Fight Club
For those of you who enjoyed our ULTIMATE FIGHTER Season 5 recaps we've moved them to a more fitting venue over at UGO,...
Wertham: Friend or foe?
While Fredric Wertham is the archetypal real-life bogeyman of comics, his legacy is not all black and white. Bart Beatty, author of Frederic Wertham...
On the road
We'll be on the road for a few days for some semi-R&R. That means we'll be blogging, and reading email but only for a...
Don Rosa update
While perusing the Disney forum for the previous item, we came across an update on Don Rosa's detached retina relayed from Dan Shane on...
Color Quandaries #2: The Barks Affair
Excitement ran high on various message boards when an Amazon listing was found for The Carl Barks Collection Set 1, to be published...
Color Quandaries #1: Killing Joke
There's a handsome new hardcover edition of THE KILLING JOKE by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland out, featuring remastered color by Bolland. PopCultureShock has...
Columns: Gender, stores, soaps
§ Kristy Valenti has the second part of her Gender and Reading Habits examination up, this time the girls are scrutinized, although more is...
This one is pretty good
We didn't want to link to April Fools Day gags, but Gmail's is pretty damned funny.
Al Jaffee amazement
We take back everything bad we were just saying about The Internet. This Flash-based New York Times tribute to Mad's Al Jaffee and his...
What’s hot at MySpace!
CBR takes a look at comics on MySpace and concludes that Marvel is very buzy there. However the most popular cartoonist on MySpace is...
Our vanishing internets
That last post about Ric Flair illustrated something we've been noticing for a long time: how the disappearance of the "fan page" is resulting...
To be the man you gotta beat the the man
Ric Flair retired last night. Like Jack Kirby, Flair is so essential he gives his entire profession context.
Both "Woman" and Miss Elizabeth have left...
