It’s time for Ten Tweets Thursday with Joe Mulvey (@JoeMulv). Joe is the writer/creator/artist of Scam from ComixTribe. This book was released in a small press run earlier this year (check out a review here) and is set for worldwide Diamond release in August. Pre-order using Diamond code JUN121002 tell your shop to get in on the…
Read Between the Lines: From 0 Month to Infinity and Beyond
From 0 Month to Infinity and Beyond Or: why sorting my comic book collection gives me nose-bleeds With 0 Month coming up soon from DC, I was inspired to look at some of the odd numberings we’ve seen over the years in comics. My Twitter follower @mattbpodcaster joked that they should do Minus One issues,…
Shop Talk with Alpha Comics: July 6, 2012
July is already off to a bang in the comic news world, but what does all this news mean in the shops? Luckily, we’ve got Chris Humphries, owner of Alpha Comics, to take us behind the scenes and give us the scoop! Without further ado, let’s dig into Shop Talk for July 6, 2012! Aaron…
Ten Tweets Thursday with @LBoxGraveyard
This week’s Ten Tweets Thursday features a man who I would consider a comics historian, a cryptkeeper for comics of a bygone era, if you will. This man is Paul O’Connor (@LBoxGraveyard), the man who runs LongboxGraveyard.com, a fantastic blog about comics in general, but with a strong focus on the bronze age of comics.…
Crisis of Epic Proportion: The Case of That (Bat)Girl
You may not know this, but I fancy myself quite the ladies’ man. In truth, I’ve always had much more of a soft spot for female super-heroes than for their male counterparts. Maybe it was because they seemed to have worked so hard to get where they were. Maybe it was the fabulous outfits (looking…
Read Between the Lines: Sam MacGuffin
It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says “What’s that package up there in the baggage rack?”, and the other answers “Oh, that’s a MacGuffin”. The first one asks “What’s a MacGuffin?”. “Well”, the other man says, “It’s an apparatus for trapping lions in…
Ten Tweets Thursday with @willisbrian
This Thursday we feature Brian Willis (@willisbrian) a man of two worlds: one, Comics For Heroes, where he does fantastic work giving away comics to soldiers and kids in need, and the other: Unrestrained Anger, where he unleashes a rage reserved only for Red Lanterns. Check out his thoughts on the ten tweets and make…
Ten Tweets Thursday with @bigpinkdragon
Welcome to the latest Ten Tweets Thursday, featuring John Griffith (@bigpinkdragon)! John is a comic enthusiast who boasts what is indisputably one of the greatest moustaches in the history of mankind. On that note, here’s what John has to say about the infamous ten tweets! #1 What is the first comic you remember reading? Green…
Ten Tweets Thursday with @MattNat2000
What would Thursday be without your regular dose of Ten Tweets? It would be awful, that’s what! This week we pick the brain of MattNat (@MattNat2000) about all things comics! Hit it! #1 What is the first comic you remember reading? I think it was an issue of Batman Adventures with Mr. Freeze. BTAS was…
Ten Tweets Thursday with @ryanwriter
Welcome to another edition of Ten Tweets Thursday, this week we feature Ryan Ferrier (@ryanwriter), writer of The Terminals, Tiger Lawyer and The Brothers James, and avid comic reader as well! Be sure to check out his site here, which contains links to all his projects! #1 What is the first comic you remember reading?…