In a little followup to one of yesterday’s posts, I’ve pieced together a few more puzzle parts regarding Jean Loring’s “mental illness” by realizing just why anyone might be confused. A few days ago, Every Day Is Like Wednesday, which is maintained by a Las Vegas Weekly writer, wrote up a post about Justice League of America #156 from 1978, in which Ray Palmer talked with his fellow Leaguers

In a bit of good news, writer/artist Mike Kunkel is going to be drawing a Captain Marvel series for the younger crowd. And I wouldn’t be surprised if it’d be much better done than anything being done now with Billy Batson and his sister Mary in the pages of the regular DCU.

On Comicon’s Pulse, they write a retrospective item about a Justice League of America story from 1983 that I read a bit of years ago, written shortly before Roy Thomas did the first revelation of how the Black Canary we know today is the daughter of the original, in which Ray Palmer became brainwashed into entering a microcosmic universe where he ended up a de-facto giant controlled by the

I always find analyses like this one on The Beat blog interesting to read, but depending on just badly written or how badly a book has been rendered by Marvel’s PC-madness, that’s why it’s troubling if sales on them are actually doing well. Because it shows that zombie mentality still holds true for them. And in the case of the new Thor volume, for example, it’s horrific that a writer as

According to the New York Times (registration may be required), legendary King Kirby is getting some much needed attention now more than a decade after his death, one of the ways by having stamps made in his memory. Of all those in comic books who got stamps, I’d say Kirby deserves them the most.

Here’s a story about DC hiring writers from Canada to work on some of their books, including the Legion of Super Heroes.

This story (via The Amboy Times and Hot Air) has been making headlines on the blogosphere in the past day or two. It seems that Berkeley Breathed’s Opus comic strip, which you can see here at the side, has been suspended by 25 newspapers carrying it because, whether it’s in good or bad taste, he decided to write and draw a joke involving radical Islamism:
Berkeley Breathed’s Aug. 26 and Sept. 2

The Beat blog reports that Project: Rooftop is doing a special tribute to Mike Wieringo, who sadly passed away almost two weeks ago, requesting submissions for redesigns of Bart Allen who Wieringo co-created with Mark Waid in the mid-90s.

That sounds like a show of solidarity for Wieringo’s creation, which is certainly a good idea. Similarly, I’d suggest that anyone who was a fan of Impulse

Every year, usually in late August, the Tel Aviv Cinematheque has its own convention for comic books and animation held, and that’s where I’ll be going to see what it’s like.

Here’s a small article about a current manga festival being held by both Japanese and South Korean cities.