One of the joys of a comic shop is looking through the boxes of cheapie comics, the ones that won’t sell for full price because they are beat up or just not popular. The last thing I need to buy in addition to my weekly fix of new comics is a stack of old books I already own, tucked away somewhere among … [Read More...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo: Requiem for Two Dreams
Robert Kirkman did something that is nearly impossible in these days of news leaks and countless comic book websites; he kept a secret. Anyone … [Read More...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo Double Feature, featuring mostly Spider-Man!
Spider-Man: Far From Home has everything a comic lover – and a movie lover – could expect from a summer film: great acting, unbelievable … [Read More...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo Salutes Pride Month!
by Michael Sangiacomo ROCKY RIVER – Valentino Zullo said the first reference to homosexuality in his beloved superhero comics was negative. “It was an issue of The Hulk from 1980 which explained that the … [Read More...]
Relationship Status at the End of Civilization: It’s Complicated
By Dirk Drudgler - I’m not a huge fantasy guy and there's a lot of fantasy on comic stands, especially from independent publishers. Most of it doesn’t interest me. I’m not particularly against it, I just never … [Read More...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo: Heroes and Reviewer in Crisis
by Michael Sangiacomo There is one thing that critics should not do – judge a movie, book or comic based on how they personally would have handled it. A critic’s job is to look at the work and judge it on its … [Read More...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo Special Edition: Dark Phoenix!
By Michael Sangiacomo Dark Phoenix was the subject of so much trash talk in the years before it was released that overcoming such low expectations was pretty easy. That being said, the last gasp of the … [Read More...]