The covers: Gene Ha & Art Lyon provide the cover of Superman of Earth 23 breaking into action. This isn’t a bad take on the image Alex Ross made for [...]
05.9.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The cover: “The Dead Lantern Corps” is not the return of Nekron, but what will happen to Atrocitus and his minions if a drastic step is not taken. Nice representational [...]
05.9.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The cover: A nice representational cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli & Jim Charalampidis. Four “new mutants” are in bonds, separated from the young Avengers by a chain link fence, while up [...]
05.9.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The covers: The regular cover sports Cap and Wolverine battling up close, by Jim Cheung & Laura Martin. It’s fine, but it’s too close. I wish it were pulled back [...]
05.9.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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Dynamite Entertainment’s The Spider #1, which has received unanimous critical praise, has sold out at Diamond and will go to an immediate second printing! Keep in mind that while the [...]
05.9.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Ian Cullen
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In a recent interview between AMC and Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead discussed the character of Michonne, the actress playing the character, Danai Guriria, and the sword [...]
05.8.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured, SF-TV & Movie News | Nicholas Yanes
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Is today April 1st or something? Is this story really for real? Read it, and you be the judge! It comes from imao.com. >>HOLLYWOOD (AP) – With the record-breaking box-office [...]
05.8.2012| Comix Portal, Featured | Wayne Hall
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Comics like The Almighties have been poking fun at the successful Avengers movie, so why should they be the only ones? The “I’m a Marvel, and I’m a DC” folks [...]
05.8.2012| Comic Book Corner | Wayne Hall
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British Indy Publisher Scar Comics – the people who brought you acclaimed titles like Falling Sky and Madam Samurai – are releasing not one but two new titles at [...]
05.6.2012| Comic Book Corner, Press Releases | Ian Cullen
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It’s like Christmas in May! Once a year, local comics shops give out free special issues to anyone who ventures through their doors, and this year was a particularly good [...]
05.6.2012| DC Comics And Beyond, Featured | Wayne Hall
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I’m catching up on all the Avengers books with these series of reviews. If you haven’t been paying attention, there’s a lot happening in Avengers and mutant books! The covers: The [...]
05.5.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The cover: Captain America shields himself from a burst of Cyclops’ and he raises his right to take that mutant down! Now if Cyclops is going to blast someone I [...]
05.5.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The cover: Iron Fist as Iron Phoenix? He powers up mega-style! This is an absolutely gorgeous cover by Mike Deodato and Marte Garcia. Overall grade: A+ The story: The title [...]
05.5.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The cover: Wow! What a great triumvirate–Alan Davis, Mark Farmer & Laura Martin, showing the title characters approaching “something” bright in space. Outstanding! Overall grade: A+ The story: This is [...]
05.5.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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Comics legend Stan Lee has been drawn into yet another legal battle, this one concerning the future of his POW! Entertainment. According to thehollywoodreporter.com, Lee (one of the creators at Marvel who developed Spider-Man, [...]
05.3.2012| Comic Book Corner | Wayne Hall
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It’s another month, and that means we have new #1′s from DC Comics’ ‘New 52′ — the Second Wave, it’s being called — and I think they’re all off to [...]
05.3.2012| DC Comics And Beyond, Featured | Wayne Hall
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Some people are calling The Avengers film a big commercial for the comics from Marvel. And those people may actually be somewhat correct. “A copy of Tales Of Suspense No. 39, which [...]
05.3.2012| Comic Book Corner | Wayne Hall
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Simply put, believe the hype about Valiant’s re-launch in 2012. X-O Manowar #1 is not only a fantastic first issue for the re-launch of this series, but a spectacular example [...]
05.1.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured, This Week In Spandex | Nicholas Yanes
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Poor Superman just can’t keep a writer on his monthly comic for very long! The monthly Superman comic, currently written by Dan Jurgens and Keith Giffen, is now going to be taken over by Scott Lobdell, who [...]
05.1.2012| Comic Book Corner | Wayne Hall
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Comics, like science fiction, are considered by some to be very serious … so serious, in fact, that no one is allowed to have much fun in them any more. Well, [...]
05.1.2012| Comix Portal, Featured | Wayne Hall
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The cover: A wendigo and a were-jaguar do battle in a wintry landscape. Rendered by Duncan Fegredo with Dave Stewart, it is eeirily pretty: the two creatures out of place [...]
04.29.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The cover: A vampire has risen from the ground, but is covered in mushrooms. Is the creature just evil looking or upset at its growths? Becky Cloonan with Dave Stewart [...]
04.29.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The covers: Steve Morris does the regular cover, featuring Angel jumping downwards out of the sky against a city’s backdrop. This doesn’t do anything for me, and could have been [...]
04.29.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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The Cover: Arkillo rails against the Korugarians. I don’t know why they would have any problems with a Yellow Lantern on their world? And that was sarcasm. It’s a good [...]
04.29.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured | Patrick Hayes
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With the Avengers quickly approaching movie theaters and more news coming out about Captain America 2, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how far comic book movies [...]
04.27.2012| Comic Book Corner, Featured, Features, SF-TV & Movie News | Nicholas Yanes
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