MAN FROM ATLANTIS #2
The Perpetrators:
Writer – Bill Mantlo
Artist – Frank Robbins
Inker – Frank Springer
Letters – Tom Orzechowski
Colors – Janice Cohen
Editor – Archie Goodwin
Publisher – Marvel Comics
The Plot:
Mark Harris, a survivor of Atlantis who is has a host of typical sea-centric powers (breathe underwater…swim long distances…webbed hands…communicate with sea-life…blah blah) and is just high-lariously naive in [...]
Jesusmaryandjoseph are there ANY American indie comic creators who had a decent or even normal childhood? Joshua W. Cotter’s fascinating and nightmarish graphic novel Skyscrapers of the Midwest is, first and foremost, 300 (exquisitely packaged) pages of misery and angst. But what beautifully rendered and riveting misery and angst it is.
A deftly woven tapestry of [...]
Hello, fellow poor bastards! Welcome to the first collectors-item-foil-cover-mint-on-card-
chase-figure installment of Comic Collector Of The Recession.
With the U.S. economy sinking further and further into the clogged septic tank of the earth and gas and food prices skyrocketing, what’s a comic reader to do? Where can they go for the cheap thrills and pulp entertainment [...]
Sure, we like to read comics, or, in my case, graphic novels. But it’s usually months (often several) after they’ve already been released. I like to think the delay is because I have other things to do…but really I’m just kind of lazy.
SCALPED Volume 1: Indian Country
By Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera
As with so many [...]
Sure, we like to read comics, or, in my case, graphic novels. But it’s usually months (often several) after they’ve already been released. I like to think the delay is because I have other things to do…but really I’m just kind of lazy.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on the site before, new comics these days seem [...]
Sure, we like to read comics, or, in my case, graphic novels. But it’s usually months (often several) after they’ve already been released. I like to think it’s that I have other things to do…but really I’m just kind of lazy.
ALIENS OMNIBUS Volume 1
By various folks
It may be hard for you young folks out there [...]
The People’s Improv Theater’s weekly “Comic Book Club” show (which actually isn’t improv…) is getting good crowds and some serious press. Good for these guys!
The show, which celebrates its first anniversary Tuesday at 8 p.m., covers all things comic book, which these days also includes the worlds of video games, television and film. As [...]
With the year quickly winding down, holiday chores to catch up with, other off-line obligations, and a whole bunch of traveling, this is going to be kind of an uneven couple weeks here at KFR.
Basically, I’m apologizing in an around about way for posting quick links like the following, which nicely links to a [...]
