A baby, abandoned. Surrounded by dead bodies, she is found by a poor monk. He takes her back to his home for safety, and the company of his brother monks. Happily ever after? Think again. In White Viper, the new series written by Erin Holroyd, with art by the legendary Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin,…
Every week when I’m considering a subject for my column, I look at the newspapers and the comic books cluttering up my living room. Perhaps this will be the week in which there is a perfect synchronization between the real world and the graphic world! Perhaps a team of comic book writers, artists and editors…
In today’s brand-new episode of Simone & Ajax: The Case of the Maltese Duck, by Andrew Pepoy (with colors by Jason Millet), Â our heroine, Simone, and her dinosaur pal, Ajax, find themselves locked in a cell. Their captor is the beautiful Fu Wahu. The evil temptress is trying to rejuvenate her father, the dreaded…
In today’s brand new episode of EZ Street, by Mark Wheatley and Robert Tinnell, things go bump in the night. Â It’s enough to make a man question his entire career, assuming he makes it out of the crash in one piece. Credits: Mark Wheatley (Artist), Mark Wheatley (Colorist), Mark Wheatley (Letterer), Mark Wheatley (Writer),…
You may have noticed that my quick wit and adorable charm were missing from this site for a few days last week. From May 11 through May 19, I was away on vacation. It was the first time my sweetie and I have been away alone together for more than a few days since our…
In today’s brand-new episode of Black Ice, by Mike Baron and Lee Oaks, the Prince takes the Helmet to which he believes he was born. The King and Queen learn of their son’s alleged death. And, oh yeah, there’s dragons. Credits: Mike Baron (Writer), Lee Oaks (Artist), Bob Pinaha (Letterer), Matt Webb (Colorist), Mike…
According to Gawker, the New Yorker recently ran a cartoon that plagiarizes the very famous cover of Tales to Astonish by King of Comics, Jack Kirby. The too-cool-for-school blog asks, "Comic book geeks, your services are at last required. How obscure is this?" On behalf of geeks everywhere, allow me to say, it’s not at all…
In today’s brand-new episode of EZ Street, by Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley, Danny crashes in a bad way. Â He’s hearing voices, and they’re calling him names. Â And who is that behind him, ready to hit him with a board? Â Credits: Mark Wheatley (Artist), Mark Wheatley (Colorist), Mark Wheatley (Letterer), Mark Wheatley…
There is a special exhibition at the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Musuem of Art called Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. I haven’t been able to go yet, but according to the exhibit’s web site, the show features costumes designed around these groups: •The Patriotic Body (Wonder Woman, Captain America) •The Virile Body (they cite…
Last weekend, my son and I went to see Iron Man. We went in the middle of the day to a movie theater in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood that is rarely crowded, so the only other people there were geeks like us. We had a great time, and that’s what this column is about. Tomorrow is…
In today’s brand-new episode of GrimJack: The Manx Cat, by John Ostrander and Timothy Truman, John Gaunt is back in his own body, and he’s in a hurry. He needs the St. Johns knives to save his friend. Can he persuade Munden (of Munden’s Bar) to hand them over? Credits: John Ostrander (Writer), John Workman…
In this brand-new, full-color episode of Simone & Ajax: The Case of the Maltese Duck, by Andrew Pepoy with colors by Jason MIllet, we see the story behind the duck, whose name happens to be Herriman. He’s the last of his kind, and he really needs his liver. Credits: Andrew Pepoy (Artist), Andrew Pepoy (Letterer),…
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