After a recommendation by someone on this board, I ordered a copy of "Was Superman Really a Spy?" by Brian Cronin. It's a clever premise for a book, promoted as a National Enquirer tabloid book, but really just highlighting interesting background o
Read more…Anybody going to Dragon Con this year? Has anyone been before?
My parents now live in Atlanta. I'll be visiting them the same weekend as Dragon Con and thought about checking it out. Just seeing if anyone would recommend it.
Read more…Can I just say that James Spader as the voice for Ultron in this movie is perfect?
Almost as great as the voice casting of Will Arnett as the voice of Batman in the Lego Movie. Almost.
Read more…PATTERNS OF FORCE was described by someone at the IMDB as "the serious version of A PIECE OF THE ACTION". That's about right. Unlike the alleged "parallel evolution" of THE OMEGA GLORY and BREAD AND CIRCUSES, the gangster planet and Nazi planet wer
Read more…Losers Special #1
1985
Cover art by: Joe Kubert
Story: Losers Die Twice
Writer: Robert Kanigher
Pencils: Judith Hunt & Sam Glanzman
Inks: Mike Esposito
Sgt. Rock and easy company are pinned down by the German's in Hell's Corner. He is on the radio
Read more…Marvel First: WWII Superheroes
Collecting first appearances of Timely characters
Writers, artists: Various
Marvel Comics, $39.99, color, 456 pages
I learned more than I expected from this collection.
I had planned to skip it, because I've read most
Read more…Roy Thomas Presents The Heap Volume Two
Collecting Heap stories from Airboy #52-82 (Jun 48-Dec 50)
Writers, artists: Various
PS ArtBooks, $49.99, color, 242 pages
As I've observed elsewhere, the Golden Age of Reprints is revealing the origins of mod
Read more…The Simon & Kirby Library: Science Fiction
Writers, artists: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, et al
Titan Books, $49.95, color, 352 pages
Of all the books in the S&K Library, this is the one I was most eager to see, as it was the one I knew the least about. A
Read more…Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos
Writer: Harlan Ellison
Artist: Paul Chadwick
DC Comics, $24.99, color, 208 pages
When I got this book, I couldn't wait to read it, and planned to build an entire Scripps column around it. It's a science fiction story
Read more…Her latest introduction seems a little over the top to me, but I haven't read too much and mostly know her from the Crisis on Two Worlds animated movie. But I'd say her new lasso definitely looks more dangerous than Diana's ever did.
Read more…Here's the link to the 2002 script.
I read it and the only thing I will say is that it is dark and it reads like an Elseworlds story. They say that this was supposed to be the first step in resurrecting a Batman franchise but I don't see it in this s
Read more…When I started sort of nosing around comics in the early-ish Eighties (after moving away in the late Seventies onward , perhaps at least in part for the usual reasons) , one storyline...um , " continuity " I suppose though I don't think I used it th
Read more…The Toronto Star is reporting that next spring, Justice League America will be renamed Justice League Canada, as the team restructures and relocates. Jeff Lemire,
a Toronto native, will continue to write it, and it will be drawn by Mike McKone.
Th
Read more…So I had a rare opportunity today to stop in at the comic book store and one of the books that caught my eye was Dynamite's "Damsels: Mermaids."
For the longest time, after reading this book, I've felt that a mermaid comic book would be a kick-butt
Read more…In issue #3 of Straczynski's Ten Grand series he mentions the new comics he has coming out from Image. Two of them were formerly from Marvel Icon imprint: The Book of Lost Souls and Dream Police. Dream Police actually kind of shocked me, as I remembe
Read more…I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes here, but I didn't see one of these last week, and haven't seen one go up this week. This list is lifted from Bleeding Cool.
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Forget Free Comic Book Day, forget Christmas and Boxing Day, a new holiday is fast approaching that will eclipse such laughable newcomers as Talk Like A Pirate Day ... it's right around the corner ... it's ...
Now you may be wondering a few things ..
So I've started reading Siege, the Marvel event which ran through the Winter-Spring of 2009-2010.
I thought I kind of owe it to myself to read to the end of Siege, as I'd bought into Marvel Comics in a big way, from Civil War all the way through t
Read more…Publisher: Archaia
Story and art: David Petersen
The volume of the series serves as a prequel to the previous two. The tells the story of Celanawe's mission...wait this is fantasy, so it is a quest. Celanawe's quest to retrieve the mythical Black Axe
Read more…Best wishes to our Fearless Leader! Hope you have a great day Cap!
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