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For improving early literacy, reading comics is no child's play
The Antiquarian Librarian | November 20th 2009 by Dan Nieman
Thank goodness we librarians are waking up to the positive effects of comics and graphic novels for encouraging literacy. Speaking as a young male who was a reluctant leader, comic books and sports magazines were two of the formats that encouraged me read more
Forget Twilight Meet Bite Club
Daily Comic Book Covers | November 20th 2009 by sirjx
The Sopranos have nothing on the Del Toros, a vampire clan that has run organized crime in Miami for nearly a century. Beautiful, rich and immortal, these bloodsuckers are also masters of backstabbing and in-fighting.This collection includes both the read more
Picasso Superheroes by Mike Esparza
Abduzeedo | Abducted by design | November 20th 2009 by fabio Sasso
We love comic books and superheroes and it's hard to explain why, however we could say that it's one of our first contacts with art, even though they are commercial. Now imagine if a famoust artist like Pablo Picasso were alive and decided to paint read more
Good Comics – Marvel Edition
The Metal Misfit | November 19th 2009
Dark Wolverine – This book is a result of the “Dark Reign” story and it is a bit of a guilty pleasure and Daken is in the running for being one of Marvel’s best villains from the last few years. He is absolutely unlikable, but read more
Web comic - everyone is weird
Klintron's Brain | November 18th 2009
Pretty good web comic. Virus Comics: not an insult (via Autumn) Related posts:Oddball comic of the dayWeird online comic‘Extraordinary Gentleman’ on big screen can’t compete with original comic series read more
Troma Dance Film Festival At The Big Apple Con
CrazyAlCAyne.com | November 17th 2009 by CRazy Al Cayne
I spoke to Evan about Troma Dance Film Festival at the Big Apple Con. Below is an excerpt about Troma Dance TromaDance is the first film festival wholeheartedly devoted to filmmakers and fans. Unlike every other film festival, TromaDance does not cha read more
Marvel Siege #2 & Tie Ins February Solicits Spoilers
Calliope's Realm Comics | November 17th 2009
SIEGE #2 (of 4) Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Pencils & Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL Variant Cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO The blockbuster Marvel event of the year goes full-blown carnage and madness as the biggest and most brutal read more
Blackest Night #7 & Tie Ins February Solicits Spoilers
Calliope's Realm Comics | November 17th 2009
There are some huge spoilers if you read between the lines of what the titles of certain books become. BLACKEST NIGHT #7 On Sale February 24 • 7 of 8 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US Written by Geoff Johns • Art and cover by Ivan Reis & Oclair read more
Shocking Last Page Marvel 11-11 Edition Spoilers
Calliope's Realm Comics | November 17th 2009
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 611 Kraven’s Wife and daughter have captured Spider-Woman(Mattie). CABLE # 20 2 years have passed as a mind controlled Bishop is on the trail of Hope and Cable. DAREDEVIL # 502 Daredevil and the Hand attack read more
Inglorious Basterds Comic Books
Daily Comic Book Covers | November 17th 2009 by sirjx
Alright, so these might be a pipe dream but they are causing a major stir amongst many different people out there. That's right, Inglorious Basterds comic book covers...a perfect fit for this site eh? Oh and just when you thought there were only 2, t read more
Good Comics – DC Edition
The Metal Misfit | November 17th 2009
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 read more
The Guys From The Werd Podcast Go In On The Transformers Movie
CrazyAlCAyne.com | November 17th 2009 by CRazy Al Cayne
In this segment I ask the guys from the Werd podcast about their favorite comic book based movies of 09 and all time, we also break down the “Coon Bots” from the wack ass Transformers 2 movie. We also talk about one of my favorite super h read more
The Werd Podcast 28a – What is Black Comics Part 1 of 3
Pink Raygun | November 16th 2009 by Lisa Fary
“What the frak is Black comics, anyway?” The Werd Crew and special guest Brian Wilson (of ‘The Wire’ , NOT ‘The Beach Boys’) take on the controversial subject of ‘Black’ media, comics and otherwise, to read more
Buffy Season 8 To Get Webisodes
SeanPAune.com | November 16th 2009 by Sean P. Aune
It seems Joss Whedon already has some ideas of what to do with his time since Dollhouse got cancelled. The Buffy, the Vampire Slayer season 8 comic books have been running for quite some time now, and it appears that they will be brought to life in a read more
Shocking Last Page DC 11-11 Edition Spoilers
Calliope's Realm Comics | November 16th 2009
ACTION COMICS #883 Dr Pillings meets Flamebird and Nigtwing to help them stop Chris aging. BATGIRL #4 After a tough day, Batgirl goes home to rest. BATMAN #693 Batman catches the kid that he was asking questions of, as he is assassinated. read more
Ender's Game the Comic Is a Total Suckfest
May's Machete | November 16th 2009 by May
Ender's Game is an amazing book. The series (and the Shadow series) just continued to boggle my mind. But the fucking comic sucks.My fiance's been reading it for a while (he reads them on his computer and I can never find the files I'm looking for o read more
Marvel Comics Shipping 11-18-09
The Rundown | November 16th 2009 by ManoDogs
Here we are, nerds and nerdettes, your weekly Rundown of Marvel Comics hitting shelves Wednesday, November 18th, 2009:Comics On-Sale:AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #612AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #612 BLACK CAT... Read More... read more
New Comics Shipping Wednesday November 18th
Calliope's Realm Comics | November 15th 2009
Adventure Comics #4 is one of the big books of the week, Here is what else is arriving: SEP090909E 24 OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 $24.99 SEP090100D ADVENTURE COMICS #4 (BLACKEST NIGHT) $3.99 SEP090101D ADVENTURE COMICS #507 VAR read more
Dear Editor....
