If not, why wouldn't he?
Given that a large part of Doom's motivation is to be recognized as being better than Reed (really, that's probably more important than world conquest to him), one would think that Doom not only had a portal but traveled the
Read more…CBR's Timothy Donohoo penned a story with the headline Did the Silver Age Ruin Superman? And it's got a point, in that any time the character moves beyond his Silver Age/Superman: The Movie presentation a lot of fans howl, even though that doesn't se
Read more…Static
Matt Lesniewski, script, art & letters; Carlos Badilla, colorist
Dark Horse Books, 2021
Static is an actual original graphic novel, with a visual style that would be a fit for an indie comics company much smaller and more esoteric than Dark Ho
Read more…BATMAN #125
Art and cover by JORGE JIMENEZ
Backup art by BELÉN ORTEGA
Variant covers by JIM LEE, SCOTT WILLIAMS,
GABRIELE DELL’OTTO, INHYUK LEE, and FRANCESCO MATTINA
Acetate variant cover by SIMONE DI MEO A
1:25 wraparound va
Read more…Just for fun. I decided to divide my list of one thousand super-heroes by what "Earths" they come from.
A few rules:
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER VOL 9 TPB
DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES VOL 3 HC
FAITHLESS III #3
MAGIC: HIDDEN PLANESWALKER #1 (OF 4)
Story: Mairghread Scott | Art: Fabiana Mascolo | Covers: Karen S. Darboe, Miguel Mercado, Awanqi,
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ANGEL #4
HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER VOL 1: DISCOVER TPB
MAMO TPB
MIGHTY MORPHIN #18
SEVEN SECRETS #16
DARK HORSE COMICS
BREAK OUT #1
Story: Zack Kaplan | Art: Wilton Santos | Covers: Adam Gorham, Rafael Albuquerque | $3.99
When massive cube
Read more…I tried getting into Doctor Who back in my college days (the '80s), but it just wasn't for me, so I haven't followed it over the years.
However, I just had one of those stray "shower thoughts" one gets from time to time and I figured someone here cou
Read more…Wynd Book One: Flight of the Prince
James Tynion IV, writer; Michael Dialynas, illustrator
Boom! Box, 2021
In many ways Wynd has a conventional high fantasy setting. Pipetown is a medieval-looking city-state, ruled by a king. And of course, there is m
Read more…Started looking through the New American Bible at home. This is a much newer translation than the Douay-Rheims I was quoting from on the old board. It reflects a much different sensibility than the D-R did. The D-R was made at a time of great conflic
Read more…PLUG YOURSELF
I know a lot of Legionnaires are writers and bloggers themselves, and do a lot of work we should all be following. As far as I know, the only place these writers have on the site to plug their work is the "What are you blogging about th
Read more…“Every… comic book version of the Bible that I’ve seen contains passages of completely made-up narrative and dialogue, in an attempt to streamline and ‘modernize’ the old scriptures, and still, these various comic book Bibles all claim to adhere to t
Read more…The Legion of "Hey, It's That Guy!" Character Actors loses another one.
From Deadline: "Nehemiah Persoff Dies: Prolific Actor of ‘Yentl’, ‘The Twilight Zone’, ‘Gunsmoke’ & Many More Was 102"
The man was on practically every TV show you could name dur
Read more…In the years I was a cop, given the kind of job it is, whenever I had to call home from work, I knew that, after the Good Mrs. Benson answered, the first words out of my mouth needed to be "I'm alright."
I'm sure many of you have noticed that my pr
Read more…BOOM! STUDIOS
ALICE EVER AFTER #1
Story: Dan Panosian | Art: Giorgio Spalletta | Covers: Dan Panosian, Jenny Frison, J. Scott Campbell | Colors: Fabiana Mascolo | Letters: Jeff Eckleberry | $3.99
BOOM! Studios today revealed a first look at ALICE EVE
Read more…Road of Bones
Rich Douek, writer; Alex Cormack, art & colors; Justin Birch, letters
IDW Publishing, 2020
More historical horror by the same creative team who made Sea of Sorrows. This time the setting is the Siberian Gulag of Kolyma, and the year is
Read more…STAR TREK LOG ONE by Alan Dean Foster:
The first episode of Star Trek I ever saw was “The Tholian Web.” I cannot swear it was first run, but I think it was. If so, I would have been four years old at the time. If it was a summer repeat, I would have
Read more…Ice Cream Man Vol. 7: Certain Descents
W. Maxwell Prince, writer; Martín Morazzo, artist; Chris O'Halloran, colors
Image Comics, 2022
Might as well say up front that the seventh Ice Cream Man includes the title character only in the brief, mystical
Read more…DC Horror Presents: The Conjuring: The Lover
David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick & Rex Ogle, authors; Garry Brown, artist; Mike Spicer, colors
DC Comics, 2022
This story is intended to be a prequel to the 2021 film The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
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