I just thought I would start up a personal column where I can reflect on different things about comics of the past.
First off, what a neurotic life that boy sidekicks led.
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Due to popular demand (thanks, Mom!), here's another blast from the past: a classic Ask Mr. Silver Age column from CBG #1547 (July 11, 2003)!
Let me know if you have any requests, either columns you vaguely remember or characters you'd like to discus
Read more…Sept. 10, 2013 -- Entertainment awards aren’t necessarily a guide to the best a given field has to offer, and comics aren’t any exception. But this year’s Harvey Awards give me an excuse to write about one of the best books out there.
The Harvey Aw
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The future is a pretty interesting place to be, especially in comics. Stories set in the future have long been a comic book staple from early days of Buck Rogers in the 25th century to last year’s big hit Saga. Some of comics’ greatest stories w
Read more…Legion of Super-heroes #305
November 1983
Cover art by: Keith Giffen & Larry Mahlstedt
Story: Violet's Story
Writer: Paul Levitz
Pencils: Keith Giffen
Inks: Kurt Schaffenberger
Legion Roll Call: Braniac 5, Chameleon Boy, Shrinking Violet, Colossal
Read more…Having given up on monthly comics, I'm only now getting to this final Hellblazer collection, the end of the series, and probably the end of the character as we have known him for all of these years. It's a very generous collection, which includes the
Read more…Amazingly enough, most aren't from the last ten years."
I do disagree with a few though.
Read more…ACTION COMICS #23.2: ZOD
Written by GREG PAK
Art by KEN LASHLEY
3-D motion cover by GENE HA
On sale SEPTEMBER 11 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
General Zod storms into The New 52! Witness the origin of this genocidal maniac, and learn how far he wil
Read more…Once again Top Shelf is having their annual huge ol' sale. With a ton of $1 and $3 books. As well as others deeply discounted. Details here.
I've taken a huge advantage of this the past few years, so I'm not sure what is left for me to get. A lot of
Read more…I didn't see that Jeff had done this for this month, yet. Kind of shocked really. This is for comics and other stuff that will theoretically be sold in November.
1. Sorry Dark Horse that last Ghost miniseries didn't interest me enough to now buy into
Read more…Tom Beland, artist of "True Story Swear to God" and writer on a few Big Two books here and there, offers this interesting opinion over on his Facebook page:
My thought on Marvel's/DC's war on marriage..? I kinda agree with them.
Because comic books
We've all got a memory, a tale, of that one rare comic book that we saw at a friend's house, at the beach, at the store, or the barber shop.
We have a memory of it, and of looking for it, or asking for it, or trying to trade for it, but never gettin
Read more…The media just love to play this up.
Too bad they also don't make the point of how incredibly stupid this was and how it put them both at risk.
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/House-Destroyed-by-Fire-in-Milton-222816781.html
Read more…Ah, Lady B., aka Zinda. There will never be another you, though some may try to pass of an earlier woman in uniform as LB, none equal you. Comic fans can keep their Black Widows, their Catwomen, their Batwomen, their Scarlet Witches...YOU were the
Read more…Paul Pope reveals DC's demographic surveys, which explain a lot:
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/08/quote-of-the-day-we-publish-comics-for-45-year-olds/
And yet, being *even older than that*, I would've been interested in seeing a Paul Pope
Read more…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
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