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Blog Post Archive
Friday Aboard the Star Wolf
Not comics this week, just comics-adjacent. But I think it’s a story you’ll enjoy, and also a chance to help out with something really cool. Here’s how it started. Long ago, in 1966, there was a theater arts student at USC who wanted to write science fiction TV and movies. Good stuff, that is, like [...]
The 25 Greatest Iron Man Stories Ever Told!
Today, in honor of the release of Iron Man 3, we are giving you the 25 Greatest Iron Man Stories Ever Told, as voted on by YOU! Here is the list of the other characters/creators that you’ve voted on so far. Enjoy! 25. Iron Man: Hypervelocity #1-6 In this action-packed thrillride by Adam Warren and [...]
Gimmick or Good? Iron Man #288 and 290
In this column, Mark Ginocchio (from Chasing Amazing) takes a look at the gimmick covers from the 1990s and gives his take on whether the comic in question was just a gimmick or whether the comic within the gimmick cover was good. Hence “Gimmick or Good?” We continue with 1992/1993?s foil covers for Iron Man [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #417
Welcome to the four hundred and seventeenth 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 sixteen. This week, was there really a Batman/Pokemon crossover? Did Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz have Dan Quayle as the villain [...]
The Line it is Drawn #137 – Comic Book Characters in Classic Music Videos!
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 [...]
Don’t Send Me No More Letters No – I Learned the Birds and the Bees From Mort Weisinger
In this feature I spotlight responses that amuse me for whatever reason by Mort Weisinger to letters fans wrote in to the Superman family of titles back in the 1950s and 1960s. In this latest installment, Mort teaches children a new word that their parents might not want them to know… (I featured this as [...]
The Greatest Pre-Crisis Superboy Stories Ever Told!
Every day we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator. These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along with the rules on how to vote). Today’s list is the Greatest Pre-Crisis Superboy Stories Ever [...]
Don’t Send Me No More Letters No – We Get It, Krypton is a Element. Enough Already.
Here’s a new feature where I just spotlight responses that amuse me for whatever reason by Mort Weisinger to letters fans wrote in to the Superman family of titles back in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, it’s a response to a missive from a fan who noted the amusing coincidence that Superman’s home planet, Krypton, [...]
Say It With Manga, The Pet Edition
While I have none myself, pets are near and dear to many people. It follows that there are many series about keeping pets, and manga is no exception. There are whole magazines dedicated to the genre of pet comics in Japan, but only a few series have been translated into English over the years. [...]
Manga in Minutes: Mega Man Gigamix, Vol. 1
Mega Man Gigamix, Vol. 1 By Hitoshi Ariga Udon Entertainment, 224 pp Rating: Not Rated Hitoshi Ariga’s manga adaption of the Mega Man games continues with Mega Man Gigamix, Vol. 1. Created nearly ten years after Mega Man Megamix, the volume kicks off with Mega Man forced to team up with his arch nemesis, Doctor [...]
Committed: Death Sells… But Who’s Buying Ultimate Spider-Man
Unfortunately, we seem to have come to the point where the logical extension of making violence an all-ages-friendly subject, means that death in comic books is no longer shocking, it is boring. In our current social climate, the one high impact event that it is acceptable to use as children’s entertainment, is violence. The most [...]
The Greatest Denny O’Neil Stories Ever Told!
Every day in April 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 [...]
Comic Book Six Degrees: Prince Ra-Man to She-Ra
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 panel and no outside comic book appearances, like cartoons and the like). You have to do so [...]
Trade paperbacks, older editions, and miscellaneous for April 2013
“And for a while things were cold / They were scared down in their holes / The forest that once was green / Was coloured black by those killing machines” Band volume 1 by Christine Humiston (writer) and Erin Humiston (artist). This is self-published, and it doesn’t have a price on it. Each issue is [...]
Comics You Should Own – Secret Six
She has a lot of career left, but at this point, this has to be Gail Simone’s masterpiece, right? Secret Six by Gail Simone (writer, Villains United #1-6; Six Degrees of Devastation #1-6; issues #1-14, 16-22, 24-36; Suicide Squad #67), John Ostrander (writer, #15, 17-18, 23; Suicide Squad #67), Paul Cornell (writer, Action Comics #896), [...]
She Has No Head! – 6 Sublime Superheroine Redesigns
I’ve been thinking about superhero redesigns, in part thanks to our awesome interview with Kris Anka on 3 Chicks Review Comics. We talked a lot about the difference between good artists and good designers, and how important getting an artist that knows about design and fashion is to having a modern and functional looking costume. [...]
Gimmick or Good? – Amazing Spider-Man #358
In this column, Mark Ginocchio (from Chasing Amazing) takes a look at the gimmick covers from the 1990s and gives his take on whether the comic in question was just a gimmick or whether the comic within the gimmick cover was good. Hence “Gimmick or Good?” We continue with 1992?s gatefold cover of Amazing Spider-Man [...]
The Greatest Bill Sienkiewicz Stories Ever Told!
Every day in April 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 [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – May 2013
Previews #296 is out in the world, and I’m going to look through it! What will I find? NO MAN CAN SAY!!!! Dark Horse: Dark Horse continues to bring back their superhero properties, as they let Joe Casey run free through their catalog in Catalyst Comix #1 (page 42). Casey was telling me about this [...]
Saturday’s Spider-Man Strips… Stripped
You know, I was talking last week about what a golden age we live in today when it comes to collected volumes of comics. This is true not just for comic books but also for newspaper strips. All kinds of stuff is getting collected in lovely hardcover volumes built to last… but there’s one glaring [...]