Avengers #8, Marvel Comics, September 1964 For this spotlight I though I’d go through the Avengers title and try to pick out a sleeper that no one seems to be focusing on. With the Avengers movie releasing next May a lot of collecting attention has been turning to the Avengers title. Things...

It’s been a pretty good few years for the Fantastic Four/Future Foundation (no matter what Eddie Campbell says). After being largely neglected by the comics community at large – probably since the Waid/Wieringo era – it seems like the books has a renewed interest thanks...

Another fun show this week. Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss the Video Game censorship, the Green Lantern movie, DC’s decision to not write comics with trade paperbacks in mind, the passing of Gene Colan, thoughts on the Kirby/Marvel lawsuit and a continuation of reviews of...

Wherein Peter links you to Michael Chabon's appreciation of Phantom Tollbooth, and then fills you in on Chabon's comic credentials. After which he showcases the impossibly talented Tom Fowler and some other stuff!

Wherein Peter discusses Bakune Young: the craziest Manga ever drawn, Ramon Perez's forthcoming year and Farel Dalrymple's Mister Miracle. Good times all around!

Every week CBD’s Editor in Chief Pete DeCourcy asks the question and the crew (and special guests) give their answers, we’ll be doing this for 52 weeks. Tip of the hat goes to the gang at Scans_Daily for the inspiration. This week’s question comes from...

Marvel Tales Annual #1, Marvel Comics, Summer 1964 Undervalued Spotlight fan Dave submitted this pick and I couldn’t agree more. Thanks Dave for the good work and your good eye for undervalued comic books. Is this the comic book that really made Marvel? The Marvel Age started when Stan Lee...

Two Items of Awesomeness Through TUMBLR! First we Have Dan Hipp (Amazing Joy Buzzards and Gyakushu!) showing us what Shadowlands could have been had it not been hampered by Billy Tan’s art. And then the lovely Gail Simone lets us know just who the best father in the DC Universe...

Double Life of Private Strong #1, Archie Publications, June 1959 I’ve always felt that the title hurt the collectibility of this book. ‘The Shield’ would have worked better. Oh, what could have been. In 1959 DC Comics’ push to re-establish the dominance of superheroes in comics was...

Paul Pope let slip some interesting factoids via his twitter feed today when he showed off some gorgeous concept artwork for an aborted Kamandi pitch to be written by Brian Azzarello with art by himself. Pope wrote: He went on to write: Which is what I’d want. I love Kirby because he...

Every week CBD’s Editor in Chief Pete DeCourcy asks the question and the crew (and special guests) give their answers, we’ll be doing this for 52 weeks. Tip of the hat goes to the gang at Scans_Daily for the inspiration. Today’s Question: What is Stan Lee & Jack Kirby’s...

The pictures from Kenneth Branagh’s Thor keep rolling in, and they keep making the Marvel panel at Comic Con my most anticipated event of the coming weekend. The pictures so far look really, really campy and kind of plastic. I wonder if that’s the tone of the Asgard stuff. Or is...

So this week I decided to do a bit of dreaming. A lot of people like fantasy football or various mythical match ups for UFC fights so why can’t I do the same for comics? Before I begin I would like to point out that none of these are rumors I have heard, things that I know, etc etc. If...

It was revealed earlier this week that Joe Ruby and Ken Spears (best known for Thundarr the Barbarian) and Syd and Marty Krofft are teaming up to bring to light a ton of Jack Kirby ideas to the public. These were ideas that Jack created while being employed by Ruby-Spears’ animation...

The New York Times has a great article about Ruby Spears/Sid & Marty Krofft (I was born too late to have experienced the existential dread that was  H.R. Pufnstuf) productions’ plan to develop some long-lost Jack Kirby concepts. Kirby apparently created scores of new characters...

Is this book the true start of the Silver Age? Is this book the catalyst that leads to the creation of the Fantastic Four?

Though not a comic book we just had to include this issue in our Sleepy Censor segment

Jack Kirby spent a lot of time creating gods …both old and new. It’s funny to find out that of the billions of drawings he probably had hanging in his house, he had these three portraits of what his concept of god was. Really cool stuff eh? what do you think that last picture is...

I’m not a hundred percent sure where these come from, who drew them, etc. (if you know, please, please, please email me) but I found them through Chud, who in turn found them on Harry Knowles’ (aintitcool.com’s head honcho) twitter. Jeez, these are cool looking, could you...

DISCLAIMER: Brent Chittenden is not a lawyer, has never been a lawyer nor has any plans on becoming a lawyer. His co-host on Two @$$holes Talking About Nerd Stuff is a lawyer but usually frowns and shakes his head every time Brent thinks he knows something about the law. So this week...