Season One, Episode One: "I, Robot"
Characters We Meet:
I remember when the Sixth Doctor began traveling with Constance Clarke. It seemed like a really good jumping on point to me, however I was still a ways away from completing my Eighth Doctor collection, a priority at the time. Constance’s first advent
Read more…Hey Kids! Comics! Volume 2: Prophets & Loss
Howard Chaykin, writer & artist; Yen Nitro, colorist; Ken Bruzenak: letterer
Image Comics, 2022
Chaykin continues his faux-history of the comic book industry in this second (and final?) installment. Like th
Read more…The following is based on my current (mis?)understanding of what's going on with super-hero comics, movies and TV shows.
1)It is my understanding that Marvel and DC are currently making shedloads more money from movies and TV shows based on their su
Read more…BOOM! STUDIOS
ANGEL #2
POWER RANGERS #16
PRINCESS WHO SAVED HER FRIENDS HC OGN
REGARDING MATTER OF OSWALD'S BODY #4
DARK HORSE COMICS
CLOAKED #3
HELLBOY: BONES OF GIANTS #4
SWORD OF HYPERBOREA #2
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Read more…The Good Asian Vol. 1
Pornsak Pichetshote, writer; Alexandre Tefenkgi, artist; Lee Loughridge, colorist; Jeff Powell, letterer & designer
Image Comics, 2021
This is a crime noir with a unique focus. The detective is Edison Hark, a Chinese-American
Read more…When I first started reading comic books back in 1974, the average issue was 20 pages of story and art within a 32 page (counting covers) magazine for 20 cents.
In contrast, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with 64 pages for TEN CENTS.
The first m
Read more…In the recent Joker/Daffy Duck comic (Side Note: The latest batch of DC/WB crossovers are neither especially good or especially bad), there's a scene in which the Joker kills the patrons of a comedy club and has his gang take their stuff (Another Sid
Read more…So, DC's next big event is going to be called Dark Crisis. Dunno if I'm gonna follow this one or not. I'm kinda Crisis'd out.
Read more…Here is the first draft of where the Golden Age Marvel character reprint series seem to stand, as of January 2022. Feel free to offer additions or corrections, of which there’s likely to be many. Feel free to offer locations of individual reprints, i
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Catwoman: Hunted releases Feb. 8.
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BUFFY LAST VAMPIRE SLAYER #3
FAITHLESS III #1
FIREFLY BRAND NEW VERSE HC
MAGIC THE GATHERING #11
MIGHTY MORPHIN
Read more…Jodie Whittaker has been announced as the next Doctor in Doctor Who, making her the first woman to play the role "in continuity". I've not actually seen her in anything, but I'm willing to give her a chance. Goodluck, Ms.Whittaker!
We're all aware that the X-men and the Doom Patrol debuted pretty closely to one another. Assuming sales data is available, which one sold better initially? Was either one considered a hit, sales-wise?
Read more…Something is Killing the Children Vol. 3
James Tynion IV, writer; Werther Dell'Edera, illustrator; Miquel Muerto, colorist
BOOM! Studios, 2021
This collection opens with Archer's Peak in lockdown, with almost the whole town hiding in the high school
Read more…OK, just read issue #0. It involves the current iteration of Nova, who is apparently a kid named Sam Alexander, whose father was an old drunk who claimed to have been an intergalactic space hero, and who eventually disappeared. In time, the son disc
Read more…Mark Waid has announced on Facebook that writer/editor Brian Augustyn has passed away after a sudden, severe stroke.
Read more…LATE ADD (FEB. 24)
Story: Kendra Wells | Art: Kendra Wells | Iron Circus | 120 pages | Adult | $12
The best part of any good role-playing game (and the fantasy novels they're based on!) is pretty simple: it's an adventure with frie
Read more…A comment by Dr. Hmmm? in the "What Comics Have You Read Today?" thread got me thinking about DC Golden Age series/characters that’ve been comprehensively collected. The list is not long. What’s longer is the list of series/characters DC has begun re
Read more…THE BATMAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES
The early years of the Caped Crusader get a closer examination as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) brings the fully-remastered The Batman: The Complete Series to Blu-ray for the very first time. Produced by Warne
The Beauty Volume Six
Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley, story; Thomas Nachlik, Matthew Dow Smith, Jeremy Haun & Danny Luckert, art; Nayoung Kim & Brett Weldele, color
Image Comics, 2022
The series ends here, after a big pandemic pause. The collection
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