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Comic Book Company Resurrection Scorecard, Part 2 of 2: First Things First...
Presenting the conclusion of my 2012 C2E2 panel experience. This would be longer, but attending Saturday only left me little time for all the possible indulgences. Many events were scheduled against...
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How Will “Marvel NOW” Affect My Marvel Now?
Comics readers are well aware of Marvel Comics’ new initiative, “Marvel NOW”, which will see many of their current series ending and restarting by year’s end with new #1s. Obviously this...
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Wizard World Chicago 2012 to Present Stan Lee, “Buffy” Alumni, “Quantum Leap”...
2012 will mark the fourth Wizard World Chicago that my wife and I have attended. Held north of Chicago in the village of Rosemont, IL, it’s a different animal from the first WWC we attended in 1999,...
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Wizard World Chicago Clip Show: Memories of 2011, 2010, and 1999
My wife and I have just a few days left until we take off for tiny, action-packed Rosemont, IL, for Wizard World Chicago 2012. Even though this will be our fourth WWC, we’re still preparing and...
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Wizard World Chicago 2012 Notes on the Go: Friday Report — the Actors and Two...
I’m currently writing this from our hotel in Rosemont, where my wife and I are attending two of Wizard World Chicago’s four days of self-described “geek chic”, comics fun, sci-fi spectacles, and all...
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Wizard World Chicago 2012 Notes on the Go: Saturday Report — A Few More...
After spending our Friday at Wizard World Chicago in a series of lengthy lines, our goal Saturday was to finish our autograph want list once and for all, and then roam the place at a leisurely pace,...
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Wizard World Chicago 2012 Photos, Part 3 of 5: Costumes for the Win
My wife and I may have different goals and preferences at conventions, but one of our stronger common interests (besides a wish for better concession stand food) is a love of seeing other fans in...
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Jamal Igle’s “Molly Danger” Aims to Remind: Comics Aren’t Just for Adult Males
Older collectors can recall a time when fans of all ages could find comic books skillfully produced as entertainment and inspiration for any and all comers. In ye olden times of my own childhood, kids...
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MCC Request Line #3: “Grifter”
Welcome to our recurring feature in which I take on reading, viewing, or reviewing suggestions from MCC readers and sharing my results in the interest of entertainment science. Today’s suggestion was...
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MCC Request Line #4: “Witchblade”
Welcome back to MCCRL, in which I take on reading, viewing, or reviewing suggestions from MCC readers just to see what happens, whether the results are good, bad, or mixed-bag. Today’s suggestion came...
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My 2012 Comic Books in Retrospect: the All-Stars and the Abandoned
2012 was my worst year for comic book enjoyment in the last fifteen years. I’ve collected them for thirty-four years, ever since the well-stocked spinner racks at Marsh Supermarket caught my eye at age...
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Another Major Super-Hero Death Now on Sale for Readers Who Buy Three Comics...
Much as churches have constituents who only attend twice yearly on Easter and Christmas, thus do comic books have buyers only seen in stores whenever mainstream media headlines alert all of Earth to...
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“The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror”: Merry All-Star 1940s Pop Culture Crossover!
The Thin Man Meets the Rocketeer!Movie fans who don’t read comic books may already have forgotten about director Joe Johnston’s 1991 film adaptation of The Rocketeer, based on the exploits of a World...
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“The Private Eye”: Digital Comics, Respected Creators, Optional Pricing
Vaughan. Martin. The Private Eye.Remember that time a few years ago when Radiohead released their album In Rainbows online to fans on a pay-what-you-want model, allowing fans to download the digital...
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The Scooby-Doo/Captain Caveman Crossover That Changed My Life
One of the commonest ice-breaker questions between comic book fans getting to know each other or merely shooting the breeze between major-event discussions is, “What was your first comic book?” I have...
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My Former Life as a Kickstarter Junkie
Top to bottom: Ashes (art by Richard Pace); Jamal Igle’s Molly Danger; Neil DeGrasse Tyson, interviewee for Fight for Space; and Great Pacific (art by Martin Morazzo).When Kickstarter was relatively...
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“Oblivion”: Maverick vs. Galactus
As with most big-budget sci-fi films nowadays, many viewers will spend half the running time of the new Tom Cruise vehicle Oblivion mentally tallying how many refurbished components they recognize from...
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C2E2 2013 Photos, Part 5 of 6: Actors and Creators Who Made Our Day
Continuing our coverage of last weekend’s fourth annual Chicago Comic and Entertainment Exposition (“C2E2″), this episode covers the sci-fi actors and comic book creators we met this year. With one...
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May 4th is Free Comic Book Day 2013! Go Get Some!
I would be remiss in my comics fandom if I didn’t take a moment to plug the heck out of the twelfth annual Free Comic Book Day. And no one likes being remiss. No one. Each year since 2002, American...
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Indianapolis Wins at Free Comic Book Day 2013
My wife and I are pleased to report that Free Comic Book Day 2013 was certainly a success at Downtown Comics on Indianapolis’ northside location. Not only were the costumed heroes out in full force as...
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