2011 January
I Saw It Advertised One Day #27
We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!
A Month of Cover Theme Games #22
Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]
I Saw It Advertised One Day #26
We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!
Box of Comics: New Year’s Resolution Comics
For 2011, I’ve told myself to only buy masterpieces, or comics that are as good as I remember comics being when I was a kid. Reviews of such comics– under the cut!
A review a day: Mirror Mirror
Hey, a relatively new publisher! Let’s check out some of their stuff, shall we?
The Guide to Album Covers by Comic Book Artists 1/22/11
Here’s the deal – the end goal is to get the ultimate guide to albums covers drawn by comic book artists. Every Saturday, I’ll post ten album covers by comic book artists. I’ll add these ten to the master list (which you can find here). What you do is that you e-mail me albums (at [...]
I Saw It Advertised One Day #25
We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!
A Month of Cover Theme Games #21
Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]
What I bought – 19 January 2011
“Do you know what it is to throw a child in the air and catch it on a knife in front of its mother? To be tied to a burning log? To have your ass split with an axe so that you beg the Serbs, beg them, to shoot you in the head and they [...]
Friday in the Age of Availability
Patton Oswalt wrote an article for Wired not too long ago where he postulated that, because everything of interest to geeks and nerds in pop culture is now available all the time, geek culture was dying or needed to die or something like that.
Comic Book Legends Revealed #296
Welcome to the two-hundred and ninety-sixth 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 ninety-five. Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of [...]
Wow, Early Shipping Worked as Planned for Two Whole Weeks!
When Diamond Comics announced their plans for comic book stores having Tuesday delivery for comics that went on sale on Wednesday, here is what they said: Please Note: The current industrywide Wednesday new release day will remain unchanged, and retailers who do not wish to use the new option may continue to receive their shipments [...]
Comic Critics #146!
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 forty-five strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
I Saw It Advertised One Day #24
We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!
A Month of Cover Theme Games #20
Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]
