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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Super Movie Monday – Steamboy
So I’ve been a part of this role-playing game for most of the last two years, which took place in a steampunk Atlantis setting. The game ended a few weeks ago, but apparently, I’m still not over it, because today, … Continue reading
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Hero Go Home Cover Preview
So I’ve been working on cover concepts off and on for a couple of months now, and the time is drawing near to settle on one. So here’s a preview of some variations that I’m really close to settling on. … Continue reading
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Out of the Vault – Captain America and the Falcon #176, 178
Last week,we looked at Captain America #117, in which we saw the introduction of a new superhero, The Falcon. Lest you think this was merely a minor blip in the history of Cap, let’s jump forward five years, to 1974. … Continue reading
Super Movie Monday – Jack the Giant Killer
Okay, I admit, this one doesn’t have even the slightest connection to superheroes except maybe that Dell published a Jack the Giant Killer comic to tie in with the movie. Anyway, everything I wanted to do I either don’t have … Continue reading
The Next Big Thing
Okay, I have been hinting about changes coming for a while now, and it’s finally time to pull aside the curtain and let you see what the plans are. First, editing is finally finished on Hero Go Home, the ebook. … Continue reading
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Out of the Vault – Captain America #117
The next few weeks from the Vault are going to be a little different. I have a very few Captain America comics from the 60’s and 70’s, and for the next month or so, I’ll be visiting them one by … Continue reading
Super Movie Monday – The Return of Swamp Thing
So in 1989, seven years after Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing (which was discussed here last week), came the sequel, The Return of Swamp Thing. Back for the sequel were Dick Durock as Swamp Thing and Louis Jourdan as villain Arcane … Continue reading
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Out of the Vault – Achilles Storm #1
I tried to do things right this week: got an early start reading the book I thought I would cover, Achilles Storm No. 1, published by Aja Blu Comix in 1990. But then I read it, and it just sucked. … Continue reading
Super Movie Monday – Swamp Thing
Okay, so in the 70’s, writer Len Wein and artist Berni Wrightson created a tight little horror story for House of Secrets #92, featuring a plant-man much like previous comics characters, The Heap and Marvel’s Man-Thing. The next year, Wein and … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Flaxen
Two years ago, I did a series of Vault posts over on Frazier’s Brain about comic book heroes based on real-life people. It was inspired by seeing Tim Burgard in the credits of a movie and realizing I had some … Continue reading
