2011 September
2011 Top Marvel Characters #35-31
After nearly 1,400 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters 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. The countdown [...]
Silver Age September – Flash Gordon #1
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 [...]
Comic Critics #175!
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-four strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
What I bought – 7 September 2011
“Everything bleeds, Pie. Even God. Maybe especially God. Or else why did He hide Himself away?” (Clive Barker, from Imajica)
Advance Review: Pigs #1
- by Bill Reed
- in Comic Reviews
In which we didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning. All this time I have been hiding amongst you, but at last I have been activated by my Communist masters to… write this review.
2011 Top DC Characters #35-31
After nearly 1,400 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters 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. The countdown [...]
Silver Age September – The Galactus Trilogy
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! I’ve been sticking [...]
UPDATED: Do something nice for a comics fan who could use a little niceness.
Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of tales of people ripping off comics dealers, stealing original art from cons, forgeries and bootlegging and so on. But this particular incident is the lowest thing I think I’ve ever heard of.
The Line It Is Drawn #56 – Super-Villain Team-Up!
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 [...]
Review time! with The Tooth
- by Greg Burgas
- in Comic Reviews
Comics that look like they’re from the days of yore! Everyone loves those!
Committed: Regarding Male Superheroes as Sex Objects
As someone who spent her entire youth having inappropriate thoughts about superheroes, I’ve always understood that women aren’t the only ones being physically objectified in comic books, and men are being depicted as basically naked and entirely perfect as well. Finally it seems that the rest of the female population is catching on.
Archie Freshman Year Book 2 Trade Paperback Review
Today, Archie Comics is releasing the trade paperback of the sequel to Archie Comics’ Freshman Year, which was a tale by writer Batton Lash and artists Bill Galvan and Al Milgrom that told the story of, well, Archie’s freshman year (and therefore, of Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie’s freshman year, as well). Since Lash told [...]
2011 Top Marvel Characters #40-36
After nearly 1,400 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters 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. The countdown continues…
Silver Age September – Superman’s Sad Return to Krypton
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 take [...]
Review time! with Widgey Q. Butterfluff
- by Greg Burgas
- in Comic Reviews
With a name like that, it has to be good!
