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Blog Post Archive
House to Astonish Episode 106
We’re back, and we’ve got an hour and a half of comics discussion for you, with news on the passing of Dan Adkins, James Robinson leaving DC, Disney’s Big Hero 6 movie, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick’s t-shirts for charity and a run through the August solicitations. We’ve also got reviews of The Dream Merchant, [...]
I Love Ya But You’re Strange – That Time Evil Baby Lois Lane Tried to Force Baby Superman to Marry Her
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. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com if you have a suggestion for a future installment! Today is the 100th installment of [...]
Barbara Slate Week! – Getting Married and Other Mistakes
Barbara Slate Week concludes, which was a (work) week’s worth of spotlights on the work of Barbara Slate, an underappreciated comic book creator who I’ve long been a fan of. Today we take a look at Slate’s most recent graphic novel (which she wrote and drew), Getting Married and Other Mistakes, which just came out [...]
Week of Cool Comic Book Moments – How to Create a Stronger Monster
Every day this week will see me feature a brand-new Cool Comic Book Moment. For this week only, I’ll be specifically featuring cool moments that happened just this year. Here is an archive of all the past cool comic moments that I’ve featured so far. Today we look at Jennifer Blood #24, where Al Ewing [...]
Last Bat-Time, Last Bat-Channel
This is one of those odd, tragic stories that you see so often in the comics industry… a particular injustice that was the final contemptuous boot in the ass to a talent that the comics industry had already beat like a piñata for most of his career. Probably you already know about Batman, Bob Kane, [...]
Review time! with Wicked Vibes #1
According to the cover of this, it’s the “first flippin’ issue!!” So you know they’re serious! Wicked Vibes is an anthology comic created and published by Dillon Hallen under the name Fizz Comics. Hallen was nice enough to send me a copy, so I’m going to review it! Hallen prices this sucker at $4, which [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #419
Welcome to the four hundred and nineteenth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous four hundred and eighteen. This week, did Marvel nearly put out a Spider-Man graphic novel in the 1980s where he romances a married mob [...]
You Decide: Which Sci-Fi TV/Film Franchise Has Been Adapted Into Comics the Best?
With the release of Star Trek this week, I thought it’d be interesting to see what TV/film franchise you folks think was adapted best into comics…
The Line it is Drawn #139 – A Comic Book Tribute to Ray Harryhausen
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 [...]
Abandoned Love: How Geoff Johns Fixed Cyborg
Every week, we will be examining comic book stories, plots and ideas that were abandoned by a later writer while still acknowledging that the abandoned story DID still happen. Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of Abandoned Love. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com if you have any suggestions for [...]
Week of Cool Comic Book Moments – The Origin of Gorr the God Butcher
Every day this week will see me feature a brand-new Cool Comic Book Moment. For this week only, I’ll be specifically featuring cool moments that happened just this year. Here is an archive of all the past cool comic moments that I’ve featured so far. Today we continue with the origin of Gorr the God [...]
Say It With Manga – Assassins Edition
There are a lot of manga series about assassins. Kazuo Koike has penned several, in fact, including Sanctuary, Crying Freeman, and Lone Wolf and Cub, one of the more famous series. But there are many titles with assassins in them, a few that deal with killers of men, and a handful with an assassin character, [...]
Week of Cool Comic Book Moments – The Fall and Rise of Rikard the Brave
Every day this week will see me feature a brand-new Cool Comic Book Moment. For this week only, I’ll be specifically featuring cool moments that happened just this year. Here is an archive of all the past cool comic moments that I’ve featured so far. Today we continue with the not-so-final fate of the heroic [...]
Cover Theme Game for 5/15
Every week 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, a trait all three creators share, SOMEthing. And [...]
The Great Comic Book Cover Homage Streak: Week 34
It occurs to me that it seems like many comic book covers are homages. Which is fine with me. I have no problem with it. It just made me think, though, how long could I go before I hit a week where NO new comic book was released that had a cover that was an [...]
Manga in Minutes: Atomcat
Atomcat By Osamu Tezuka DMP, 200 pp Rating: All Ages Created nearly 35 years after Astro Boy, Atomcat tells the tale of a lovable feline turned superhero after a horrible accident and a hilarious mix up! Gifted with the powers and abilities of Astro Boy, the adorable Atomcat protects his friend Tsugio from threats both [...]
Committed: Science Fiction Action Movie Music Guilt
Last weekend, a friend who works on music for television and film took me to a concert commemorating the 35th anniversary of a publisher such scores. She warned me that it would be kind of industry-heavy evening for her, lots of people for her to talk to who I wouldn’t know, basically something like a [...]
Comic Book Easter Eggs – Easter Eggs from Grant Morrison’s Action Comics!
In this feature, I share 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 come [...]
Week of Cool Comic Book Moments – Superman Doing the Impossible
Every day this week will see me feature a brand-new Cool Comic Book Moment. For this week only, I’ll be specifically featuring cool moments that happened so far this year. Here is an archive of all the past cool comic moments that I’ve featured so far. Today we continue with how Superman finally defeats the [...]
Barbara Slate Week! – Angel Love
Welcome to Barbara Slate Week, a (work) week’s worth of spotlights on the work of Barbara Slate, an underappreciated comic book creator who I’ve long been a fan of. I’ll be going at this chronologically, so we begin with Slate’s acclaimed off kilter 1986-87 DC Comics series Angel Love, about a group of young people [...]