2011 July
Comic Book Legends Revealed #322
Welcome to the three hundredth and twenty-second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, it is an all-Popeye edition of CBLR! Was Donkey Kong really first meant to be a Popeye video game? Did Popeye’s spinach really derive from an 19th century decimal error? [...]
A Pair of Drawings by Bill Walko
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 3 Comments
Here are two The Line It Is Drawn-inspired pieces by Bill Walko, creator of the great web comic, The Hero Business. One features a Dazzler team-up with a character from manga/anime fame and the other features Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk visiting a character from Greek mythology! Read on to check them out!
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Braille Jay and Silent Bob, Dr. Doom dies in JLA and more!
All throughout July, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs” a day. An easter egg is an in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really [...]
Drawing Crazy Patterns – The Focused Totality of Psylocke’s Telepathic Powers!
In this feature, I spotlight five scenes/moments from within comic book stories that fit under a specific theme (basically, stuff that happens frequently in comics). Today we examine five instances where Psylocke described her psychic knife as the “focused totality of my telepathic powers.” Enjoy!
Comic Critics #167!
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 sixty-six strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Comic Strip Cameos! Calvin, Doonesbury and More!
All throughout July, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs” a day. An easter egg is an in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really [...]
Drawing Crazy Patterns – Elektra’s Magic Sais
In this feature, I spotlight five scenes/moments from within comic book stories that fit under a specific theme (basically, stuff that happens frequently in comics). Today, reader David P. has an interesting suggestion – times that Elektra stabbed a person from behind, with the sais going through the person’s flesh and bone but being stopped [...]
The Line It Is Drawn #48 – You’d Never Think You’d See…
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 [...]
Committed: Independent Comic Book Gifts
- by Sonia Harris
- in Committed
- 5 Comments
It being just a couple of days after Independence Day and (by strange coincidence) the bulk of my friends birthdays, I’m sharing my gift list of independent comic books (as well as the weird types of people I matched up to those books.) People with a vague interest in comic books often come to me asking for [...]
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Clark, Lois, Beavis, Butthead, the X-Men and Waldo!
All throughout July, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs” a day. An easter egg is an in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really [...]
Drawing Crazy Patterns – The Helicarrier Crashing
In this feature, I spotlight five scenes/moments from within comic book stories that fit under a specific theme (basically, stuff that happens frequently in comics). Today, based on a suggestion from reader Taylor Porter, we look at five times that the Helicarrier has crashed. Enjoy!
Flippin’ through Previews – July 2011
Oh, no – is it the Apocalypse?!?!? Only Previews #274 knows for sure!
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Cross-Company Honeymoon and Bathroom FX!
All throughout July, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs” a day. An easter egg is an in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really [...]
A Pair of Kickstarter Projects Need Your Support!
First off, the great Jimmy Palmiotti is doing a new project called Queen Crab. You can read more about it here. Secondly, George Zapata, one of the artists from our The Line It Is Drawn feature, is drawing a series called The 36 (written and created by Kristopher White), which is sort of like Fables, [...]
Guide to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 3 Comments
I tried to get this up this morning, but I had coding failure (I thought it was visible but it was not), so I missed the contest. But even so, you can still enjoy my pal Mickey Duzyj’s guide to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. It is done in the style of Mike Tyson’s [...]
