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But the look of your space ship does matter quite a bit…       Starlight returns with its mashup of the old and the new and the way new used to look in the old. Triple rainbow! Wow! Triple rainbow! Amazing! Action Comics #30! Field #1 does a great trick of forced perspective to put as much spaces between two[...]

Don't miss Ultimate Spider-Man number #200 if you are a huge Ultimate Universe Spider-Man fan because this issue promises a shock ending from Brian Michael Bendis! There are also huge changes in store for Superman with this week's issue of Action Comics and the entire creative team from The Flash is moving over to Detective[...]

And certainly not expose it to young children. Well, in Darkness, even if you don't make friends, you certainly influence people. Sometimes you don't need to have someone say "fuck you, dickweed." Sometimes, as in Tales Of Honor, an expression says it all. Retcon alert! Retcon alert! Today's Nova shows us when the first Nova first met Beta[...]

There are a lot of great books waiting to be read at your comic book vending option of choice but these are my Essential 8 Comics from the Shelf for February. Action Comics 25-28 Superman is my favorite comic book character I have Superman paraphernalia all over my house and office; multiple coffee cups, a flask with[...]

The original art for the cover of Action Comics #15 has sold at Heritage Auctions today for $286,800  The 1939 piece by Fred Guardineer was just the 5th Superman cover ever created (behind Action Comics #1, 7, 10, and 13), and is the earliest Superman cover known to still exist today. This sale ranks as the[...]

And I just cannot ever take Reed Richards seriously as a character after panels like this one, from the wonderful and wonky Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe. From Action Comics #19, written by Andy Diggle, with art by Tony S Daniel I don't like Superman, it's a personal choice, but this is one hell of a statement[...]

Whether it's the US bombing Pakistan or everyday gun toting Americans threatening to blow Amazon's new delivery system out of the air, or toy drones as the hot toy for Christmas, all you need now is for a drone to start twerking with a chicken for a hat and the internet is over. Well, he may[...]

Action Comics 309 – Curt Swan – $112,015.75 Last week was a busy one for original art collectors, with major pieces going on the auction block at both Hake's and Heritage  Out of a rather full slate of strong results, the sale of the cover of Action Comics #309 by Curt Swan for $112,016 stands out. The cover[...]

Brandon Thomas writes for Bleeding Cool: "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, & The American Way?" by Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke, and Lee Bermejo It's impossible to discuss this particular issue of Action Comics now without also discussing Man of Steel, so if you're one of the many (myself included) that found themselves often exhausted and[...]

And a trip into the kind of territory that the latest series of Black Mirror mined so well in its first episode. You know that website Superdickery? I think they just have a new entry, from Action Comics #25 Superman? What a dick. From Iron Man #18, possibly the line of the week I might[...]

He tried to return the character to its original Grant Morrison style, and must have succeeded because, well, FantoMAX (as we should call it) reads totally like a swearier Seaguy. Hey, after Villains Month had concluded, I thought we were done with the evils that parents do, for a little while at least? Anyway, this[...]

As seen in today's Action Comics #23.2 Zod #1 Dead parents, Kryptonian jungle, and a whole childhood growing up dealing with the flora and fauna of an unfamiliar and deadly planet Especially considering what actually happened to his parents.,,, Can I spy… Man Of Steel TV spinoff brewing? Or if nothing else a comicbook covering this[...]

At Boston Comic Con this weekend, Scott Snyder took to the DC Comics panel to talk about his plans for Batman. We referred to a few of them yesterday. But

And, you know, probably all protest, everywhere, everywhen. Pax Galactica bring out another Battlestar Galactica phrase to go with last month's "So say we all" for Action Comics. That's how evil Caldwell Industries are in Detective Comics… they experiment on children! To ensure the kids will be teased in playgrounds forever Is this the first DC[...]

