Story Another one of the big names from my younger days gone.
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Yesterday, Kathy and I caught a matinee of the Broadway adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon, starring John Berenthal as Sonny and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Sal -- the bank robbers played by Al Pacino and John Cazale in the movie. It was a really entertaining
I am very much looking forward to this show, despite the fact that it spun off from my least favorite show of the franchise (DIS I mean, not TOS). When DIS premiered, I was prepared to accept enhanced special effects and redesigned sets, but I was no
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Right now I'm looking through the longbox I have labled "Manga Prime." Lone Wolf & Cub was the first manga series I collected. I was led to it by Frank Miller (in much the same way I was led to the work of Alex Toth by Howard Chaykin, and the work of
Read more…I've always felt blessed at the good fortune of my senior years. A wonderful wife of thirty-three years. Financial security. Good health. Matinée-idol good looks. (O.K., maybe not that, heh.) I've been particularly smug over my good health. SI
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It has been said (by me) that buying new comics and not reading them is stupid. Yet I have spent a good portion of my life doing just that, a state of affairs I have spent a not insignificant portion of the last year, year-and-a-half, stiving to rect
Read more…Superman is widely considered to have entered the Silver Age with Action Comics #241 (June 1958) and Superman #122 (July 1958). Unlike the Flash and Green Lantern (for example), Superman was published continuously from the Golden Age into the Silver
Read more…I've changed the title of this thread from "Comic Book Sales Trends in 2016" because I keep coming back to it.
My friendly neighborhood comics shop, Fantom Comics of Washington, DC, breaks down what sold at the store in 2016. This information, of cou
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Lone Wolf & Cub was the first manga I ever read. (I didn't read Akira until years after it was first released in America.) Those First Comics issues had their flaws (skipped stories, uncompleted series, "flipped" artwork, published out of order, infe
Read more…NO. 1: DC COMICS
SUPERMAN: THE KRYPTONITE SPECTRUM HC (MR)
(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A/CA) Martin Morazzo
THE MIND-BENDING SERIES FROM THE TEAM THAT BROUGHT YOU THE ICE CREAM MAN! Superman faces his own worst weakness in a story where Kryptonite reveals
Read more…Adam Hughes' wife has revealed that he has cancer. Sad news. At least he's in with a chance, but a hard row to hoe, I'm sure.
Read more…I was looking through some old comics when I thought of a new game. I call it Three of a Kind. Here's my first entry.
Hoy
Diamond Comics Distributors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. They also announced that they were selling off pieces of their large company - Alliance Games and Diamond UK were two mentioned today with others likely to happen soon.
What
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TOP 10 PUBLISHERS
WONDER WOMAN #32
(W) Tom King (A/CA) Daniel Sampere
THE WONDER WAR CONTINUES! ALL HAIL THE MATRIARCH! After a disastrous attempt at stopping the Matriarch, she has risen more powerful than ever. Now it's up to Tri
Read more…In my estimation, Bill Everett is the most underrated talent of the Golden Age. His style continued to improve right up until his untimely death. Back in the ‘90s, I bought five sets of five issues each of GA Marvel Comics on microfiche just so I cou
Read more…1)This is the last of the "orphaned" episodes from the "Lost in Time" collections. Only Episode Two remains of this early effort from Robert Holmes.
2)Probably the only thing of interest here is the character of eccentric space miner Milo Clancey,
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