I've been reading a book called "Fuzz and Fur: Japan's Costumed Characters", by Edward and John Harrison. It's all about how just about everything in Japan has its own costumed mascot. Oh, not just sports teams or businesses - but towns and prefectur
My comics shop got shorted this month on its Life With Archie order, so I got it only last week. I'm still enjoying it, although the "Archie Marries Betty" half is at the moment less interesting than the "Archie Marries Veronica" part.
Kurt Busiek's run on Superman from a few years ago is one of my all-time favorite runs on the character... and back then, there was once story that was promised (and completed) that kept getting pushed back for reasons that were never quit
The recent mention of TCJ in another line gives me excuse to mention it .
TCJ started as a free adzine named THE NOSTALGIA JOURNAL , which IIRC I had a ( Unsolicited ? ) subscription to in 1977 when Gary Groth bought it and turned it into THE COMIC
Really , could someone please post the splash pages to ( original numbering ) ( however , the Marvel DAREDEVIL , not the Lev Gleason DAREDEVIL ) BATMAN #66 - the lead Joker story - and DAREDEVIL #102 ? I have a reason , I'll tell you wh
Alan Grayson was a fire-breathing liberal elected to Congress from a largely conservative Florida district in 2008, and lost his seat in 2010 after being targeted by the national Republican party. He's still a talking head on the cable news shows, an
The Master (Eddie Izzard), The Doctor (Craig Ferguson), and the plucky companion (Kristen Bell) with new showrunner, Edgar Wright. How would that not be AWESOME?
The above photo was from this weekend's NY Times covering Ferguson's taping of shows
I don't know how much getting something like really means to folks these days, but I'm pleased to see Mr. Cribbins get the recognition. Of the characters created for the new series of Doctor Who, Wilfred Mott is my favorite,
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and The Muppets. Both look very good.
Conan, however, looks kind of dumb. The movie, not just the character.
As far as I understand it, the current creators have had enough advance notice to be able to wrap up all current storylines. So there will closure, or at least the attempt at same.
Not really spoilers, but story points to follow...
So the Evolutionaries are proto-humans tasked by Phastos the Eternal with "safeguarding evolution." The do this by defending the enemies of the branch of humanity that shows the most (in the
...That there are still retail outlets , here in the US , that sell comics which hand-write - in PEN ! - arrival dates on the bacover of the comic book ?
'Tis true ! A deli/newsstand near to me , in San Francisco's Mission District , does it - I went
Prepare yourself for a Grandpa Simpson good old fashion tirade ;)
I am going to make a provocative statement. I enjoy the work of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee but I have had my fill. Same goes for the work of Gardner Fox, Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegal, Bob