2010 October
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 281
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! Today [...]
What I bought – 6 October 2010
“It’s like blue light when you touch me,” she’d say. “Electric blue light sparking between us.” She’d cry softly into my shoulder, tears of passion, because she couldn’t get close enough to me. (W. P. Kinsella, from The Iowa Baseball Confederacy)
Comic Book Legends Revealed #281
Welcome to the two-hundred and eighty-first 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. Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of [...]
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 280
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! Today [...]
A review a day: Family Man volume 1
Historical fiction about an eighteenth-century German theologian? Sign me up!
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 279
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! Today [...]
Committed: Online Comic Book Communities
Before the sprawling, rich online social interaction there is today, in ye olden days of yore there was no internet. Before there were smart phones, and social networks, or even specialized comic book shops, if I liked a comic book I had to scour local newspaper shops to see if they had it every month. [...]
Comic Book Legends Addendum: Legion and Star Wars Stuff
Occasionally, stuff will come up after the Comic Book Legends Revealed column goes up, and while I certainly can just go back and edit it into the old pieces, most folks won’t see it (as why would they re-read the older piece for no reason?), so I occasionally do these addenda. Today I show some [...]
The Line it is Drawn #10 – Comic Book Characters In Different Genres
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 [...]
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 278
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! Today [...]
Captain America: Patriot – The Life and Times of Jeff Mace?
More than once in the past I’ve spoken of my admiration for Don Rosa’s The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, if simply because the very IDEA of the project, a detailed examination of Scrooge McDuck’s life based on clues left in Carl Barks Scrooge comics over a number of years, just seemed so ridiculously [...]
Random Thoughts! (October 5, 2010)
Random Thought! My cold got worse this weekend, but it’s getting better now… kind of… maybe? It’s random thoughts time! Get excited!
A review a day: DAR! A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary
You want dick and fart and not-safe-for-work jokes? You GOT dick and fart and NSFW jokes!!!!!
When We First Met Archive
This is an archive of all the installments of “When We First Met,” which examines the first appearance of various parts of comic book lore. 1. First appearance of Batman’s giant penny, first appearance of the “Half-Spider-Man mask” and first appearance of “Avengers Assemble!” 2. First appearance of Life Model Decoys, first appearance (and use) [...]
