2011 September
2011 Top Marvel Characters #7-6
After nearly 1,400 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters of all-time from 1-10. I assigned point totals to each ranking and then tabulated it all into a Top 50 list. We’re now revealing that list throughout September. Here is the master list of all the characters revealed so far. [...]
Silver Age September – Elongated Man in “Ten Miles to Nowhere”
After a month of spotlighting the strange (if endearingly strange) history of comic books (and especially the Silver Age), I think it is worthwhile to show the comic books of the Silver Age that are simply great stories period. Here is an archive of all the Silver Age comics features so far! Today we look [...]
Saturday in the Hyborian Age… well, almost
This is one of those things that’s so easy to get right… and yet, somehow, they keep getting it wrong. Which is to say, yeah, we saw the new Conan movie.
A Hell of a Past – Mockingbird
This is the first in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of pieces examining the hilariously convoluted history of certain comic book characters. Our inaugural edition focuses on the long, strange trip that has been Bobbi “Mockingbird” Morse’s 40-year comic book history, from the pages of 1971′s Astonishing Tales #6 to her current status [...]
2011 Top DC Characters #7-6
After nearly 1,400 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters of all-time from 1-10. I assigned point totals to each ranking and then tabulated it all into a Top 50 list. We’re now revealing that list throughout September. Here is the master list of all the characters revealed so far. [...]
Silver Age September – Captain America Joins the Avengers
After a month of spotlighting the strange (if endearingly strange) history of comic books (and especially the Silver Age), I think it is worthwhile to show the comic books of the Silver Age that are simply great stories period. Here is an archive of all the Silver Age comics features so far! Today we look [...]
You may not have known Minck Oosterveer’s work, but here’s a chance to do so
I just got an e-mail from Chip Mosher of Boom! Studios about the death of Minck Oosterveer earlier this week. Oosterveer was a Dutch artist who only recently started working in the States, most notably on the Boom! series The Unknown, which was written by Mark Waid. The Unknown was a cool comic about a [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #333
Welcome to the three hundredth and thirty-third in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, discover the amazing story of the #1 Women’s Tennis Player in the World who became a writer and editor for Wonder Woman! And that’s not even close to the craziest [...]
2011 Top Marvel Characters #9-8
After nearly 1,400 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters of all-time from 1-10. I assigned point totals to each ranking and then tabulated it all into a Top 50 list. We’re now revealing that list throughout September. Here is the master list of all the characters revealed so far. [...]
Silver Age September – The Bizarrely Awesome Detective Chimp!
After a month of spotlighting the strange (if endearingly strange) history of comic books (and especially the Silver Age), I think it is worthwhile to show the comic books of the Silver Age that are simply great stories period. Here is an archive of all the Silver Age comics features so far! Today we look [...]
What I bought – 21 September 2011
He lay with a pack of panting dogs on a hill overlooking plains where antelope grazed. He marched with ants, and labored in the rigors of the nest, filing eggs. He danced the mating dance of the bower bird, and slept on a warm rock with his lizard kin. He was a cloud. He was [...]
Enchantresses of Two Worlds!!
- by Brian Cronin
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I can’t believe that I forgot to run this bonus piece Nick Perks did for our Super-Villain Team-Up Line it is Drawn a couple of weeks ago! Nick drew the following suggestion of ArghantBigAxe: Marvel’s Enchantress and DC’s Enchantress versus Zatanna Read on to see what Nick came up with!
2011 Top DC Characters #9-8
After nearly 1,400 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters of all-time from 1-10. I assigned point totals to each ranking and then tabulated it all into a Top 50 list. We’re now revealing that list throughout September. Here is the master list of all the characters revealed so far. [...]
Silver Age September – The Lost Continent of Mongo!
After a month of spotlighting the strange (if endearingly strange) history of comic books (and especially the Silver Age), I think it is worthwhile to show the comic books of the Silver Age that are simply great stories period. Here is an archive of all the Silver Age comics features so far! A few weeks [...]
