Comics into movies and TV shows continues to be big business, employing many and bringing a lot of ancillary products into play which raises all boats along the way. We’ve seen the obvious strong push from Marvel Studios and the … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 30: Make It Into A Movie

We’ve spent most of the past thirty days talking about all sorts of things comic book related and it’s been an absolute blast. I suspect a lot of us have discovered at least a few things to try or a … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 29: Recommend A Book To Try

While I like a wide breadth of material, styles and genres, there are things that just don’t appeal much. One area, particularly in film, is that of horror. While I grew up with plenty of scary films – which now … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 28: A Surprising Book

The final days of the 30 day challenge are here and it is probably one of the harder ones to answer in a way. With a long lifetime of reading comics, can you really have a favorite book or run? … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 27: Your Favorite Run

Watching my evolution as a comic book fan has definitely been an interesting one since I first got into it during the waning days of the 1970’s as a little type that discovered my first Star Wars comic. I grew up as … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 26: Favorite Publisher

There’s almost a cottage industry of people talking about favorites, polling them, ranking them, and all that. Which is certainly a fun and enjoyable pastime, since we’re no longer comparing a couple of films made a few decades ago and … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 24: Your Favorite Comic Book Movie

Similar to my view on the whole dream versus match, I don’t have a heck of a lot here to be honest. I’ve seen so many permutations of characters going at it over the years and then team-ups later on, … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 23: Dream Team-Up

Picking a favorite writer is licking picking which of your children is your favorite. You can do it, but you find yourself a bit uncomfortable with it as well. Having read comics since the late ’70s, I’ve seen many writers … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 22: Favorite Writer

As the challenge continues, we get to touch on some of the ancillary aspects of comic books. One of the first questions that come up is what one thinks is the most overrated comic book movie. Now, there are plenty … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 21: The Most Overrated Comic Book Movie

The question that gets asked of most people at one time in their life, comic book fan or not, is that if you could have any superpower, what would it be? Often that leads to a bit of a psychological … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 20: Favorite Super Power

The question of which comics universe you would want to live in is always an interesting one since there really are so many choices these days. If you live in the Marvel universe, you could be an Inhuman, a mutant, … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 19: Where To Live

The question of a B-list character is one that always kind of annoys me in a way, because it’s essentially pigeonholing a character that ends up being a very hard box to get out of. Everyone remembers a decade or … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 18: Favorite B-list Character

The question of the most useless villain is one that has people usually going to those lists of truly awful characters, like Condiment Man, Calendar Man and Turner D. Century to go on about how useless they are. Those characters … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 17: Most Useless Villain

Comedy is one of the harder things to pull off in comic books in my mind because it can go against the grain in a weird way with the shared universe. There aren’t a lot of these types of books … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 16: Your Best Humor/Comedy Series