This is a big one, people. It's been simmering in my mind for a while, and now I'm about to burst ( Read more... )

Action Comics.

The original Action Comics introduced America and comic books, and the world really, to the concept of the superhero. On its first cover was a man in a colorful outfit performing a spectacular feat of strength: lifting a car (a 1930s car, a heavy son of a bitch) over his head, and running with it, terrifying the witnesses ( Read more... )

I'm not so big a Superman fan. However, since the DCU is more my neighborhood, I follow around and hear a lot about the big blue boyscout ( Read more... )