A new year is, metaphorically, a blank slate. So is my brain, at least as far as this column is concerned. Usually, when I am faced with no new ideas I travel the Internet, looking to see what other people in comics are talking about. Usually, this works. Unfortunately, a lot of media doesn’t publish…
DAREDEVIL CAN TAKE THE STAND – FROM A LIBRARY Because it had three stories in it, that’s why. Yes, we’re playing Jeopardy. That’s the answer. And the correct question is, why did you write three columns about Daredevil v4 #15.1? The third story in this extra-long volume with the screwy numbering – “Chasing the Devil”…
Once upon a time, there was a very bad man who got caught committing armed robbery. Caught red handed. But the very bad man was never brought to trial. Never convicted. Never even arrested. In fact, the bad man got away scott-free. And no one lived happily ever after. Except for the very bad man….
Tony Isabella, we have your follow up for The Shadow War of Hawkman: Hawkman’s long lost brother has shown up….by night he is mild mannered Paul Ryan, but whenever he gets close to a microphone, a campaign stop or the Capitol Building he metamorphoses into Deficit Hawkman! Yes! Deficit Hawkman wants to cut services to…
1,000 Comic Books You Must Read By Tony Isabella Krause Publications, 272 pages. $29.99 retail. I want to publicly thank Tony Isabella for taking on a task that is as courageous as it is, well, thankless. It’s hard to imagine a more difficult and a more controversial chore than recommending only 1000 comic books you…
Our pal and ComicMix Podcast contributor would like to offer a message of critical importance. Take it away, Tony… Want to see and hear me live and in person? Well, for a limited time only, you can do both at Lakeland Community College’s 4th Annual Comics Symposium, Saturday, March 24, in Kirtland, Ohio. I’m one…
Our second reviewer, longtime comics writer Tony Isabella, makes his debut as a ComicMix podcast critic and spells out his rules and regulations. Archie Comics takes on Marvel Comics in "Civil Chores." More previews of this weekend’s NYCC. Mike Raub delivers the news and the goods on ComicMix podcast #5 — which you can get…
