Trenchman has a cool site featuring 78 early Captain America covers, with analysis and comment on their propagandist aspects as well as general silliness. Thanks to National Review’s Jonah Goldberg for this link! (I guess you all know which site I’ve been reading this morning. What can I say? “The Corner” was somewhat influential in…
Michael Medved on Captain America
Michael Medved discusses the last year’s worth of Captain America stories and the decidedly “America = bad” tilt that they’ve taken. I can’t say that I disagree with it much aside from Medved’s thinking that the comic books are aimed at kids and teens when in reality it’s teens and adults who will read it….
Travelers vs. Digests
Over on Chuck Dixon’s board, I asked him about the news article I posted yesterday regarding the travelers. His reply is that the traveler’s size is not all that different from that of a digest. I’m terrible with measurements! I’d need to take a ruler to one of my DC Blue Ribbon Digests to be…
CGE offers new “Traveler” format TPB
Comics Continuum has a brief piece on CrossGen’s “Traveler” format. This is an 8″ tall by 5″ wide, slightly smaller TPB. While not AS small as the old digests, I think this is a good substitute. (I’ve said before that I don’t know that modern comics would be readable if printed digest-sized.) And Chuck Dixon…
Vote in the Archenemies Art Challenge!
NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –Art Challenge: Archenemies! Fanzing Magazine may not be officially running art challenges anymore, but that didn’t stop a number of our contributors from doing their own art challenge over on NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –our Art Forum. If any of you would like to participate…
PvP review by Geoff Johns!
Geoff Johns reviews PvP in his “One of the Good Ones” column over at Fourth Rail.
PvP review by me.
This is old news for a lot of you, but I LOVE PvP and I was giddy at the chance to finally pick up the new Image comic. For the benefit of any new readers, I’ll recap: I live in Rochester, MN, where we don’t have a good comic shop, so I get my comics…
Wednesday is the King of Days!
Now that Monitor Duty is reaching a sizeable audience, I think it’s time to expand upon a tradition that was started by poster “Therealtony” over at Chuck Dixon’s message board. It’s called “The King of Days.” Wednesday is the King of Days, the day when the comic books appear at our comic shops! So…everyone do…
Stan Lee Does Pamela Anderson
Humanoids To Publish Stripperella One-Shot No, honestly! Stan Lee is doing a comic book about an animated series featuring Pamela Anderson. I guess that gives new meaning to the term “cover enhancements.”
DC/Marvel DEATHMATCH?
I’m not sure what to think about the recent announcement of the upcoming DC/Marvel “Deathmatch” mini-series. On the one hand, a crossover where the defeated opponent dies will certainly be interesting. And it makes sense as a way to top the last DC/Marvel crossover series from a decade ago. Last time it was a matter…