...OK , so at my LCS I made a bargain-bin purchase of #0 of this , (January 1992 - So , published in - Gleeps !!!!!!!!! late 1991 !) 32 adless pages , divided into 4 parts , I presume it appeared in serial in one of Dark Horse's nice ol' anthology ti
Read more…So, I've been thinking recently about the death of Nemesis Kid, and thinking about it, something strikes me as not being quite right.
For those of you that are not aware, Princess Projectra killed Nemesis Kid after he killed Karate Kid. Projectra d
Read more…I found some as I was organizing my cellar. Re-read Savage Sword of Conan 32, 1978, The Ghouls of Yanaidar. The art was fantastic, the story's always full of action and while Conan wasn't quite the hero that Spiderman was in my opinion, he did awaken
Read more…You may have seen my thread stirring up interest for a movie discussion group. I said I would create the actual thread for the discussion on Friday. Well a day early, here it is!
The rules are simple. Those you have joined have picked a film. We ta
Read more…Alex Toth's Zorro: The Complete Dell Adventures
Hermes Press
$49.99, color, 240 pages
Writers: Unknown
Artist: Alex Toth
Reprints Four Color Comics #882, #920, #933, #960, #976, #1003, Zorro #12 (1958-Dec 60)
This was a pleasant surprise.
Not that
Read more…As we are about to embark one the next box of my unread comics, I would like to thank all of you who come to read and/or comment on these threads. When I first started this project back in July 2006 (really?) on the old board I never thought I would
Read more…It seems a pity that this forum has gone so dead since Monday...I must conclude that you are all preparing for your role as the Easter Bunny in this weekend's egg hunts and hidden baskets!
Several years ago (more than 2 decades) there was a single cl
I recently picked up the so-called last issue of Amazing Spider-Man and I confess that the last time I was picking it up regularly was during the McFarlane run and prior to that it was the issues leading up to issue 200. I have not been the most fait
Read more…......the COMPLETE run , at least going back to the Silver Age , of any long-running title , and title that';s been running (essentially , anyway) continuously since then ???????
With today's cheap reprints , I think that such an acheivement might
Read more…Psycho is one of my all-time favorite movies, but I was too young to fully appreciate it the first time I saw it. I found it interesting, but not at all “scary” per se (as I had been led to expect). I saw my first three Alfred Hitchcock movies right
Read more…This volume reprints Wonder Woman #138-156 All stories are written by Robert Kanigher, and drawn by Ross Andru. So, I picked this up hoping that the stories from Volume 2 would get better, or at the very least keep pace in quality with the previous
Read more…He makes and interesting point. "I do love me some good Big Two superhero comics, but I think one of the strengths of a creator-owned book is that it can have an ending." He's got a point here. No writer owns any character of marvel and dc so they r
Read more…How "kid friendly" is this?
I'm thinking about taking Action Lad, who's 7 ("and two-thirds!", as he would point out), but I don't really have the time to see it myself first, as I usually do.
To put this in perspective, my wife and I agreed that "Th
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Anyone read this? Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin have released the first issue of their new digital comic The Private Eye and it is as good as the creative team would suggest. They're selling it on a pay-what-you-want model, so you can get it for
Read more…He talks about not being able to get work and such in comics today. Which is a shame for sure. The one part that confused me is that he signed an exclusive contract with DC, but it didn't guarantee him any work. I don't
Read more…A documentary about Gloria Steniem's life is on American HBO this week .
I don't have cable so I won't be seeing it .
A story about Gloria Steniem and Wonder Woman that appears to be often told in fandom bases itself on the fact that an early iss
Read more…Either I haven't been paying attention or this was really low key as far as publicity went. If I hadn't spotted the pilot yesterday while skimming through the chanels I never would have known. http://www.nick.com/monstersvsaliens/ I'm looking forwa
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