by Chris Marshall on August 11, 2008
Continuing a series of blogs that was inspired by the Adam Hughes poster The Real Power of the DC Universe. Today we move to Black Canary. A true classic – that’s what Black Canary is. First appearing as a villain opposite Johnny Thunder in a backup story in Flash Comics #86; she was too pretty [...]
by Chris Marshall on August 7, 2008
Continuing a series of blogs that was inspired by the Adam Hughes poster The Real Power of the DC Universe. Today we move to Oracle. I grew up with watching Barbara Gordon as Batgirl on reruns of the 1960’s Batman TV show; little did I know that in 1988 Alan Moore would destroy everything that [...]
by Chris Marshall on August 6, 2008
Continuing a series of blogs that was inspired by the Adam Hughes poster The Real Power of the DC Universe. Today we move to Power Girl aka Kara Zor-L aka Karen Starr. Power Girl is the cousin of Earth-2 Superman. She made her debut in All Star Comics #58 (1976) and is essentially that Earths [...]
by Chris Marshall on August 5, 2008
Continuing a series of blogs that was inspired by the Adam Hughes poster The Real Power of the DC Universe. Today we move to Catwoman, one of the oldest super villains in the DCU. Debuting as “The Cat” Batman #1 (1940), Selina Kyle quickly gained favor as a worthy foe to The Dark Knight even [...]
by Chris Marshall on July 20, 2008
No fluff, just reviews. Review: Brian Cronin, CBR on his Top Five Ultimate Trade Paperbacks Review: J. Caleb Mozzocco, Every Day Is Like Wednesday, on Marvel Zombies Vs. Army of Darkness (Marvel/Dynamite) Review: Michael Patrick Sullivan, CBR, on Captain Stoneheart and The Truth Fairy (Active Images and Image Comics) Review: Charles LePage, ComicList.com on Star [...]
by Chris Marshall on July 17, 2008
Collected Comics Library Podcast #179 30,827Kb; 32m 36s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ Well, well, well the week is finally here. The week that The Dark Knight is out in theaters. The week were we finally get to see the greatest sequel to the greatest super-hero movie ever. The greatest performance of the Joker ever on screen and the [...]
by Chris Marshall on July 13, 2008
My thanks go out to Julie Hinds of the Detroit Free Press. Julie called me up a few weeks ago and asked my opinions on How to ensure every comic book hero gets a memorable villain. The article appears in today’s paper and you can read it online. Also, this Wednesday on the Podcast I’ll [...]