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Authority question and comic book club suggestions
My comic book club (which is almost three years old now!) is picking the next six months or so of titles, and I needed to pick the boards' brain on a few titles. The ones we're voting on are: Fables: Legends in Exile Zot! Swamp Thing: Love and Death
Read more…Jackie Gleason's "You're In the Picture" apology
One of the seminal moments in television history was the debut, and quick demise, of You're In the Picture, a game show hosted by Jackie Gleason that is most famous for two things: One, it was canceled after its first episode, and, two, for the secon
Read more…Tom Defalco's tenure as Marvel EIC - what did you think?
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
Read more…Twilight fans...the first manga volume hits stores today.
Downtown Comics in Indy has it today...I have to think other comic shops will, too.
Read more…Age of the TV Heroes
TwoMorrows has posted a preview PDF here (warning: Link triggers PDF download).
Looks pretty good!
The Incredible Hercules
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.
Followup question: Does annyone h
Batman & Robin #10! Excellent!
What a great issue! So much development in terms of plot and character.
Action Philosophers! Question
The new(ish) "More Than Complete Action Philosophers!" volume has 20 pages/4 stories of new material, as indicated in many places.
But does anyone happen to know WHICH ones are the new ones?
Invincible Iron Man #24 (Avast, Spoilers Ahead!)
So...
The price increase question
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
Read more…Oscars 2010
Gee ... no chatter about the Oscars?
- Avatar doesn't win best picture.
- Neil Patrick Harris shows up at his fourth awards show in 12 months.
- Sandra Bullock wins Best Actress at the Oscars the day after winning Wors
So, I finally get Planetary
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
Read more…From TV star to con program director
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
Read more…Saturday Morning Comics
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
Read more…Gail Simone Leaving Wonder Woman
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25110
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/03/05/wonder-of-wonders-3510/
Too bad. I've really been enjoying her run.
Read more…I'm not reading Justice League: Cry for Justice...
...and this review reminds me why... http://www.the-isb.com/?p=2151
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