Pop! Goes the Icon

So I finally received the copy of the Superman: Camelot Falls hardcover I won by knockout from Bahlactus in the mail yesterday. Instead of doing something more productive like studying for grad classes or working out tonight, I decided to read the collection by Kurt Busiek, Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino.
I’ll have to say that […]

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Conclusive proof that even before Tony Stark became a tool (or a Skrull), Sub-Mariner couldn’t stand his stupid iron face:

And even back then, S.H.I.E.L.D.’s interests came first. For shame, Stark ol’ boy!
In the name of Bahlactus, trounce this surface-dwelling douchebag, Prince Namor the First!

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Comic book artist Dave Cockrum — co-creator of the modern-day X-Men — died on Nov. 26, 2006. While this is obviously not news, I was recently reminded by long-time Cockrum friend and collaborator Clifford Meth that the sale of Cockrum’s personal comic book collection is still going on.
The sale is to raise money for Cockrum’s […]

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When I was a comic-collecting kid, my heart belonged to Marvel Comics. Even through the early 1980s, DC’s mainstream comics were still bland, fluffy and dumbed down (until, let’s say, the Crisis era). So though I liked the characters of Superman, Batman, etc., even as a 9- or 10-year-old, I knew instinctively that Marvel’s titles […]

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Howard the Duck creator and comic book legend Steve Gerber died yesterday right here in my own backyard. He was at MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas being treated for pulmonary fibrosis. It’s eerie, because he was blogging the whole time (up until about a week ago) and still working on new comic book material in […]

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(Photo courtesy SpyOnVegas.com)
Yes, that is Frank Miller in the photo above, looking pleasantly amused by the birthday cake presented to him at CatHouse last night. I’m still waiting on more details of the evening, but you can click here to see a gallery of photos from the party, including Rosario Dawson and Jamie King. (UPDATE: […]

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It’s very rare when my personal interests intersect my professional ones, as my full-time job — running the Las Vegas “industry” blog DailyFiasco.com — involves celebrities, fine dining and nightclubs, things I don’t care much for usually. It’s even rarer when a post I write for Fiasco would be of interest to you sequential-art-loving people […]

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“So Diet Cable shoots Professor X with a sniffle bullet because he didn’t get enough hugs in the clone future.”
– Nathan Crosby on Hey! Kids! Comics! (via Newsarama)

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I was reading Sean Kleefeld’s blog (as usual), and today he told the story of his friend who he recently inspired to get back into comic book reading/collecting. To sum it up (though you should go read it), the friend got turned off by the gimmicky ’90s speculative collector-targeted market, recently came back and began […]

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Hot damn, Pop! Goes the Icon faithful! Your favorite new-ish comic and pop culture blog won its first Friday Night Fights prize during Round 5! On our first entry into the battle!
Click here to witness the epic struggle on Bahalctus’ blog!!
The prize is a copy of Superman: Camelot Falls, so I’ll probably toss a review […]

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