September 2010
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Wildstorm Closing Up Shop
Just heard the news. While the imprint probably published 100 bad comics for every one good one, it’s still kind of sad, and my sympathies go out to anyone negatively affected by the announcement. At times it seemed the great comics from Wildstorm happened almost by accident, but I’ll always treasure my copies of Sleeper, the Wildcats runs written by Alan Moore and Joe Casey, Kurt...
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Albany Comic Con Argonauts Variant Cover
Thanks to John Belskis at Excellent Adventures in Ballston Spa, NY (an occasional advertiser here on the site), here’s a look at the Argonauts Albany Comic Con Variant, which will be available at the convention at the Holiday Inn on Wolf Road in Albany on October 24th. The comic is written by Keith Dallas, and the cover was done by Christian St. Pierre. It features Nipper, a...
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Top Shelf's Massive $3.00 Sale
Top Shelf Productions (an advertiser on this site, although I am running this announcement strictly because they’re a great publisher and I think everyone who loves comics should support them) has announced their 2010 Massive $3.00 Sale. Here are the details, from Top Shelf’s Chris Staros: For the next ten days — thru Friday September 24th — Top Shelf is having a giant $3...
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A Decade Under the Impudence
Even though we’d discussed it here and there over the past year, I was surprised when Alan David Doane reminded me of the 10th anniversary of Comic Book Galaxy. To be totally honest, even though I’m often quite a sentimental, nostalgic guy, to me CBG essentially died around a year ago, when we relaunched as Trouble With Comics. I like that name better, and for a time was quite energized by hanging...
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ADD Reviews The Thin Black Line: Perspectives on...
How strange is it that we live in a world where the very first book devoted to an individual comicbook inker is devoted to Vince Colletta, widely regarded as one of, if not the, worst inker in comics history? When I was first beginning to recognize individual artistic styles in the comics I was reading, Colletta’s name was the first one that, when I saw it in the credits, I knew the art...
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On Being Ten
I turned ten in early 1991.
I would have been in Grade 5 at that time. I remember our initial classes that year being interrupted by studying some of the history of the Middle East, but I also remember reading Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, working on Greek mythology, something about Bloom’s taxonomy, and my teacher telling a story about hiking along the Bruce Trail, coming across an...
