2009 February
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 59
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! In honor of our friend, AERose, we conclude our special “Moments from Uncanny X-Men” theme week! The last day of this [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – March 2009
It’s that time of the month again, when the mercury creeps into the Eighties and baseball is everywhere! What, you mean it’s cold in some places? Shocking! But enough about that – it’s time to check out some comics that will ship in the coming months, courtesy of Previews, issue #246.
The End of scans_daily?
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 209 Comments
Followers of the popular internet comic book scan site scans_daily discovered recently that the site had been suspended by its host, LiveJournal. Just yesterday, a status update was posted (here is the link) saying basically that LiveJournal has suspended the site (and by suspended here, we basically mean ended) for violations of the LiveJournal terms [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 58
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! In honor of our friend, AERose, we continue our special “Moments from Uncanny X-Men” theme week! We continue with a bit [...]
Friday Night Out
This one isn’t, in the strictest sense, about comics, but it led me to a realization about comics and collecting, so I think it’s a story worth telling.
What I bought – 25 February 2009
Two series crash and burn, and Jay Faerber makes a funny! It’s all in this week’s post! (Oh, and because I’m so very envious of Our Dread Lord and Master getting all the comments, what with his Final Crisis posts and book deals and whatnot, at the end of this post I have pictures of [...]
Comic Critics #41!
Here is the latest installment of the Comic Critics strip, courtesy of Sean Whitmore (writer) and Brandon Hanvey (artist)! You can check out the first forty strips at the archive here and read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog here! Enjoy!
Comic Book Legends Revealed #196
This is the one-hundred and ninety-sixth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous one-hundred and ninety-five. This week is a special theme week – “Additions and Omissions.” Doesn’t that have a heck of a ring to it? Let’s [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 57
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! In honor of our friend, AERose, we continue our special “Moments from Uncanny X-Men” theme week! We continue with another nifty [...]
Can Twitter Be Good?
The idea of occasionally using Twitter as a sort of mini-comic book blog amuses me, so I am going to try that for awhile (maybe longer if the novelty does not wear off!). You can follow me on Twitter under the user name “csbg.” Or you can use the following link – Comics Should Be [...]
Danielle Leigh’s Reading Diary — 2/26/09
Today I discuss the second, and extremely creepy, volume of Higurashi: When they Cry (Abducted by Demons Arc) by Ryukishi07 and Karin Suzuragi.
Final Crisis “Cliffs Notes”
Okay, so I did the Final Crisis FAQ, where I answered everyone who sent in a question about Final Crisis, but I thought it’d be nice to re-format the answers a bit and just give you a sort of “Cliffs Notes” explanation of the parts people professed difficulty understanding, in a chronological look at Final [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 56
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! In honor of our friend, AERose, we continue our special “Moments from Uncanny X-Men” theme week! We continue with a cool [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed – The Book!
In case you did not know this already, Plume Books (a division of Penguin Books) is publishing a collection of my Comic Book Legends Revealed columns (half “best of”/half new stuff) and it is due out on April 28th. Here is the cover by artist Mickey Duzyj. I think he did a very nice job [...]
Blue Moon Reviews – 20th Century Boys, Vol. 1
Here’s Michelle! – BC Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, Vol. 1 By Naoki Urasawa Viz, 216 pp. Rating: Older Teen Score:
