Fall Through, and I Hate Fairyland Vol. 6 – Last Gert Standing.
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Fall Through, and I Hate Fairyland Vol. 6 – Last Gert Standing.
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First Story: "Tower of Death!" - A man in England is…"
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THIS WEEK'S COMICS
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…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…'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…
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