...should they just focus on another Kryptonian? Is that why Mon-El is being featured so much recently?
My apologies if this was already posted, but I just found out that Rusty Haller had passed away a couple of months ago. Rusty posted on the previous Captain Comics forum as RedbatRusty. Rusty drew for Marvel on their licensed properties (Alf and som
Read more…Some of you might enjoy this extended essay on the Watchmen and it's place in superhero comics history.
Who Sent the Sentinels? by Andrew Rilstone
It's very long - about 60 pages, but I loved it. There's a lot of genuine insights here, as he com
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DeHaven wrote the amazing "It's Superman!"...possibly the best Superman story ever told, so I'm very much looking forward to reading his examination of Superman as an icon.
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Pernell Roberts, RIP: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603724.html
Read more…From Bleeding Cool, a story about my favorite store, Strange Adventures in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/01/26/its-ladies-night-at-strange-adventures-this-thursday/
I thought this was quite clever and fun (and awesomely short).
Wolk uses Marvel comics to illustrate the arguments of one of the tougher philosophers.
All I knew about Kant going in was that he was alledgedly 'a real pissant*', so it was quite enligh
Read more…Happy Australia Day! This year we're learning about the dog on the tuckerbox, going here to find out what the dog really did to the tuckerbox, visiting Australian Screen Online, and listening to a podcast about Marcus Clarke's novel His Natural Life.
Read more…I swore I saw something in the very first issue of the FF about them specifically aiming to get to Venus before the commies. But now I see no mention whatsoever about Venus in the Essentials reprint of that issue. Was it altered? Did I just imagine i
Read more…Are there any bits of received wisdom which comics threw up again and again that never convinced? For example, even as a kid I couldn’t believe that the citizens of Kandor preferred to live under an artificial sun because they had never had super-pow
Read more…I need your help again, Legionnaires! I'm going to review ComicBase for the Scripps column, and I want to make sure I'm using it to its full capacity. As I type this I'm copying the art/movies to my hard drive, which will take some time, apparently.
Read more…My friend asked me a question that I couldn't answer, but I told him I knew where to find out. In traditional mythology Thor had red hair. Is there a reason why in the Marvel Universe that he is a blond? Thank you.
Read more…For those of you (which is probably most of you) who aren't particularly aware of Illinois politics, our state is in a fair bit of a mess right now — basically, we have one of the worst budget deficits in the country, with no real promise of it getti
Read more…Kid Eternity could make a fortune in missing persons/kidnap cases in which it isn't known if the person is alive or dead. He simply summons them, and if they don't show up, there's hope.
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Hmmm...just Tiny Titans for my girls, Sherlock Holmes vs Victorian zombies for me, and The Flash, because I lerv the art of Francis Manapul, for the middle school library.
Read more…Jeff P. piqued my interest in this, so I took a look at it. I found it quite interesting. Though not a believer himself, Crumb is quite respectful of and faithful to the original text. There's a certain amount of nudity and sex and violence in it, bu
Read more…I couldn't think of any. Does The Flash have any villains that are strictly his own, whom are universal threats?
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