2009 July
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 212
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! We’re going to spend the next few days looking at moments from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s 1999 graphic novel, JLA [...]
A Month’s Worth Of Wednesdays: Wednesday Comics So Far Ranked (Now With The GD Flash!)
- by Brad Curran
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Where I definitively rank each strip so you can finally stop wondering if Sgt. Rock being beaten by Nazis for four weeks is better than emo Superman crashing with his parents because no one gets him. You’re welcome.
Comic Book Legends Revealed #218
Welcome to the two-hundred and eighteenth 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 seventeen. Comic Book Legends Revealed is now part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 211
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! We’re going to spend the next few days looking at moments from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s 1999 graphic novel, JLA [...]
A Fortnight Worth Of Comic Reviews: SDCC Edition
- by Brad Curran
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In that I went a Wednesday without comics because everybody who works at my LCS went to San Diego for the con. Not that I blame them, but I couldn’t help but feel a little abandoned. But never mind my emotional baggage, I have two weeks worth of comics to redundantly review!
What I bought – 22 and 29 July 2009
Two weeks of reviews! Normally I’d just skip last week’s haul, but what the hell. I’m sure the kids can look after themselves, right? I’ll try to keep the ones about last week’s books short, though. The operative word being “try.”
But Nothing Really Matters Much…
- by Brian Cronin
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It’s Doom alone that counts. Click on the above image to see it in almost actual size. Many thanks to Christos Seros for sharing this awesome John Byrne commission he bought with the rest of the world.
Come to Rocketship on Friday!
You get to meet the awesome people on this flier AND you get to hang out with me – what more could you ask for?
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 210
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 a cool bit from the last issue of Secret Wars…
Was This A Thinly Veiled Shot At Jack Kirby?
- by Brad Curran
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In one of his Bullpen Bulletin columns, Jim Shooter was talking about how a friend told him he could have sued DC over the Legion stories he wrote as fourteen year old. He said he didn’t because it wouldn’t be right, as he agreed to the same deal as everyone else who worked for DC. [...]
Some Thoughts On The Rest Of Walt Simonson’s Thor And Beyond
- by Brad Curran
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Continuing my in depth, critical survey of Norse mythological superheroics of the 1980s. Short form: It’s great and everyone should own it. The rest of this post is pretty much overkill, but you can read it if you want to, I guess.
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 209
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 a neat, yet bizarre, moment from Top Ten, courtesy of Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon!
Belated “Hey, This Was My Favorite Announcement From Comic Con” Post
- by Brad Curran
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With various caveats*, sure, but still; there’s finally going to be a Scott Pilgrim video game! That took long enough.
Danielle Leigh’s Reading Diary — Oishinbo: Fish, Sushi & Sashimi
With the fourth collection of Oishinbo, we return to Shiro Yamaoka’s — our protagonist and all-round lazy journalist — quest to put together “the Ultimate [Japanese] Menu”! This volume focuses on raw fish for the most part, which means it is pretty much a delightful education in a food form I know very little about.
Random Thoughts! (July 28, 2009)
It’s Tuesday night at 5 pm EST, so that can only mean one thing… after finishing this post earlier in the day, it’s gone up as scheduled! It’s random thoughts time! Get excited!
