The images released by Marvel released show Danvers in a new costume, one more directly tied to the red and black one worn by the first Captain Marvel, and bearing the golden, starburst icon from it. She's also ditched her domino face mask, and gotten a pretty dramatic new haircut ( Read more... )

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Last summer, I thought about going digital for my comic book needs.

Since then I've looked into a lot of new series

I/ve read Ultra, with its magazine based covers, and the story of a career superheroine who sleeps with a cute guy, reads all about it in next week's supermarket tabloids and then has to deal with the public backlash. There are some ( Read more... )

I posted this to Scans_Daily this evening, but it goes here too. Because I can.
I had a big think about this in the summer, but recently, I've been thinking about how comic books attract new readers and how welcoming they are. There's an old saying about how "every comic is somebody's first" and comics have to have a go at making it possible for ( Read more... )

Ears
I have discovered that Freakonomics do a podcast, beginning with a very funky theme tune, and that it's full of the sort of ideas from the original freakonomics book that blows your mind. Like the idea that city living is more environmentally friendly than country living because of things like heating and transportation and that if you like ( Read more... )

It's a Giant Size post tonight, to make up for not having done anything for ages, despite my vows in the New Rules for a New Life post,.

TeachersMy exam results were through on Wednesday, but I only got them on Thursday. On the whole, they were pretty good, with some kids seriously overperforming and some doing as poorly as was expected. The kid ( Read more... )

Solicits for September are out. There's 53 new number 1s from DC and none of them are Power Girl, so that's me done with DC for the time being.

Architect Count:

Fraction: 3
Hickman: 4


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Total count - 3 Fraction titles, 5 Hickman books.


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