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Tag Archives: Neal Adams
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (15 December 2020)
Back to our usual programming. Your weekly reminder that comics can be awesome, Jack Kirby edition:
Expanding The War of the Worlds – part 1
A couple of months ago, I recommended (re)visiting H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds. This classic sci-fi horror novel became a massive influence on pop culture as the urtext for books, films, television shows, theatre plays, and video games about … Continue reading
Posted in WEBS OF FICTION
Tagged Alan Davis, Amazing Adventures, Bill Mantlo, Cold War, Don McGregor, Fred van Lente, Gerry Conway, Greg Wright, H.G. Wells, horror, Howard Chaykin, James Robinson, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Killraven, Manuel Garcia, Mark Farmer, Neal Adams, P. Craig Russell, Paul Cornell, politics, Roy Thomas, science fiction, War of the Worlds
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (1 June 2020)
Among the outrage and chaos, your heart-pumping reminder that comics can be awesome:
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (13 April 2020)
As it often happens in scary times, the horror genre provides both a perversely comforting, vaccine-like sedative against overwhelming anxiety and useful metaphors to consider the wider processes at play. So here is your spooky reminder that comics can be … Continue reading
The despicable pre-Crisis Man-Bat
Man-Bat isn’t one of the most inspired concepts in Batman comics. Taking to the extreme the notion that great villains are an inversion of the heroes, Man-Bat’s name is a literal reversal of Batman’s… As for his origin, it’s just … Continue reading
Posted in GOTHAM CITIZENS
Tagged Bob Haney, Chuck Dixon, Dick Giordano, Don Newton, Doug Moench, Flint Henry, Frank Robbins, horror, Jamie Delano, John Bolton, Kelley Jones, Man-Bat, Neal Adams
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15 wedding-themed covers of Batman comics
Valentine, Schmalentine. Still, everything can serve as a pretext to browse through goofy covers of the Batman family of comics… Throughout the years, brilliant artists like Neal Adams, Curt Swan, and Joëlle Jones have had a field day enveloping the … Continue reading
Posted in COVERS OF BATMAN COMICS
Tagged covers, Curt Swan, Joëlle Jones, Neal Adams
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Spotlight on Aquaman / Batman team-ups
I tend to give DC’s live-action movies a lot of crap in this blog, so I guess it’s only fair to admit I had a great time watching James Wan’s Aquaman. It’s a fun slice of schlock that manages to … Continue reading
Posted in GOTHAM CITIZENS
Tagged Aquaman, Bob Haney, Brian Bolland, Cold War, Dan Davis, Devin Grayson, Jim Aparo, John Calnan, movies, Neal Adams, Rick Burchett, Sholly Fisch
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My ideal deluxe omnibus volume – part 1
A couple of months ago, I listed a bunch of comics I assume every Batman fan will come across, sooner or later. With that out of the way, let us move on to some of my personal favorites – i.e. … Continue reading
Posted in BATMAN COMICS FOR BEGINNERS
Tagged Ben Oda, Bill Woolfolk, Bob Haney, Bob Kane, Carmine Infantino, Charles Paris, Dave Gibbons, Denny O'Neil, Dick Giordano, Don Cameron, Ed Herron, Frank Robbins, Gardner Fox, Gaspar Saladino, George Roussos, inger, Ira Schnapp, Irv Novick, Jerry Robinson, Jim Aparo, Jim Mooney, Joe Giella, Lew Schwartz, Milt Snappin, Neal Adams, Ray Burnley, Silver Age
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