Bradley Mason Hamlin has been a friend of mine for nearly 20 years now. We met at a comic shop he was working at in Sacramento and our love of comics, booze, and pop culture has kept us solid ever since. And though of course I’m leery of promoting the work of a great friend [...]
Posts Tagged ‘COMICS’
The Secret Society: The Best Comic Book You Haven’t Read
October 23rd, 2010 
rberry 
Posted in COMICS 
Tags: bradley mason hamlin, COMICS, eddie crossbones, lucy hell, mort todd, secret society 
1 Comment »Frank Zappa and Jack Kirby Were Buddies?!?!?
August 1st, 2010 rberry I was scouring Google for a cool picture of The Thing and came across this awesome article written last year by Royal Flush Magazine. The writer had dinner with Frank’s son Ahmet and learned all kinds of great things about the two’s relationship. It makes my heart glow to learn that these two were friends. [...]
Posted in COMICS, MUSIC Tags: Ahmet Zappa, COMICS, Dr. Doom, Frank Zappa, Jack Kirby, Royal Flush Magazine, Star Wars 1 Comment »J.K. Rowling Comic Book Biography…as published by Dementors!
April 10th, 2010 rberry I picked up this crappy comic book for $3.99 a couple weeks back and just got around to reading it. What a piece of garbage! The cover artwork looks somewhat like her, as you can see, but once you get inside, it’s got some of the most amateurishly bad illustrations I’ve seen in quite some [...]
Fantastic Four #577 Really Sucks
April 10th, 2010 rberry The latest issue of Marvel’s oldest continually published book is quite a bore. The cover promises The Inhumans and some sort of mystery on the moon with wreckage and tatters of Medusa’s costume. It sounded good to me, and it’s been a few years since I’ve tried the FF out, so I figured I’d give [...]
First Superman Comic Sells For $1.5 Million!
March 29th, 2010 rberry Action Comics #1 from 1938 which features the first appearance of Superman has long been the crown jewel of any comic book collection, but the sale price of $1.5 million at a recent auction beats the highest price for a comic by nearly half a million dollars. The comic, sold by the site Comicconnect.com, was [...]
“Green Hornet Year One” Review…does anyone care?
March 19th, 2010 rberry The Shadow and The Green Hornet first appeared in radio shows back in 1930 and 1936 respectively, predating comic book superheroes by several years. Both characters clearly inspired the creation of Batman who debuted in 1939. But why is it that a character like Batman has been wildly successful for over 70 years since, while [...]
Did Robin Know About Spider-Man?
March 18th, 2010 rberry I stumbled on this panel from a 1971 issue of Batman #277. At the time, Batman was doing solo adventures again, so Robin was given a backup feature in attempt to make him more hip, featuring his civilian alter ego Dick Grayson as a college student. In this tale, titled “Temperature Boiling…and Rising” written by [...]
Posted in COMICS Tags: and Art, Books, COMICS, dc comics, Marvel Comics, Robin, spider-man, Superman vs. Spider-Man 5 Comments »The Spectre Is A Great Extra In The New JLA DVD
February 24th, 2010 rberry I always have dug The Spectre, and I brought back our 2007 article on the character written by Bradley Mason Hamlin directly below to remind everyone how cool he is. I was thrilled to learn that there was an exclusive short of The Spectre included in the Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths DVD. It’s [...]
Posted in COMICS, MOVIES Tags: alyssa milano, and Art, Books, COMICS, dc comics, dvd, gary cole, The Spectre 1 Comment »Deadpool Corps Issues 1-5 to Feature 5 Interlocking Covers!
February 24th, 2010 rberry Ha, this looks pretty funny, I must admit! Deadpool is a fun character that is NOTHING like the crap version you saw in the Wolverine movie. CLICK HERE to see the entire preview with full size pictures at Newsarama. Which is about the best comic book news site on the net, by the way!
I Love The Metal Men
February 14th, 2010 rberry First appearing in 1962 and used only sporadically by DC Comics since their monthly series was canceled in 1978. These shape-shifting robots were the inspiration for the T1000 in Terminator 2, and recently appeared in a super cool episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold a few weeks ago. They are easily one of [...]