2009 September
9/8 – If Only…
Superman actually had to make a difficult choice of who to save…
Random Thoughts! (September 8, 2009)
It’s Tuesday, around five, so that means only one thing… it’s random thoughts time! Get excited!
A review a day: The Field on the Edge of the Woods
Continuing my attempts to review a book a day until I’m out of things to read, we come upon another tiny comic that came to me in the mail. This ought to be fun, right? (I’ve been trying to publish these at noon, but the function that allows us to auto-publish appears to be smarter [...]
Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: 10 Good Movie Adaptations Pt. 1
Comic books that adapt movies are more than not, a disappointing shadow of the original. This is somewhat understandable, as we’re dealing with two completely different mediums (although there are certainly parallels) and deadlines are often extremely tight with the creative team working from an unfinished script or print. Every now and then, however, you’ll [...]
Comic Critics #84!
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 eighty-three strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Interesting Piece on Connecting Video Games and Comics
- by Brian Cronin
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Valve Productions, the folks behind Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress, are planning on trying to produce their own comic book based on their video games (well, it sounds like they are planning to do it for at least one video game, Team Fortress 2). They are working with veteran artist Mike Oeming on the [...]
Top Five Most Iconic Jimmy Olsen Covers
Here are the top five most iconic covers featuring Jimmy Olsen (with iconic being determined mostly subjectively by what covers are called to mind when one thinks of Jimmy Olsen, but first being determined with a prominent objective standard of whether a cover is homaged a lot or featured a lot in histories of the [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 250
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 “explosive” farewell of a major Suicide Squad character…
Box of Comics: August 2009
How hopelessly late am I this time? Not too much, I hope. (Place your bets on how many semi-colons I use in this post!) At least I review some stuff that I haven’t seen reviewed much around the internets. Well, aside from that one comic. You know the one. Inside: The most awesome comic ever [...]
Danielle Leigh’s Reading Diary — Higurashi: Cotton Drifting Arc vol 2
Each volume of Higurashi: When They Cry manages to be both entertaining and a fascinating intellectual exercise. After all, how many ways can you kill off the majority of your cast and still create a satisfying narrative arc that can sustain reader surprise and shock? The conclusion of the “Cotton Drifting Arc,” however, goes above [...]
A review a day: The Ragbox
After my last monstrous post on several graphic novels, some commenters wondered if I might cut down the number of books I review in each post. With that in mind, I’m going to review the rest of the graphic novels I have lying around, each in a separate post, one every day at the same [...]
Top Five Most Iconic Kitty Pryde Covers
Here are the top five most iconic covers featuring Kitty Pryde (with iconic being determined mostly subjectively by what covers are called to mind when one thinks of Kitty Pryde, but with a prominent objective standard of whether a cover is homaged a lot or featured a lot in histories of the character). The notable [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 249
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 time that Fin Fang Foom threatened to put someone in his pants…
The Reread Reviews — The Last Heroes
This week, I bring you a somewhat forgotten deconstruction of superheroes that was meant to be the first book in a trilogy before three deaths (one of a person, the other two of publishers — only one of which is actually important, of course) got in the way. But, it’s a good read and I’ll [...]
Sunday Brunch: 9/6/09
Another week, another pile o’ links. QUESTION OF THE WEEK: So if Disney and Marvel produce a crossover between their respective “universes,” what match-up are you most itching to see? Me, I’m partial to “Beauty & the Beast and the Beast,” myself.
