This summer there are four—count ‘em: X-Men First Class, Thor, Green Lantern, and Captain America—major comic book movies coming out (not to mention the “minor” ones like Priest), and three of them involve characters created by Stan Lee.  So, I say to you: Stan Lee is the most important author of the 20th Century.  I [...]

I’ve read a few complaints already about Marvel Comics’ current “event” title, Fear Itself.  The comic focuses on Captain America and Thor, with major roles by Iron Man, Hulk, and some major Marvel mutants.  The complaints I’ve heard are all pretty much the same: “Gee, ain’t it a coincidence there’s an event about Cap and [...]

My semi-regular post about all things related to comic books–America’s greatest contribution to the literary field.  This week, updates about the Chew TV show, the Deadpool movie, and more….

J. Michael Straczynski, author of the mildly cultish mediocre sci fi series Babylon 5 writes comic books. Or at least he used to. (He also wrote some He-Man cartoons and a few bad movies like Changeling and Ninja Assassin. But for the purposes of this blog, he’s a comic-book writer. And, at times, at a [...]

Howard Stern?!  Really?!  Yes!  Hit the break!  But in the meantime, check out this amazing cover for this year’s Marvel event, “Fear Itself.”

Looks like it’ll be a very, very good year.  This here’s number 11.  Hit the break for more.

I know, I know.  I already wrote about this once, and said I couldn’t really put together a definitive “best of” list.  But I’ve done more research, much more reading, and I’ve come to conclude that I can!  And have!  This list builds on that old one—you can just ignore that post, in fact, and [...]

Wherein I tell you the haps on superherocomicsandrelated stuff. I’ll also mention that since we couldn’t find the Christmas ornaments in our attic, and since I’m a half-Jew anyway, we’ve decided to decorate our tree in comic book swag. We started with all the free plastic Blackest Night power rings. It looks great! And now, [...]

1.  X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. Of all the upcoming cape flicks, this is the one I’m second-most-looking-forward-to (first is Avengers, natch!).  Despite the title, the film will include not just the original 5 muties from the Stan Lee era, but also will have Banshee, Magneto (of course), Emma Frost, and Havok. 2.  ULTIMATE THOR. The “Ultimates” [...]

Continuing from yesterday’s megapost, today we have the not-quites….. First, the ones who were bubbling under.  It took 19 votes out of the 200 to make the top 10, and these just didn’t make the cut—but I was surprised they didn’t get more attention: Ed Brubaker/Matt Fraction/David Aja’s Iron Fist (2 votes) JMS’s Thor (3 [...]