Adventures into the Unknown Volume 4
Collecting Adventures into the Unknown #16-20 (Feb-Jun 51)
Writers, artists: Various
PS ArtBooks, $49.99, color, 288 pages
I don't have a lot new to say about series collecting the ACG title Adventures into the U
Read more…Wolverine and the X-Men by Jason Aaron Volume 5
Collecting Wolverine & The X-Men #19-24
Writer: Jason Aaron
Artists: Nick Bradshaw, Steve Sanders, David Lopez
Marvel Comics, $17.99, color, 136 pages
I'm still enjoying Wolverine & The X-Men, but this
Read more…1)Next up we have a sequel to "The Curse of Peladon", one of those rare occasions where we see the Doctor deliberately re-visiting a planet. Maybe they still had the sets and wanted to amortize them?
2)As it turns out, Hepesh was pretty much right a
Read more…Green Lantern Corps Volume 2: Alpha War
Reprinting Green Lantern Corps #0, 8-14
Writer: Peter Tomasi
Artists: Fernando Pasarin, Scott Hanna
DC Comics, $24.99, color, 192 pages
If you read this book, I hope you have a high tolerance for the color gre
Read more…Green Lantern: New Guardians Volume 2: Beyond Hope
Reprinting Green Lantern: New Guardians #8-12, Blue Beetle #9
Writer: Tony Bedard
Artists: Tyler Kirkham, Batt
DC Comics, $22.99, color, 144 pages
My experience with this book was one of reading the
Read more…The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics
Writers, artists: Various
Edited by David Kendall
Running Press, $19.00, B&W, 480 pages
This book has been out for five years, so I normally wouldn't review it (although I just read it). But it disappointed me enough
I was just watching an episode of "Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends," which you can watch right here or in the window below.
In it, they suggest that Spider-Man was a really, really popular wrestler/entertainer. So popular that he was attracting
What a great new debut! Someone at Marvel (*cough* Mark Waid *cough*) really gets it! I stopped reading Daredevil after Kevin Smith’s run (how long has that been? 15 years ago?), and have read only a handful of issues since. I know Matt Murdock has h
Read more…http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-elmore-leonard,101834/
It's kind of sad to think that we won't have any more of his novels to look forward to.
Read more…Captain Atom Volume 1: Evolution
Collecting Captain Atom #1-6
Writer: J.T. Krul
Artist: Freddie Williams II
DC Comics, $14.99, color, 144 pages
Captain Atom has been presented a lot of different ways: He was essentially Charlton's Superman, he was t
Read more…As the dust settles on the first round of updates and revamps here at CapCom, and the bloggers/columnists get their own sections, I figured it was a good time to revive my original plan to blog via my vast archive of classic Ask Mr. Silver Age column
Read more…Michael Ansara, Actor Who Played Cochise and Kang, Dies at 91
Ansara was one of those character actors who seemed to be everywhere when I was a kid. I always enjoyed seeing him, and I loved that wonderful voice.
Read more…Comic Book Resources has the list of Top 10 superhero role-playing games, as compiled by columnist Timothy Callahan.
Here are his picks for Numbers 10 to 6: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=47270
And here are the selections for Numb
Read more…WatchMojo does a lot of these, and they are great "Cliff's Notes" versions of a variety of superhero and supervillian origins.
This one covers the birth and confusion over the identity of the Hobgoblin.http://youtu.be/YCnW5jpSXxM
And here's one for
Read more…Over the years I have purchased many a movie. At one time I had a lot more than I do now. Some where borrowed and never returned while other may have been sold at a garage sale. Doing a count I have 201 which includes dvd movies, blu rays, TV shows a
Read more…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
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