I bought Blackjacked and Pistol-Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer (a tpb collecting the best of the infamous 1950s crime-themed anthology comic book) a while ago, and though I had a pretty good idea of what to expect from CDNP Archives volume one.
I’m not going to say a whole lot about this collection because the foreword and introduction covers everything I would want to say quite well. Briefly, Ernie Bushmiller did not create the Nancy strip. (Well, he did and he didn’t.) Fritzi Ritz began i
1)The latest "Team TARDIS meets a literary figure" episode finds our heroes meeting Agatha Christie. I'd never read any Christie before I saw this - I ended up reading a bunch of her books afterwards and becoming a huge Poirot fan.
Marvel has recently released a hardbound collection of West Coast Avengers #17-23, all seven parts of Steve Englehart's "Lost in Space-Time" romp. The WCA go back in time via a broken Dr. Doom Time Machine and visit the old west, the Sands of Egypt,
What about when comics remake old strories , wholly or at least in part ?
I guess I mean REMAKES , more or less flat-out reworkings/repeats of an old story , not revisting the well of a core concept of the series ( Aunt May is at the brink of death
1)"Sontarans created by Robert Holmes" - Good to see the Sontarans, one of my favorites heels from the old show. I think they did a good job re-imagining them, although I'm not sure why felt a need to dress them in blue rather than in black. I liked
1)Ah, "Planet of the Ood", or, "The Sensorites" re-visited. Well, the show does so many stories about "humans menaced by aliens", it needs the occasional story about "Aliens menaced by humans." I like the Ood as critters, although I question how bei
I vividly remember walking into Ahmann’s Newstand on Main Street and seeing an entire spinner rack filled with a new comic book company’s brand new #1s! I wasn’t old enough to have caught the beginning of the Marvel Age (nor did I even consider the p
1)Here we have the story that bridges the gap between the departure of Martha Jones and the return of Donna Noble. The main news is the stunt-casting of singer Kylie Minogue (I get the impression from RTD's book that he was just a wee bit star-struck
