2011 July
Drawing Crazy Patterns – Fourth of July!!
In this feature, I spotlight five scenes/moments from within comic book stories that fit under a specific theme. Today we look at patriotic comic book moments for the Fourth of July. Click here to see the groups already featured so far. Enjoy!
She Has No Head! – Life With Mr. Dangerous
Life With Mr. Dangerous. Paul Hornschemeier. Villard Press. 160 pages. Full Color. Hardcover. $22.00. I’ve been reading delicious bits of Paul Hornschemeier’s Life With Mr. Dangerous for years now as they were published in MOME and I was delighted to see it finally collected beautifully all in one book. Life With Mr. Dangerous is, in [...]
Drawing Crazy Patterns – Bwah Ha Ha!
In this feature, I spotlight five scenes/moments from within comic book stories that fit under a specific theme. Today we look at moments where characters actually “Bwah Ha Ha”ed. Click here to see the groups already featured so far. Enjoy!
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Hercules Sound Effects!
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 – Juggernaut Loses His Helmet!
In this feature, I spotlight five scenes/moments from within comic book stories that fit under a specific theme. Today, based on a suggestion by reader yo go re, we take a look at five instances of Juggernaut having his famous helmet removed! Click here to see the groups already featured so far. Enjoy
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Claremont, Cockrum, Miracleman 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 [...]
A Quick Saturday Link For You
If I’d known about this earlier, I’d have included it in the list of links in yesterday’s column. But I didn’t, so here it is now. Call it a coda to Brian’s list of cool comics sites.
Comic Book Easter Eggs Archive!
Here is an archive of all the Comic Book Easter Eggs that we’ve featured so far! Check them all out! 1 – Steranko homage, a Bad Robot cameo and a Simpsons/Green Lantern reference 2 – Claremont and Cockrum show up in X-Men, Miracleman shows up in Dark Knight Returns and the Yarbroughs get some love [...]
Drawing Crazy Patterns – Green Lantern Head Trauma
Here is a new bit. Much like how I would post themed covers in the Cool Comic Cover Gallery, in this bit, I will post a themed group of five interior comic book scenes/moments. Click here to see the groups already featured so far. We begin with five Silver Age panels featuring Hal Jordan getting [...]
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Steranko, Bad Robot and GL/EPA!
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 [...]
What I bought – May and June 2011
Hey, look at that! I’m back in Arizona and I picked up almost two months’ worth of comics! Yeah, I’m not going to review them properly here – that would take waaaaaaaay too long. This is more of a “What I bought and the random thoughts I have about the issues and, why not, what [...]
Cross-Hatchings for July 2011
A little of this, a little of that. Full disclosure: there’s not a lot in here about comics. (Although there’s some.) However, the other stuff falls into the usual geek-type areas of interest. Old paperback series, James Bond novels, junk culture of all sorts, you should know the drill by now. *
Comic Book Legends Revealed #321
Welcome to the three hundredth and twenty-first in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, we examine the role Disney, of all comapnies, played in the early days of Vertigo Comics. Plus, learn the somewhat sad story of why the Superman Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade [...]
Drawing Crazy Patterns Archive
Here are all of the installments of Drawing Crazy Patterns that we have published so far. They each feature five comic book moments/scenes that coincide with a particular theme or topic. 1. Times Hal Jordan received blunt head trauma during the Silver Age. 2. Times Juggernaut’s helmet was removed 3. Times a character “Bwah Ha [...]
