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?
Read more…http://www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-april-2010-solicitations-100119.html Hey, Chris, Power Pack is back...
Read more…Yeah, I ... don't know what to make of this:
Fox Developing U.S. Version of BBC Hit Torchwood
. . . bloomin' Green Lantern! http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/ I'm sick of it, | tell ya! That dead horse will be thoroughly flogged.
Read more…So as to not clutter up the front page with 20+ polls, I'm going to try to list them all in this one thread. So come on in, vote and have fun!
Read more…DC declared this a week of big announcements for projects for 2010. It started on Monday, with the announcement of the Brightest Day bi-weekly series by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi. It continued on Tuesday, with the announcement of a second bi-wee
Read more…Reed Richards — member of the super hero group the Fantastic Four and dubbed Mr. Fantastic by millions. A man of incredible brilliance. Reed has time and again used inventions of great technology to defeat the super-villain menace. Fellow genius Tony
Read more…My first two Tarzan comics were Tarzan #223 (the final chapter of Joe Kubert’s adaptation of “The Return of Tarzan”) and DC 100-Page Super-Spectacular #19. Shortly thereafter I acquired the two DC Treasury Editions which reprinted Kubert’s adaptation
Read more…Yes, we're doing the Cappies again this year. And yes, I said I would post the thread some time next week but I had time this weekend so here it is. Here are the rules: There are 23 categories. Each member may nominate up to two (2) nominees for eac
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