From CBS News: "Creator of 'Brady Bunch,' 'Gilligan's Island' Dies"
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Lee Falk's creations , the King Features Syndicate characters The Phantom and Mandrake The Magician , are still published as syndicated strips , but I don't know , for instance , how many people here follow those versions , even .
There have been m
Read more…Boy howdy is this a good book; is anyone else reading it?
This is one of the first titles I started picking up when I started collecting again a few months ago, and it is absolutely one of the best. With Thor off in his own newly-renumbered series,
Read more…I enjoy the work of Dick Sprang and I'd like to investigate his non-Batman work. I know he occasionaly drew some Superman strips to in World's Finest (and possibly elsewhere), but did he do anything that was non Batman related?
Are there many comic
Read more…... what, exactly, is the difference between "General Comics Discussions" and "In Depth Comics Discussions"?
Read more…With all the curiosity, anger, suspense, excitement and out-right dread over DC's upcoming brand new changes that will have universe-shaking events that will alter our heroes forever, I thought that it would only be fitting to discuss when the same t
Read more…The story behind this story is as interesting as the story itself. Back when Kurt Busiek and Erik Larsen were doing The Defenders, editor Tom Breevoort commissioned a fill-in from Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley. Nicieza wrote the plot and Mark Bagley
Read more…Episode One:
1)Get a haircut, Yates!
2)"Very fit, that girl."
3)The Doctor and Clegg are wearing the same tie!
4)I like the idea of a "fake" psychic turning out to be real.
5)It's hard to believe that Cho-Je is played by the same actor that played Lyn
Read more…This is the conclusion to my review of St Swithin's Day, Grant Morrison's indie one-shot comic. It's from a while back, but I've moved it to a forum thread as the Morrison group where I originally posted it is about to go kablooey. I don't advise re
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Holy crap! In Holly's words, "So...they really went there, huh?". Not only is James Gordon Jr mentally ill...he's a super crazy, sadistic killer. Only no one
Read more…A long standing tradition on the CBGXtra website, when the forums are actually up and running, has been reviewing various superhero related media.
One of the programs under this practice has been The WB's/The CW's version of Smallville.
Thankfully th
Read more…Burnley Beats Manchester United I can't say as I know much about the sport - I couldn't even say that I had a favorite side that I supported (Celtic, maybe? Do they still exist?), but I love a good upset, so, roll on, Burnley!
Read more…What? Am I really the first to start the thread on Green Lantern, the movie?
I don't even get to use my disclaimer that I'm posting without having read anyone else's comments in the thread first ...
Anyhoo:
I know that there are three threads about DC's relaunch already but this is about the consequences of one apparent decision that Superman was the first super-hero to appear (publically) in this DCnU reality thus seemingly erasing the Justice Society
Read more…I just got on Google+ today, and I like it a lot better than Facebook. It appears I have a good number of invites available, so if anyone wants one, send me an email or message me here. I just need the email YOU mainly check.
Read more…It's an old question, but a good summer one. You're trapped on an island...you have food, water, and shelter. A seagull flies over once a month and drops five comics...which five comic series do you hope fall from the sky?
For me:
Amazing Spide
Read more…Recently , I saw several episodes of the 60s " The Saint " series with Roger Moore , B&W not colo(u)r , and filmed at Elstree Studios in the U.K. , though in the series he appeared to be based in New York , with much traveling (obviously , stock foot
Read more…I was thinking of starting a movie discussion group on the board. Seems like a lot of us enjoy films of all different sorts. We already have comic re-reading threads and TV series threads. Why not a movie one?
It would work similiar to a book club.
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With the upcoming changes to the DCnU, it seems to me that the "underwear-on-the-outside" tradition of costuming is all but gone. Will there be any contemporary costumes that you can think of that still retain this look at either DC or Marvel?
With all the attention on DC's 52 #1s in September, I thought I would see what Marvel is doing so...
