My fingers are crossed that people will order the HOPE: The Hero Initiative anthology http://tinyurl.com/26gqws5 because artist Mario Gonzalez http://www.wyliman.com/ and I are in it, and because it's for a great cause (The Hero Initiative).
It's i
Hey gang,
I'm considering picking up Tomb of Dracula in trades at some point. It might not be soon, but I at least want to add it to my wish list. Should I get the Essential Tomb of Draculas in black and white, or the color trades that are coming
Read more…Throw away your bootlegs. It looks like this short-lived, critically-panned and not-so-fondly remembered tv show is finally getting an official release.
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Legends-Super-Heroes-Box-Art/14561
It'll be nice to see M
Read more…The A/V Club apologizes to its readers because another website, Comics Comics, flags its review of the book Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth as being bogus, owing to the fact that not only is the book not published yet, its still in th
Read more…I didn’t post this to the “Captain America” thread because I’m not convinced this is a Captain America series, per se; in fact I’m not quite sure what this is, but yesterday was light so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s written by Ben McCool and dra
Read more…Let's see....Anthro and family celebrate the winter solstice, Jonah Hex has a Hanukkah adventure, John Stewart teaches a tyro Green Lantern that sometimes religious holidays can be creepy and weird, Superman attends a Thanksgiving parade and meets th
Read more…Another long-running daily comic strip bites the dust:
" 'Brenda Starr, Reporter' to Leave Newspapers Jan. 2"
Read more…I have a very understanding wife. I buy quite a few archival reprint collections, yet very seldom (if ever) am I called upon to justify my purchases, yet to my surprise, that very thing happened when I came home with the first volume of Archie: The C
Read more…There is some slight duplication between the recently released hardcover Archie Firsts and the long available Best of the Forties tpb. The focus of the latter is on stories from the 1940s (Duh!), whereas the former concentrates on presenting first ap
Read more…If I was the king of sports for a day:
Major League Baseball would add instant replay for calls on the bases, though not balls and strikes
Major League Baseball would add a second wild card and have them play a best-of-three (which I'm happy to hear i
I was listening to the soundtrack for Wicked a while back and I realized that the characters from Glee would be great stand-ins for the love triangle. Finn Hudson would make a great Fiyero. He's a hunk who wants to do the right thing, but is slight
It looks like the CW is going to replace Smallville with a new series starring Raven of the Teen Titans.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-cw-developing-potential-smallvil...
It's interesting that they'd use a character who generally appears in
Read more…Since I've gotten sucked up into The Walking Dead (thanks Guys!), I've been remembering a TV movie from my youth about another cataclysmic disaster. It was about a plague, too but it killed, I think, 90% of the population while the rest were immune t
Read more…The first issue of The Defenders I ever saw was #12, at Droste Drug Store, my secondary source for comics books in those days. (My primary source was Ahmann’s Newsstand.) It was late 1973 and my favorite character was the Incredible Hulk. I already k
Read more…In Justice League #54, the new JLA takes on a new version of longtime DC unattached villain, Eclipso. Of course, Eclipso debuted in House of Secrets #61(Au'63) and lasted until #80 (O'66). He was remembered for three main reasons. One, from #63 to #6
Read more…This four-issue mini-series is about Jeff Mace, the third Captain America in revised Marvel continuity, one of my favorite subjects. In the original Golden Age stories, the Patriot didn’t have much of an origin. The character debuted as a text featur
Read more…(So as not to further drag the "Leslie Nielsen" thread further off course...) The Commander said: "We watch something like, say, Columbo, and think to ourselves, of course Peter Falk was the perfect actor for the part." I'd always heard that the
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