http://drwaller.net/ It's in association with the upcoming Green Lantern film where she'll be played by Angela Bassett.
Read more…As I pondered a bit about the original X-Men, I remembered how the Beast got stronger, faster and hairier in Amazing Adventures #11. Jean Grey was improved from Marvel Girl to Phoenix in Uncanny X-Men #102. (And yes, I know about all the retcons but
Read more…Let's make this a line for discussion of nespaper comic strip ( Web/whatever ones , too . ) , old , new.........hey .
I have moved from San Francisco to Berkeley and so my " local paper " has switched to the Oakland Tribune , which runs slightly di
Read more…"Your Majesty, would you like...your sceptre?"
Dooooo-doot, dooooo-doot! Dooooo-doot, dooooo-doot!"
(If you don't know what that's all about, see here and here.)
Anyhow, now that I've got that out of my system, let me ramble on a bit about my tho
Read more…Panels for Primates is a charity anthology of primate comics that has been updating every week with new material at ACT-I-VATE (http://act-i-vate.com) since October of last year, all to benefit the Primate Rescue Center in Nicholasville, KY. Like ot
Read more…It'll be a graphic novel first then a movie. What do you think? It's an interesting concept for a story.
Read more…SCREAM 4 opens this week-end . ( Wot ? - no Roman numerals in the title ?
What has happened to our nation's educational system ??!?!?!?!?! ) I even bought the ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY w/a cover story on it .
I liked the original trilogy much . Althou
Read more…Are there any well-established heroes who have never had a single solo strip * ? Speedy was around since the Golden Age, but I can't recall any solo stories. Not odd Green Arrow strips in which Ollie was busy and Roy had to fly solo, but dedicated, b
Read more…This announcement is not designed to carry the same weight as Cap’s “The Day I Stopped Reading Spider-Man” (I didn’t start reading Superman until John Byrne’s post-Crisis Man of Steel limited series), but I have bought and read two or three (and ofte
Read more…I saw a Dr. Pepper " Thor "-themed commercial t'other nite , which had a couiple shots of what was clearly Stan Lee , as a guy working at a gas station/something like that . I presume that it must be up at " Waco ! " ( Old soda-jerk lingo for Dr. P
Read more…I am less enthusiastic about a new Superboy comic book featuring Conner Kent than I would be about one featuring Clark Kent, but the first issue is off to a good start. What interests me the most, though, is the “Coming Soon” page at the end of the i
Read more…I was just thinking as I was prompted by the discussion of the Greatest JLA stories touched upon by Philip Portelli in the Mr. Silver Age forum and not considering # 19 of the original series among them, which would I choose for that list.
First of
Read more…Alright this is for comics theoretically shipping in July. I got done super early this month.
1. Alright Dark Horse has got me for another Star War mini: Invasion - Revelations.
2. Now when they say it is the last Hellboy arc, are they talking peri
Read more…I pulled out from my bookcase JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told which was released to coincide with Indentity Crisis as it reprinted Justice League #166-168 which inspired it. But secret identities were a running theme of the collection. The only c
Read more…So, wait, is Canada having an election, or thinking about having an election, or what?
American politics is nuts, but Canadian politics is mystifying.
Read more…CBR tells us that CrossGen is back, starting with Ruse (bringing back Waid and Guice on it, too!) and Sigil by Mike Carey and Leonard Kirk. Keen!
Read more…I'm very excited to see that John Ostrander will be introducing a new Star Wars series: Agent of the Empire. It follows one of the Empire's spies (a James Bond/Jason Bourne) type. It takes place a couple of years before the Battle of Yavin in A New H
Read more…Like Robert Kirkman’s Ant-Man before it, Tim Seeley’s Ant-Man & Wasp is a series I like, but then hate myself for liking it. The storytelling is good, but the humor is decidedly adolescent. Henry Pym is the foil and Eric O’Grady is the fool. The lang
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