I pulled out from my bookcase JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told which was released to coincide with Indentity Crisis as it reprinted Justice League #166-168 which inspired it. But secret identities were a running theme of the collection. The only c
Jonah Hex first appeared in All-Star Western #10 (re-titled Weird Western Tales with #12) in 1972 and his feature ran through #38 before being granted his own eponymous title. In 1978, the 68-page “dollar comic” Jonah Hex Spectacular revealed the cha
I'm very excited to see that John Ostrander will be introducing a new Star Wars series: Agent of the Empire. It follows one of the Empire's spies (a James Bond/Jason Bourne) type. It takes place a couple of years before the Battle of Yavin in A New H
Like Robert Kirkman’s Ant-Man before it, Tim Seeley’s Ant-Man & Wasp is a series I like, but then hate myself for liking it. The storytelling is good, but the humor is decidedly adolescent. Henry Pym is the foil and Eric O’Grady is the fool. The lang
The other day as I was trying to sleep after reading the conclusion of the Avengers Infinity Gems/Illuminati storyline it occurred to me that there are 6 Infinity Gems and 6 sides to a Cosmic Cube so what would happen if someone put them together?
Dark Horse - Hellboy and Usagi Yojimbo...per usual.
DC - The Green Lantern books, most of the Batman ones, Teen Titans, and all of the Superman family. Plus Tiny Titans, Brave & Bold, Scooby-Doo, and Young Justice
This month's Ask Mr. Silver Age column, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1678, is a look at the key comics events of 1971, the year CBG started. It helps celebrate the magazine's 40th anniversary issue. To read what I considered the biggest events, go here:
Last Sunday's NEW YORK TIMES's Arts & Leisure section had two comics-related stories of interest , one a story revolving around how Marvel Comics to-day manages itself the other one a story on the newmovie , with Riann Wilson , Liv Tyler , and Kevin
I came across a reference to "The Day After Doomsday," which was apparently a series that ran in Weird War Tales and other comics in the 1970s. Does anyone know anything about this series - premise, creators, etc.? Was it tied into any other existing
In one of those strange coincidents that happens on this forum, I went to my storage unit to retrieve my ROM, Spaceknight only to discover that my brother filled my room up with his baby furniture so I had neither the time or the energy to dig them o