Comic Book Covers: The Original Clickbait By Luke Simkins
I was pricing through a long box of older comics the other day, and I came across the cover for Flash #206. It’s a Neal Adams cover, featuring a woman plummeting face first into the ground from a plane while the Flash looks on in horror. This kind of over the top and ridiculous cover … Read more Doc’s Reviews For The Week Of 9/13/2023
WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #1 MARVEL COMICS With October right around the corner, Marvel has come up with some titles and one-shots to reintroduce us to their monster sub-universe. With a new version of the Crypt of Shadows title coming up, they tossed us a quick sneak peek with a new installment of the old … Read more My First Comic by Brett
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster…oops; sorry, wrong article. As far back as I can remember I was reading comics. My family spent many of our weekends in a cottage on an extremely small lake in Central New York that had no rivers or streams connecting it … Read more Doc’s Reviews For The Week of 9/6/2023
BIRDS OF PREY #1 DC COMICS I always look forward to a new Birds of Prey title and with a Green Arrow loving Black Canary at the helm, I thought things might be turning in the right direction. But honestly, I’m a bit torn on this one. I was the biggest fan of the … Read more Into the Manga-Verse! By Gavin M
Once upon a time, in a world not so different from ours, the shelves of comic book stores were adorned with a colorful array of stories that transcended time and space. Manga, a form of Japanese comic art, had taken the world by storm, introducing readers to fantastical worlds, captivating characters, and gripping adventures. As … Read more Sorcery Fight with Jake
Previously, I your friendly neighborhood Lakeview store manager have written up a list of some of my favorite manga series, and I’m back to focus on one of those series Jujutsu Kaisen. Having dived back into the genre of manga in the last year Jujutsu Kaisen is the one that fits with what I enjoy … Read more Doc’s Reviews for the Week of 8/22/2023
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #4 DC COMICS Well, it was bound to happen. Batman the Brave and the Bold has finally tipped the scales with more Batman than Brave or Bold. Oh, we still have some Stormwatch and an Amanda Waller/Emilia Harcourt story but that’s much of a team up book. And … Read more Marvel’s #3 is #1 by Kevin H
When people talk about Marvel Comics, the founding days, the peak creative window, the names most likely to come up are, in order, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Love him or hate him or correctly assess his place in history as both historic AND aggrandized simultaneously, Stan the Man was Marvel Comics. He arrived at … Read more Doc’s Reviews For The Week of 08/16/2023
GODZILLA WAR FOR HUMANITY #1 IDW COMICS Writer Andrew Maclean knows what Godzilla fans want and gives it to us. And while I am not a huge fan of Jake Smith’s art, he does give us shot on versions of our favorite kaiju. From Hedorah the Smog Monster to Manda to Minya (YES! I … Read more A Journey into Comics Retail! Part 337 By Rick B.
Near the end there was chaos. Pure artistic chaos! Gimmick covers galore! You like shiny foil? How about a Holofoil Die Cut Gatefold! Gimmick characters galore! You like Longshot? Add more swords, here’s Shatterstar! Add even more sharp things, here’s Adam X the X-Treme! You like deaths? How about broken backs? How about not dead but … Read more |
