Superman robots seemed to be common knowledge during the Silver Age, or at least enough people knew about them for their existence not to be a secret.
However, what about his other robots? I know he had a Clark Kent robot or two, and I'm guessing h
Read more…ELVIRA IN HORRORLAND #1 (Dynamite)
Story: David Avallone | Art: Silvia Califano | Cover: Dave Acosta | $3.99
In Elvira Meets Vincent Price, the Mistress of the Dark discovered that all movies create their own individual pocket dimension where, presum
Read more…When Superman is exposed to green kryptonite, I know he's incapacitated. Would that prevent him from signaling for help by utilizing his heat vision, superbreath, super ventriloquism, etc.?
Just something I was thinking about recently.
Additional q
Read more…Was it ever confirmed that Brainiac 5 inherited his force field from Brainiac? As I recall, that force field was pretty strong. IIRC, in Brainiac's first appearance, Superman punched it as hard as he could and did zero damage.
Brainiac 5's primary s
Read more…the CW drops a trailer for Gotham Knights, which by my count is its third Batman show that doesn't actually feature Batman (and the fourth overall, if one counts Birds of Prey from 20 years ago*). The premise? Bruce Wayne has been murdered and Gotham
Read more…May 18
COUNT CROWLEY, AMATEUR MONSTER HUNTER #2
Story: David Dastmalchian | Art/Cover: Lukas Ketner | Dark Horse | $3.99
Dark Horse not only offered this issue for review, but the previous issue and the previous miniseries! So I’m no fool; I read the
Read more…In Action Comics #900, there's a story in which Superman meets the national security advisor outdoors at Camp David. Superman takes note of the fact that there are snipers trained on him, and one of them has a rifle loaded with a kryptonite bullet.
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BOOM! STUDIOS
JIM HENSON’S STORYTELLER: SHAPESHIFTERS #4
MAGIC THE GATHERING #15
ONCE & FUTURE #26
DARK HORSE COMICS
AVATAR: ADAPT OR DIE #2
CYBERPUNK 2077 BLACKOUT #1
Story: Bartosz Sztybor | Art/Cover: Roberto Ricci| Mature | $3.99
Explore the dar
Read more…My recent re-reading of Martin Pasko's Swamp Thing (plus the comment below) put me in the mood to re-read the first few issues of one of the few examples of his other work I am familiar with.
ClarkKent_DC said:
Read more…That series was my introduction to E-M
Bionic
Koren Shadmi
Top Shelf Productions, 2020
Bionic opens with a moody, wordless sequence of a bleak futuristic robotics plant. Then it shifts to a scene of geeky teenager Victor getting ready for his first day of the new year at high school. Desp
Read more…May 11
JENNY ZERO VOL II: HOMELAND INSECURITIES #1
Story: Dave Dwonch, Brockton McKinney | Art/Cover: Magenta King | $3.99
I read the first issue of the first Jenny Zero miniseries, and I think I praised it at the time. I did in my head, anyway, and
Read more…Over in the "TV Shows I Am Binging" thread, I noted that I got hooked on This Is Us, which led to a quick discussion over the show's merits and a pledge to talk about the latest episode. We threw out the idea of having that conversation in the "What
Read more…BOOM! STUDIOS
ALICE EVER AFTER #2
ANGEL #5
FAITHLESS III #4
HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER #6
POWER RANGERS #19
DARK HORSE COMICS
BLACK HAMMER REBORN #12 (OF 12)
BREAK OUT #2 (OF 4)
Read more…BOOM! STUDIOS
ALL NEW FIREFLY #4
KILLER: AFFAIRS OF STATE #4
MAGIC: HIDDEN PLANESWALKER #2
POWER RANGERS UNIVERSE #6
SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN #23
VAMPIRE SLAYER (BUFFY) #2
DARK HO
Read more…The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
Ram V., writer; Filipe Andrade, illustrator
BOOM! Studios, 2022
This five-issue miniseries is set in India, and pursues its questions about life and death in a Hindu context. As the story begins the avatar of Death (who
Read more…I begin with my traditional spoiler space picture of someone who has nothing to do with the topic at hand:
Alan Hale Sr. & Jr. (To quote Russell Johnson: "At one point, the two men looked almost exactly alike."
Issue #1 covers from the beginning o
Read more…I'm not online much these days, but I do want to come to the Ask Mr. Silver Age website long enough to with our best pal Craig Shutt the happiest of birthdays!. Try not to collide with too many skyscrapers today.
--Your pal, Hoy Murphy
Read more…Made in Korea
Jeremy Holt, story; George Schall, art; Adam Wollett, lettering
Image Comics, 2022
A Korean engineer makes a breakthrough Artificial Intelligence discovery, but realizing that he did it on company equipment he quickly moves to keep it f
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