with names that terrified the world!!!!
But every once in a while, there would be a name that was destined to bring a "Are you kidding? That's pitiful." And you know the monster walked a
Read more…...to the videos , and the ability to put them up ???
I held my tongue (Wet !!!!!!!!!) on this for a while , hoping that they'd re-appear.........
Read more…Beaking Bad Body Count Poll:
Five episodes from the end of the season, who among these characters do you expect to survive?
Walt
Jesse
Hank
Skyler
Marie
Saul
Gomey
Lydia
Todd
Huell
Badger
Skinny Pete
Walt Jr.
Holly
Quite a list. My suspicion is, once Walt Jr. drop
Sept. 24, 2013 -- The villains have won at DC Comics. But will the readers?
Here’s the poop: In the last couple of months, the Crime Syndicate -- an evil analog of the Justice League from a parallel Earth -- has invaded the 52 monthly superhero boo
Read more…So, I just acquired the DVD for the complete Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures. For those of you who don't remember the show, here's a quick recap courtesy of Wikipedia:
Read more…Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures is a 1987 revival of the classic Mighty Mouse c
A+X #12
CHRISTOS GAGE & JUSTIN JORDAN (w)
MIKE DEODATO & TBD (a)
Cover by MIKE DEODATO
• BEAST AND WONDER MAN TOGETHER AGAIN!
• CAPTAIN AMERICA meets his match in… JUBILEE?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
ACTION COMICS #23.4: METALLO
Written by SHOLLY FISCH
A
Read more…New Adventures of Superboy #50
February 1984
Cover art: Keith Giffen
Story: Dial “V” for Villain
Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Pencils: Keith Giffen & Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks: Keith Giffen & Dave Hunt
There are actually a few things about this cover I
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Scripps Howard News Service
Oct. 20, 2009 -- One word: Breathtaking.
That’s the best description for Sandman: The Dream Hunters (DC/Vertigo, $24.99), a hardback collection of the recent miniseries written by Neil Gaiman and illus
I know Empowered not one of the higher selling books, but I've grown to love it. Part of the reason is because of the character of Ninjette, a New Jersey Ninja who's history is detailed in this title in a series of flashbacks each related to the n
Read more…I just bought the first Dark Horse omnibus -- the somewhat larger, 700-page reprintings of the earlier digest-size Dark Horse printings of the book. I think they'll be issuing these bi-monthly; the second volume is already out, and the third one is d
Read more…I am in the middle of a heated argument about when and where the shows aired. So, I KNOW this was an early 60's cartoon by the Trans-Lux, "Speed Racer" folks, but I was not around to see the original airing of this show. HOWEVER, I believe I saw this
Read more…I was a bit leery of talking about the Man of Steel because so much has been written about Kal-El and there are so many experts on him here. But SUPERBOY? Except for his Legion appearances, very little of the Boy of Steel has been reprinted in the la
Read more…I collected (and read!) all the Kitchen Sink L'il Abner books starting in the 80s. Sadly, they didn't sell well enough to continue. Meanwhile, post-Snoopy v. Red Baron keeps churning out the junk that Schulz sold his soul to Met Life to produce...but
Read more…Watching a recent episode of Avengers Assemble it features the Destroyer in the hands of Doom, and of course the Hulk goes up against him--and gets his tuchus kicked.
However, in the comics, I think this would be a much more fair fight. The Destroyer
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