2011 October
Meta-Messages – Gerard Jones Explains Why Hal Jordan Became a Hard-Traveling Hero
All October long I will be exploring the context behind (using reader danjack’s term) “meta-messages.” A meta-message is where a comic book creator comments on/references the work of another comic book/comic book creator using the characters in their comic. Each time around, I’ll give you the context behind one such “meta-message.” Here is an archive [...]
The Scariest Comic Books of All Time! – Domu: A Child’s Dream
A reader named Chris S. suggested that I devote October to the scariest comic books of all-time, as suggested by you readers out there! Sounds like a plan to me! So all October-long, I’ll be featuring 31 comic book tales of terror, based on YOUR suggestions! So e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com your scary suggestions! Here [...]
Becky Cloonan Conan Print Available at NYCC!
- by Brian Cronin
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As you might have heard, Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan are taking over Conan for Dark Horse Comics. Is that an awesome creative team or what? Anyhow, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is selling limited edition letter press prints at NYCC of the above Cloonan image for just a $50 donation! So if you’re [...]
Arkham Asylum…the Play?!
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
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I met Todd Matthy the other night at Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s New York Comic Con party. He told me of his rather ambitious project, a stage play adaptation of Arkham Asylum! You can check it out here. It’s a fascinating idea.
Meta-Messages – Peter David Commiserates With His Young Justice Characters
All October long I will be exploring the context behind (using reader danjack’s term) “meta-messages.” A meta-message is where a comic book creator comments on/references the work of another comic book/comic book creator using the characters in their comic. Each time around, I’ll give you the context behind one such “meta-message.” Here is an archive [...]
The Scariest Comic Books of All Time! – Cat and Mouse
A reader named Chris S. suggested that I devote October to the scariest comic books of all-time, as suggested by you readers out there! Sounds like a plan to me! So all October-long, I’ll be featuring 31 comic book tales of terror, based on YOUR suggestions! So e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com your scary suggestions! Here [...]
The Bookman’s Weekend
…with apologies to John Dunning. But after a Saturday at the Seattle Antiquarian Bookfair and a Sunday at Aki-Con, that title seemed appropriate.
Comic Book Legends Revealed #336
Welcome to the three hundredth and thirty-sixth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, marvel at the great Spider-Man/Chameleon Boy feud of 1966! Plus, legends involving Jack Kirby and Alan Davis! Click here for an archive of the previous three hundred and thirty-five. Also, [...]
Meta-Messages – American Flagg Goes Through Chaykin Withdrawal
All October long I will be exploring the context behind (using reader danjack’s term) “meta-messages.” A meta-message is where a comic book creator comments on/references the work of another comic book/comic book creator using the characters in their comic. Each time around, I’ll give you the context behind one such “meta-message.” Here is an archive [...]
The Scariest Comic Books of All Time! – Hopping Down The Bunny Trail
A reader named Chris S. suggested that I devote October to the scariest comic books of all-time, as suggested by you readers out there! Sounds like a plan to me! So all October-long, I’ll be featuring 31 comic book tales of terror, based on YOUR suggestions! So e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com your scary suggestions! Here [...]
What I bought – 12 October 2011
But novelists write for countless reasons: for money, for fame, for reviewers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones; for vanity, for pride, for curiosity, for amusement: as skilled furniture makers enjoy making furniture, as drunkards like drinking, as judges like judging, as Sicilians like emptying a shotgun into an enemy’s back. I could fill [...]
Thoughts on Ann Nocenti Taking Over Green Arrow
Wow, I don’t think ANYONE could have predicted THAT! Ann Nocenti is returning to monthly comics for the first time since the mid 1990s to take over Green Arrow from the interim writing team of Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens (who presumably chose to stick with Superman when that position opened up). Click the above [...]
Edvin Biukovic Original Art for Sale at NYCC!
I’ve written a number of times in the past about how great of an artist that the late Edvin Biukovic was. Well, at New York Comic Con this weekend, Splash Page will be selling thirty original pages of Biukovic artwork from his work on Grendel Tales! It will be at Splash Page’s booth #1775. At [...]
Meta-Messages – Roger Stern Cures J. Jonah Jameson’s Mental Problems…
All October long I will be exploring the context behind (using reader danjack’s term) “meta-messages.” A meta-message is where a comic book creator comments on/references the work of another comic book/comic book creator using the characters in their comic. Each time around, I’ll give you the context behind one such “meta-message.” Here is an archive [...]
The Scariest Comic Books of All-Time! – 24 Hours Diner
A reader named Chris S. suggested that I devote October to the scariest comic books of all-time, as suggested by you readers out there! Sounds like a plan to me! So all October-long, I’ll be featuring 31 comic book tales of terror, based on YOUR suggestions! So e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com your scary suggestions! Here [...]
