I didn't buy the first Fantastic Four Omnibus when it was initially released. I already owned the Masterworks editions, and I didn...

As much as I love Keith Giffen (and I love him a lot, me being a bit-time Ambush Bug and Legion fan and all), Blue Beetle really became a g...

Ryan and I have recorded a special podcast to help you celebrate New Year's Eve. Listen to this tonight (or any night, really), and it...

In one of the comments, Marc Caputo asked me if I'd ever read the Nick Fury vs. SHIELD series from the late 80s. He said he remembered...

Here we go! Now, Morrison's run is back on track after that weak, WEAK Ra's al Ghul non-event. In Batman #672, Morrison returns to...

This is a pretty big deal for Legion readers. Jim Shooter has returned to The Legion of Super-Heroes with issue #37, and it signals a new (...

I've already blogged about the quality of Powr Masters, The Salon, and Wisdom, all of which made their mark in the great comics year of ...

Here's another book that I liked quite a bit--I kind of loved it, actually--but not enough to list it in my Top 20 of 2007. It's a ...

Yesterday, it was Powr Masters which didn't quite make the Top 20 of the 2007. Then, I changed my mind about it. But, today, I'm ...

I don't know exactly what will make my Top 10 Comics of 2007, but I have my Top 20 hammered out, and I know the books that fell a bit sh...

Tom Spurgeon has an interesting interview with Will Pfeifer, writer of the much-maligned Amazons Attack . Honestly, Amazons is not represe...

The Coen brothers are in my top three holy trinity of great directors, along with Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson, both of whom also h...

Here's stuff I hope to read in the next week or two, but right now it's just piled next to my bed: The Rest of Last Week's Comic...

In which I ask five questions I've been pondering since Wednesday, and then provide the answers: Dear Myself, why wasn't Nova #9 ve...

One of the titles I buy each month for my son is Justice League Unlimited . (If you're curious, the others are Marvel Adventures Avenge...

You might not have picked up The Twelve #0 or Omega the Unknown #3 this week. You're probably busy trying to follow the complex sophi...

I haven't done a quick review post in quite a while, and I've been reading a ton of stuff each week (to balance out my lack of movie...

My wife and I used to see EVERY movie that came to our local multiplex. We didn't have kids yet, we took graduate courses to become cer...

Not only am I back to blogging, but my blogging can't be constrained by the walls of GeniusboyFiremelon. I've written a review of E...

One of the slides I show in my "History of American Comics" lecture (which begins, by the way, with Richard Outcault and ends with...