Way back in March, I mentioned a scholarly book on The Legion of Super-Heroes that I was trying to put together. In that earlier post, I p...

I can't say much about this project yet, but when I mentioned how I'm working on a dozen different projects, this is one of them. T...

This was a pretty light week for comics, and although I enjoyed the relatively insubstantial first chapter of "Escape from Bizarro Worl...

I'm working on about a dozen different projects these days, in addition to regularly updating this blog and giving you weekly podcast gr...

Last week I listed Wolverine #56 as one of my most anticipated comics of the week. I said, "Jason Aaron is great. Howard Chaykin is g...

A mere week after Episode 2, Episode 3 of the Best Podcast Ever is now available for your listening pleasure. Join Ryan and I as we explore...

Batman #668, by Grant Morrison and J.H. Williams III, is an excellent comic book. As the second installment of the three-part "Club o...

Hello, loyal readers! Richard Oldstate here. My good friend and ice-fishing companion Timothy has asked me to fill in for him during his tri...

I'm going to be out of town for the rest of the week, so no more updates until this weekend guest blogger Richard Oldstate will be taki...

Here's a little something that's totally unrelated to comic books or pop culture, but it kind of pisses me off. Whenever I read a me...

I've picked up a lot of new readers (like you) over the past two months, and the nature of blog reading is such that if a post is not on...

The eagerly-awaited second episode of the BEST PODCAST EVER* has finally arrived. Thrill to 32 minutes of conversation on such diverse topi...

The Joseph Campbell heroic quest, distilled into sequential images that may or may not make any sense. With dragons and ice cream. Created...

This November, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Western Massachusetts will begin a six-month long comic book exhibit. It's going to be re...

I know I'm a week late, but what can I do? My shop didn't get Casanova #8 until this week. So here we are. Talking about the gre...

I picked up the long-awaited Marvel Heroscape this weekend. I don't have time to go into my whole history as a "gamer," but ...

Yesterday , I discussed the major Ultimate Universe titles and explained why I thought most of them were worth reading. Today, I'll con...

I should probably call this "Some Thoughts on Marvel's Ultimate Universe," since "Defense" is a pretty strong word f...

When I reviewed Batman #667 the other day, I took a stab at guessing the artistic inspirations for the drawings of each Club of Heroes mem...

In my very long discussion of James Robinson's The Golden Age and Darwyn Cooke's The New Frontier , I barely touched upon an idea ...