2009 November
Comic Critics #94!
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 ninety-three strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Danielle Leigh’s Reading Diary — Exotic and Delicious Fate
Although there’s nothing particularly remarkable about Ryoku Tsunoda’s yaoi offerings, I always find her titles a pleasurable, even comforting, read.
Top 75 DC Iconic Covers Play-In Game!
Okay, so I’ve revealed 86 of the 90 covers that you’ll be able to vote on starting tomorrow. The last four will be up tomorrow, but I figured that instead of going with the four I had lined up for tomorrow, I’ll instead let you folks choose the two covers that make up covers 89 [...]
The Top 75 Most Iconic Covers in DC History – Day 22
Okay, in case you didn’t see the introduction, the concept is that each day up to and including the 23rd of November, I’ll be posting four iconic covers from DC Comics’ 75-year history. On the 23rd, you folks will get a chance to pick your Top 10 out of the 90 choices. I’ll tabulate the [...]
Nostalgia November Day 22 — Secret Weapons #2
Each day in November, I will read and review/discuss/whatever one comic taken from a box of some of my childhood comics. Today, it’s Secret Weapons #2. The Nostalgia November archive can be found here.
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 325
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! Let’s take a look at Planetary/JLA: Terra Obscura, by Warren Ellis and Jerry Ordway.
The Top 75 Most Iconic Covers in DC History – Day 21
Okay, in case you didn’t see the introduction, the concept is that each day up to and including the 23rd of November, I’ll be posting four iconic covers from DC Comics’ 75-year history. On the 23rd, you folks will get a chance to pick your Top 10 out of the 90 choices. I’ll tabulate the [...]
Into the back issue box #48
You know, I’ve been experimenting with putting some covers above the break, just to entice you to keep reading, but this entrant into our series is so godawful, so terrible, so horrifyingly eye-gouging, that I must keep you in suspense as long as I can. If you thought writing 2000 words about Firestar was excessive, [...]
Nostalgia November Day 21 — Solar, Man of the Atom #25
Each day in November, I will read and review/discuss/whatever one comic taken from a box of some of my childhood comics. Today, it’s Solar, Man of the Atom #25. The Nostalgia November archive can be found here.
The Top 75 Most Iconic Covers in DC History – Day 20
Okay, in case you didn’t see the introduction, the concept is that each day up to and including the 23rd of November, I’ll be posting four iconic covers from DC Comics’ 75-year history. On the 23rd, you folks will get a chance to pick your Top 10 out of the 90 choices. I’ll tabulate the [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 324
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! The creative team behind Hitman, Garth Ennis and John McCrea, returned to the character for a JLA/Hitman mini-series – this is [...]
Cross-Hatchings for November ’09
Like several of you, I also decided I liked “Cross-Hatchings” best of all the suggestions for titling the occasional hodge-podge column. Many thanks to Sam L. for coining it. Since embarking on the just-concluded month-long series of columns about comfort food, the hodge and the podge have been rather piling up, so let’s get to [...]
Nostalgia November Day 20 — Secret Weapons #1
Each day in November, I will read and review/discuss/whatever one comic taken from a box of some of my childhood comics. Today, it’s Secret Weapons #1. The Nostalgia November archive can be found here.
Comic Book Legends Revealed #234
Welcome to the two-hundred and thirty-fourth 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 thirty-three. Comic Book Legends Revealed is now part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds [...]
The Top 75 Most Iconic Covers in DC History – Day 19
Okay, in case you didn’t see the introduction, the concept is that each day up to and including the 23rd of November, I’ll be posting four iconic covers from DC Comics’ 75-year history. On the 23rd, you folks will get a chance to pick your Top 10 out of the 90 choices. I’ll tabulate the [...]
