Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin

So I got something in a collection the other day that I’ve never seen before.

On the comic shelves this week, a couple of comics by Close Personal Friends that I wish to point out to you, the potential readers of such: First off is Fixation #1, part of the new line of crime comics from IDW: This is written by Amy Chase, one of my r…

Jeff asks “Have you read Byrne’s new X-Men Fanfic book?

So Marvel unleashed its “Ultimate” Universe in 2000/2001, starting with Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men, partially out of a need to have some “new reader friendly” material on the stands free of the deep continuity in the regular Marvel Universe.

Well, we’re trying this again.

We’ve reached a point in the Fantastic Four run, following the big anniversary issue, where it feels like…well, I can’t say exactly that it’s “killing time,” or “filling pages,” or “keeping a monthly Fantastic Four title on the stands while we wait for a…

Hi pals…I haven’t had the blogging time I’ve needed for my longer-form posts lately.

Just sinking into a new issue of Concrete after so many years of doing without remains as satisfying and, I guess, “cozy” is the word of the day in regards to referring to certain types of literature.

So I’ve been otherwise occupied, both at work and at home, and with doing some behind-the-scenes tinkering with this here website, so today I’ll show you a picture of stacks of 1960s/1970s DC war comics I picked up over the weekend: What a glorious, terri…

[NOTE: some of this post was written In Real Time as I got more information from An Important Personage Related to This Subject, so I apologize if it reads a little awkwardly.]