2011 September
2011 Top 50 Marvel Characters #50-46
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 – This Man, This Monster
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, without any “enjoyably goofy” aspect to them. Here is an archive of all the Silver Age [...]
Comic Critics #174!
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-three strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Comic Book Legends Revealed #330
Welcome to the three hundredth and thirtieth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn which Green Lantern Larry Niven wanted to reveal was an alien! Plus, discover a “lost” Calvin and Hobbes comic strip and learn the origin of Clash drummer Topper Headon’s [...]
2011 Top 50 DC Characters #50-46
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 (First) Death of Superman!
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, without any “enjoyably goofy” aspect to them. Here is an archive of all the Silver Age [...]
Silver Age September Archive
All September long I will be spotlighting great Silver Age comic books. Here is an archive of the comics featured so far… 1. Superman #149 (The FIRST Death of Superman!) 2. Fantastic Four #51 (This Man, This Monster) 3. Adventure Comics #312 (The Super-Sacrifice of the Legionnaires!) 4. Daredevil #7 (Daredevil versus…Namor!?!) 5. Magnus, Robot [...]
What I bought – 31 August 2011
“Life is so embarrassing,” he said. “How I love it.” (Robert Boswell, from The Geography of Desire)
Justice League #1 Review
DC has begun their “The New 52″ relaunch with Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns, Jim Lee and Scott Williams. I think it was a good opening to their initiative. Read on for specifics!
The Line It Is Drawn #55 – Comic Book Cover Homages!
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 [...]
2011 Top 200 DC and Marvel Comic Book Characters Master List
Here, based on nearly 1,400 ballots of your votes for your favorite DC and Marvel comic book characters of all-time, is the list of characters revealed so far (click on the character to go to the piece on that section of the list)!