THE TAINTED ARCHIVE | November 15th 2009 by GARY DOBBS
A fine feature in the comic books of my youth was the readers letters page -these were filled with notes, written in a grubby schoolboy hand, on practically every subject under the sun.For instance Paul Hickey, of New Zealand claims that reading Acti read more
Yoda Coffee Table, Steve Jobs Bowling Pin, Spiderman Motorcycle H…
The Walyou Blog | November 15th 2009 by Meir
This week has seen some great posts which are worth sharing in the Walyou Roundup, they include Star Wars, Coffee Tables, Steve Jobs Bowling Pin, Spiderman and Venom Motorcycle Helmets, Tetris Cake and Quilt, Pacman Art and Vacuum, Steampunk and more read more
Red Robin #6
Mechanistic Horses | November 15th 2009
Thank god for the new artist on this issue! Marcus To brings some life back into one of my favorite characters. Click to read on: So, we’ve got Marcus To on as the new penciller for Red Robin, and I’m super glad for it. Sure, his read more
Batman and Robin #6
Mechanistic Horses | November 15th 2009
To tell you the truth, I really didn’t want to buy this… but, it was the end of an arc and I just had to finish it… will I be buying the next couple issues even with a new artist…? Probably not. Click to continue Here̵ read more
Detective Comics #858
Mechanistic Horses | November 15th 2009
Talk about a gut wrencher! Is this comic even a comic anymore, because… quite frankly, Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III have acheived something that all comics should strive for: a tight story that isn’t really that contrived and beaut read more
Loads of Blackest Night!
Mechanistic Horses | November 14th 2009
Did you know that there’s a lot of Blackest Night comics that I haven’t reviewed? I mean… really. I guess it’s time to play catch up on our fun mega event of DC. There’s a lot of zombie bashing both positive and neg read more
The Weekly Stash (11/11/09)
Maverick - Musings of a Former Boy Wonder | November 14th 2009
Book of the week:Batman 693 Another solid issue by Tony Daniel. His Dick Grayson is such a cool character. Here we have a Batman who carries as much emotional baggage as his mentor but carries it with much more ease. Dick is cool and calculated like read more
Weekend Aside: Batman and the Outsiders
Justice League Revisited | November 14th 2009
Although the hero debuting in the next Justice League, Metamorpho, made his first significant impact at DC by being one of the few heroes to turn down Justice League membership, I first enountered him during a personal favourite series of my formati read more
Comic Review: Amazing Spider-Man #611
Flawless Hustle - Urban Culture Blog | November 13th 2009 by hav
Walk with me for a likkle bit… now, back in the day, I used to be heavy into a few things: Music, Pro Wrestling and Comic Books. When I was a shorty, I didn’t have many friends in my ‘hood, so I went heavy into escapism. As I got o read more
Thor to Start Shooting Mid-January
The Fire Wire | November 13th 2009 by Larry Fire
Marvel Studios will kick-off principal photography for the Kenneth Branagh-directed Thor in Los Angeles in mid-January. The production will then move to Santa Fe, New Mexico from March until late-April. The comic book adaptation is scheduled to hit read more
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