2009 April
Easter Sunday Brunch: 4/12/09
The internet does not take a holiday. The internet waits for no man. The internet has fist-bumped Jesus and hidden 40 plastic eggs filled with candy, money, and scorpions in the post you are about to read.
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 101
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 one of the most poignant Silver Age Superman comics – drawn by Wayne Boring and written by [...]
A Month of Self-Published Comics: My Life In Records
This month I am posting a review of a different self-published comic book each day for the rest of the month! Here is an archive of the books reviewed so far! Today I’m featuring Grant Thomas’ My Life In Records.
Last Weekend at ECCC ’09
Okay, that was harder this year than it has been in a while.
Into the back issue box #44
Hey, look! It was back, then it went away again, and now it’s back! Who knows for how long? Possibly the Shadow, but who can trust that guy?
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Battletech
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Battletech (or “Subverting History”) I’m not saying anything particularly new when I say that science fiction is rarely about the actual future. It’s [...]
A Month of Self-Published Comics: Izzy Challenge #5
This month I am posting a review of a different self-published comic book each day for the rest of the month! Here is an archive of the books reviewed so far! Today I’m featuring 50 States Jam: Izzy Tours America, which appeared in Izzy Challenge #5 by J.B. Winter.
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 100
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! For our one-hundredth cool comic book moment, I’m going to go to a classic comic by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee [...]
Comic Critics #53!
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 fifty-two strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Comic Book Legends Revealed #202
This is the two-hundred and second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and one. Let’s begin!
A Month of Self-Published Comics: The Rosie Stories
This month I am posting a review of a different self-published comic book each day for the rest of the month! Here is an archive of the books reviewed so far! Today I’m featuring The Rosie Stories by Diana Tamblyn.
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 99
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! Here’s the fifth of five cool moments from Mark Waid and Ron Garney’s Captain America run! Enjoy!
What I bought – 8 April 2009
All right, people, knock off the FemSkinning!* Let’s get to the reviews!
My Favorite Mid-90s Bad Ass Jesus Comic
- by Brian Cronin
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Okay, people, I’ll give you one more, and it’s only because whenever I think of Avengers Unplugged #2, my mind always wanders also to the glory of Glory/Avengelyne II: The Godyssey #1. To set up the issue, which was written by Robert Napton and drawn (at least the scenes I’m showing) by Ed Benes, Glory [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 98
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! Here’s the fourth of five cool moments from Mark Waid and Ron Garney’s Captain America run! Enjoy!





