Last week seemed to be a great week for comic books for me: new issues of Birds of Prey, Teen Titans, Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes, X-Factor, Nextwave, Checkmate, Shadowpact, and Secret Six, among others. I spent nearly $50, which is far and away a lot more than I’ve spent in a long long [...]

IGN.com has a list of their top 25 X-Men. Not a bad list, I suppose, and they should probably get an award for not naming Wolverine number one, but who the heck are #24, Chamber and #18, Blink? They seem to be rather generic, despite the breathless write up on Blink: “She remains the most [...]

I see that DC Comics is solicting a statue based on Paul Pope’s Batman Year 100. It’s a pretty statue, but it doesn’t look anything like the Batman in the actual comic book. So I’ve taken the opportunity to correct the statue to match the comic.

I can’t quite get the right level of deformity in [...]

Yay, Miracle Monday is here again. I’ll recycle some of last year’s information on the holiday:

From Elliot S! Maggin’s novel, Miracle Monday:
Shortly before four in the afternoon on the third Monday in the month of May, the people of the city of Metropolis learned the meaning of joy. They had no explanation for [...]

Picking on Nightwing is like shooting fish in a barrel, but it’s so damn fun I just can’t stop. The badness of this comic, much like the movies on Mystery Science Theater 3000, is the reason to read it. It’s as if Bruce Jones, the supposed writer of Nightwing, is trying to get fired. I [...]