2011 August
The Line It Is Drawn Archive!
A bunch of you were asking for this, so here is an archive of the past installments of The Line It Is Drawn, the feature where six of our regular artists do a drawing each based on your suggestions to various themes. Here are the installments, along with the themes of each…
I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Judging Their “Avengerability”
Every day this August I’ll be spotlighting strange but ultimately endearing comic stories, one a day (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of past installments of this feature. You folks wanted to see what the counterpart was to the Wasp and She-Hulk rating the male members [...]
Almost Hidden – The Suicide Squad Travels to Apokolips!
Even with this large amount of comic books that have been collected in trade paperbacks, there are still a number of great comic books that have never been reprinted (I’d say roughly 60% of them are DC Comics from the 1980s through the mid-1990s). So every day this month I will spotlight a different cool [...]
Scott’s Classics Comics Corner: Investigating F.B.I. Comics Pt. 2
Here’s the second part of my look at F.B.I. comics of the Golden and Silver Ages.
The Line It Is Drawn #52 – Spider-Men, Spider-Men, Doing Whatever Spiders Can…
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 [...]
I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Rating the Avenger “Hunks”
Every day this August I’ll be spotlighting strange but ultimately endearing comic stories, one a day (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of past installments of this feature. Today we take a look at one of the dorkiest, but ultimately pretty endearing, back-up stories you’ll see [...]
Almost Hidden – The Heckler
Even with this large amount of comic books that have been collected in trade paperbacks, there are still a number of great comic books that have never been reprinted (I’d say roughly 60% of them are DC Comics from the 1980s through the mid-1990s). So every day this month I will spotlight a different cool [...]
Comic Critics #171!
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 seventy strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Committed: 10 Great Science Fiction Comics
A few people have asked me to recommend great science fiction comic books. Here, in a slightly random order, is my list of great science fiction comic books.
I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Good Look Absorbing Their Dark and Sinful Will!
Every day this August I’ll be spotlighting strange but ultimately endearing comic stories, one a day (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of past installments of this feature. Today we take a look at one of the stories from the first issue of Strange Tales. It [...]
Almost Hidden – Assault on Olympus!
Even with this large amount of comic books that have been collected in trade paperbacks, there are still a number of great comic books that have never been reprinted (I’d say roughly 60% of them are DC Comics from the 1980s through the mid-1990s). So every day this month I will spotlight a different cool [...]
Review time! with The Art of War preview
Okay, so there’s a deal with this.
I Love Ya But You’re Strange – This Is Why You Need to Pin Your Cowl Down, Batman!
Every day this August I’ll be spotlighting strange but ultimately endearing comic stories, one a day (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of past installments of this feature. Today we take a look at the time that Batman almost ruined his secret identity by not keeping [...]
Almost Hidden – The Pied Piper Comes Out of the Closet
Even with this large amount of comic books that have been collected in trade paperbacks, there are still a number of great comic books that have never been reprinted (I’d say roughly 60% of them are DC Comics from the 1980s through the mid-1990s). So every day this month I will spotlight a different cool [...]
Blogathon 2011 is Only One Week Away
- by Chad Nevett
- in Announcements
It’s less than a week, technically, until this year’s Blogathon where I will blog every 30 minutes for 24 hours beginning at 9am on Monday August 15, all for the Hero Initiative. The Hero Initiative is a charity that provides financial assistance to current and former industry professionals who need it. It’s a fantastic charity [...]
