Is there a program (or online utility) that will simply create a basic bubble around the text you type in and then allow you to save it as a BMP or GIF so you can drop it on top of a picture? This seems like the simplest thing in the world but I've s
Read more…I've been contemplating selling off large chunks of my collection in pre-weeded long-box form. I've got something like six long boxes of stuff that I can do without, but now I don't know what to do with it.
I'm figuring the best approach is probably e
Well can we?
Like a lot of silver-age detective-themed comics it’s up to us to put together the clues and figure out what exactly happened. Some people would say that most Morrison comics work like this anyway! Nevertheless, this comic is presented a
Read more…The jump from $2.99 to $3.99 is pretty substantial. First it was special issues with cardstock covers, then it was Marvel's most popular books, and then it was DC books (in the case of ongoing titles, they boosted value by adding backups, although so
Read more…I took Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn out of the library the other week. What a mistake. It wasn't so much a mistake to take the book out of the library; I'm glad that I was able to sample the story without paying for it. But it was definitely a mistake
Read more…Sad to say, the history of comics has more than one story of creators being treated badly, or editors and other company suit types behaving badly in general. I'm sure we can all think of some examples we've read about, or heard about at cons or where
Read more…As a reader who doesn't buy everything (unfortunately, neither money nor comics grow on trees), I'm not current with all of the major and minor developments in the Marvel and DC Universe, and am often startled by an offhand remark (What? Loki became
Read more…I had to put off buying comics so that when I did make it into my LCS last week there was three weeks worth waiting for me. I still couldn't afford to clear the shelf so I selected just ten. Ten comics that I thought would be the best among all comic
Read more…The wonder of Glee, for me, is its power to manipulate emotions in such a blatent way...and I'm not bothered by it. There could be a lot of reasons for this. One, I was in choir and drama in school and the frightening and fantastic emotions linked
Read more…I took yesterday off to give myself and extended Memorial Day weekend, in addition to going to see Iron Man 2 I made it to Lone Star Comics for the first time in years (really to buy some dice). I did find a couple of deals there that I just couldn't
Read more…Hi, Legionnaires!
I just wanted to bring everyone's attention to a number of "First Look" preview pages that have come in lately, and are posted in the Comics News group -- including more than 40 pages of the Witchblade Vol. 7 trade paperback!
That's a
Having finished Vertigo's Fables crossover I come away with a big, "it was okay". It wasn't bad or anything, and there were some very cool ideas and moments. Once everything was said and done though I came to the conclusion I would have enjoyed separ
Read more…And here's what you missed in the final issue of Siege...Siege!
"Brave & Bold" #35 features the team-up of the Legion of Substitute Heroes and the Inferior 5 which is inspired madness. The Inferior 5 were created in 1966's "Showcase" #62 as children of retired super-heroes, the Freedom Brigade who were based on r
Read more…X-Men Forever is the only X-title I currently read, but I have been considered dropping it at the end of volume one because I’d fallen behind, thus violating my first rule of comic collecting, “Don’t buy what you don’t read.” I caught up with the mos
Read more…I know there are some big music fans here, so I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations (or warnings) regarding turntables. I'm essentially looking for something inexpensive for general listening and I'm leaning towards a Sony based on online r
Read more…I've already posted about Fables & Bill Willingham in the Fables "Great Crossover" thread (since it was the active Fables thread). He was the guest I was most interested in, but there was an especially rich guest list this year. Top of the rest was
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