2007 September
Sunday with the Marriage Counselor
- by Greg Hatcher
- Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 6:21 PM EST
Reading superhero comics for as long as I have, about forty years, patterns begin to emerge. You start to see certain rhythms, certain ideas expressed over and over again.
And there’s one particular idea — you could almost call it a prejudice — that is really beginning to annoy me.
I can’t stop reviewing things! More trades from E-Bay and maybe a movie, why not?
- by Brad Curran
- Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 2:50 PM EST
Courteousy of Wayne Quackenbush, Rhode Island’s finest purveyor of discount trade paperbacks, are more cheap collected comics I’ve deemed fit to review for the whole internerd’s benefit. This time, it’s a couple of oddball miniseries. I’d call them Oddball Comics, but I don’t have an exclamation point at the end of my name. As an […]
Flippin’ through Previews - October 2007
- by Greg Burgas
- Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 2:24 PM EST
I doubt that there’s anything we need more than another iteration of The Darkness, and thank all that’s good and holy that Top Cow is stepping up to the plate! It’s right there on the latest slab of pre-ordering goodness, the October issue of Previews! Let’s crack the book open and check out what’s inside!
365 Reasons to Love Comics #272
- by Bill Reed
- Saturday, September 29th, 2007 at 9:52 PM EST
Our own Greg Hatcher stops by to share one of his favorite things from the Silver Age of comics. (Archive.)
Someone’s Reaction to the Top 100 Countdown
- by Brian Cronin
- Saturday, September 29th, 2007 at 5:40 AM EST
Picture courtesy of The Mutt.
I really just wanted to share the picture with you folks, but I guess I might as well make it a topic as well - who do you think was the greatest surprise to be missing from the list?
9/28 - Selective Selleck Says…
- by Bill Reed
- Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 9:47 PM EST
The just-completed three-issue “Club of Heroes” arc by Grant Morrison and J.H. Williams III is the best Batman story in at least 15 years.
365 Reasons to Love Comics #271
- by Bill Reed
- Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 9:35 PM EST
Cronin’s post a little down below reminded me of this. And it’s the weekend, and readership goes down, and it’s already tomorrow for me, so what the hell. Here’s one of the greatest superheroes ever created. (Archive.)
What I bought - 26 September 2007
- by Greg Burgas
- Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 1:22 PM EST
There are at least three outright rants this week, and maybe two semi-rants (depending on what your definition of a “rant” is). Now that’s quality ranting! Oh, and some reviews. You know, what I’m supposed to do in these posts!
Top 50 DC Characters #2 and #1!
- by Brian Cronin
- Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 10:01 AM EST
The countdown concludes!
Top 50 Marvel Characters #2 and #1!
- by Brian Cronin
- Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 10:00 AM EST
The countdown draws to a close…
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #122
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 9:54 PM EST
This is the one-hundred and twenty-second 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 twenty-one. Click here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject.
Let’s begin!
Top 50 Marvel Characters #3
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 9:24 PM EST
Now Marvel’s turn…
Top 50 DC Characters #3
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 9:11 PM EST
The countdown continues…
365 Reasons to Love Comics #270
- by Bill Reed
- Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 9:11 PM EST
Allow me to be frank with you: today’s featured artist is quite good. In fact, he’s one of the top two comic book artists currently working. (Archive.)
Waiting for the trade so long you buy it for pennies on E-Bay
- by Brad Curran
- Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 7:30 PM EST
I do that all the time. Here’s some things from my latest haul, from Marvel’s all but defunct MAX line of comics “for mature readers”.
One is the kind of thing that used to be the bread and butter of one of Marvel’s most popular writers, until he turned a once middling team book in to […]
