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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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…
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What Comic Books Have You Read Today?
Report what comic books you have read today--and tell us a little something about it while you're here!
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Every Frankenstein movie
Frankenstein (1910) Edison Studios. Mary Fuller (Elizabeth), August Phillips (Frankenstein), Charles Ogle (Monster). Short (16m). Life Without Soul (1915) Another silent adaptation. Frankenstein (1931) Universal Studios. Boris Karloff…
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Re-Reading the Oz Books
We start with The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, first published on May 7, 1900.The illustrations are by W.W. Denslow, who depicts Dorothy as a young girl (maybe around eight) with dark hairBaum's "Kansas" is very bleak. From what I've read, it's…
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Comical Comic Cuts
So - I know I've only been here a week, but I thought I might be able to brighten up everyone's lives a little with a new thread devoted to comical cartoons based around superheroes. I have loads of funny material that I've picked up over the…
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Bob Layton's 1980s Hercules
The first issue of the first mini-series sets the tone: light and humouous. As the story opens, Hercules returns to Olympus "after years of wandering and adventure upon the world of men" and disturbs Zeus's "Day of Reflective Silence." In a fit of…
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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…
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'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…
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Columnists
Since the Captain Comics Round Table website first launched in the late '90s, it has been blessed with a number of fine contributors. Some are still with us and some aren't, but their pearls of wisdom remain. To read a given contributor's work,…
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