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This weekend, let's take another trip down (bad) memory lane to the bad girl craze in comics. And nobody brought the genre to the forefront of mainstream comics better than Image Comics studio/imprint, Top Cow comics. I present for your viewing pleasure, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider vs. The ...
Top Cow
Lara Croft
Wheat Chex, Rice Chex and good, hot, Ralston present: Space Patrol! High adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space! Missions of daring in the name of interplanetary justice! Travel into the future with Buzz Corry, commander-in-chief of the Space Patrol!Today we learned about sodium-potassium ...
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A "Geoffrey Tolle" had a letter to the editor in yesterday's Dispatch. There couldn't be two of them, could there?The writer is decrying reefer madness in a story about a driver who was drunk and also high.
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Via Slashfilm.com, only 2 of top 30 grossing films of the last 10 years are original ideas.Think about that for a minute.Only 2. Out of 30. And these films account for tens of billions of dollars of revenue in media and properties as pervasive as film, DVD releases, videogame spinoffs, t-shirts, ...
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Alex Ross has played more than a small part in people taking crime-fighters in tights far, far too seriously. Here's his take on a serious, brooding... Adam West Batman???I call bullshit on this. I want to see him on a rope ladder with a shark hanging from his leg.
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Alex Ross
Adam West
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Johnny Craig
From the letters page of The Cat #3, April 1972:Many years later, young Frank will pioneer the genre of "Someone's messing with my whores" in multiple Sin City stories.
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Johnny Craig
Sin City
Since last week I showed you some oddball ninja comics, I thought I'd keep with the theme and showcase some weird-ass samurai covers next. Here you go:
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Hey folks, I wanted to get the word out about a brand new indie/alternative comix and zine show being co-organized by friend-of-the-ferret John G. The show is called Genghis Con, and it will ake place in Cleveland 2 weeks from today, Saturday November 28, from noon - 6 pm.They've got a nice ...
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John Geering
I know I brought up this comic recently in a conversation...I think it was with Matt Kish. Anyway, it fits in perfectly with our theme of titanic comic book crossovers for this weekly feature, so without further ado, I give you Robocop vs. Terminator:This 4-issue limited series was written by ...
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Robocop
Batman
Thor
I'd always heard that Golden Age Wonder Woman stories were a font of easy blog posts filled with out-of-context panels. But I had no idea how much until I got Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 2 from the library the other day.This is like blogging fish in a barrel.Yes, that's Wonder Woman using her ...
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Wonder Woman
From Tomb of Dracula #17:Hey, the guy's five centuries old-- I'm certainly surprised by his continence.
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Following on the heels of a previous post comes a few words from Dick Giordano, the (among many other things) DC editor who in 1986 had a hand in bringing us Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns. What does he think of that part of his legacy?"The Dark Knight Returns additionally helped start the ...
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Batman
Watchmen
It's the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. I have fond memories of the show growing up. I searched and searched and could not find a pic to use that didn't have Elmo in it. It would cheer me up on the sick days (like now). Still better than America's Top Model. (which was on Saturday as I lay ...
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From downtowncolumbus.com, here's a video of the demolition of the City Center. Inside 43215: Behind the scenes at the demolition of City Center from Downtown Columbus on Vimeo.No big explosions, just a bunch of guys hauling fixtures out and tearing out facades. Here's the official site, along ...
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Via The Beat and more or less confirmed by IMDB, those generously and blindingly original creative spirits in Hollywood will be bringing us some kind "Yogi Bear" feature film in 2010. Dan Aykroyd is currently credited as the voice of Yogi with Justin Timberlake slated to do Boo Boo. One can only ...
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IDW editor in chief Chris Ryall and artist Ashley Wood have a creator owned series called Zombies Versus Robots, and occasionally they'll up the ante, such as this weekend's feature: Zombies Versus Robots Versus Amazons.I think the book is just an excuse to have Wood draw what he likes.
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Wally Wood
I don't get as upset over the "maturing" of superhero stories and characters as Craig does, but man, something about this cover really, really bugs me.Apparently this is a translation of an Italian-produced comic. But wow, Donald Duck with a gun? Really?
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Johnny Craig
Donald Duck
This week's 7 Covers makes me nostalgic for the "black & white explosion" of the 80s, where indie publishers were popping up by the hundreds, trying to capture the magic-in-a-bottle that was TMNT fame. Sure, a lot of crap came out of that era (most of the comics below fit that category,) but ...
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Ok, bad pun. So remember a few months back when I pointed out that Frank Cho was looking for an artist for his new series, 50 Girl 50? Well, they picked a winner. His name's Axel Medellin, and his art bears a strong resemblance to...well, Frank Cho. Which isn't a bad thing, all things ...
