2011 November
Name That Magneto Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
The Greatest Silver Surfer Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next character up for voting is the Silver Surfer. Silver Surfer began his comic book life as the herald for Galactus and he currently is the herald of Galactus. In between that, though, was a whole lot of adventures. [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #341
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-first in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn the amazing story of how Alan Moore decided to let Marvel reprint his Captain Britain stories. Plus, discover how long Steve Gerber was willing to wait to deliver on [...]
The Greatest Iron Fist Stories Ever Told!
Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
Name That Nightwing Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
The Greatest Bill Mantlo Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next creator up for voting is Bill Mantlo. Bill Mantlo wrote for Marvel Comics for nearly a decade, working on a variety of projects, from Iron Man to Rom, Hulk to Spectacular Spider-Man, Micronauts to Alpha Flight (plus a [...]
What I bought – 16 November 2011
Every man always has handy a dozen glib reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, from The Gulag Archipelago)
The Line It Is Drawn #66 – Comic Book Characters and Futurama!
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 [...]
Name That Thanos Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
The Greatest Matt Fraction Stories Ever Told!
Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
The Greatest Flash (Barry Allen) Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next character up for voting is Flash (Barry Allen). The hero credited with the advent of the superhero comic Silver Age, Barry Allen was a founding member of the Justice League of America and served as Flash for decades [...]
Committed: Secret Ultimate Spider-Man Appreciation
I’m enjoying the new Ultimate Spider-Man. I hate to admit it, partly because I’d much rather be all old-school and tell you to go look up some classic Spider-Man stories. But the comic book isn’t just okay, it is actually working just a little more for me than the original version did. Then I also hate [...]
The Greatest Martian Manhunter Stories Ever Told!
Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
Name That Hal Jordan Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
The Greatest Greg Rucka Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next creator up for voting is Greg Rucka. Greg Rucka has written a variety of comics for Marvel, DC and Image Comics. He wrote Whiteout and Queen and Country for Oni Press, Detective Comics, Gotham Central, Huntress, Wonder Woman, [...]
