2009 September
Ka-Baam!! Casting!
- by Brian Cronin
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Ka-Baam!!, the Austin-based comedy sketch group that uses comic book artists to draw the superhero characters improved by the comedians, is casting for comic book artists for this year’s performances! Check out their website for more details. If you’re interested in doing art for the show, please contact Justin Davis at mr.justindavis@gmail.com
Top Five Most Iconic Iron Man Covers
Here are the top five most iconic covers featuring Iron Man (with iconic being determined mostly subjectively by what covers are called to mind when one thinks of Iron Man, 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 245
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 death of Barry Allen, the Flash, in Crisis on Infinite Earths…
Top 70 Most Iconic Marvel Panels of All-Time: #30-21
We asked you to vote and you came out in droves! It was a great turn-out! And now, we begin the Top 70 countdown, with ten panels revealed in installments all this week! Here‘s #70-61! Here‘s #60-51! Here‘s 50-41! Here‘s 40-31! Now here’s 30-21! Enjoy!
Top 70 Most Iconic Marvel Panels of All-Time: #40-31
We asked you to vote and you came out in droves! It was a great turn-out! And now, we begin the Top 70 countdown, with ten panels revealed in installments all this week! Here‘s #70-61! Here‘s #60-51! Here‘s 50-41! Now here’s 40-31! Enjoy!
Top Five Most Iconic Joker Covers
Here are the top five most iconic covers featuring the Joker (with iconic being determined mostly subjectively by what covers are called to mind when one thinks of the Joker, 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 Month of Iconic Covers!
For the month of September, each day I’m going to feature the top five “most iconic” covers for various Marvel and DC characters with one notable exception – no covers from that character’s first appearance. I think that those covers throw things off too much, as obviously the most iconic Flash cover is going to [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 244
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 death of Supergirl in Crisis on Infinite Earths…
Random Thoughts (September 1, 2009)
I have returned in full this week, distractions all set aside. No more vacation. No more blogathon. Just me and you. Lucky you. It’s random thoughts time! Get excited!
Top Five Potential Benefits of Disney’s Marvel
- by Bill Reed
- in Top Five
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Who needs logic and details when you can have wild speculation? Let’s hit it!
Top 70 Most Iconic Marvel Panels of All-Time: #50-41
We asked you to vote and you came out in droves! It was a great turn-out! And now, we begin the Top 70 countdown, with ten panels revealed in installments all this week! Here‘s #70-61! Here‘s #60-51! Now here’s 50-41! Enjoy!
Young Liars in 17 Panels
- by Chad Nevett
- in General
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As promised, here’s my final post leading into tomorrow’s final issue of Young Liars. I’ve chosen one panel per issue to recap the entire series. Some will almost certainly disagree with my choices, but that’s the fun of this. I’ve set the width of each panel as the same to make it a more uniform [...]
Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: The Short Life of Comic Media
I wouldn’t be surprised if 75% of comic book fans had never heard of Comic Media and that’s too bad as they produced some awesome books.
Manga Before Flowers — September Manga Previews
I somehow “missed” August previews. And by “missed” I mean, I was apparently too lazy (perhaps “uninspired” if I’m being kind?) to cover them. Anyway, August Previews was the month of xxxholic. Del Rey offered both volume 14 and as well as the xxxholic: Official Guide. Moving on to *this* month’s offerings….
Is There Anything to See on this Batman and Robin #3 Cover?
- by Brian Cronin
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My pal Ben sent me a link to a guy named Tanker on Comic Bloc who believes that the cover to Batman and Robin #3, turned upside down, is an homage to the famous Joker ad for the Killing Joke. (Click on the images to enlarge) What do you think? Intentional or Unintentional?(polling)
