As I was reading DC: The New Frontier Volume 2 earlier, I began thinking about something a friend asked me. Why do I read comics?
The more and more I consider the question, the more I have to view comics as an escape and a fantasy. Of course they are fantastic, nobody can fly in real [...]
This week I’ve got a few things I’m particularly looking forward to:
Amazing Spider-Man #554
Captain America #36
Countdown to Final Crisis #6 (which I’ll read after I get through the preceeding 45 issues.)
Foolkiller #4
Robin #172
Thor #7 (Marko Djurdjevic is drawing!)
War is Hell: First Flight of the Phantom Eagle (I love you Garth Ennis, in a purely [...]
It has been a long couple of days for me due to the glorious Earth Crisis, Terror, Shai Hulud show Monday night, so I’m only now getting my pull up. Here’s what I’ve got this week:
Amazing Spider-Man #552
Secret Invasion Saga #1 (free! according to marvel)
Detective Comics #842
Nightwing #142
Northlanders #4
Scalped #15
There are a few [...]
I was checking out the Marvel Ship List earlier to see what came out this week and I glanced at Amazing Spider-Man #552. Much to my despair, I saw that Phil Jimenez (New X-Men) would be drawing the next arc. I was really quite upset, as I loathe the art in New X-Men. [...]
As the oldest member of the beerandcomics.com staff, and the only one with a child, it has fallen to me to cover golden age comics and also offer what insight I have on the comics my son is reading, and how he and I have decided what comics are both age and subject appropriate. My [...]
