Fresh off AP wire!
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. says it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing characters like Iron Man and Spider-Man into the Disney family.
Under the deal, Disney will acquire o
Pluto (from Viz)- the updating of the Astro Boy saga around the murder of robots and humans involved in robot law reform is pretty darn awesome
Fantastic Four - Hickman's start is very Tom Strong and that ain't a bad thing
Supergirl - the current c
So I'm having coffee with my nephew Aaron who's in town for a few days, and we're catching up. He's talking about his old crew, ninety percent of whom I taught during my days of student teaching. He mentioned one friend of his who's doing quite well
From the old board: too good to lose.
________________________________________
Title: Out-Of-Context Quotes from the Board That Would Make Good Band Names
Post by: Shlabam on November 11, 2008, 09:24:21 PM
________________________________________
Qu
I've never read the following minis featuring Spidey, and in some cases I had never heard of them before. What did you think of any of these:
ASM: Friends and Enemies
Daredevil/Spider-Man
Deadly Foes of SM
Lethal Foes of SM
Breakout
Death and Destin
On the old board, after DC had supposedly re-worked their fictional reality so that it contained 52 "universes", I created a list of the 52 f"universes" I would include if I were drawing up a list of 52 universes. Here, slightly modified, is that lis
I don't think there's a Best of the Week thread going on this board. (If there is, I haven't seen it for a while.) So which book stood out for you this week?
There sure have been a lot of them ... here are some of the ones I enjoyed.
Hobgoblin Lives - Back in the 80's, Roger Stern created the Hobgoblin, a worthy successor to the original (and then dead) Green Goblin. He also crafted a great mystery aroun
I just downloaded and watched the first episode of the Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D. motion comic from iTunes. It was pretty good: Bendis dialogue, Maleev art, good voice casting and a strong premise... For little more than the cost of two or thr
1)Thou shalt mock thy buddies mercilessly.
2)Thou shalt take it like a man when they mock thee in return.
3)Thou shalt be unfailingly polite to thy buddies' wives.
4)Thou shalt not go trying any preversions in there...if there's anyone watching.
Here's my order:
Dark Horse-
Goon #33 (one of Holly's books)
Age of Reptiles Journey #1
Usagi Yojimbo #124
Beasts of Burden #3
Star Wars Adventures vol. 3 - Luke Skywalker: Treasure, Dragonsnakes
DC-
Adventures Comics #4
Batman and Robin #6
Supe
It just hit me all of a sudden...damned nostalgia! I don't think Snowjob and his tricked-out snowmobile are in the movie, though.
...and I liked Nth Man better than the Joe comics in the 80s...