As I mentioned in Chris Fluit's blog post "Is there a Bronze Age of Comics?", I define eras in different ways for different companies, instead of defining a Silver, Bronze, Copper, Platinum, or whatever for the overall industry. It's my own personal
Thanks to a 50 cent box, I finally read my first issue of this. It was smack dab in the middle of some long story, and Hercules wasn't even in it. Question: is the whole series THIS AMAZINGLY GOOD? Really, I loved it.
One of the questions routinely asked is how much does a price increase boost the overall profit of a book. Well I actually took a look at one this time around: Ultimate Spider-man relaunched as Ultimate Comics Spider-man. I was looking at the Marvel
On the old board, I once asked for input from Planetary fans on what made the series so special. I had acquired the first collection in a swap, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Mrs. Beyond, on the other hand, loved it. Doc Brass and the oth
Dragon*Con announced today that Garret Wang (aka Harry Kim from Star Trek: Voyager) is the new director of Star Trek programming for the convention. For the past 16 years, Trek Trak was run by Eric L. Watts, a long-time Trek fan. Apparently, he was r
In the past, we've discussed our comics reading habits: the wheres, whens, how manys and for how longs. Well, over the last several weeks, Saturday morning breakfast time has become my favorite time to read comics. Mrs. Beyond and I usually have the
"Revenge of the Reach," the first of five brand new episodes to air in January, airs this Friday at 7:30p (E/P) and Saturday at 8:30p (E/P)! Featuring the Challengers of the Unknown, Starro, Evil Star, Blue Beetle, the Reach, Guy Gardner, and the Gre
It occurred to me yesterday ('cause, you know, sometimes I'm kinda slow) that we've got a host of non-American/non-Canadian English-speaking actors playing American charcters on American TV these days.