Once Upon a Time at the End of the World Book Two – The Rise and Fall of Golgonooza. Jason Aaron and the art teams hit it out of the park again. The last panel says "Concluded in Book Three." It will be interesting to see how the team does on sticking the landing.
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First Story: "Tower of Death!" - A man in England is…"
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Atlas Era Venus
Venus was one of several heroines introduced by Marvel at the tail end of the 1940s. Her title underwent a curious sequence of transformations in comics genres in its 19-issue run, starting as a glamour comic, becoming a romance comics, then a…
Read more…A Cover a Day
Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow…
Read more…'Cinema Purgatorio' and other stories from the Towers of Shame
My to-read piles — the Towers of Shame, known collectively as the Wall of Shame — have gotten so uncontrollable that I'm making a dedicated effort to clear out as much as I can. One self-disciplinary move is to read whatever's on top, regardless if…
Read more…From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 46 "Semi-Imaginary" Stories (Part 1)
Question: when is an Imaginary Story not an Imaginary Story? While you think on that for a moment, I’ll set the Wayback Machine for a little trip. The time: 1959. The place: the National Periodical Publications building at 2d and Dickey…
Read more…The Future of Nexus
Nexus: the Newspaper Strips, Vol. 1 - "The Coming of Gourmando I haven't read this yet. But I've got so much to say about it that I wanted to get the other stuff off my chest first. In 2016, Baron & Rude launched a HUGE (think Marvel "MONSTER"-size)…
Read more…X-Men: The Hidden Years
With the advent of "Hereos Return," Avengers once again became my favorite title, a status it maintained right up until the launch of X-Men: The Hidden Years a year later. the premise of the series is that it would fill the gap from #67-93 when…
Read more…The List of 1,143 Super-Heroines
I'd like to see if I can get this list up to one thousand. I'm sure that I've missed a lot of obvious ones, and even more obscure ones.AbareYellow (Ranru Itsuki)Acrata (Andrea Rojas)Acromaid (Christine McCall)Agatha HarknessThe Alley Cat (Serena…
Read more…Marvelman/Miracleman by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and friends!
After I heard that Marvel had acquired the rights to the Marvelman/Miracleman franchise, it sent me scrambling to find my back issues published by Eclipse. I had read the Alan Moore run in TPB form shortly after its U.S. publication and most of the…
Read more…Dark Shadows
I’d like to start this continuation of the Dark Shadows discussion from the old board with a look at some of the new and upcoming Dark Shadows audio stories from Big Finish Productions. There aren’t nearly as many Dark Shadows audio adventures as…
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