Aug. 14, 2013 -- The week of Aug. 4, Box Office Mojo showed five movies based on comics in the top 15. But you can be forgiven if you don’t recognize them as such.
First, let’s acknowledge how stunning it is that on one summer weekend in 2013 Ameri
Read more…Just upgraded my HULK blog page, doing additional clean-ups to the extensive cover restorations there. I also just done doing one on FANTASTIC FOUR #12, which I've added to the page, as well as re-formatting the text the more closely go along with th
Read more…Several years ago, it was revealed that various artists or letterers had added messages or letters to drawings (artwork) with hidden messages.
One famous one celebrated the firing of an editor or manager (I won't bother going into it here.)
Another t
Read more…Justice, Inc. #1 & 2
Summer 1989
Cover art by: Kyle Baker & Dean Motter
Story: Trust (#1) Betrayal (#2)
Writer: Andrew Helfer
Art: Kyle Baker
This is a book that shows us what happens to Richard Benson and his crew after World War II. I have a fe
Read more…It was them wasn't it? I'm not sure but I think it was first to have a supervillain ruling a country on a permanent basis wasn't it? Luthor had ruled a planet or two I'm sure, and there was always Ming, but making Dr. Doom the leader of Latveria and
Read more…Knights of the Dinner Table reached 200 this month. It's gone from a small press humor title about a group of gamers to a title with a fully involved and complex group of characters and numerous back up features. It's always good to see that.
Read more…Mark Wahlberg says he'd love to be Iron Man if MDjr gave up the role. Your thoughts?
And who would you like to see take over other big comic-book roles that have been well-defined by other actors?
Batman?
Hulk?
Captain Americ
Read more…Are Buster Brown shoes or Dinty Moore (from Hormel) beef stew (canned) the oldest comics-based merchandised products still being (In this hemisphere/continent/country , Figs . :-) ) still being produced ?????
Read more…I , just to-day , saw an ad for the Esquire Network , an (I assume) cable TV network , coming soon .
What , for the " graduates of "/the older Spike TV fans ?
Not that I've ever seen Spike TvV, anyway ,, I recall , bar seeing on a hotel clerk's T
Read more…Not so much in their stories, but similar in the theme that they are both good character pieces. I read them one after the other by accident out of the pile I got this week. Astro City is the second of a two parter that features an operator from a su
Read more…I don't know if anyone's mentioned this on the board yet, but there are a TON of Fantastic Four references in Netflix's Season Four of Arrested Development.
It starts out when Tobias meets DeBrie Bardeaux* (Maria Bamford) the woman who played Sue St
I read four new comics written by Matt Fraction yesterday:
FF #8
Fantastic Four #9
Hawkeye #11
Satellite Sam #1
I don’t pay too much attention to the new crop of writers of today’s superhero comics, but when I happen to notice the same guy is writing th
Read more…The most exciting solicitation this month is the resumption of the EC ARCHIVES line, this time published by Dark Horse but with trade dress matching the previous two publishers.
Also from Dark Horse is the sixth volume of CRIME DOES NOT PAY, the thir
Read more…Since I grew up in the Silver Age, I remember when comics didn't have anyone to speak for them. They were the junk that only kids and naifs like Gomer Pyle would read.
A lot of that has changed, with reviews of graphic novels giving the medium more
Read more…# 23 lists Gail as the Barb-writer . Is #24 her last issue ?
Read more…They were part of the brootherhood, but that's always been down played. Anyone know just what they did back then and what issues they did it in?
Read more…Last Sunday I got to go the Americanarama in Montainview, CA. The line-up was: Ryan Bingham, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, and Bob Dylan. One of my favorite converts I've been to, simply because I was familiar with each act's music somewhat. I actually g
Read more…Ever since Dr. Doom attacked the FF back in #5 to backmail them into going back in time to retrieve Blackbeard's treasure (don't ask!) there's been a plot device waiting in the wings for any writer to use.
It's most commonly called Dr. Doom's Time Ma
Read more…I've just started listening to a Nerdist podcast from a couple of weeks ago, which was recorded in George R.R. Martin's hotel room at the San Diego Comicon. For the first 15 minutes or so -- maybe more, but that's how far I'm into it -- they're talki
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