Crapload Of Stuff

I'll admit, not the best title I've ever come up with, but I have a lot in here, so it fits.
New Avengers #40
When we last left our heroes, they were outside a crashed Skrull ship with the Mighty Avengers, and a whole heap of Skull heroes in their 90's costumes came piling out of said [...]

The Sins Of The Father. . .

I have finally done it.
My son is now "in" to comics. In so much as a four year old can be "in" to comics.
From time to time I've had to take him to ye olde comic shop to pick up my weekly stack. On those occasions I've promised him his own comic book for [...]

Didio And The DC Fanboys

Well, at least the man has a sense of humor about himself. I'll give him that. As mentioned yesterday, I attended a couple of honest to goodness DC and Marvel panels in San Diego. I can't say that any of the panels were so incredible as to be worth the trip to San Diego for [...]

What The %@#! Is DC Thinking?

Newsarama posted an article with the Diamond's sales charts for June. You can find the full article here, but there are some rather interesting tidbits that I thought worth mentioning.
First the total marketshare numbers. No surprise in who the top two are, but take a look at this.
 
Publisher            Dollar Share       Unit Share

MARVEL                43.62%             48.42%

DC COMICS           [...]

Of Space Monkeys And Super Apes

So about a month ago I bought the first of the DC Showcase collections for Superman. A family vacation was drawing nigh and I needed some reading material for the trip. I've always been a little apprehensive about the black and white collections as I'm more easily distracted by pretty colors (oooh look! Shiny!). But [...]