2009 March
DC/Marvel Character Tourney – Region 4, Round 2 Winners!
The results are in for Round 2 of Region 4! See who won!
DC/Marvel Character Tourney – Region 1, Round 2
The next round of voting begins now! Simply choose your favorite (whether it be that you think they’re more interesting, more appealing, whatever criteria you want to use) in each of the following four match-ups. The voting concludes exactly 24 hours from right now! The seeding was based on the results of our 2007 DC/Marvel [...]
Solicitation Consternation
- by Bill Reed
- in General
- 43 Comments
Let’s take a quick statistical look at Marvel Comics’ June solicitations, shall we? I’m going just from the covers and ad copy here for the “definites,” and my own personal assumptions about an issue’s cast for the “maybes.” Wolverine count: 19 definites, 3 maybes Dark Wolverine count: 2 definites, 3 maybes Skrullverine count: 2-in-1 (Skrull [...]
Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: Superman’s Forgotten Team-Ups Pt. 2
Continuing from last week’s column, here’s an overview of some highs and lows of Superman’s forgotten team-ups from World’s Finest.
Comic Critics #48!
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-seven strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
DC/Marvel Character Tourney – Region 2, Round 2
The next round of voting begins now! Simply choose your favorite (whether it be that you think they’re more interesting, more appealing, whatever criteria you want to use) in each of the following four match-ups. The voting concludes exactly 24 hours from right now! The seeding was based on the results of our 2007 DC/Marvel [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 82
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! Today we look at the “return” part of Dark Knight Returns! Enjoy!
A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons – Day 23
I thought it would be an interesting look into our nation’s political cartoon history if, this month, I took a look at a different editorial cartoon each day that won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Do note that we’re talking basically 1922-1967 here, as since then, the Committee has almost always awarded cartoonists generally [...]
Blue Moon Reviews — The Devil’s Trill
The Devil’s Trill By Sooyeon Won NETCOMICS, 248 pp. Rating: 13+ Score: B- The Devil’s Trill collects two supernatural stories by Sooyeon Won, creator of the more well-known manhwa, Let Dai. In the title story, we follow a vampire named Eichner over several hundred years as he encounters various reincarnations of his true love. In [...]
What I’m reading – Daredevil, The Batman Chronicles
- by Greg Burgas
- in General
- 34 Comments
Turn off that television! Let’s read!
Cool Charity Auction by the “Liefelds”
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 8 Comments
Rob Liefeld has a neat auction up on eBay right now for the charity Global Freedom, which is dedicated to helping the Dalits in India, mostly through helping them with education (building schools, etc.). The idea behind the auction is that Rob’s 8-year-old son Luke drew a picture of Kid Deadpool. Rob then inked said [...]
The Cover to the Final Crisis Hardcover
It is certainly quite a bit of a spoiler, but otherwise, wow, J.G. Jones does a great job on the cover for the Final Crisis hardcover. Check it out (courtesy of Wired.com)…
Dean Trippe’s The Good Stuff (3/23/09)
In the interest of helping the mainstream comics industry by both promoting their best stuff and ignoring their less successful attempts, Dean Trippe takes time out of his busy schedule to inform you about the best of the best put out by the Big Two. Here are his picks for the last few months.
DC/Marvel Character Tourney – Region 3, Round 2
The next round of voting begins now! Simply choose your favorite (whether it be that you think they’re more interesting, more appealing, whatever criteria you want to use) in each of the following four match-ups. The voting concludes exactly 24 hours from right now! The seeding was based on the results of our 2007 DC/Marvel [...]
A Shame to See Iron Fist Go…
Still, 27 issues for such a relatively minor character is still quite an achievement! IMMORTAL IRON FIST #27 Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by TRAVEL FOREMAN Cover by KAARE ANDREWS 70th Anniversary Variant Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC Danny Rand is the Immortal Iron Fist. He has thwarted Hydra assassins…foiled a vicious plot to destroy his [...]
