2011 February
Month of Indy Comics – Spacebound! #1
Every day this month I’ll be reviewing a different independent comic book, based on submissions from the creators of the comic books themselves. The month continues with Spacebound! #1, a double feature starring two different science fiction stories by Mike Luoma, Meisha and Matthew Grant
You Decide ’11 – Battle of the Second Tier!
Each day this month, I’ll be posting a different poll question – each poll will last five days, and I’ll reveal the results of the finished polls every Tuesday. This way, for this month, we can see what our readers feel about various comic book questions. For a month, you folks will decide! Click here [...]
I’m Breathless…starring Kate Kane and the Question
- by Brian Cronin
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Mic was too sick to do a piece for this week’s The Line It Is Drawn, but he somehow managed to do the piece ANYways, while dragging himself back from death’s door. It is based on a suggestion from BigMike20X6 The Question & Batwoman on the cover of Madona’s I’m Breathless Here’s the original… Read [...]
What I bought – 16 February 2011
She didn’t realize that it was in the blood and not on the skin; she didn’t see that there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves. (Hanif Kureishi, from The Buddha of Suburbia)
Comic Book Legends Revealed #301
Welcome to the three hundredth and 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 three hundred. Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of entertainment [...]
Month of Indy Comics – 22 Reasons to Fear the Future #1
Every day this month I’ll be reviewing a different independent comic book, based on submissions from the creators of the comic books themselves. The month continues with the intriguing debut of 22 Reasons to Fear the Future, by Egan McConvey and Ryan Sergeant.
You Decide ’11 – Who is your least favorite member of the Fantastic Four?
Each day this month, I’ll be posting a different poll question – each poll will last five days, and I’ll reveal the results of the finished polls every Tuesday. This way, for this month, we can see what our readers feel about various comic book questions. For a month, you folks will decide! Click here [...]
Glyph Award Nominees Are Out!
The nominees for Rich Watson’s annual Glyph Awards (created to recognize the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color, which will be presented in May at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) in Philadelphia) are out and our own Chad Nevett was part of the nomination committee. I [...]
Month of Indy Comics – Burn Book: The Slut Issue
Every day this month I’ll be reviewing a different independent comic book, based on submissions from the creators of the comic books themselves. The month continues with an interesting look at the word “slut” as the first book in Athena Currier’s four-book “Burn Book” series, with each issue examining a different stereotype label.
You Decide ’11 – What’s the best Batman story written by Frank Miller?
Each day this month, I’ll be posting a different poll question – each poll will last five days, and I’ll reveal the results of the finished polls every Tuesday. This way, for this month, we can see what our readers feel about various comic book questions. For a month, you folks will decide! Click here [...]
Cursed! Pirate! Girl!
- by MarkAndrew
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Man, I’ve been excited about this for. Ever. I heard about it, I saw some preview art, I put in on my pull-list. Copies Never Made it to Iowa. I cried bitter tears of rage. I swore revenge to the very heavens themselves. But now there’s a collected edition. Which I assumed was gonna be [...]
Tyra from Friday Night Lights is Wonder Woman?
- by Brian Cronin
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I can honestly say that Adrianne Palicki would not be someone I would have thought of as Wonder Woman. But I liked her a lot on Friday Night Lights, so good luck to her on the new Wonder Woman TV pilot! Hopefully it lasts longer than her last TV series, Lonestar!
Committed: The Least Desirable Characters in Comics
In the aftermath of Valentine’s Day, getting away from all those super-hot team-ups, who are the comic book characters you would not want as a significant other?
The Line It Is Drawn #28 – Album Cover Homages!
Go 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 to the person’s Twitter account) – myself, Greg Hatcher, Chad [...]
