Continuing the tradition started by Doctor Hmmm? back in 2010, and followed inconsistently since (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021), here's a catchall thread about any and all shows debuting
It has been six months since I last rocked the boat of "Common Knowledge" so I figure I'm about due. I was raised to "question authority" so, whenever I encounter a "fact" that "everybody knows" I keep it in the back of my mind until such a time I ca
These are my best guesses. There are some that I think are pretty much inarguable There's a number of the others that I'm uncertain about, myself, though.
(Side Note: When I make these kinds of lists, I really miss Randy. He always had something
Luke Blanchard brought up some interesting ideas in the "Silver Age Superman" thread, and I didn't want to thread-jack it. So I'm following up on his ideas in this thread.
Luke said:
DC's line was shaken up coming into the 1960s in multiple ways. It
DC's "mistake" (I have oft heard opined) is that they rebooted some series post-Crisis but not all. I disagree with that assertion (for a couple of reasons), not the least of which is I don't believe the way they handled it was a mistake. Before I s
Today is the 85th anniversary of Action Comics #1 - and there's been no announcements, no anniversary notices, no celebrations at all. I thought I'd at least make note of it!
I am a longtime subscriber to Jeff Lemire's Substack, and remember him discussing Mazebook and presenting art from it. Yet I somehow missed the formal publication, so I am catching up. The protagonist Will
I haven't seen this reported anywhere else, but CBR.com has laid off its editor-in-chief, senior news editor and feature editor because of "culture and performance" issues.
Once upon a time, I used the Diamond website (previewsworld.com) as the spine for my Comics Guide. Diamond listed seven publishers separately (BOOM, DC, Dark Horse, Dynamite, IDW, Image, Marvel) and all the other publishers under a lump heading ("Com
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands Kate Beaton Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 2022
In the world of superhero comics this would be an origin story: how our heroine became the cartoonist she is today. The narrative begins in 2005. Beaton was 21 years o
Manor Black Volume 2: Fire in the Blood Written by Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt; line art by Brian Hurtt; colors & lettering by Tyler Crook Dark Horse Books, 2022
There was a long wait between this collection and the first volume, so it is surprising th
