I Will Tell You #89: Top Five Reasons to be Thankful for Comics As Thanksgiving approaches, we all have many things to be thankful for, although amidst the business of our daily chores and various challenges we face, we don’t always realize it. While we scramble trying to cope with the stresses of our jobs,…
I Will Tell You #88: Detroit Fanfare Comic Con 2013 The fourth annual Detroit Fanfare, or Detroit Fanfare Comic Con as it’s now officially known, is now underway at the Adoba Hotel Dearborn (formerly the Hyatt Regency) in Dearborn, Michigan. And it’s underway a day early by way of the show’s first-ever Preview Night, held…
I Will Tell You #87: Christmas Lights on Halloween, Doo Dah, Doo Dah A lot of people adorn the outside of their homes with Christmas lights, everyone knows that. And typically, the decorations usually go up in early December, or maybe around Thanksgiving for some of the more eager and anxious Christmas lovers. Problem is,…
I Will Tell You #79: 5 More Random Thoughts About Zombies and Other Stuff You know, random thoughts about zombies are much like zombies chewing on fingers; you can’t stop with just a few. So, continuing from last week, here are 5 more random thoughts about zombies and stuff that’s sort of related. …
Jim Johnson wants to raise the visibility on three Avengers members that deserve face time in the films! The Wasp, Giant Man and the Vision are all important and interesting characters, and here’s why they should be included… Full Text: JJ here, Back to the Past Pop Culture TV, and this week I’m going to…
I WILL TELL YOU: Super Santa As Christmas is nearly upon us, I’d like to repost a column that I did several years ago, where I unabashedly propose a re-imagining of Santa Claus for today’s social climate. I actually posted this here on B2TP a year ago, but since our audience consisted of about six people…
Welcome back, all you comic book fans, to this week’s Retro Review! This week I’m writing about a comic that has a cover date of November 1989, its from D C Comics and that book is … Legion Of Super-Heroes # 1. As some know, I’m a long time fan of the complicated history of the…
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…
Did you grow up watching DuckTales? If you’re a little older, you probably grew up reading the adventures of Donald Duck and family in comic books. Either way, the man most responsible for those childhood memories isn’t Walt Disney. No, Donald Ducks iconic nephews and stingy Uncle Scrooge were the creations of “The Good Ducks…
If you’re a collector of trading cards, comic books, novels, movie posters, et al, you’ll probably run into the name “Boris Vallejo” at some point. Moreover, you’ll probably run into it as a selling point, a reason why you should give this comic or poster some extra attention. So who the heck is he? Let…