Hey, are any of you guys in the Boston/Providence, R.I. area? I'm going there for a conference during the week of February 15-21, and I'd like to connect with a fellow Legionnaire while I'm there.
In any event, I'm sure to be looking for some comics s
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I have been aware of the Menomonee Falls Gazette for quite some time, but I had never seen a copy until recently. For most of my life I have had an idea for a "comic strip newspaper." Little did I know such a thing already existed. The Menomonee Fall
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GODZILLA: INFINITY ROAR #1 (OF 5), $5.99: I still have the last Marvel vs. Godzilla series of one-shots on my to-read pile. I think the novelty has worn off.
NOVA CENTURION #4, $3.99: I read the first three iss
Read more…The following is a timeline derived from my reading of All-Star Comics issues 3 - 57. Input will be only from the stories in those comics. No subsequnet amendments or addiitons will be included. The issues various lines are derived from will be not
Read more…Legionnaire Emerkeith Davyjack has died.
Emerkeith, real name Walter Loyd Lilly, joined us long ago, too long ago ago for me to find his first post. But he stopped posting in late 2020, and many of us feared the worst. That worst was realized when Le
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The Penguin first appeared in two consecutive issues of Detective Comics.
DETECTIVE COMICS #58 - "The Penguin"
Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are visiting an art exhibition when they take note of an odd little man who resembles a penguin. Suddenly, on
Read more…“Just imagine! The mightiest heroes of our time,” trumpeted a DC house ad in 1960. “Superman! Batman! Flash! Green Lantern! Wonder Woman! Aquaman! J’onn J’onzz—Manhunter from Mars!”
. . . and a finger-popping, “hepcat” teen-ager.
The Justice
Read more…This hefty tome can be broken into three sections (the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s), and that's how I'm going to handle it. the introduction by Peter J. Sanderson is dated 2005 and was obviously originally written for an earlier collection of the
Read more…Hermes says "Looks like the snow has us all stuck inside — and we thought, why not make the best of it?" Which sounds swell, but I don't know who they expect to deliver product to us. I haven't seen a car or truck -- certainly not UPS or DHL -- on my
I can't believe we've gone this long without starting a beer thread. I enjoyed the one on the old board and actually tried some of the beverages that were liked by others. I've discovered that I really like Sam Adams Oktoberfest. I've never enjoyed
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I still remember the day I bought Warlord #1 new off the spinner rack at Ahmann's Newsstand. It was the first (but not the last!) time I thought I was getting in on the beginning of a new series, when in fact I was not. I bought the second issue as w
Read more…On January 14, 2026, my mother, MaryAnn Portelli passed away quietly at home at the age of 87.
She went to the hospital on December 12, 2025, was almost sent to a rehab facility then took a turn for the worst. By Dec.19, doctors began to tell us to p
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I have not read the Crisis on Infinite Earths maxi-series in its entirety for 30 years. I keep meaning to re-read the whole thing, but I have read just #11-12 many many times, most recently in 2010 and 2019. For the past year (almost), DC has been re
Read more…Has anyone heard of a show called Selling Superman? I'd never heard of it, but Jim Cornette discusses it here. (Language Warning) I hadn't heard of it, but apparently, it's about this guy who collected 300,000 comics - including some rare Golden and
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NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
IMPERIAL
As I said with Nova: Centurion last week, I'm on the fence on the titles emerging from Jonathan Hickman's "Imperial." In fact, I somehow missed Black Panther: Intergalactic #1 and Planet She-Hulk #2, a
Read more…In my columns over the years, I've sometimes referred to the "Nerd Canon" (which has amused my editors no end). These are the books that the fanboys and fangirls in my generation sought out as the seminal works we needed to have read to have nerd cre
Read more…Moving my recent "Frankenstein" posts togeth with the intention of continuing.
DICK BRIEFER'S FRANKENSTEIN:
JUNE 20: I am diligently plowing my way through volume one of Dick Briefer's Frankenstein. I will probably post some sort of individual topic,
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MARVEL COMICS
AVENGERS #34, $7.99
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis, Jed Mackay
Penciller: Mark Bagley, Farid Karami
Cover Artist: Russell Dauterman
AVENGERS LEGACY ISSUE #800! EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES mark a critical MILESTONE with eig
Read more…Publishing details for these books will be announced in the coming months.
Yes, but where? -- Jeff of Earth-J, on my weekly Comics Guide.
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Well, maybe here. Or not. I don't know yet.
I've created a new Forum called "Coming Comics." I plan to start
Read more…By conventional superheroes, I mean the ones the people here are likely thinking of when we hear about superheroes: Superman, Spider-man, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, Forbush Man, and so forth. They have always existed in a version of ou
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