2006 November
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #79
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, November 30th, 2006 at 9:38 PM EST
This is the seventy-ninth 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 seventy-eight. Click here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject.
This is a special theme week. To commemorate the release of the Superman Returns DVD, this […]
What I bought - 29 November 2006
- by Greg Burgas
- Thursday, November 30th, 2006 at 11:31 AM EST
This was a weird week, as I bought my usual bunch of comics, and a lot of them were pretty damned obscure. I bought a few that were as mainstream as you can get (Batman and X-Men), but then it was into the dark corners of the comics universe. A weird week indeed. And some damned fine comic […]
Comic Blogs Should Be Good - Fast Food and Sitcoms
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, November 30th, 2006 at 5:35 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 […]
Joe Rice Media Review 11/29/06
- by Joe Rice
- Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 6:37 PM EST
I bet you wish you had a job that you could start and then the very next time you’re supposed to do it, you don’t. It was Thanksgiving, man. My wife and her sister were running around the kitchen for, like two days straight. Though I knew I was useless until mashed-potatoes-making-time, sitting in a […]
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 6:02 PM EST
Yes, it’s that time again! When I catch up on Snark Free Waters with a big, huge info dump!!
This time, I am providing you fine folks with two fine countdowns! I am trying a bit of a yin and yang approach, so I present to you: The Twenty-Five Funniest Comic Book Series of All-Time (that […]
Another Anthology of Random Reviews and Thoughts At Least Sort of Related to Comics
- by Brad Curran
- Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 2:17 PM EST
A collection of thoughts on comics too slight to stand on their own, but together, they are mighty! Kind of like the Comics Journal, but not at all. Even in the slightest bit. Well, okay, Gary Groth helped with the editing. But that’s it!
A List of Grant Morrison Comics I Didn’t Like*
- by Brad Curran
- Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 12:55 PM EST
In the spirit of equal time, since we suck up to him a lot here, and I, at least, do not want to be accused of thinking the man shits solid gold here is a list of comics written at least in part by the God of All Comics* that I didn’t like so much. Also, maybe […]
Test Your Comic Book Knowledge for 11/29
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 8:42 AM EST
Here’s a twenty-question comic book trivia quiz!
Have fun!
Going to the Chapel…
The following 20 characters are the spouses of superheroes. Name the superheroes that is/was the spouse of each character.
Top Five Brilliant…But Cancelled Comic Books!
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 1:15 AM EST
Today’s Top Five features what I think are the top five ongoing comic book titles to be cancelled before they reached a year’s worth of issues!
Enjoy!
Matt Fraction on “The Great Comic Book Store”
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 9:58 PM EST
Matt Fraction currently writes Casanova for Image Comics and Punisher War Journal for Marvel Comics. His latest ongoing title, The Immortal Iron Fist (co-written by Ed Brubaker) comes out this week. His website can be found here.
I’m doing a signing at Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find in one of my old hometowns, Charlotte, NC, on […]
11/28 - If Only…
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 8:41 PM EST
Captain America kept up with the commie smashing.
Jimmie Robinson on “You Are Not Helping Comics!”
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 3:18 PM EST
Jimmie Robinson is the writer/artist of Bomb Queen from Image Comics. He is also the writer of this week’s What If…? Wolverine: Enemy of the State one-shot from Marvel Comics, out tomorrow. He has a website here.
If you’re reading this, that alone makes you exceptional, makes you care about the medium of comics. […]
I feel dirty … 2006 edition!
- by Greg Burgas
- Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 10:52 AM EST
Last year I bought an issue of Wizard. It was the end-of-the-year issue, and I dissected it right here on this very blog (before we went big-time!) because it was fun. Well, I bought another issue of Wizard. Yes, it’s the year-end issue! What evil products are the people at Wizard trying to get us […]
Neat Little Piece of News - Actress Cast in “Nobody” Pilot
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 4:46 AM EST
ABC Family has cast Dawn Stern as the lead in their adaptation of the AiT/PlanetLar graphic novel Nobody, which was written by Alex Amado and Sharon Cho and drawn by Charles Adlard.
Here is a pic of Stern…
Always nice to hear good news regarding comic adaptations.
Snark Free Corner for 11/27
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, November 27th, 2006 at 9:58 PM EST
Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
Enjoy!
