When I was in the seventh grade I had a friend, Billy, who was in the eighth grade. Billy didn’t know too much about comics but was eager to learn. When I showed him my stack of Marvel and DC treasury editions he was a little disappointed that the ar
Read more…The Captain's Rock the vote thread on Top Cow's Pilot Season books has dropped off the home page, so I thought I'd add a link here.
Read more…About a week and half ago I traveled down to Austin, TX for Wizard World
Austin Comic Con. Which I thought was note worthy since outside of
giant "W" there was nothing in the literature and signage that denoted
its affiliation with Wizard.
My highlig
Well, I am bored at work, so I am going to a little write-up on District X vol. 1. This is the "Mr. M "storyline. I was originally going to say something along the lines of, “I don’t know why I didn’t initially buy this series…” Actually, I know exa
Next Sunday night, on Masterpiece Contemporary on PBS, David Tennant will host the showing of Lennon Naked starring Christopher Eccleston as John Lennon and Naoko Mori (Torchwood) as Yoko. Should be good!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/contempor
Read more…I've been thinking more and more lately about how much I do that is bad for the Earth. One thing I decided this morning, just out of the blue, is to stop bagging my comics. I'm not sure why I do bag them. It's just, well, what we collectors do. Thing
Read more…Your local paper may or may not be carrying this story, but you can certainly find it on the Internet.
Basically, all those cups from the 1970s and 1980s are chocked full of lead where they were painted.
It's unclear, but it looks like the cups now car
If you saw Craig Ferguson's Doctor Who-themed episode with Matt Smith, you may've heard Chris Hardwick say that Matt Smith was doing his podcast. Well, that episode is now live. I haven't listened to it yet, but Hardwick's podcasts have yet to disapp
Read more…I've been making my way through Showcase Presents: Booster Gold for the second time (nothing earth-shattering, but fun ad solid all the way), and I was struck by something, and I was wondering how others felt about this at the time.
As I recall, when
OK, Scott's plan to make vampire Wolerine his secret weapon was great, but having a priest bless Iceman, creating a holy water superhero? Genius!
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I think most of us with kids have been there...
Read more…I've been reading The Best American Comics, 2009 (last year's edition, guest edited by Charles Burns). I didn't pay much attention to Jessica Abel & Matt Madden's Preface until I was almost done. Here's some of their opening argument, which I though
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I think it’s fascinating when good writers seemingly have the same idea at the same time. In comics’ past we have Man-Thing/Swamp Thing and X-Men/Doom Patrol being developed and published almost at the same time with the creative teams havin
Read more…Less thoughts this month, maybe I have more quality though(?)
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/11/17/young-justice-trailer/
The show will air on Cartoon Network the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Read more…Look at what I found at my friendly neighborhood comics shop:
A simple question really. How many episodes will you typically give a show, before you bail out. I will typically give a show 1 or 2 episodes and that is it. Which has led me to not watch shows that my friends are surprised I don't watch because I di
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This ... is ... awesome ...
Read more…Here's a spot to discuss developments in DC's Brightest Day series.
Hey movie buffs: Criterion Collection DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are 50% off at Barnes & Noble, in-store and online.
