History Magazine: A Wellspring of ideas!
One of my current favorite magazines — and I do mean magazine, not comic book — is a bimonthly out of Canada called History Magazine. […]
September 2006
These are a few of my favorite comics
Over the years, I’ve stumbled across individual issues of comics that I love. Among my favorites are “Spectacular Spider-Man” No. 58, “The Uncanny X-Men” No. […]
Hey, that was actually pretty good!
A lot of comic stores have “bargain boxes,” the final repository for titles that got over-ordered and didn’t survive very long. Inside you’ll find an occasional gem, […]
Pride of Baghdad (2006)
You may remember the story at the dawn of the war in Iraq: A group of lions had escaped from the bombed-out Baghdad Zoo and […]
Beating back the “to-read” pile
Just like some people I know with their mounting DVD collections, full of extra features, bonus disks and special insert photo cards, I have a huge […]
Wowio offers free comics
Check this site out … wowio.com. The site offers comics for free on the Internet as a PDF. The only catch is that you, the […]
Wonder Twin useless powers — Activate!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhbxlz_wrI&w=425&h=350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhbxlz_wrI Finally, Zann and Janna learn the idiocy of their powers.
Picture perfect pulps
One minor pulp star was a female detective named Carrie Cashin. In “The Dime Detectives,” a history of pulp-fiction detectives by Ron Goulart, calls Cashin […]
GM Mastery: Holiday Essentials
Johnn Four, writer of the wonderful role-playing game e-book “NPC Essentials” and ocassional columnist for “Dragon” magazine, has just come out with a new product […]
The Tale of One Bad Rat
Since the CaptainComics.us site still isn’t up, I ventured over to comicbookresources.com, a site that has a wealth of topics and information, where I stumbled on […]
Stan Sakai’s role in the minicomics
“The Warrior Machine” was one of the later Masters of the Universe minicomics featured the story of the origins of Extendar and Dragstor, two super-powered […]
Del, the Marvel Universe’s super tailor
Like Edna Mole in “The Incredibles”, it seems that the Marvel Universe has its own super-tailor. This scene is from “Power Man & Iron Fist” […]
Sticking to the He-Man art style
In the “Masters of the Universe” minicomic “Masks of Power,” which was originally packaged with Fisto, He-Man and Fisto seek to recapture legendary masks that […]
Lazer Tag flashbacks
I just spent most of the day rummaging through a huge filing cabinet of “paper things” that I’ve saved over the years.
Among these ” things” I had saved were old newspaper clippings, creative writing projects, ideas for stories, old college papers and posters — and part of my poster cache were these huge “blueprints” for Lazer Tag StarLyte guns and its associated equipment. The blueprints aren’t the real technical schematics for the toys, but instead a usage guide for playing Lazer Tag.
A Hairstyle Trapped in Time
One thing I’ve noticed in a lot of pulp covers, from way back then through the 1980s and then into today is that illustrators sometimes find themselves creating images that are “stuck” in the time of their creation.
Son of Vulcan – Part 8 – The robot menaces!
Thanks to the likes of Dr. Kong, the Son of Vulcan was frequently in battle with robots. None was so intriguing as Kong’s own manservant-bot, […]
Magic of the Mushroom Men
The plumber came today to do some work on my … well, plumbing … and he finished in record speed. By finishing so darn quick, […]
Spider-man swings into Erie
“Spiderman” is hanging out in Erie, Pa., a lot lately, and there are tons of photos of him. I’m not sure why he’s there or […]
Dungeon surprise
I’m just back from vacation and got a little surprise … I had a letter published in the latest Dungeon magazine. Dungeon is the sister […]