AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 ($4.99): The ninth and final chapter of the "Infinity Watch" story is here! Finally! The stone-bearers are assembled (that's them on Cover D), and I assume a climax of some sort will happen. But the s
It just occured to me that there might be some utility in having a thread where we post what cons we're going to (and other assorted nerdery) to see if anyone wants to meet up for a while, and see each other in person! (gasp!)
Alan Moore and Frank Miller get a lot of credit for "reinventing" comics in the 1980s (and deservedly so), but I don't think Howard Chaykin gets enough. I that's because "grim 'n' gritty" is an easy-to-sum-up catchphrase, but the kind of storytelling
This series just didn't click with me the first time I read it (or started to). After an issue or two I decided to set it aside to read sometime when I'm more in the mood, now that I had a better idea of what it was like. Then last week, The Justice
Recently I had been reading the Captain America by Mark Gruenwald omnibus specifically to determine why that run didn't appeal to me. Once I found that answer, I lost all interest in the project a dozen or so issues shy of the end of the volume. Wher
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
I am currently working my way through Aztec Ace (1984) for the first time thanks to the recent collected edition. I am enjoying it a great deal, but it's proving to take longer than I had anticipated to finish. I am already looking forward to other,
First, as is my custom, here are some irrelevant images to provide spoiler space:
We begin with the Red Skull's daughter, Sin, slaughtering some archaeologists in Germany in order to steal the helmet of Eirda, the Greek goddess of hate. I would've
WOLVERINE #1: Logan goes feral again, but Nightcrawler tries to bring him home. Meanwhile, an "ancient force" awakens, which will become Wolvie's latest arch-foe. This is supposed to push Wolverin
This thread led me to think about all of the various movies I've seen over the years which revolved around "World War Three" happening and the aftermath thereof. While I've seen more than seven, seven is the number that I have currently available on
I've lost count of how many times [DC has] re-discovered the multiverse. Well, first it was 52 parallel universes. Then they discovered those were just the "local" multiverse.
Last week while I was reading a DC comic book from 2006, I came across DC
To avoid further hijacking the "Movies I Have Seen Lately" thread, and because there seems to be some interest in men's attire, I've created this discussion to pursue it. (If I'm wrong abut the level of interest, this discussion can die on the vine