2009 September
Most Important Internet Movement Ever Results in Success!
- by Brian Cronin
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Last August, I wrote about a movement to get 80stees.com to make Aquaman hoodies (200 people had to pledge to buy the hoodie for it to be worth it to 80′s Tees to produce them). Well, while the 200 signatures were received, the recession-tastic economy caused the project to lag a bit, but the hoodies [...]
Thanks, Panels on Pages!
- by Brian Cronin
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Robert Eddleman over at Panels on Pages (or PoP!, if you would) gave my book, Was Superman a Spy? And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed (which you can, as always, purchase here if you so chose), a very nice review here. Thanks, Robert!
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 258
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 Steve Niles’ neat mini-series, Strange Cases…
Danielle Leigh’s Reading Diary — Gestalt vol 2 and 3
Earlier in the week I looked at yaoi parody of the RPG genre (Fujiyama’s Tale of the Waning Moon) and continue this theme with an examination of Yun Kouga’s Gestalt volumes 2 and 3.
Top Five Most Iconic Green Goblin Covers
Here are the top five most iconic covers featuring Green Goblin (with iconic being determined partially subjectively by what covers are called to mind when one thinks of Green Goblin, 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 [...]
Random Thoughts! (September 15, 2009)
Tuesday! Random thoughts time! Get excited!
A review a day: Frankenstein’s Womb
It’s Warren Ellis doing his Warren Ellis thing! Did you think I wasn’t going to review the crap out of this?
Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: 10 Good Movie Adaptations Pt. 2
Here’s another 5 great movie adaptations. I’ve included some obvious choices and a few surprises.
Top Five Most Iconic Black Canary Covers
Here are the top five most iconic covers featuring Black Canary (with iconic being determined partially subjectively by what covers are called to mind when one thinks of Black Canary, 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 257
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 classic first fight between Hercules and Thor…
A review a day: No Pasarán!
I probably should have put an inverted exclamation point in front of that title, as it’s in Spanish, but it’s not on the cover of the book, so I won’t! Oh, here’s another review. Click “Continue Reading” to learn the shocking tale of how I acquired this!
The Great Comic Book Detectives #1
Here’s a new blog bit! You, the readers, send in descriptions of comics that you remember vague details from the past and either I, or one of the readers of the piece will use detective work to figure out what comic you’re talking about! Here’s the first one, from reader Larry: When I was a [...]
Top Five Most Iconic Martian Manhunter Covers
Here are the top five most iconic covers featuring Martian Manhunter (with iconic being determined mostly subjectively by what covers are called to mind when one thinks of Martian Manhunter, 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 256
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 classic first meeting of the Silver Surfer and Thor…
The Reread Reviews — Wolverine/Doop
Today, we take a trip back to 2003 with a two-issue mini-series that replaced X-Statix on the schedule between issues 10 and 11. It’s a fun little story that I’m going to spoil. Join me.
