Brian Cronin
Cover Theme Game for 2/1
Every Wednesday you’ll get a brand-new comic cover theme game! The game works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a connection between all three characters, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something obvious like “They [...]
Another Reason to Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!
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All this week I will be spotlighting the various rewards you can get by becoming a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of their membership drive. There is even an extra incentive if you join because of reading these posts! The next levels of CBLDF membership we are focusing on are [...]
So….Watchmen Prequels…
Here is the talent on the seven prequel mini-series… – RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo – MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke – COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones – DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes – NITE OWL [...]
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Bizarro Sterling Gates and a Battlestar Galactica Cameo!
Every Tuesday, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs.” An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So [...]
Comic Book Questions Answered: Was Superman, the “Big Blue Boy Scout,” Ever an ACTUAL Boy Scout?
Comic Book Questions Answered – where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com). Reader Enrique M. wrote in to ask a question on behalf of his girlfriend. While Superman is often referred to as “The Big Blue Boy Scout,” was he ever [...]
You Should Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!
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All this week I will be spotlighting the various rewards you can get by becoming a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of their membership drive. There is even an extra incentive if you join because of reading these posts! The basic CBLDF membership is the aptly named “Member” level (http://cbldf.myshopify.com/products/2012-cbldf-membership). [...]
Name That John Constantine Artist!
Every week, 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 [...]
Five Goofiest Moments in Green Lantern #31-35
Every week, I’ll examine the five goofiest moments from a five-issue stretch of a particular comic book series. Here is a list of the moments featured so far. This week, we look at Green Lantern #31-35, written by John Broome (#31), Gardner Fox (#32-35), penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Sid Greene.
The Abandoned An’ Forsaked – Alley-Kat-Abra is a Murderer?!
Every Saturday, we will be examining comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically “overturned” by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of The Abandoned An’ Forsaked. Feel free to e-mail me at [...]
Comic Book Six Degrees: Katchoo to Groo
Here’s a new game (well, I’ve never done it on the blog before, so it’s new enough)! I name two comic book characters. You then have to connect the two using only shared appearances in comic books (official appearances in comics only – no cameos like Terry Austin sneaking Popeye into the background of a [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #351
Welcome to the three hundredth and fifty-first in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, learn whether Robin was originally going to be a one-issue wonder! Discover the super-villain that came out of a bad review! And discover the supervillain invented by Harlan Ellison…for a T-Shirt? [...]
Line it is Drawn Try-Out Month – Time to Vote!
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You’ve seen five weeks’ worth of their drawings, now vote for which artist you’d like to see join The Line it is Drawn! Here are their first two weeks’ worth of drawings. Here are their week three drawings. Here are their week four drawings. And here are their week five drawings. Now vote! Which artist [...]
The Line it is Drawn, Try-Out Week 5
From now until the end of January, the following ten artists are going to be drawing weekly pieces while trying out to become a new member of The Line it is Drawn artist roster. Click here to see what they did during the two free-for-all weeks. Click here to see their first week’s worth of [...]
I Love Ya But You’re Strange – That Time Thor Nuked China
Every week, I will spotlight strange but ultimately endearing comic stories (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of all the installments of this feature. Today we take a look at Journey Into Mystery #93, scripted by Robert Bernstein, plotted by Stan Lee, drawn by Jack Kirby [...]
The Line It Is Drawn #74 – Comic Book Characters and NickToons Characters
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 [...]
