(The following isn't really a "timeline", although I intend to use it as a "preamble" to a timeline-related idea I have in mind. For some time, I've wanted to do a "cleaned-up" version of this thread. I won't be transferring the comments, but the or
Today is Thursday, so I'm sitting around reading the new comics I bought on Wednesday. Usually I post a line or two to "What Comics Have You Read Today?"; sometimes I devote an entire post to a single comic; other times I break the series off into a
According to Mike's Amazing World of Comics, it was 50 years ago on this date that this wonderful issue of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen was released! Oh, Goody! Happy Anniversary!
Most people here will know Donner for directing Superman (1978), the film that proved a big-budget superhero movie could reach the adults as well as the kids, and for his involvement with t
Here's my research on the live-action Godzilla franchise. Suggestions, changes, explanations, commentary welcome. I'll change the list according to your remarks.
Here's an interesting one. Universal considered a whole lot of movies to be "horror," not just the classic monsters. Let's take a look at the full list, and just the monsters broken out:
Oct 8, 2020 — The pandemic has curtailed a lot of TV filming, and Netflix has begun canceling even successful shows over delayed production. But, amazingly, there’s still an awesome amount of TV on the air wo
They Called Him Charles Jerzy Łanuszewski, story; Ewa Ciałowicz, art Europe Comics, 2020
This is a simple gag extended over an entire comic: somebody named Charles (it's clear that it is not always the same person, despite having the name in common) m
I liked its tributes to the history of the character, particularly in the opening, and I thought it balanced the real-world and TV-soap elements with the superheroics reasonably well. The show's creators understand the cha
When I was in college, one of my roommates ridiculed me for reading comics by assuming I read Baby Huey, apparently the only comic book with which he was familiar. (Ironically, I hadn't even heard of the character at that time.) I posted about that s