Comments on: So let’s talk a bit about some of the new comics that are coming out today, since this is a comics blog, don’cha know.

By: Welcome my friends to the birthday that never ends.

Welcome my friends to the birthday that never ends. — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:22:38 +0000

[...] to report that my non-readership streak of Antarctic’s books remain unbroken, as, despite my initial hopes for the title, a glance through Time Lincoln didn’t do anything for me. Sorry! No hard [...]

By: Sanctum Sanctorum Comix

Sanctum Sanctorum Comix — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:57:15 +0000

Thanks Chris K…
I totally forgot about that What If? issue.

I just re-read it.
A lot in those few pages.

By: Tom K Mason

Tom K Mason — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:49:44 +0000

Oh, Time Lincoln, you had me at “Time.”

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:08:40 +0000

How about X-Men Forever Forever where Len Wein re-starts the story from just before when Claremont took over?
(Or, what I’d really like, all joking aside, West Coast Avengers Forever, where Englehart can re-start the story from just before when Byrne totally fucked everything up?)
Also, my first reaction to the whole “X-Factor Forever” thing was, “wasn’t the ‘classic’ writer on that Peter David, and isn’t he on that book currently anyway, so what’s the point?” Then I saw that it’s the Louise Simonson “original five posing as mutant hunters” run that burdened the X-Books with Apokalips, which I never thought was all that fondly remembered (as much as Louise Simonson may otherwise be fondly remembered as a writer and person). In fact, wasn’t the shakeup under David a reaction to the fact that the “original” X-Factor was perceived as kind of sucking?
So, same as the Claremont situation, in a lot of ways…

By: Just Some Guy

Just Some Guy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:06:32 +0000

U.S. Presidents are rapidly becoming the new zombies.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:28:00 +0000

“When I can get Man-Thing Forever, where Michael Fleisher picks up from his storylines in Man-Thing volume 2, before Chris Claremont took over, let me know.”

Check out What If #26 for that… right between “What if Captain America were elected President” and “Untold Tales of the Marvel Universe: Outpost on Uranus” (insert snicker here).

(Okay, it’s 10 or 12 pages, and not “Forever.” Still: Fleisher. He packs a lot in there.)

Chris K

By: Sanctum Sanctorum Comix

Sanctum Sanctorum Comix — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:12:43 +0000

Jeff beat me to it, but yes, that is the old “Time Warp” logo.

As for MAN-THING… well, I’m with you 1000%, Mikester!
That first issue of the Man-Thing 2nd series always gets me… right here (points to heart and lump in throat).

And speaking of Manny… check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/StMannysDay

~P~
PTOR

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:32:58 +0000

That Time Lincoln logo evokes DC’s ill-fated late seventies SF anthology Time Warp’s logo more than Maximortal, to me…

By: Rob March

Rob March — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:36:57 +0000

>American Vampire #1

Boy, I hope this is better than the vibe I’m getting from the 2-page spreads in recent Vertigo titles (oooh, vampire in a cowboy hat? Yeehaw!). You know that I’ll try every Vertigo series, but another vampire storyline? Sigh.

At least Vertigo has been putting out some good new titles…Sweet Tooth, The Unwritten, Daytripper…all very good, and each one has a nice concept.