PANEL: G.I. Joe Sigma 6 #4
G.I. Joe Sigma 6 #4Art by Chris Lie, Ramanda Kamarga and Rob RuffoloWritten by Andrew DabbMarch 2006, Devil’s Due
On the Shelves: 4/12/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 4/12/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not,
LINK: Establishing Shots #7
My latest column is up at PopCultureShock, a month late and on a completely different subject than I’d originally intended — NY Comic-Con is kind of a dead topic now — but worth reading nonetheless! Establishing Shots #7: It’s Hard Out Here For a PimpYou Gotta Love ’em or Leave ’em Alone I want to
Ye Olde Comick Booke Meme
From Ye Olde Comick Booke Blogge, via Chris @ 2 Guys… Hypothetical situation: Due to diminished readership and rising paper costs, it has been decided only fifteen comic titles will be published from this day forward. You have been charged with the decisions of which titles shall be printed and what creative teams will be
On The Shelves: 4/5/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. Here’s my weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 4/5/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If
PANEL: Jova’s Harvest #3
Jova’s Harvest #3By Steve UyMarch 2006, Arcana Studio
PANEL: Blue Beetle #1
Blue Beetle #1Art by Cully Hamner and David SelfWritten by Keith Giffen and John RogersMarch 2006, DC Comics
On the Shelves: 3/29/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. Man, I was a little pissy last week, yes? Nothing a strong week of comics couldn’t cure, though! American Way, Robin, Supermarket, Scatterbrain, Captain America, Iron Man: The Inevitable, Next Wave, X-Factor…it was like comics’ own Best Week Ever! Here’s my weekly look at select comic books
QUESTION: If you had $20…
Last week I hit the century mark at Midtown Comics, and have a $20 rebate coming to me. It’s a personal tradition that every rebate be used toward the purchase of a trade. So what should be my next purchase? The last one I picked up was Superman: Birthright, and it was a winner. So
REVIEW: V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta, on the other hand—while similarly dated and liberally incorporating elements familiar to any fan of the vengeance seeking, flush with resources anti-hero—holds up remarkably well all these years later. It’s a flawed story, mind you, as Moore slips back and forth between compelling melodramatic fiction and hamfisted polemic (similar in some ways to Fahrenheit 911), but the overall result is that of an incredibly engaging tale—part revenge thriller, part political potboiler, part police procedural—that takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride before ending on a somber, if obliquely hopeful, note.