Hey gang,
My Christmas presents arrived and I opened them to discover that Thing From Another World included a special holiday gift certificate. Except I don't need to buy any more trades right now because I already got a bunch as a Christmas pres
Read more…From all of me to all of you:
MERRY CHRISTMAS and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Ya poor dopes.
And let's take a moment to remember the greatest moment of 2010:
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I love Blackest Night, but I am tired of everyone assuming there will be a white lantern (or lanterns). It's too easy to go there--I think Geoff Johns is a better writer than that. Infact -- If there's a white lantern, I'll frickin, wear white underp
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I didn't want to completely threadjack Figserello's JLA retrospective so I decided to move part of the discussion over here.
I'm still surprised that that period of 'reconstruction' wasn't a high-selling point for comics. Just cause I was buyin
Read more…Green Lantern is perhaps my favorite DC character, but I haven’t been reading his adventures in his regular title for several years now. I picked up this one-shot for two reasons: 1) the unlikely pairing of two such different heroes, and 2) the creat
Read more…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.
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