2007 May
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #105
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 9:56 PM EST
This is the one-hundredth and fifth 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 one-hundred and four. Click here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject.
This is a special theme week (it’s also, I am pretty sure, […]
Top Five Eyepatched Characters in Comics!
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 9:43 PM EST
TOP FIVE WEEK CONCLUDES!!
Today, we’ll look at the top five comic characters to sport an eyepatch! Arrrr…enjoy, mateys!
I Teach Brian K. Vaughan How To Write OR Ex Machina Volumes 1, 2, and 3 are not very good comics.
- by MarkAndrew
- Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 9:38 PM EST
Greg Burgas said:
Our very own MarkAndrew is amazed at how poorly written this comic book is, and I’d like him to explain himself!
“Ok,” sez MarkAndrew.
365 Reasons to Love Comics #151
- by Bill Reed
- Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 5:28 PM EST
No, it’s not the 151st infantry, but it is the 151st reason to love comics. Archive is here. Updated through yesterday!
War Comics Week shines the spotlight on one of the best mini-series of the past decade.
What’s the deal with this?
- by Greg Burgas
- Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 12:41 PM EST
Has DC finally gotten its head out of its butt?
Amazon.com certainly seems to think so.
I can’t stress it enough that if you haven’t read this, you must buy this. Get to it! NOW!
(Of course, I can’t find it on DC’s own web site, so maybe it’s a cruel, cruel joke. They wouldn’t do that, would they?)
Comic Pitches Should Be Good
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 3:44 AM EST
Tom Stillwell is currently shopping around a new comic book series (with artist Ryan Cody) to various comic book publishers, trying to get it picked up, and I thought it would be cool to let him give his pitch here. So here it is…Tom Stillwell’s pitch for “Jackpot.”
JACKPOT
On an Earth without superheroes, a random handful […]
Top Five Worst Superhero Marriages
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 1:09 AM EST
TOP FIVE WEEK CONTINUES!
Here are the top five worst marriages involving at least one superhero. Enjoy!
365 Reasons to Love Comics #150
- by Bill Reed
- Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 6:11 PM EST
Welcome to the 150th daily installment of 365 Reasons to Love Comics, a column about creators, characters, titles, stories, and odds and ends that make comics great. The archive can be found here.
Today continues War Comics Week as we talk about a great series that stood out immensely, considering its era.
Intentional or Unintentional?
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 4:22 PM EST
Here’s a new game! I show you an instance of something in comics I found hilarious, and you tell me if the humor was intentional or unintentional! Unintentional humor is mainly the stuff that places like What Were They Thinking? and Superdickery specialize in. You know, like some innocent enough panel from 1955 that, looked […]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Superman Family
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 4:45 AM EST
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented.
Storytelling Engines: Superman Family
(or “Driving The White Elephant”)
Looking back, it’s hard to believe that Jimmy Olsen, Superman’s Pal, ever got his own comic series. Or that it ran…222 issues? Can that even be right? Jimmy Olsen, the nerdy […]
Top Five Comic Book Beards
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at 9:15 PM EST
TOP FIVE WEEK CONTINUES!
Beards can look pretty cool in comics, and here are the top five beards in comics!
Enjoy!
365 Reasons to Love Comics #149
- by Bill Reed
- Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at 5:02 PM EST
War Week rolls into Day Two with the single greatest destroyer of Nazi vehicles in WWII. It’s about a certain group of American soldiers that are the crew of a certain armored dealy on wheels that has a certain supernatural presence following it around. (Much like the archive, actually.)
Oops…a Year Already!
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at 2:50 AM EST
It just occurred to me that we’ve been hosted by Comic Book Resources for over a year now (it was a year Friday, and it just occurred to me as I was typing this that we missed starting on Bob Dylan’s birthday by a single freakin’ day! That would have been awesome!). Well, that’s neat, […]
Top Five Things Norman Osborn Retroactively Did
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 9:45 PM EST
Awhile back, the original Green Goblin, Norman Osborn, thought dead for about twenty-five years, showed up in the Spider-Man titles alive. Apparently, his Green Goblin powers gave him a super-strong heart and/or healing ability, allowing him to survive a punctured heart. Since his return, in an almost comical manner, writers have been using Osborn to […]
Comics You Should Own - Firestorm #58-100
- by Greg Burgas
- Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 9:03 PM EST
Firestorm? Firestorm???? Yes, Firestorm. Two words: “John” and “Ostrander.” Read on!
