Out of your comfort zone
One of the unique aspects of the comic book medium is that it is completely dominated by a single genre. I cannot think of any other artistic media where this is true, for if we saw movies or music dominated…
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Atomic Mystery
Here’s a WECA splash mystery. Dave Sim was kind enough to send me copies of WECA related material from issue 2 of Now and Then Times as well as digital copies of his early seventies fanzine called Comic Art News…
Undervalued Spotlight #147
Night Nurse #1, Marvel Comics (November 1972) Back in 1972 Marvel Editor Roy Thomas made some very bold (for that industry, at that time) moves. He launched 3 new titles all starring female characters. The story goes that Stan Lee…
UK Cons 2013
Don’t worry, It’s nearly the end of January and I’m told “there will always be a Spring”. If we take that literally, the sky will soon be blue again, trees will once again have actual leaves on them and nerds…
Review | Namor Visionaries: John Byrne Vol 1
Collecting the first nine issues of the 1990 series, Namor Visionaries: John Byrne Volume 1 is an interesting look back at a minor character’s chance to star again. Namor, the Sub-Mariner! The world’s first mutant! King of Atlantis! See one…
Superior Spider-Man #1
There have been very few titles that have caused as much of a stir as Superior Spider-Man. I wanted to wait a bit before writing this review so that it wasn’t necessary to plaster spoiler alerts every second sentence, but…
Pick 5 | Forgotten Comic Book Movies
Recently I was cleaning up and organizing my DVD collection. I love movies and I own a lot of them. It takes a while to go through them all. I try to keep all my comic book movies in one…
Crash 2! Part 6
Crash 2! By Dennis De Pues continues. Exclusively on comicbookdaily.com. Full size.
My inner 12 year old says Hell Yeah!
Something has been bugging me for a really long time, and I need to get it off my chest. Lately there has been a lot of talk about movies and comic books. One of the big topics has been the…
Web Arted Jan 18th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.
Bleeding Cool and The Big Bang Theory
Comedy is very personal and either you find something funny or you don’t. So I’m not surprised when someone tells me that they don’t like such and such show or they don’t think that Jim Belushi is very funny. Deciding…
Ladies Night at the Lounge
Monday evening Alice Quinn (from TDot Comics) and The Comic Book Lounge threw an all Ladies Comic Nerd night where geeky ladies could get together and talk about their love of nerdery. No men were allowed; even the owner of…
Team Canada?
Looking back at Canada’s First Age of Comics, the WECA period (1941-6), we find that it never produced a team of superheroes like the JSA/JLA, The Avengers, The Mighty Crusaders, or Alpha Flight. Among the three “big” publishers we find…
BIFF SOCKO: Go Get ‘Em, Tiger!
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: GOTHAM CITY – To…
Comic Culture January 16th
Welcome to a brand new year of Comic Culture Radio. This year we’re looking forward to filling the airwaves with thought-provoking insights, hard-hitting journalism and in-depth interviews. If we come up short on these well then we’ll at least aim…
Bendis Claims To Set His Collected Edition Prices
I was checking out Brian Michael Bendis’ Tumblr feed this week as he features a lot of great art when I came across this statement about Scarlet ever being released in trade paperback format. No. I know this is not…
Undervalued Spotlight #146
Justice League of America #200, DC Comics (March 1982) The Justice League has been a hot property since Justice League #1 launched DC’s New 52 back in August of 2011. The title has stayed hot and it can only get…
Review | The Chimpanzee Complex Vol 1: Paradox
An interesting spin on what we know of space exploration, The Chimpanzee Complex Volume 1: Paradox is an engaging look at humanity and the desire to achieve. In 2035, the US Navy discovers a strange space capsule that has crashed…
Uncle Scrooge: Only A Poor Man
There are certain comic books that you are supposed to have read. Ones that have critical and/or commercial success behind them. Books like Maus and Watchmen and Love & Rockets and The Dark Knight Returns. Things that you know you…
Crash 2! Part 5
Crash 2! By Dennis De Pues continues. Exclusively on comicbookdaily.com. Full size.
Review | Grandville Bete Noire
The latest in Bryan Talbot’s anthropomorphic steam punk epic, Grandville Bete Noire takes the familiar mystery framework and turns it on its ear, in a good way. The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded…