The Great Hellboy Re-Reading Project Part III: The Right Hand of Doom
I have recently begun an epic project: re-reading Mike Mignola’s complete Hellboy saga from the very beginning! What began as a series of sporadic mini-series and short-stories featuring the big red occult investigator has deepened over the past twenty years into what is, for
The Great Hellboy Re-Reading Project Part II: Wake The Devil
I have recently begun an epic project: re-reading Mike Mignola’s complete Hellboy saga from the very beginning! What began as a series of sporadic mini-series and short-stories featuring the big red occult investigator has deepened over the past twenty years into what is, for
The Force Awakens and News Around the Net!
So the new Star Wars film is going to be called The Force Awakens? Sigh. Someday I would love to be really EXCITED by the announcement of a new Star Wars title. While The Force Awakens is certainly a better title than The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, it seems very no
The Great Hellboy Re-Reading Project Part I: Seed of Destruction
I was a fan of Mike Mignola’s Marvel and DC work when, in 1994, he launched a new creator-owned comic for Dark Horse Comics with the four-issue mini-series Hellboy: Seed of Destruction. I’m not sure what drove me to pick up that first issue. Likely it was my previous e
The Top 15 Comic Book Series of 2011 — Part Two!
Welcome back to the conclusion of my list of the Top 15 Comic Book Series of 2011! Click here for part one. (And click here for my list of the Top 15 Movies of 2011: part one, part two, and part three.) 5. Moon Knight — I really enjoyed Brian Michael Bendis’ years-lo
Oh Crap! The Continuing Adventures of Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense
Since the big red guy first appeared in John Byrne’s Next Men #21 back in 1993 (and I am proud to say that I read that issue when it came out!), I have been hooked on Hellboy. The creation of writer-artist Mike Mignola, Hellboy is, on its simplest level, about a monster who k
Golden Sequel
I always like my super-hero/fantasy flicks to have a touch of melancholy. (Probably why I enjoy Superman Returns so much, as I’ve written about previously on this site.) One of the things I really appreciated about the Lord of the Rings movies, and the original books, was that t
With Great Power…
I love comic books. And that means that I grew up with a great love of super-hero stories. These days its true that many of my favorite comic books have little to do with super-heroes (looking through my “to-read” pile I see titles like David Lapham’s Young Liars, St