When Neil Gaiman's Sandman began in 1989, I made a conscious decision not to buy it. I wasn't looking to add any new titles to my pull & hold at the time; if anything, I was looking to cut back on a few. When I learned that the new Sandman would have
Read more…According to a note on the first page of (v2) #1, "These events occur between Incredible Hulk #181 and Giant-Size X-Men #1." The first storyline ostensibly details the hitherto untold first meeting of Wolverine and the Beast.
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Read more…The New York Post reports that Warner Bros. has shelved the 'Batgirl' movie planned for HBO Max due to poor test audience reactions.
That's $90M down the hole, with their next two releases dogged by actor scandal. (Amber Heard in Aquaman 2, Ezra Mil
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Read more…I started reading Swamp Thing from the very beginning... sort of. When I was a kid, I liked superhero comics and not much else (no western, no war, etc.). I also gravitated toward Marvel, so Swamp Thing had two strikes against it right out of the gat
Read more…Over on The Maze Agency thread the subject of Ellery Queen has arisen since he and his father Inspector Richard Queen guest starred in issue 9 of that series, "The English Channeler Mystery".
For those interested and not to tie up that thread, below
Read more…Here is a topic I have considered posting for years. Inspired by Randy's Jackson's Epic Rock Songs discussion, I have decided to post at last. It has come to my attention that kids these days no longer to albums as cohesive wholes, which I can't even
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I read a lot of comic books back in the '80s, but I didn't read everything. One of the titles I did not read was Aztec Ace, and I don't really know why. It was written by Doug Moench, a writer whose work always struck me as somehow more "sophistica
Read more…Story I've never been a monarchist, but she's been a fixture of life since before I was born. I imagine that it'll be a huge adjustment for the British people.
Read more…One of my favorite writers. He died this week. They make a big deal out of his two novels with Stephen King, but in my opinion, the novels by him alone were superior:
Ghost Story
Julia
If You Could See Me Now
The Blue Rose Trilogy (Koko, Mystery
Brian K. Vaughan's 2015 comic book series is coming to Prime Video this Friday. "Four tweens who share a paper route in 1980s Cleveland get rerouted to 2019." If the TV series is as good as the comic book, it will be worth watching. Should appeal to
Read more…I’ve been thinking of starting this discussion for a long time. It used to be, when I couldn’t decide what to read, I’d pull out a copy of Marvel Fanfare at random and read whatever I picked. But long gone are the days when I couldn't decide what to
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This story arc begins with Bernice telling her lover Georgia about the ritual she used to erase everyone's memories of E
Read more…As I recall, in the Silver Age, there were any number of times that a Kryptonian (Superboy/Superman, Supergirl, Krypton, etc.) were suddenly surprised by green kryptonite. IIRC, sometimes they were able to extricate themselves from this situation and
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DEADPOOL: THE FIRST 30 YEARS
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Deadpool has proved to be one of Marvel’s most popular comic books, mixing a sassy, comedic
My earliest memory of Tarzan (I think) is watching the movie Tarzan's Three Challenges on television. (This would have been circa 1969.) By the time I read my first Tarzan comic book, I was already familiar with the Ron Ely television show as well as
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