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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies DVD Review
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009, Warner Home Video) I caught this one last week thanks to Netflix and loved it. While Marvel usually has the market cornered on movies, DC has always blown away any animation Marvel came out with. This fact remai...
Good Comics – DC Edition
I almost called this Comics Worth Reading but settled on the simplistic “Good Comics”. Either way, it’s pretty self-explanatory. Here’s the books from DC Comics that I’ve been enjoying and reading lately… That is w...
Happy Meal featuring Super Looney Tunes
I swear, McDonald’s Happy Meals put out some of the greatest toys known to mankind. Perhaps a full article is warranted on the subject… Anyway, it’s rather unfortunate that I did not collect all 4. I only had Wonder Pig (Petunia Pig...
Corgi Super Heroes Cars
These are pretty nifty looking cars from diecast manufacturer Corgi. Notice the Joker and Penguin cars. Now, I can understand a super HERO placing their symbol/color scheme onto their transportation mode of choice — it’s advertising to le...
Own the Super Powers Collection on VHS (or Beta)!
This is a fun ad with the artwork by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. Jose supplied stock art for many, if not all, of DC’s marketing in the 80s. It’s his work that, for many, is an iconic take on DC’s iconic characters. The use of Super Pow...
Celebrate Superman’s 50th Anniversary
… by purchasing an official medallion! As I’ve touched on before, medallions were a big business decades ago in the pages of comic books. Often, they featured the superheroes themselves. These medallions are quite a bit more pricey than ...
Cartoons of the 1990s? They weren’t so bad.
I’ve talked a lot about cartoons from the 1980s, but believe it or not, there were actually some decent cartoons that came out of the 1990s. ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX were still putting out a variety of (non-anime/card game-driven) cartoons every S...
Titans #12 reviewed @ PoP!
The first official part of the Titans’ Deathtrap crossover. Check it out! Titans #12 ...
Teen Titans reviews @ PoP!
Teen Titans #69 Teen Titans Annual 2009 ...
Retcon This! - “Electro Superman” @ PoP!
Retcon This! is a feature at Panels On Pages where we talk about when bad things happen to our beloved comics and characters. This is my first contribution to that feature: http://panelsonpages.com/?p=3025 ...
Superman #686 & JLA #31 Reviews @ PoP!
Justice League of America #31 Superman #686 ...
Batman’s Secret Code Bike Alarm
“Bicycle theft is serious business!” Obviously, feeling he has the everyday drug dealings and psychotic killings in Gotham well under control, Batman has turned his attention to the one crime he’s neglected all these years: bicycle ...
The Top 5 Bad Ideas for JLA Membership
The Justice League is my favorite concept/book/team in all of comics. The League is (theoretically) where DC Comics’ biggest and brightest heroes get together to battle gods, demons, aliens, monsters, super-villains, and continuity. Of cour...
