2006 December
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 30 - Frankenstein #4
- by Greg Burgas
- Sunday, December 31st, 2006 at 6:11 PM EST
You never thought I would get this far, did you? Admit it! You thought I would pull my hair out and run naked through the streets until they had to tackle me and drag me away to a small room with no sharp implements! Well, how do you know they haven’t done that and this […]
A Year In Review For People With Short Attention Spans
- by Brad Curran
- Sunday, December 31st, 2006 at 12:41 AM EST
I’ll start with a capsule summary of the blog: I went kind of crazy a couple of times and posted up a storm and yet still only contributed 1/100th of what Cronin put up; we sold out; the Gregs were prolific and one of them made an enemy of Tom Beland for life; then Joe came back. […]
Jumping on the Subplot Train as it Rumbles Down the Track: 52 Week 34
- by Brad Curran
- Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 11:59 PM EST
I picked up my first issue of 52 this week. Because, you know, Brian Bolland drew Zatanna. Also, I have really poor impulse control. But mostly Bolland drawing Zatanna. That’s like the best Christmas Gift you never even thought to ask for.
I’ve avoided the series thus far, but I’m only human, and thus weak to the charms […]
12/30 - Curious Cat Asks…
- by 2
- Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 3:16 PM EST
Do you think Runaways will be better or worse with Joss Whedon writing it?
The Secret Origin of Harvey Pekar
- by Brad Curran
- Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 1:39 PM EST
Review of The Quitter by Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel, Vertigo
Via the fine E-Bay seller Quackenstein, I picked up a couple of fairly new trades recently. And I feel like talking about one of them* right now; in a genre that doesn’t get much coverage here, from me or anyone else; autobio. Can’t you feel the electricity?
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 29 - Bulleteer #4
- by Greg Burgas
- Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 8:20 AM EST
You know what you want from this issue: Chick Fight! Ah, that Morrison - indulging our inner pervert!
Someone should probably point out that there are SPOILERS in this post! Oh, it should be me? Okay, there are SPOILERS in this post!
Friday in the Villain’s Lair
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, December 29th, 2006 at 11:36 PM EST
Last week we talked a little bit about a way to deconstruct super-hero stories and boil them down to the basics. It occurs to me that there’s another exercise that a lot of mainstream superhero writers probably could be doing and aren’t… at least, not from what I can see in what’s hitting print.
What is […]
12/29 - Declarative Rabbit Says…
- by 3
- Friday, December 29th, 2006 at 7:52 PM EST
Frank Quitely is a better comic book cover artist than James Jean.
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 28 - Mister Miracle #4
- by Greg Burgas
- Friday, December 29th, 2006 at 3:13 PM EST
We’re down to the last four days! Can you handle it???? More specifically, can you handle the weirdness that is … Mister Miracle #4?????
As usual, we have SPOILERS to look forward to. Come on - you know the drill!
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #83
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, December 28th, 2006 at 10:48 PM EST
This is the eighty-third 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 eighty-two. Click here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject.
Let’s begin!
What I bought - 28 December 2006
- by Greg Burgas
- Thursday, December 28th, 2006 at 9:09 PM EST
The last comics of the year! I’m going to try to keep these short because they came out a day late. Some very good comics came out today. Like Onslaught: Reborn! Oh, I’m kidding. Seriously, I couldn’t even look at that comic long enough to make fun of it. It was painful to peruse for […]
31 Days of Seven Soldiers, Day 27 - Frankenstein #3
- by Greg Burgas
- Thursday, December 28th, 2006 at 2:47 PM EST
This is another weird issue in the weirdest of the mini-series, isn’t it? It’s a fun, pulpy read, but it’s just a strange little tale in the grand scheme of the Seven Soldiers Saga. And we get to see the four-armed Bride! How can you go wrong????
There just might be SPOILERS in this post. I […]
What can I say?
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, December 28th, 2006 at 4:39 AM EST
Fictional characters and I get along famously.
Flippin’ through Previews - January 2007
- by Greg Burgas
- Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 at 5:09 PM EST
Books shipping (supposedly) in March are advertised in this month’s Previews. Can you handle looking for your comics through a faceless, monopolistic, wrathful entity? If we had a better option, don’t you think we’d take it?????
This month’s Previews features Buffy on the cover. For some reason it’s totally freaking me out. And I don’t know why!!!!!
Let’s pre-order!
Test Your Comic Book Knowledge for 12/27
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 at 4:29 PM EST
Here’s a twenty-question comic book trivia quiz!
Have fun!
Not EVERYone is a Winner
The following were features in DC’s try-out title, Showcase. They are the features who DIDN’T graduate to their own comic - at least not from their feature in Showcase. Years later, some of these features became leads in their own comic, but not due […]
