Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam, or, Comics are for Kids
Yes, comics are for kids. Rather, they can be. And certain properties tend to lend themselves more easily to a child-friendly version, or, even better, an all-ages version. Captain Marvel and the...
View ArticleThe DONK DONK Knight
Nobody could possibly care here, but since I said I’d put my thoughts together about The Dark Knight, let me try being a man of my word for once. I mostly enjoyed it as I watched it, at some points...
View ArticleA Cry for Help
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find a great scan of a Kirby-drawn Mother Box, especially if it’s Scott Free’s? Well I bet the first line of this post has given you a hint about the...
View Article“How precious and how fragile all the little things you value are”
I was excited to see the final issue of All-Star Superman this week. I’ve enjoyed the past 11 issues in degrees varying from “ecstatically” to “a lot.” Two pages into this finale and I was done.Â...
View ArticleDefinitive List of the Five Best Flashes Ever Anywhere
Comics and nerd “culture” have long been blessed with awesome characters named “Flash. In the usual CSBG style of pentatonic lists, I will now display the absolute facts as to who is best. 5. Funky...
View ArticleAl Jaffe Fold-ins in the NY Times (Link)
This is pretty awesome. (Here’s the article itself.) 9 Comments At January 8, 2009, uhhh wrote: Didn't you guys post this last year? It does go as far back as March 28, 2008 ... Great read, but i ...At...
View ArticleHorrid Self-Promotion
So I know I don’t post here much and there are certainly folks that are glad about that. But if there are still those among you who enjoy my writing, hopefully you’ll come check out another group blog...
View ArticleLinks of note, non-sausage variety
Appropo in regards to recent conversations here, the Mindless Ones have a good piece up about the recent issue of Final Crisis (and from my birthday no less!). Theirs is a great blog worth reading...
View ArticleHere are some links for you to click on hooray
Michel Gondry on Green Hornet: New York. Alan Moore Talks Comics, Superheroes, is Interesting: Wired. The Colonel writes some pulp: Here Comes a Regular (sorry, that one’s kind of self-serving)...
View ArticleJoe’d…
I’d not date other comic fans. Do we really need an extra thousand things to argue about? I’ll stick with where to eat and whose parents are crazier. I don’t need to yell about the relative merits of...
View ArticleComics That Probably Shouldn’t Be Good But Are
Everyone knows that DC and Marvel superhero comics are pretty terrible these days. Even more people than everyone knows that big-time crossover events are even worse, the lowest common denominator...
View ArticleBruce, Billy, and Family-creation
Certain characters really hit home with certain readers. And certain characters really strike a nerve with a lot more people than others. I’ve been thinking for a while about this in relation to...
View ArticleDifficult Spreadsheet Man is Probably a Secret Avenger
I’m not totally sure but I think this is him. Dang it if this fellow does not make some nice formulas in his cells, just totally proper 69 Comments At February 11, 2010, Squashua wrote: Perspective...
View ArticleMono-Lagering: King’s Head Tavern
So, some sort of introduction might be in order here. Hi, I’m Joe. Way back in the blogspot days, I co-founded this blog with Mr. Cronin, Mr. Cox, and some other internet pals. It was an attempt to...
View ArticleEvan-JOE-Lical Comics Club Part I: THE BEGINNING
I was sitting in a shithole of a Manhattan dive bar once frequented mostly by collegiate assholes and now simply by assholes. It was the sort of place not even I drank from the taps, so the Abita was...
View ArticleEvan-JOE-Lical Comics Club Part II: THE SECOND PART OF IT
Welcome back this grand experiment wherein we look for answers to some seminal questions: “What happens when you take normals to a comic book store?” “What hidden nerdy desires do we all hide deep...
View ArticleEvan-JOE-Lical Comics Club Part Three: The One After Part Two
Hello, and welcome back, sports fans. My of-uncertain-regularity posting of the reviews by “normals” of comics continues. I was away on an incredibly nerdy Weezer cruise a couple weeks ago, and my...
View ArticleEvan-JOE-Lical Comics Club: Experience Points
Reviewed today: Annihilators Volume 1 and Prophet #21 Back again, ladies and gentlefolk. Hope all is well. This week we have a slight change of pace. Today we’ve got two readers again, but both of...
View ArticleEvan-JOE-Lical Comics Club: Of Cocks and Preachers
WHAT?!?!? I’m back already?!?!? This is momentous folks. Not only do I have content for you two weeks straight for the first time EVER, we have our first returnee-review. Alex, from our first-ever...
View ArticleHelp Kids Love to Read
Hey, folks. It’s me again. The sharp-minded among you may recognize me as that guy that posts extremely rarely, except when he has an idea for a project that he eventually lets languish. Well, one...
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