I was never a huge Captain America fan, but I picked up issue #1 almost two years ago. Maybe it was just out of curiosity, and figuring if I was going to give a new series a try, #1 was a good time to do it. Maybe it was a slow week and I didn’t…
The Doomino Effect (PATENT PENDING) continues this week, as one of the Legion picks a book and everyone else falls in line. This week, it’s Captain America #22: CIVIL WAR TIE-IN! The first of a 3-part Civil War tie-in by Ed Brubaker and Mike Perkins! While Cap has fallen into the conflict of the Civil…
So I had no idea the extent to which “big name” artists have underlings doing the hard work for them. I’d seen that Keith Giffen was credited with breakdowns on “52,” but they’re hardly having big-name illustrators finishing the pages. I’d chalked that up to the schedule and an effort at consistency in otherwise overwhelming…
This post is written largely from a perspective of ignorance and angst. Marc Silvestri was one of my favorite artists as a kid. His pencils with Dan Green’s inks back in the Australia days of Uncanny X-Men captured my imagination more than anything else when rummaging through my cousins’ comics. The roughness and fluidity had…
In promotion of the upcoming 20th Anniversary DVD release of Transformers the Movie, the good folks behind the film have put out some sample clips on YouTube demonstrating the picture enhancement and new 16×9 formatting. I know it’s not necessarily comic book stuff, but any comics fan who doesn’t also love the Transformers is not…
Aaron at Geek In the City has a spoiler-free review of Hollywoodland, the new movie about the death of Superman actor George Reeves.
This started out as a comment in response to the Civil War Machine Derailed post and accompanying web-based criticism of Marvel’s decision to delay Civil War due to shipping concerns. Regarding all the uproar, I couldn’t disagree more. There seem to be two prongs to this argument – a case made on behalf of the…
Here is disgraced Texas representative Tom DeLay. Aside from your knowledge of Tom DeLay, does he seem familiar? What about if I do this?
This has already been making some rounds, but over at Random Panels, comic blogger Brandon Random has found an odd panel from Detective Comics #87 and invited fellow comic bloggers to create their own alternate versions, replacing “umbrella” with whatever their imaginations come up with. The original: The ready-to-be-customized blank template: My favorite version so…
This will go down as probably The Television Moment That Made Me Laugh The Hardest Ever. The State was a brilliant show that has spawned many not-as-brilliant, but still funny in their own way, spinoffs since its demise back in the mid 90s. I still long for the day that the show finds its way…