I just finished reading all of For Better or For Worse, one of three family-oriented continuity strips that occur in more-or-less "real time" that I've been reading for most of my life (the other two being Doonesbury and Funky Winkerbean). But the gr
My to-read piles — the Towers of Shame, known collectively as the Wall of Shame — have gotten so uncontrollable that I'm making a dedicated effort to clear out as much as I can. One self-disciplinary move is to read whatever's on top, regardless if t
WIth Jeff of Earth-J's warning that small-press publishers are going to be harder to follow I'll try to include more small-press here each week. That doesn't help with ordering, but it might help Legionnaires avoid missing books they might miss. If t
With everyone else dipping their toes into the water--and given that lately it seems I'm more snarky than appreciative of comics--I thought I'd dip my own toes into the water with a reading project. So I'll be covering Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck.
I wasn’t a big fan of Man-Thing when I was a kid, but I did try to collect nearly every series I had the opportunity to if I could start with #1. Consequently I ended up with Giant-Size Man-Thing #1-5. Also along the way I ended up with the book & re
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #13 ($4.99) is by Joe Kelly and Pepe Larazz. If I'm reading the PR correctly, the twice-monthly Amazing Spider-Man will split its focus, with one issue per month focusing on Home Spidey, and the
I’ve never been happy about what the Crisis on Infinite Earths did to DC continuity, believing that it did away with many characters and concepts that still had a lot of untapped potential. I’ll admit to being especially unhappy about the removal of
I didn't entirely get the intended construction of the jokes in the Sunday Bizzaro (Sp??) strip yesterday . ( The strip appars to be not online , as it is a King Features Syndicate strip , who - Gasp !!! - appear to think they're in the comics busi
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 I've got is the new releases with the enhanced special effects - I'll comment on these as best I can, shame I haven't got the originals to compare and contrast, but such is life. I put up the "spoiler" just on the off chance that there's someone
At the end of Randy Jackson's "Walt Simonson's Thor" discussion last year, I posted: "I'm waffling between "Dan Jurgens' Thor" and "Walt Simonson's Ragnarok." I've finally made up my mind. Before I get to it, though, I would like to re-read Dark Hors
Superman: The Triangle Era omnibus ships next week. It comprises Superman#49-64,Adventures of Superman#472-486,Action Comics#659-673 and Superman: The Man of Steel#1-8. It is named for the sequential numbering of the four regular series which a
With the demise of Diamond's website and Previews, the task of knowing what's to come — and what to order, in the various ways we do it — has gotten harder. Would it be useful to have a list of advance solicitations? Here, for example, is Marvel's fo
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
We begin with "Dead of Knight", by Zeb Wells and Greg Capullo. The Joker summons Deadpool to Earth-Zero (It's a long story.) to help him deal with Batman. Batman cleverly plays the pair of them off against one another. Now, I've always despised Deadp
BATTLEWORLD #1 (OF 5, $4.99) is by Christos Gage (Superior Spider-Man) and Marcus To (X-Force). It's the same as, or similar to, the Battleworld in Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars. Or maybe Jim Shooter's. But the ch
The original cover, by John Byrne and Terry Austin, is cover-dated to october 1980.
In chronological order by cover date, these are covers that I know of that I consider to be clear enough homages. Thanks to the Grand Comics Database for the images
How do you suppose it came to be that "Captain" became the military rank most often adopted by super-heroes who did adopt a military rank as part of their super-hero code-name?
Sure, once it became established as a popular choice, there was probably
At some unspecified point in the future, Booster Gold is captured by the evil version of the LSH, minions of Darkseid, and sends Validus backward through time in hope of somehow alerting Superman that the future "is already lost." It not a very well-
