A racist group wants to boycott the upcoming Marvel Comics' Thor movie because one of the characters will be portrayed by a black guy.
http://cofcc.org/2010/12/marval-studios-declares-war-on-norse-mythology/
Read more…They're one of the "big five" now. Here are the March comics from IDW
Read more…What's behind door number two. It's DC Comics solicitations for March.
Read more…It's that fun time again. Solicitations are out for March, starting with Dark Horse
Read more…While reading some old comics today, I noticed a Marvel house ad for their plans in 1998 (and wow, does it feel weird to refer to 1998 comics as old). Many of these stories are familiar, a few are even favorites: the Captain America/Iron Man crossov
Read more…After winning an auction for the complete Firestorm series, eBay offered me some suggestions for other items I might be interested in:
Exiles 1-100 (already have it)
the complete Supreme (already have it)
the complete Dynamo 5 (already have it, and
Read more…Yesterday, I was amused at a couple of interviews, one in sports and the other in entertainment, in which the interviewee immediately contradicted themselves by saying they were going to do something and then doing the exact opposite. Tom Coughlin,
Read more…Variety tells us that Alias is being adapted for television:
"Twilight" screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg plans to adapt an edgy female Marvel character for her next TV project.Rosenberg is the writer and exec producer on "AKA Jessica Jones," which isRead more…
I had no interest whatsoever in the premise of this series, but because I’m reading the three-issue Ant-Man & Wasp series I thought I’d pick this one up to see the next phase in Henry Pym’s storied career. I had very low expectations, but I came away
Read more…I would, one day, like to see the following:
1) A new, vital and innovative reimagining of Superman that really is new, vital and innovative.
2) A well-thought out Tarzan book that keeps him in the early 20th century with a good dose of fantasy.
3) A
Read more…Wow, what a great year for Flash Gordon comics! First there was Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon, an over-sized hardcover which reprinted all of that artist’s work on the character over the decades. After that, was the Flash Gordon Comic Book Archives Vo
Read more…From New York magazine: "Jon Favreau Will Not Direct Iron Man 3"
According to this, Favreau wanted Iron Man 3 to actually be about Iron Man, rather than being an Avengers prequel ... also, Marvel got hinky about his salary.
Read more…Recently read Ayako, by Osamu Tezuka. This is one of his more serious works, from the early 1970's. By "serious", I mean that there's none of the various sight gags that the Doc tended to include even in stuff like Phoenix or Buddha. I also don't s
Read more…I stopped reading the X-Men regularly quite some time ago. Then John Byrne began doing The Hidden Years and that became my one “go to” X-Men title for many months until Joe Quesada unceremoniously pulled the plug on it. Since then I read and enjoyed
Read more…Two comics made me smile as I read them and I can't really ask for more than that. Batgirl has some great dialog. Steph is funny and the addition to Wendy (yes, the SuperFriends Wendy) to the cast has been great. Knight and Squire is crazy amounts
Read more…Trashed, traded, lost or sold - I was thinking of items I have collected through the years that for one reason or another are no longer in my possession but wish they were -
- a nearly complete set of Batman and Detective Comics 1964 - 1966, covering
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