Category Archives: Comic Books

Comic Books, Graphic Novels, their authors and artists.

Free Comic Book Day & “May the 4th be with You” were cool

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Steve

The Saturday celebration that laid down the groundwork for Record Store Day and the lesser-known Roleplaying Day, turned 11. To me it remains relevant plus it coincides with the unofficial kickoff of Summer. The coolest titles they gave away were … Continue reading →

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RIP Carmine Infantino

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Steve

Another key figure of the Silver Age passed away last week. Carmine’s most famous contribution was the revamped Flash in Showcase #4. Many say this 1956 comic book was the Silver Age’s beginning but for me, things don’t get rolling … Continue reading →

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Happy 90th Birthday Stan “the Man” Lee!

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Steve

I may be a DC guy but I respect and admire Stan. He’s one of the great writers who made the Silver Age incredible. He also co-created many characters I grew up with in the Seventies and Eighties. What makes … Continue reading →

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This year’s Rogues Gallery’s Christmas diorama…

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Steve

…Transformers duking it out for the holiday.

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Regular Green Show

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Steve

I had this piece commissioned by Austin Rogers of Redbeard Comics. He did an excellent job, well he really exceeded my expectations because I was just planning on him drawing Mordecai and Rigby saying one of their catchphrases. Making them Green … Continue reading →

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Seems there was a little more left in the tank

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Steve

Last I lamented about how the annual comic book from Bongo had seemed to run its course. There really wasn’t much else to parody and this was started to redo premises/stories the TV show had covered a decade ago. This … Continue reading →

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Buy this comic book 2012!

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Steve

Boom! recently reprinted a six-issue miniseries chronicling some new adventures of The Avengers, the UK show not the Marvel comics. They were written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Ian Gibson, so it was a mini-Judge Dredd reunion. I think … Continue reading →

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Awesome (to the max)! Early Eighties versions of Star Wars

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Steve

This cool artist did a mash-up or interpretation of the key Star Wars characters as the Eighties high-school archetypes, maybe a touch of college. I say the early Eighties since half the fashions shown fell out of favor by the … Continue reading →

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Cool 44th birthday present #2

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Steve

My Aggie nephews (because they live in College Station now and their parents are both graduates of Texas A&M) gave me this bitchin’ Justice League lunchbox. Inside were some cool Toy Joy-like trinkets but the lunchbox is the star. The … Continue reading →

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RIP: Joe Kubert

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Steve

The man synonymous with the DC characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman (Silver Age mostly) passed away yesterday. Although I wasn’t into the comic books Kubert usually drew, he had a very recognizable style. He also had moved into semi-retirement around … Continue reading →

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