I know to some people, any kind of reaction whatsoever can be considered a spoiler, so in the interest of protecting all potential surprises, my best efforts at compiling spoiler-free thoughts on the film are after the jump….
Well, it seems that despite my own superpowers, my car is not invincible, and Sunday when I should have written this, I was stuck in a snow storm in Aberdeen, MD waiting to see if I could get a serpentine belt for my car. Wouldn’t you know, you can’t find those on a Sunday night…
I’m going to blast through this today because I am hopefully going to an early screening of Watchmen tonight and I need to get out the door. Speaking of blasting through things, that leads me to Superman #685 in which Mon-El has emerged from the Phantom Zone but he’s gonna die from lead poisoning. Superman’s…
This past week, I bought six issues, and it was an even split between Marvel titles and DC titles. While nothing monumental happened in any of them, some were better than others. Some set up interesting things to come, some retold origins of characters, and two of them featured covers by Alex Ross. Seriously, enough…
Nebraska’s two largest newspapers have both run Watchmen primers to prepare their readers for the film’s release Friday. • The Omaha World-Herald posted an interactive graphic called “Know Your Watchmen,” allowing readers to get a quick sense of each of the main characters in the book. The trivia feature makes this especially cool for comic…
The Incredible Hercules is one of my favorite books out right now, and I was hoping this “jumping on” point would be the best opportunity for the series to do all the talking for me. As I write this, I haven’t heard the reaction from the others, but I doubt I’ll have succeeded in proving…
I’m overdue getting one of these up and there is a lot to cover! • Krypton Comics is giving away two passes to a special early screening of Watchmen. Stop in tonight through Sunday (Feb 27-Mar 1) to enter. The screening is Tuesday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. and is sponsored by Power 106.9 and…
As a child, I feared for my livelihood. Marvel Comics, the only thing I had to live for as a lad of 10, was going bankrupt. There was talks DC might buy them. There were talks that they’d go under. There were talks talks talks. Then they just axed a bunch of titles and resorted…
I literally laughed out loud when I saw that Youngblood #8 was going to have an Obama cover, as if there could be a more eye-rollingly transparent attempt to cash in on the same excitement surrounding the Amazing Spider-Man Obama cover. Well, apparently, it works. CBR is reporting that Youngblood #8 is sold out, “despite…
Powerpop Comics founder Hobby Jones has started a blog covering the early days of his new publishing company. In the interest of full disclosure, I do some work for Powerpop, but I’m posting this more as someone who is interested in this type of thing. I had encouraged Hobby to start a blog months ago…