Superman Renounces Citizenship? We Respond.
In this Back to the Past Special Report, Superman: Friend or Foe, we host 3 different opinions on Superman renouncing his US citizenship. What do YOU think?
I WILL TELL YOU #24: Nothing Has To Die
Last week, as you’ll remember, I spoke of some of the early missteps made by publishers looking to enter the digital comics market, citing how that many either used new tools like flash animation and special effects to simply create multimedia digital versions of print comics, or unwittingly moved away from what comics were and…
RETRO REVIEW: Iron Man # 55
Welcome back to this week’s installment of Greg Turner’s RETRO REVIEW, and this week we’ll be looking at Iron Man # 55, from Marvel Comics, with a cover date of February 1973. The cover features Iron Man in battle with two creatures, billed as The Blood Brothers, and a third figure who is crashing through…
I WILL TELL YOU #23: Stumbling Into The Digital Age
Last week, as you’ll remember, I spoke of the rather narrow-minded perception of digital comics commonly held by many, from readers right on up to the publishers themselves. You don’t believe me, do you? Fine, see for yourself and check out IWTY #22. Go ahead, I’ll wait. But you’d better come back. Or maybe you…
Cerebus the Aardvark # 4: A Retro Review
Today I bring you Cerebus the Aardvark # 4, cover dated June 1978, from Aardvark Vanaheim. The little independent comic that just wouldn’t go away! Dave Sim began this comic with a one page submission, showing a funny aardvark character bouncing up and down on a horse, riding into a town, drawn in a…
I WILL TELL YOU #22: A New Golden Age
Last week, as you’ll remember, I spoke of Diamond Comic Distributors and iVerse Media’s recent launch of Diamond Digital, a partnership that’s intended to give both companies a definitive place in the emerging world of digital comics publishing. A rather interesting facet to this plan is its attempt to hold a place in that online…
Retro Review: Challengers Of The Unknown # 45
Welcome back for this week’s Retro Review! And what do we have today? How about D C Comics’ Challengers Of The Unknown # 45, cover dated September 1965. The story this issue is entitled; “The Queen Of The Challenger-Haters!” But the first thing the comic buyer back in 1965 would have seen was the…
I WILL TELL YOU #21: Unclog the Drain!
A couple of weeks ago, I shanghaied Dave Marchand’s More Cool Stuff column as an April Fools gag, and ironically discussed the subject of digital comics. What’s so ironic about that, you ask? All together now: I will tell you! Digital comics might be cool, sure, but they’re hardly “stuff” in that physical sense that…
Retro Review: Daredevil # 168
From Marvel Comics, cover dated January 1981, comes Daredevil # 168. It sports a cover drawn by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson and features a shadowing female figure poised above our hero, Daredevil. The caption on the cover reads; “Elecktra, once he loved her …now she is his most deadly enemy!” Well, except for…
I WILL TELL YOU #20: Franchise Foundation
I’m back in my own column this week, so for those of you who enjoyed Greg’s take on it last time, well, I’m very sorry to disappoint you. But it’s like I never said, just because you fit in another man’s trousers, doesn’t mean you should get comfortable in ’em. As I’ve mentioned in the…