Archive for the ‘DC Comics’ Category
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
(This post's title sort of brought to you by the great and powerful Paul Westerberg and his Replacements, who this weekend released a CD's worth of material for 49 American pennies.)
As usual, New Comics Day doesn't bring too cumbersome a bag o' funnybooks my way, but I do like to ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
(Y'know when someone prefaces their monologue with, "I don't want to be a dick, but..."? That usually always means, "I'm about to be a dick".)
Too much Anti-Life Equation, that's the only explanation I can come up with for this to have made it into the published version of this week's ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Here's a blast from the past, courtesy of a Marvel Bullpen Bulletins inside Avengers (volume 1) #71, 1969:
The only reason I even noticed this was the fact I'd just read Beau Smith's terrific Busted Knuckles column, and his good-natured challenge to Marvel and DC to "give the readers one full ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Batman (arguably) places higher on the fanboy scale than Superman[1], but why? If comics specialize in wish fufillment and escapism, you can't get granted a much cooler wish than being bulletproof and able to fly, agreed?
Thing is, once you get beyond the first few pages of a Superman story, you ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Tim: Unlike any other previous miniseries or even regular story arc, I've decided to read the entire series as a whole each time a new issue comes out. Sure, my comic-buying process required me to immediately read the latest installment over Chinese on New Comics Day, but I did read ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
After a couple of days laborously posting in two places, our old blog Jimmy Olsen's Blues has been officially reborn here at Thunderdog. To point JOB readers in the right direction, I enlisted the aid of --who else but--newsman Perry White:
Now that we're all here... let the celebration begin! Here's ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
So I'm starting to formulate what I'm sure is an entirely off-base, probably nonsensical theory about Grant Morrison's Final Crisis. [1] This idea of mine comes both from some history of Morrison's and from, of all places, statements by trade dress designer Chip Kidd and artist Gene Ha, who doesn't ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Which one of Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work would you say this is? At least we can tell which one of Gerry Conway's Sound Effects That Are Always Hilarious is in play here.___________________________________________All-Star Comics #58, written by Gerry Conway, drawn by Ric Estrada and, yes, Wally Wood. (DC ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Mindless thugs working for an invisible drug operation burn just like everyone else, apparently. But Oliver Queen didn't come for the barbeque--he came for the punch! Bahlactus didn't come for the cooking either--he eats whole worlds raw.__________________________________________Green Arrow: Year One #6, by Andy Diggle and Jock (DC Comics 2007)
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I'm sure by now you've seen the sure-to-be-temporary Alex Ross redesign of Captain America debuting in January. It's not a bad design, I think, if a bit overdone with Ross' fondness for metallic materials; I actually like the callback to Cap's original shield in the ...
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