Archive for the 'Comics' Category

Bad guys wear green bow ties

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Anybody in a green bow tie is a bad guy
Ah, Question, how fun you are to have around
He can see you. From the upcoming DC Comics series 52

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Friday, November 11th, 2005

On reading Crisis on Infinite Earths

New Comic Wednesday

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

It’s new comic Wednesday. Books come out on Mondays, CDs and DVDs on Tuesdays. Movies on Fridays. Comic books on Wednesdays!
There was a lot of hype this week about “nothing will be the same” “shocking events for the next year”. Sure fun stuff.
But the highlight of this week for me is JLA Classified #6, “I [...]

Which Marvel character am I?

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Ok this surprised me a bit. Now I just need to see which DC character I am…

Dinner, work and eating habits

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

Not too long a day at work today. Turns out the fire I got into yesterday only has my pot bubbling, not steaming like I thought it would be. Still not my best moments, but in this case, it’s all my fault for not doing a proper QC check in the first place.
Had dinner tonight [...]

Spider-Man’s greatest Bible stories!

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

The Portland Mercuryr: Feature (05/02/02)
How Spider-Man would of affected events in the bible… I’m just cracking up at that.
And the ending is very 80s.

Comic understatement of the week.

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Every so often, I come across a line that is just a huge understatement.
Happened again tonight, reading Batman issue 637. In this issue Batman and Nightwing fight a prototype of the Amazo Android, that was going to be sold to Gotham’s current underworld king, Black Mask. But that wasn’t all. In a conversation at the [...]

Orson Scott Card, Ultimate Iron Man, and controversy

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

So I get an email yesterday from my comic book store, about the usual months worth of comics coming out. And Gail decides to add in a disclaimer:
A serious note:  Orson Scott Card, famous sci-fi writer, is taking on Ultimate Iron Man in this month’s Previews.  He has a reputation for some very controversial views [...]

Animal Man

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

I’m almost done reading the entire comic book series Animal Man. It was written by Grant Morrison back in the early 90s, before he really hit it big with JLA. Simply put, Buddy Buckly can take on the powers or abilities of any animal. yes, it sounds lame. But the writing is just great. Morrison [...]

Free Comic Book Day

Saturday, July 3rd, 2004

Today’s free comic book day. Sorry for the lack of notice, but I forgot. The store I go to was giving away 5 free comic books to nonmembers, but as I member I got to take one of all the free books. I only wound up with 3 though, that I thought I would like. [...]