All Discussions (11523)
Sort by
Thoughts While Filling Out Previews
- There aren't many books I buy blindly w/o reading the solicitation, But Jonah Hex is one of those books
- It tickles me that just a few short months after Ex Machina finishes we get a series called Deus Ex. The latter based on a video game though.
- Tha
Views: 57
Manga
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…
Views: 245
X-Men Forever
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…
Views: 222
My recs for the week!
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…
Views: 81
Collections That Are Long Gone
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
Read more…
Views: 102
Thor Feelings (With Spoilers)
In the current issues of Thor, our Hammer-Hurler is in a bad mood. Asgard is in ruins, Odin is dead (at least for now) and the Thunder God is sulking. He pushes Sif away when she tries to comfort and does the same to the Warriors Three when they try
Read more…
Views: 228
HOPE: The Hero Initiative (in this month's Previews)
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
Views: 79
Tomb of Dracula question
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…
Views: 496
Legends of the Super-Heroes
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…
Views: 208
Writer of fake review caught
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…
Views: 90
Capatin America: The Korvac Saga
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…
Views: 110
DC Universe Holiday Special 2010
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…
Views: 91
"Brenda Starr" to end
Another long-running daily comic strip bites the dust:
" 'Brenda Starr, Reporter' to Leave Newspapers Jan. 2"
Read more…
Views: 55
Archie Newspaper Comics
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…
Views: 581
Archie Firsts
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…
Views: 100
If I Was the Sports Czar
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
Views: 193
