2006 September
Friday night? Or Saturday morning?
- by Greg Hatcher
- Saturday, September 30th, 2006 at 4:37 PM EST
I suspect that all of us who read and love superhero comics have a slight touch of obsessive-comuplsiveness. We theorize. We index. We stuggle mightily to work out chronologies and histories for characters both major and minor. Some of us feel so strongly about this stuff we spend hours writing it all up or wrangling […]
Into the back issue box #3
- by Greg Burgas
- Saturday, September 30th, 2006 at 3:15 PM EST
I doubt if anything could top the craptitude of last week’s entry, but you never know! That’s the beauty of selecting books at random. So let’s look at this week’s dark journey into the depths of the back issues …
YouTube Can Be Good - 9/29
- by Brian Cronin
- Friday, September 29th, 2006 at 6:46 PM EST
Another week, another pair of comic-related YouTube clips! Yay!
Enjoy!
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #70
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, September 28th, 2006 at 8:28 PM EST
This is the seventieth in a series of examinations of comic book urban legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous sixty-nine. Click here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject.
Let’s begin!
What I bought - 27 September 2006
- by Greg Burgas
- Thursday, September 28th, 2006 at 3:36 PM EST
There were a bunch of good, solid comic books this week. Nothing earth-shattering, but a lot of examples of what comics can do and why they do it well. Let’s see what we have!
Test Your Comic Knowledge!
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, September 28th, 2006 at 3:30 AM EST
Here’s a 20-question comic book trivia quiz. Try and see how many you know!
Lean on Me
The following 20 characters are all non-superhero supporting cast members of superheroes. For each character, tell me which superhero they are/were a supporting cast member of.
Enjoy!
Top Five Characters With Magnetic Powers
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 at 12:42 AM EST
This week’s Top Five is the top five comic book characters who have magnetic powers!!!
Enjoy!
Comics from the future are groovy
- by Greg Burgas
- Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 3:56 PM EST
The last time Richard Starkings was nice enough to send me a copy of Elephantmen, I didn’t get a chance to review it until it had come out. Well, he was nice enough to send me the latest issue, which hits stores tomorrow, and I figured I should give it the old once-over so you […]
Comic Blogs Should Be Good - Eye on Comics
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 11:23 AM EST
There are a lot of cool comic book blogs out there (see our sidebar for a list of a bunch of them), but I guess it is hard to pick which ones you think you’d like to read. So each week, I will feature a guest entry by a really cool comic blogger, and you […]
Reviews for the 9/6, 9/13 and 9/20 Comic Book Weeks
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 3:38 AM EST
It’s so easy to fall behind on this stuff. Ah well, I guess I’ll have to go the one sentence review route again! I’ll try hard to have some meatier reviews this week, promise!
Enjoy!
Snark Free Corner for 9/25
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, September 25th, 2006 at 1:31 PM EST
Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
Enjoy!
Into the back issue box #2
- by Greg Burgas
- Sunday, September 24th, 2006 at 8:43 PM EST
Well, it’s time for another installment of the critically-lauded comics review series that dares to read books from the distant and not-so-distant past! Check out the ground rules for these posts here. Today’s random comic book is even more outre than Outsiders #12! What could it be …?
Comic Book Dictionary - Colorform Cover
- by Brian Cronin
- Sunday, September 24th, 2006 at 8:06 PM EST
Someone asked me what I meant by this the other month, and since I use the term so often, I figure it is worth doing as a Comic Dictionary entry.
Quoting Wikipedia’s entry for colorforms, the toy colorforms are “paper-thin, die-cut vinyl sheet images and shapes that could be applied to a slick cardboard background […]
9/23 - Curious Cat Asks…
- by 2
- Saturday, September 23rd, 2006 at 8:53 PM EST
What do you like Len Wein better as - a comic book editor or a comic book writer?
Friday in rehab. Some of us, anyway.
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, September 22nd, 2006 at 8:43 PM EST
Wow, so here we are in the midst of yet another wave of internet fan rage over Marvel’s Civil War. Boy howdy, sure didn’t see THAT coming.
Yes, I read it. No, I didn’t particularly care for it. I think this issue is going to be the jumping-off point for a lot of us who were […]
