2007 August
Friday at the Big Bang… maybe?
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 4:37 PM EST
Reader’s burnout is a phenomenon that many of us are prey to, I think. I’ve talked about it a couple of times here myself, I’ve had friends of mine crabbing about it (Heidi over at Comics Fairplay has been having a bad bout of it lately) and it just seems to come with being a […]
Cheers to Marc Andreyko
- by Brian Cronin
- Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 2:29 PM EST
In the Outsiders: Wonder Woman/Grace one-shot, he was just the first writer who I ever saw make Grace a fairly sympathetic character, and even a bit interesting!!!
Cheers, Mr. Andreyko!!
On the topic of overprinting…
- by Brian Cronin
- Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 2:08 PM EST
Steven Grant just had a column recently on the topic. Read it here.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #118
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 9:35 PM EST
This is the one-hundred and eighteenth 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 seventeen. Click here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject.
Let’s begin!
What I bought - 29 August 2007
- by Greg Burgas
- Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 2:56 PM EST
This was an odd week. Some solid stories, but nothing that was unbelievably good. I guess it’s because it’s fifth week - I kind of wish DC still did “fifth week” events (did Marvel ever do them?) to make them kind of odder than normal. I like how DC released the Tangent trade paperback on a fifth week, since […]
Another Cool Revival by IDW
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 1:15 PM EST
IDW has so far given us a strong return of both Mike Grell’s Jon Sable and the equally strong return of John Ostrander and Tim Truman’s GrimJack, and now they are nearing sheer dominance in 80s indie goodness with the announcement of the return of Mike Baron’s Badger!!
What do you folks think are the odds […]
Dan Dare’s Return
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 9:07 AM EST
I have to say, it does my heart good to see a British guy like Richard Branson team up with a British guy like Garth Ennis to bring back a British icon like Dan Dare to comic books.
I think it will be great fun.
By the by, moves like this seem a BIT odd for Virgin, […]
How Do New Printings of Comics Make Sense?
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 6:00 AM EST
I will admit, I am not an expert on comic sales (I will pause while you pick yourselves up off the ground), but I do not understand how it makes sense for DC Comics to constantly be doing new printings of comic books.
Green Lantern Corps #14 is going back for its THIRD printing!
Green Lantern: […]
Division Shadow Review
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 4:00 AM EST
On the website for Division Shadow, writer Patrick Meaney states that, while he is fine with self-publishing Division Shadow, but if a publisher is willing to publish it, he’d be willing to listen. I, for one, would really like to see a publisher take up Meaney’s offer, because with a little polish on the […]
Remember When Mini-Series Had Endings?
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 1:44 AM EST
I don’t blame Will Pfeifer for it, because there is just no way that he could have possibly come up with the ending for Amazons Attack, but in any event, the ending of Amazons Attack…is a CLIFFHANGER!
Not only is it a cliffhanger, but it is a cliffhanger that comes out of NOWHERE, has ZERO connection […]
Byrne/Claremont’s X-Men Were Good
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 10:02 AM EST
Don MacPherson has another neat review of an old comic, this time the first battle between the X-Men and Alpha Flight in Uncanny X-Men #121. Check it out here.
First time for everything
- by Greg Burgas
- Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 9:39 AM EST
Busiek. Simonson. This should be more awesome than it was, right? I mean, it’s not that it’s bad, it just felt a bit silly. Anyway, it’s just one man’s opinion!
8/29 - Curious Cat Asks…
- by 2
- Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 8:53 AM EST
What is your current opinion of the character Tony Stark in the regular Marvel Universe?
A Return to Villainy
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 6:36 AM EST
In today’s World War Hulk: X-Men #3, we see the return of a character to villainy.
Read the rest for spoilers.
What Public Domain Character Would Make for a Good Comic?
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 3:36 AM EST
I was reading recently that there is some dispute over whether Peter Pan is public domain yet in America. The Walt Disney corporation, of all people, is who is making the argument that it IS public domain, while the owners of the copyright disagree. In any event, if Peter Pan WAS to be in the […]
