The great Al Williamson passed away recently. Obituaries can be found here
and here, as well as in many other places. Rest in Peace. Read more…For those of you who have seen Toy Story 3. Which version did you see it in, 3D or 2D? Which would you recommend. Lately I've seen a few movies in 3D and have been less than impressed. I think I may see the film today but wasn't sure if I should give
Read more…There aren’t just too many Marvel Comics I enjoy these days, but there is a subset of Marvel Comics I find myself enjoying very much, namely the titles which re-examine Marvels Golden Age roots (The Marvels Project) and even bring Golden Age characte
Read more…I went down my local on lunch today, and didn't see a single comic I wanted to buy. I hate these sparse weeks - good for the budget, though.
Read more…I tried to put my partial thesis up on Google Docs, but it eliminated all the footnotes. I'd like to get it up somehow, though, since you've all had a hand in it, and I'd like for you all to see and comment on the progress.
If anybody has any ideas,
And if so, how would you characterize it? Are there any blurbs or word balloons where the omniscient narrator or characters talk about the power/responsibility/nature of the press? Were there continuing characters, and if so, were they heroic charact
Read more…I was thinking about doing one of my "toy shelf battle royals", and I got to wondering - "What kind of limits does Death from the Endless have? Can she claim the life of anything that lives whenever she wants, or can it only be when it's "their time
Read more…In "Amazing Spider-Man" #630-632 AKA "Shed", Curt Connors is completely engulfed by the Lizard inside him. The Lizard has mutated, becoming stronger, smarter and able to cause people to regress to their primitive instincts. The Lizard wins because he
Read more…Check out this exchange between Newsarama interviewer Chris Arrant and Evan Dorkin, in the new interview about Beasts of Burden:
Read more…Nrama: This might sound like an odd question, but as comics fans we’ve come to expect it – chances of any other crossover
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8339576@N04/sets/72157624333252428/show/
Major, major flashbacks...
Read more…Bleeding cool has the story, and Dagwan's store get mentioned! http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/06/19/midnight-openings-planned-for-scott-pilgrim-vol-6/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BleedingCool+%28Bleeding+Cool+C
Read more…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
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