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…
Ten years ago, Onslaught tore the Marvel Universe in two. Kind of literally. After Onslaught, there was the main Marvel universe and a separate but strangely similar universe where the Avengers and Fantastic Four lived. Sort of like the Ultimate Universe without Spider-Man, the X-Men, or good stories. I was 14 at the time, and…
So I’ve decided to make the most of my Netflix account by finally adding the most excellent “Batman: the Animated Series” to my queue. And yes, the infinite praises of this show have been sung elsewhere, but I’m sure we’ll post our own thoughts on it in the Hall of Doom someday. Anyway, I’m watching…
I haven’t read any of Marvel’s Ultimate line (except for the sublimely ugly Ultimates) for about a year now. X-Men fell down during Brian K. Vaughn’s run, Spider-Man never struck my fancy, Galactus was boring and delayed, delays ruined Iron Man and Fantastic Four was good, but I couldn’t justify adding it to my already…
“Poor Ralph . Even after he thought he’d lost everything, he still had his mind. Now… Now what happens?” Save three pages, this issue is all about the resurrection of Susan Dibny, Ralph Dibny’s deceased wife, murdered by Jean Loring in “Identity Crisis.” In this issue, Ralph brings in Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Green Arrow…
I couldn’t resist… Back when we did our best and worst of 2005, Jim Doom slapped a “most disappointing” on The Goon, the silly horror/mobster book by Eric Powell. I didn’t agree, first because there was some supremely crappy stuff last year and also because even though The Goon had slid a bit, I didn’t…
Everyone remembers the shot heard ‘round the world. No, not the shot that killed Archduke Ferdinand which started the first World War. No, not the battle at old North Bridge, the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. I am referring, of course, to the moment Maxwell Lord shot Blue Beetle in the head, which…
It looks like we have another answer to one of the questions scrawled on Rip Hunter’s blackboard, folks. Who is Diana Prince? Why, she’s one of Cassie Sandsmark’s aliases. Ralph Dibny, ever the detective, figures it out while looking for the people who broke into his storage garage last week. Cassie and the Cult of…
It is rare that I actually get to read my new comics on a Wednesday, so here’s an actual timely review of the week’s haul to celebrate in the order I read them… Astro City Special #1 Fantastic. Everything I read from the Astro City line is consistently fantastic. Like the inside front cover says,…