Young England is “An Illustrated Magazine for Young People” which was published from 1880 through 1937. I recently bought a bound edition, the 15th annual, from 1894. Each issue features a “Puzzledom” page, each with a variety of different kinds of b
I wasn't going to start a thread for Shiver SuspenStories, but I started one for Epitapths from the Abyss and Cruel Universe so why not? At first I was disappointed that it featured a Christmas-themed cover, until I discovered the whole issue was Chr
Rob Liefeld came to Image bursting with "neat ideas" but he was unskilled at developing them. For example, his "high concept" for Youngblood was that, if superheroes existed in real life, they would be treated as celebrities, much the same as movie
Dynamite's Dark Shadows: Year One condenses the 19-week television storyline into six issues and, I must admit, does a pretty good job of it, eliminating most of the meandering soap opera storytelling. It is not, however, canon. What writer Marc Andr
I have not read the Crisis on Infinite Earths maxi-series in its entirety for 30 years. I keep meaning to re-read the whole thing, but I have read just #11-12 many many times, most recently in 2010 and 2019. For the past year (almost), DC has been re
I was listening to Jim Cornette and his co-host Brian Last discuss comic books (language warning) and in particular, the career of Steve Geppi. One of the questions that they raised is when were U.S. comics first translated into languages other than
This hefty tome can be broken into three sections (the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s), and that's how I'm going to handle it. the introduction by Peter J. Sanderson is dated 2005 and was obviously originally written for an earlier collection of the
Episode One: (This is the serial with which they stopped giving individual episode titles.)
As the TARDIS materializes, the Doctor seems particularly smug that he knows they’ve arrived in some future time. As he leaves to investigate the surrounding
