TOP 10 PUBLISHERS
Kodansha fell out of the Top 10 in Q4 2024, replaced by Oni Press.
MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #68.DEATHS ($3.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY ZEB WELLS VOL 12: DEAD WRONG TP ($29.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EPIC COLLECTION VOL 11: NINE LI
TOP O' THE WEEK
'ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM' WEEK 2
Last week saw the release of One World Under Doom #1, launching the huge crossover event with a single issue. This week the floodgates have opened, with the story continuing in Amazing Spider-Man #68 (so
Read more…Or . . . Can a Small-town Girl Find Happiness with a Brilliant Research Scientist in the Cosmopolitan City of New York?
Ain’t love grand? It gets you high; it gets you low. But once you get that glow . . .
Love was no stranger to comic books. Starti
Read more…Its been about 10 years since I have done this. The first thing I have noticed is...no Previews!
I learned about 2 weeks ago my LCS has canceled his Diamond account. As someone who has ordered all off his comics from Previews for about 30 years. This
Read more…Up until now, we have made due with a single "Dark Shadows" thread which comprises all related topics lumped together, but now I find it preferable to break out "Seances and Sources" for ease of reference and update.
SEANCE SCORECARD:
SEANCE #1: Episod
Read more…In previous years, this was a memory box so we didn't miss any good nominations for the Cappies. With the Cappies hypertimed away, that doesn't mean we have to discontinue these threads. I've always liked going back at the end of the year and seeing
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We just finished watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes (for the third time, I think). I have been in love with this franchise ever since I was a kid. I was disappointed with the 2001 version, but Rise was everything I thought I wanted: high product
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As has already been noted elsewhere on this board, today's "Aquaman" DC Finest edition completely comprises the contents of 2003's Aquaman Archives Vol. 1 (and only). I have read that volume twice in the the last 20 years and have no desire to read t
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MARVEL COMICS
ALIEN PARADISO #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
ALIENS VS AVENGERS #3 (OF 4, $7.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #68 ($4.99)
BLACK PANTHER: BY COATES INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE OF WAKANDA TP ($50.00)
BLACK PANTHER: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET TP (MARVEL
I have been very much looking forward to the release of this audio, not only because it is from one of the legendary missing stories, not only because it features the Daleks, not only because it’s the longest Doctor Who serial ever (12 episodes plus
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'ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM' OFFICIALLY BEGINS
ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM #1 (OF 9, MARVEL, $5.99) is by Ryan North and R.B. Silva.
In the words of the great philosopher Butt-head, "And so it begins."
Doctor Doom is now Sorcerer Supreme, and he's
Read more…Yesterday, I was flipping channels on the TV and came across Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It's like Ocean's Eleven or Ocean's Thirteen or Barney Miller for me; I can always drop what I'm doing and watch Barney Miller.
I came in late in the mov
Read more…Rendezvous With Yesterday: I haven't seen these in about 40 years, so, effectively, I'm seeing them as for the first time. Yeah, even if his name wasn't on it, you'd guess this was an Irwin Allen show about a minute into it. This is such a 60's sh
Read more…GODZILLA VS. HULK #1
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI (A/C) • VERSUS VARIANT BY LEE GARBETT
VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS HOMAGE VARIANT COVER BY LEONARDO ROMERO
VARIANT COVER
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MARVEL COMICS
ALL NEW VENOM #3 ($4.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #67 ($4.99)
CABLE: LOVE AND CHROME #2 ($3.99)
DAREDEVIL BY SALADIN AHMED VOL 3: LIVING HELL TP ($15.99)
DAREDEVIL MODERN ERA
Moving my recent "Frankenstein" posts togeth with the intention of continuing.
DICK BRIEFER'S FRANKENSTEIN:
JUNE 20: I am diligently plowing my way through volume one of Dick Briefer's Frankenstein. I will probably post some sort of individual topic,
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MARVEL COMICS
AVENGERS #23 ($3.99) guest stars the Black Cat.
MARVEL AGE TREASURY EDITION TP ($34.99) Collecting Marvel Age (2023) #1000 and Amazing Fantasy (2022) #1000. I'm not sure I've read both of these. Or maybe even either of th
Read more…I can't believe we've gone this long without starting a beer thread. I enjoyed the one on the old board and actually tried some of the beverages that were liked by others. I've discovered that I really like Sam Adams Oktoberfest. I've never enjoyed
Read more…Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus in 1816, then married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley the same year, to become the more familiar Mary Shelley. It is considered one of the first science fiction novels, if not the
I've gotta say, I really liked the Absolute Power Ground Zero Special. I decided to buy this, and the main Absolute Power series (minus the sub-series and the tie-ins) on paper, waiting for the secondary stuff to show up on DCUI. And so far, I'm a fa
