I wasn't going to start a thread for Shiver SuspenStories, but I started one for Epitapths from the Abyss and Cruel Universe so why not? At first I was disappointed that it featured a Christmas-themed cover, until I discovered the whole issue was Chr
Rob Liefeld came to Image bursting with "neat ideas" but he was unskilled at developing them. For example, his "high concept" for Youngblood was that, if superheroes existed in real life, they would be treated as celebrities, much the same as movie
I was listening to Jim Cornette and his co-host Brian Last discuss comic books (language warning) and in particular, the career of Steve Geppi. One of the questions that they raised is when were U.S. comics first translated into languages other than
Episode One: (This is the serial with which they stopped giving individual episode titles.)
As the TARDIS materializes, the Doctor seems particularly smug that he knows they’ve arrived in some future time. As he leaves to investigate the surrounding
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
