2010 October
Sunday Brunch: 10/31/10
Much like a giant bucket of candy provided by a masked stranger, the following post is composed of delicious, empty calories, and will make you sick if you eat the whole thing. Onwards! QUESTION(S) OF THE WEEK: 1. What’s your favorite subgenre of horror? I’m a sucker for zombies, myself. 2. Has a comic ever [...]
Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar
The Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar concludes!!! The way that it worked was that that from October 19th through October 31 (Halloween, natch), in place of the regular Year of Cool Comics feature, I have featured one cool comic book a day that is Halloween-themed! It’s a 13-day countdown to All Hallow’s Eve! And just [...]
Comic Critics #137!
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 hundred and thirty-six strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar
The Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar continues! The way it works is that from October 19th through October 31 (Halloween, natch), in place of the regular Year of Cool Comics feature, I’ll be featuring one cool comic book a day that is Halloween-themed! It’s a 13-day countdown to All Hallow’s Eve! And just like an [...]
Halloween by Gaslight
I don’t know about you, but I tend to be something of a genre binge reader. One week it’s all westerns, the next it’s old hero pulps, the week after that it might be sword-and-sorcery. As it happens, this week it’s largely been all about Sherlock Holmes.
Flippin’ through Previews – November 2010
Where can you find comics? In Previews, of course! This month: Is it the worst idea ever on the cover of Previews? Could be …
Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar
The Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar continues! The way it works is that from October 19th through October 31 (Halloween, natch), in place of the regular Year of Cool Comics feature, I’ll be featuring one cool comic book a day that is Halloween-themed! It’s a 13-day countdown to All Hallow’s Eve! And just like an [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #284
Welcome to the two-hundred and eighty-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 eighty-three. Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of [...]
Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar
The Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar continues! The way it works is that from October 19th through October 31 (Halloween, natch), in place of the regular Year of Cool Comics feature, I’ll be featuring one cool comic book a day that is Halloween-themed! It’s a 13-day countdown to All Hallow’s Eve! And just like an [...]
What I bought – 27 October 2010
The great French revolutionary hero Danton, who will lose his head during the ‘Terror,’ is making a rueful remark. ‘… But Robespierre and the people,’ he observes, ‘are virtuous.’ Danton is on a London stage, not really Danton at all but an actor speaking lines of Georg Büchner in English translation; and the time is [...]
Reader Art Gallery Reminder!
- by Brian Cronin
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Just figured I’d take this opportunity to remind you folks of the Reader Art Gallery for November. If you feel like doing a drawing for the Art Gallery, just send in a drawing (in jpeg format) to bcronin@comicbookresources.com by 6pm Eastern time on Thursday, November 11th. Use the past The Line It Is Drawn topics [...]
Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar
The Halloween Cool Comic Countdown Calendar continues! The way it works is that from October 19th through October 31 (Halloween, natch), in place of the regular Year of Cool Comics feature, I’ll be featuring one cool comic book a day that is Halloween-themed! It’s a 13-day countdown to All Hallow’s Eve! And just like an [...]
Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: My Top 13 Bill Everett Horror Covers
With Halloween fast approaching, I thought it was high time I did another horror themed entry. I’ve had Bill Everett on the brain recently, as I am anxious to get my hands on Fire and Water, Blake Bell’s new book on the legendary artist. So, this week I am presenting my 13 favourite Bill Everett [...]
Committed: 10 Comic Book & Pop Art Themed Hotels
Interesting hotel rooms are nearly impossible to find, particularly with any sort of comic book art influenced decor. After some relatively exhaustive research, I’ve found 10 places which echo popular comic book styles, and a few more which come close.
The Line It Is Drawn #13 – Special Halloween Edition!
Let’s get the standard stuff out of the way. You should follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page… http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go [...]
