Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his olde
In previous years, this was a memory box so we didn't miss any good nominations for the Cappies. With the Cappies hypertimed away, that doesn't mean we have to discontinue these threads. I've always liked going back at the end of the year and seeing
Every week, one item or another in my pull and hold stands out for me above the rest in one way or another. Sometimes it’s a periodical, sometimes a graphic novel, sometimes a collection. Does that happen to you? If so, let’s hear about it here. It c
Music? What song? By whom?
Podcasts? Which ones? Who's on it?
The whir of your hard drive while you defrag?
Whatever you're listening to, share it with the Legion of Superfluous Heroes!
I've always felt blessed at the good fortune of my senior years. A wonderful wife of thirty-three years. Financial security. Good health. Matinée-idol good looks. (O.K., maybe not that, heh.) I've been particularly smug over my good health. SI
I was watching the Savage/Warrior "retirement" match on disk last night, and it came to the ending where Elizabeth threw Sherri out of the ring, and the thought came to me, "Both of these women are dead now, it's depressing."
Back in the days when movies were "held over" in big cities and those of us who lived in small towns had to wait seemingly forever to see them, I would routinely buy the paperback novelizations, but hold off on reading the final chapter(s). That was
I realized that I had access to all of RED RAVEN's Golden, Silver and Bronze Age appearances, few as they are and thought I would focus on this anomaly of Timely Comics. I will be going in publishing order because that's easier and will hightlight ce
This is the second of Oni Press's new EC imprint (following last month's Epitaphs from the Abyss).
SPOILERS - I generally don't like to know in advance if a story has a twist ending. That itself is a spoiler for me because in the back of my mind I try
I have been very much looking forward to the release of this audio, not only because it is from one of the legendary missing stories, not only because it features the Daleks, not only because it’s the longest Doctor Who serial ever (12 episodes plus
*(a.k.a. "The Captain America of the 1950s," a.k.a. "The Other Steve Rogers"; this post largely transcribed from George Olshevsky's The Marvel Comics Index v1 #8A).
Captain America and Bucky returned to comics in the middle 1950s when stories of Marve
So after many years of gentle and not so gentle prodding I have finally started watching Doctor Who. In the past I have seen snippets of the new series, and generally walked away muttering “… all right … that was odd. … Don’t see much point in that.
I'm not a big fan of war comics. I have read all of Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales, but when it comes to Sgt. Rock or Sgt. Fury, I've never been able to get more than a Marvel Masterworks or DC Archives volume in before losing inte
A while back, DC announced a new line of reprints, called DC Finest, that packages about 500 pages of comics from various eras into a $40 softcover. From all appearances, it looks to be an attempt to mimic Marvel's successful Epic Collections line, i
Hey guys! I've kinda given up collecting comics - too expensive and too confusing. But I want to go out on something intriguing* and to me, Stargirl and Justice Society kinda look like it. Is it worth quitting after getting these two TPB's or is ther
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*(Transcribed from George Olshevsky's The Marvel Comics Index v1 #8A.)
Eventually, of course, the War ended. The Axis was crushed. (Was there ever any doubt that we would win?) And all the Marvel superheroes found themselves effectively out of a job.
The death of former child actor Jackie Cooper ( not to be confused with the , somewhat less fortunate as an adult and , infamously , ripped off by his parents Jackie Coogan ) inspires me to start a " Celebrity Deaths - That , Um , Don't Have The Most
