From Arrowette’s Diary: the Dan DiDio early warning system! Complete with at least five rating ranks, all to help inform the DCU of the dangers awaiting them! LOL.

The person who the following in the Telegraph Herald in Iowa (via Newsarama blog) doesn’t seem to appreciate marriage:
Superheroes and marriage just don’t mix. Remember the “Lois and Clark” television series starring Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain? The romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark (Superman) Kent was one of the show’s strong points.

The series prospered for several seasons. When the

The Edmonton Journal talks about psychoanalyzing comics. On Batman, they say:
One of the most psychoanalyzed superheroes is DC Comics’ Batman, a character Danny Fingeroth’s Superman on the Couch describes as one of the most “humourless (and) obsessed” of his ilk. Designed by Bob Kane from the get-go to be the ultimate child of trauma, the young Bruce Wayne was orphaned brutally as a nine-year-old

…so that she, and the audience, and the fans, could go through such an excruciating ordeal as she clearly does in Amazing Spider-Man #544. And we’re next. Among what the reviewer at Broken Frontier has to say:
From the offset, this is a difficult story to get behind. May has already died and returned before - an event which Straczynski bizarrely ignores all mention of. Peter and Mary Jane (as

A writer for the Observer and Eccentric Newspapers in Michigan took to reading Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis at the encouragement of her local library. It’s good to see that they’ve got it on their shelves.

but it looks like it’s in the form of manga that they are.

I guess that figures, though. When mainstream American comics fall victim to political correctness, there’s not much chance that they can do the job that manga might do, can they?

The subject of wrapping comics in plastic both hard and soft has surfaced again, and as someone who thinks that reading is more important than the value of money these books can have, I’m not pleased at all:
Remember when comic books were considered too juvenile to be read? Now it appears that they have become too valuable to be touched.

A company in Sarasota, Fla., has created a sensation among

Today is September 11. We must never forget nor fail to learn the lessons of that horrific day in 2001 when al Qaeda attacked.

More from Hot Air, Michelle Malkin and A Blog for All.

Picture from Adirondack Base Camp.

Paramount’s decision to dumb down their upcoming GI Joe movie by turning them into an international task force with nothing to do with America, if at all, has made more headlines recently on FOX News (via Church and State): The popular all-American comic-book military man and action figure dating back to the 1940s is undergoing a significant transformation for the Paramount Pictures-distributed “

An article on how there’s comic books coming to publication specifically on cellphones. It’s an interesting idea, but something tells me that, for now, it’s independent properties that are going to be published there, and that mainstream ones won’t be in such a hurry to arrive.
Mobile comic books are still in their infancy in the U.S. - uClick says it’s grown to about 55,000 readers a month in