I read several reviews of this movie when it was first released, but I didn’t get around to seeing it until this weekend because none of them made clear whether it was an actual prequel to Alien or not. If someone would have come right out and said e
Read more…As I write this, Rob Liefeld is tweeting that he's quit DC's New 52 -- the 0 issues will be his last.
I don't read his comics, but I always like to hear what he has to say about the industry. His point of view is refreshing, in the sense that he sees
Read more…The Avengers is still playing in some dollar theaters, but for this Labor Day weekend only, it's returning to many of the bigger ones. It's a promo for the blu-ray coming next month...but, if you want to see the gang kick Loki in the can one more ti
Read more…http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/comics Yeah! Smokey the Bear comics!
Read more…Until November 15th Barnes and Noble is have a buy 2 get 1 free sale on DC graphics novels and trades. I believe it applies to both the online and physical stores.
Read more…I picked up two collections from the cheapie bin at the Best Buy - The Twilight Zone Fan Favorites and The Twilight Zone More Fan Favorites. How it was determined what were "fan favorites" or not, I have no idea. One thing I noticed from watching th
Read more…Glamourpuss comes to an end with #26. Described in the indicia as “pop culture parody and comic art scholarship,” what began as a look at the history of photorealism in comics eventually evolved into “The Strange Death of Alex Raymond.” In a sad and
Read more…I don't know why I've been thinking about this lately but I was trying to come up with all of the fictional universities and colleges in comic books.
Peter Parker attended Empire State University (ESU).
Dick Grayson attended Gotham University.
Al P
Read more…From Marvel Entertainment
Aug. 28, 2012
Marvel NOW! – UNCANNY AVENGERS #2 MANARA VARIANT Cover Unveiled!
Marvel is pleased to present your first look at the jaw dropping Uncanny Avengers #2 Manara Variant from legendary artist Milo Manara! From
Read more…I’m not certain if this series is ongoing or limited or what, but it represents an opportunity for creators other than Dave Stevens to play around in the Rocketeer universe. Issue #1 features stories by John Cassiday, Mike Allred, and Kurt Busiek & M
Read more…I am a big fan of Alan Davis’ ClanDestine. I consider it to be the best new team book Marvel has produced in the last ten years. After a series of limited series (plus odd appearances here and there, all of which are readily available in two collecte
Read more…[Another thread in our Morrison Reading Project.]
The over-arching plot of All-Star Superman truly kicks off when Superman goes to the rescue of a spaceship on a mission to capture some of the Sun's molten substance and bring it back to Earth. Morr
Read more…I really liked the first issue of the re-launch (coupled with the first issue of the re-launch of Action Comics). My hope is that DC will be able to resist the temptation to recap/revise the origin story yet again and get straight on to forging the n
Read more…I dropped the series formerly titled Captain America and Bucky when Ed Brubaker left and it became a team-up book, but I picked up this one because it features the Sub-Mariner and is set in WWII. It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to reconc
Read more…From UDON
Aug. 27, 2012
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There have been Black and White DC titles of course - I'm thinking of Jack Kirby's Spirit World and In The Days Of The Mob. But what if DC had looked at a continuing line of black and white comics in the early-mid '70s?
I think Batman, The Shadow and
Read more…Archie Archives Volume Six (Dark Horse, $49.99)
Reprinting Archie Comics #19-22 (Mar/Apr-Sep/Oct 46), Pep Comics #57-58 (Jun-Sep 46)
By Bill Vigoda (a) and diverse hands
What struck me most about these Archie comics from 1946 is how "modern" they ar
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I was just six at the time of the Moon landing. I remember watching it on the TV. I'm not sure I quite understood the significance of it all, but I knew that it was important.
A piece created by the Belgian artist G
Read more…There was an unusual announcement in the Bullpen Page announcement that as of next month Daredevil and Iron Man were going to be combined into the same book, possibly as a split book.
It was odd, as it seemed to come out of the blue, and at a time w
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