But he's great, and I think terribly underappreciated given his long résumé and some of the great scripts he's written over the years. Most people will instinctively point to his work on Action Comics #775, and it being considered by many as one of the greatest Superman stories of all time And it is, and we'll[...]

by Cameron Hatheway I was never very good at painting. All my portraits of friends and family ended up very bright and colorful, with the same watermelon

As Action Comics continues it's own version of MODOK and AIM with the big headed Hector Hammond and HIVE, so it also introduces its own version of the Guardians Of The Galaxy, complete with green skinned babe Welcome to the Pax Galactica. Galactica? Oh Scott… As Action Comics continues it's own version of MODOK and AIM with[...]

From today's Action Comics Okay, much has been discussed about the trillions of dollars worth of damage done to Metropolis by Superman in Man Of Steel In comparison a couple of iPads… sorry, Q-Pads… are rather minor. But this act of wanton vandalism wasn't done to save lives, but to help his colleague Cat get[...]

From the DC Retailer Roadshow in New York last night... The books that Batman Zero Year will be spinning off into as a number of books look to their

I understand from pretty decent sources that the new team on Action Comics, after Scott Lobdell's fill-in, are Batman/Superman's Greg Pak and New Guardian's Aaron Kuder, who recently drew part of Superman #18. Of course, Kuder is also known for writing and drawing his own work elsewhere. I'm hearing the possibility that some people may be looking[...]

From today's Action Comics #21 which, curiously, is not available on ComiXology, Kindle or iTunes Yet Anyway… Much has been made in the New 52 of Superman and Wonder Woman getting it on But what about the classic pairing of Lois and Clark? Well, as of today it seems both closer… and yet further away than[...]

Remodeler finds comic book worth over $100K in wall at Elbow Lake house is the headline. amid old newspapers used to insulate a wall of a fixer-upper he was gutting in Elbow Lake, Minn Action Comics #1 is the comic. $135,000 is the current bid at ComicConnect Though it could have gone for more… When his wife's aunt grabbed the[...]

Old Thanos would have been okay if he hadn't been pushed in a certain direction by a young woman… Savage Dragon tackles racial sensitivities, asking whether language such as this is acceptable when you seem to be fighting a monster such as this; A Fin Fang Fu Manchu? Uber #0 lets reminds us that all war stories need[...]

But then, haven't they always? Last week in Action Comics, through a time travel device we saw Clark's final moments with Jonathan Kent, his adoptive father, who never saw Clark grow into Superman, though he was his inspiration Except we were then given the chance for the older Superman to meet his father before he died,[...]

As we told you a couple of weeks go, Grant Morrison and Rags Morales are getting an extra issue to finish his run on Action Comics, with Andy Diggle and Tony Daniel's first issue delayed a month We wrote; So expect some kind of retro solicitation to come down the pipe Once they've worked out exactly[...]

Grant Morrison's extended Action Comics run provides us with another DC Comics April surprise, kind of  But one wonders if that screws up the impetus behind that month's Action Comics #19 gatefold cover for that particular issue of Action That looks like a relatively specific bit of action in Action Well, I'm sure they'll work[...]

Although Andy Diggle and Tony S Daniel are lined up to start their Action Comics run with issue 18, I understand that Grant Morrison and Rags Morales will need one more issue to finish their story Which means Diggle and Daniel's debut will be delayed to April and issue 19. So expect some kind of retro[...]

Today's Action Comics #16 not only tells us that Superman did indeed die at the hands of Doomsday (and that it happened three years ago, two years into Superman's public existence), but it wallows in it A chance to mourn again as Superman is attacked extradimensionally in a number of different time zones – which[...]

If you don't like Synder's Batman in the main book? I wonder if you will like this one any more… Action Comics gets its own trip to the future, or rather we see the future ahead, and the past, and the present, as Superman is attacked on all counts from the fifth dimension One of the[...]

After nearly a decade of the world record price for a comic book holding at $350,000 (the Marvel Comics #1 Pay Copy sold in 2001 for that amount, and a few years later the Edgar Church copy of Flash Comics #1 changed hands at the same price), early 2010 saw two different single comic book[...]