Category Archives: Comic Books

In their Quixotic quest to lure in new readers, DC Comics is relaunching, restarting, rebooting…whatever, all their titles this September and starting over from issue number one; not on just some as they ended up doing in 1985 after the … Continue reading →

It has been so long since I’ve written anything about comic books, I even considered retiring the category or having it rolled in with the Books part which was recently languishing. I still read ’em, it’s the part involving a … Continue reading →

I figured that I could still give my two cents in November since Fox usually airs the Halloween episode well after the holiday too: The World Series is so much more interesting and important. Last year I forgot to either … Continue reading →

This great comic book artist was one of my friend Steve‘s heroes and an inspiration to become even better (I thought he was pretty good to begin with). Before my GDW tenure, I was pretty ignorant about the guy until … Continue reading →

If you don’t recognize his comic book art, you will at least recognize Conan the Barbarian thanks to his book covers as his obit states. Definitely a more worthy donation to Popular Culture than a Molly Hatchet album and every … Continue reading →

This news came up during Somara’s surfing last night while I was taking in the latest from Nintendo Week. She prefaced the details with “two famous comic book people died.” As soon as she said Dick’s name, I was bummed … Continue reading →

The man who is considered the founder of San Diego Comic Con died this week from diabetes-related issues. Of all the comic book conventions out there, Shel founded the 800-pound gorilla. Bigger than NYC or Chicago which was impressive due … Continue reading →

My co-workers Tomoko and Ayako had told me the bad news since last week. Originally, Mr. Usui was reported missing after not returning from his recent hike. Yesterday they found his corpse as per this news story. Most Americans don’t … Continue reading →

My friend Steve (Bryant) is a full-time comic book artist and I remembered our frequent debates about who rocked versus who sucked. Since I can’t draw a decent circle let alone an acceptable face, you know I lost the argument … Continue reading →

Halloween is almost here along with a couple of other traditions: The TV and comic book versions of “Treehouse of Horror.” I’m more familiar with the latter because we’ve been without cable or terrestrial-based TV for over a year. This … Continue reading →