2011 October
The Scariest Comic Books of All-Time! – Amnesia
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 [...]
Review time! with Dry Spell
As you know, I’m always down with reviewing comics … from the future!!!
Meta-Messages – Peter David Has Some Fun With Hulk: Chapter One
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! – Brought to Light: Shadowplay
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 [...]
John Paul Leon Has a Sketchbook on Sale for NYCC!
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
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John Paul Leon is one of the greatest comic book cover artists working today, and one of my favorite comic book artists period. He has put together a sketchbook that he will be exclusively selling next weekend at the New York Comic Con (AA, table D2). Read on to see some sample pages from the [...]
Review time! with Friend of Dorothy #2
Late last year, I reviewed Friend of Dorothy #1, Brian Andersen’s tale of a teenager who is suddenly tasked to save his world and Oz from evil. Now, there’s a second issue, and I’m reviewing that!
Art Show in Vancouver Tonight
- by Brian Cronin
- in Events Calendar
If you live in the area of Vancouver, my buddy Bret Taylor is having an art show tonight. I’ve featured Bret’s stuff on the blog before here. Check it out…
Comic Book Legends Revealed #335
Welcome to the three hundredth and thirty-fifth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn the bizarre story of the Wall Street insider who made hundreds of thousands of dollars through hidden tips within Bringing Up Father comic strips…or did he? Plus, legends about [...]
Meta-Messages – Mike Grell Tells Us Not to Believe Everything We Read…
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 in their comic. Each time around, I’ll give you the context behind one such “meta-message.” Here is an archive of the past [...]
The Scariest Comic Books of All-Time! – Pigeons From Hell
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 – 5 October 2011
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you [...]
The Line It Is Drawn #60 – Comic Book Characters in Different Genres
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 [...]
R.I.P. Charles Napier
I know everyone is talking about the passing of Steve Jobs, and certainly without him I would probably never have been in a position to write these words to you… but someone else passed yesterday, as well.
Random Thoughts! (October 6, 2011)
Random Thought! I worked Monday and Tuesday this week (instead of Wednesday and Friday… plus the weekends), so this got delayed a couple of days. But, it’s finally Random Thoughts time! Get excited!
Meta-Messages – Roger Stern: Not Tarantula’s Biggest Fan
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 in their comic. Each time around, I’ll give you the context behind one such “meta-message.” Here is an archive of the past [...]
