Category: Exclusives

  • What Kistler does when he’s bored

    You may or may not care, but I went back and added a good dozen or so images into my GUIDE TO THE CRISIS articles, as well as corrected spelling errors (I think I got them all). I also added a couple of images to my old Aquaman article, including a picture of Aquaman’s pet…

  • Alan Kistler asks: “Crisis Characters – Where Are They Now?”

    So what happened to Lyla the Harbinger after she left to go explore? Did Lady Quark, only survivor of an entire universe, find her place in the new reality? Did Pariah ever learn to do something besides watch people die and cry about it? And was the Earth-2 Superman really gone “forever”? Come with me…

  • Comic books and inflation

    Comic books have been verging on $3 for the last few years. Are the increasing prices consistent with inflation? Not really, as far as I can tell, though it’s difficult to calculate due to the changing comic book economy. (Hat tip to Walter Williams’ column on gasoline which linked to a handy inflation calculator.) A…

  • Sequential Tart column by yours truly

    Sequential Tart: Redirected Male – Michael Hutchison (vol VIII/iss 7/July 2005) I’d like to thank Sequential Tart for giving me a chance to spout off on minutia in public.

  • In Memory of Ben “KryptonKid” Grose

    I had a bit of a shock this morning. I was searching my old contact list for digital colorists and, upon visiting the web site of Benjamin “KryptonKid” Grose, I found out that he died last November! Ben passed away from complications with muscular dystrophy at the age of only 25. I would like to…

  • Monitor Duty Exclusive!!!!

    One of the best things about running Monitor Duty is that, every so often, I get a tip from someone in the know and no one else on the web has it. I’m happy to say, I’ve got one. This is a Monitor Duty Exclusive, folks!

  • More Epic moves

    Fanzing’s founder Marc Campbell has e-mailed me personally to announce that his Epic project Northwood Saga will also not be published by Epic. Campbell is weighing his options and will announce his future plans for the book soon. I’m glad to see that the Epic books are not caught up in legal troubles in moving…