2011 November
The Greatest Luke Cage 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 Luke Cage. One of the very first black characters to star in his own title, Luke Cage had a notable series that eventually turned into a popular team-up series with Iron Fist. More [...]
Comic Critics #179!
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-eight strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
The Greatest Loki 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 Cable 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 Scott Lobdell 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 Scott Lobdell. Lobdell is most famous for his work for Marvel’s mutant line of comics during the 1990s. He wrote Uncanny X-Men for years and eventually took over both X-Men books for awhile [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – November 2011
Wolverine #300? How do they even know anymore? The answer lies inside Previews #278!
The Greatest Mike Mignola 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 Lois Lane 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 Lois Lane. One of the most famous comic book characters of all-time, Lois Lane had the “misfortune” to share her first appearance with some guy named Superman, so you’ll never really hear about [...]
Friday Drive-By Links and Stuff
Okay, full disclosure: it’s a light column this week. Julie and I are both fighting some sort of nasty bronchial thing– why, yes, I do work in public school, why do you ask?– so between that and trying to keep up with other work commitments, not a lot of column-writing happened. However, there’s all sorts [...]
Name That Wonder Woman 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 [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #339
Welcome to the three hundredth and thirty-ninth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, did Superman inspire the Vulcan nerve pinch? Was Mister Mind always intended to be a worm? And what’s the story of the almost crossover between Quantum and Woody and Black [...]
The Greatest Robin/Red Robin 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 Jason Aaron 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 Jason Aaron. Jason Aaron has been gaining a great deal of acclaim on a variety of titles from Marvel and DC in a variety of different styles. From the otherworldly horror of the [...]
What I bought – 2 November 2011
All art is quite useless. (Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Name That Joker 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 [...]
