Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we examine alternate universe stories in all their shapes and sizes. Today, we’ll be spoiling the heck out of story mode from the newly released Injustice 2 video game! How’s It Different? It’s a For Want of a Nail story in which The Joker tricked Superman into…
DetailsThe 2017 Motor City Comic Con took place May 19 – 21 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan, hosting its usual and eclectic array of movie, television, and comic guests for both local and regional fans. This year’s featured TV and movie celebrities included actor Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy, AMC’s The…
DetailsWednesday, May 24th – Weekly Broadcast Featuring Silver and Bronze Age Comics @6PM Eastern This session is both in the showroom and online – join us in person or live via Proxibid. 200 lots from a lifelong collector! Some Highlights: Fantastic Four Annual #3 (Wedding issue), Batman Adventures: Mad Love Special (Harley Quinn origin), Brave & Bold…
DetailsOkay, time for a new RETRO REVIEW, so I’ve dug out my copy of Plastic Man # 2, published by D C Comics, though they were known as National Comics back in the day, when this comic was published. Oh yeah, for the record, the issue is cover dated; February 1967, but it would have…
DetailsWelcome to Tokusatsu Gesundheit, where today we’re examining a Kaiju picture from one of Japan’s neighbors to the west: Pulgasari, hailing from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Plot Rundown Pulgasari is an iron eating monster created by a dying blacksmith to aid in the other throw of a corrupt government in medieval Korea. Though…
DetailsIt is just about impossible to determine when and where the very first write-up on the still new and very cool Marvel Comics of the sixties was published, but in this week’s Fabulous Find, I just might have found one of the very first, if not the actual first publication. I don’t know for sure, but…
DetailsWelcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today we’re looking at a video game time-in comic. Marvel Future Fight is a mobile game from South Korean studio Net Marble, and the comic Marvel Future Fight: An Eye on the Future expands on the origins of its signature original character. How’s It Different? It’s a…
DetailsHey there fans, friends and family, welcome back for a new RETRO REVIEW. This week it’s time to once again visit the Marvel Comics annex of the hidden underground comic book vault. And I have emerged with two (2) comics in hand; Avengers # 181 & 182. They are cover dated March 1978 and April…
DetailsWelcome back to Scripting Errors, where we look at movies that might have been! Today, we’re reading a September 2005 draft of the film that would eventually become G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. We’ll see that even though the final film got a mixed reception, it could have been a bit worse. Since I…
DetailsHey gang, time for a new Fabulous Find, this week, and I’ve brought to light five (5) tabloid newspapers which presented comic strip reprints. The newspapers are entitled; “Chapters”, subtitled; “showcasing the finest in continuity comic strips”. And yes the quotation marks are actually included in the title of the newspaper! Issue number 0ne (1)…
DetailsWelcome back to Strange Times & Places, where this week we’re reading a one-off, single issue story that spawned over two hundred issues worth of fan favorite comics – What If? #105, the first appearance of the Spectacular Spider-Girl! How’s It Different? Like most, if not all, issues of What If?, it’s a For Want…
DetailsIt’s time for another RETRO REVIEW of an independent comic book. And just this week, I was given a copy of Magnus, Robot Fighter # 13, from my cousin’s son. I unfortunately had to make a quick trip to Kentucky for a family funeral, but did return with a couple of comics that had once…
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