Story Oh,God damn it.
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BATTLEWORLD #3 (OF 5), $3.99: I don't suppose Marvel is recycling ideas any more lately than they always have. But man, everything at the "House of Ideas" feels like a rerun these days. Because now Venom is goin
Read more…I have long felt that any good online discussion of a comic book series requires at least two active participants... not just two people posting, but two actually reading along... one to provide "play-by-play" and the other "color commentary." Tracy
Read more…I first saw “The Celestial Toymaker” (episode four on the Lost in Time DVD set) early on in my Doctor Who watching and, frankly, didn’t get that much from it. At that time I had yet to meet Steven, much less Dodo, so I had no connection to the compan
Read more…Those of you with truly elephantic memories will recall my first Thanksgiving Day column, back in 2007, discussed how Sarah Josepha Hale, authoress and the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, then the largest selling publication in America, petitioned Pre
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DOCTOR STRANGE #1, $4.99: I've been a Doctor Strange fan since the Ditko days, but I know he's not everyone's cup of tea. In my case, the Li'l Cap'n thought, "Wait, all this guy did to become a superhero was study book
Read more…Is there interest in a real-time discussion of "One World Under Doom," as we did with "Absolute Power"? It begins in February with these titles:
22 November 1963, if you are old enough to remember it, was a day that shook you down to your very core. It didn't matter if you were young or old, a Democrat or a Republican. The idea that the President of the United States could be gunned down in
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Between 1987 and 2004, Fantagraphics Books published 50 softcover volumes of Hal Foster's masterpiece Prince Valiant from the beginning (February 13, 1937) through strip #2271 (August 17, 1980). In 2012, the same publisher began a rerelease of the sa
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As Captain comics mentioned in the "Comics shipping Nov. 19" thread, this volume completes the 1970s iterration of Ghost Rider. Not only that, but thanks to PS Artbooks, the 1950s iterration of Ghost Rider is now available in its entirety as well.
Now
Read more…I read this on DC Universe, and it was decent. The art was a bit generic, but more detailed than is usual for a digital comic book. Maybe it was created for print, and they're just running it online first for the promotion. (Six-month discount on DC
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One of the books that I got as regularly as possible growing up was Brave and the Bold as I loved the team-up concept. Of course, my other favorites included Marvel Team Up, Marvel Two-In-One and the later DC Comics Presents. The star of B&B was BATM
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #16 (LEGACY #980), $4.99: Spidey is being attacked by Darkman! Does Liam Neeson know about this?
Written by JOE KELLY
Art by JOHN ROMITA JR.
THE RESOLUTE SPIDER-SLAYER!
Part of being Spider-Ma
Read more…As I recently mentioned elsewhere, the “A Cover a Day” and “A Cut From a Cover” discussions have reawakened my interest in DC Comics of the Silver Age. There’s no way I’m going to be able to acquire even a small number of the comics I’m looking for a
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This painting by pulp artist H.J. Ward, best known for his Spicy Detective covers, hung for years in the DC offices.
FREQUENTLY RECURRING CHARACTERS / VILLAINS:
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1776 #1 (OF 5), $4.99: I found Neil Gaiman's 1602 perversely compelling, in that it seemed to have no reason to exist and did strange things with modern characters. I found Jack Kirby's Captain America Bicentenn
Read more…Red Leicester… Tilsit… Caerphilly… Bel Paese… Red Windsor… Stilton… Emmental… Gruyère… Norwegian Jarlsberger… Liptauer… Lancashire… White Stilton… Danish Blue… Double Gloucester… Cheshire… Dorset… Blue Vinney…Brie… Roquefort… Pont-l'Évêque… Port Salu
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Over the course of a long weekend in the '90s, I once watched Lawrence Olivier's movie version of Hamlet, followed by Mel Gibson's, followed by Kenneth Branagh's. Then I read First Comics' Classics Illustrated version. As truncated as it was (to fit
Read more…In the Skipper's JSA thread, Commander Benson recently posted regarding his objections to various elements of Darwyn Cooke's The New Frontier. He mentioned certain errors regarding military procedures and uniforms that he has encountered in comics ov
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