It's the best day of the year! Free Comic Book Day 2018 at Comics Are Go is going to be fantastic! Saturday May 5th our doors will open at 11 AM and we will have tons of free books to give away. But we will also have some special guests! Mark Sumerak -- Eisner and Harvey award nominated writer whose work includes the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, … [Read more...]
Comics Are Go & Lake Erie Crushers – A Superhero Day Team-up!
Last Sunday's beautiful afternoon saw the Lake Erie Crushers, Avon's Frontier League Baseball Club, bring their four-game win streak into Sprenger Stadium to take on the Normal Cornbelters. To celebrate, the Crushers management did what any business with fortitude and class would do if they thought about actually doing something fun and interesting. They scheduled a Superhero … [Read more...]
10 Awesome Things – Wonder Woman Edition!
It's Drudgler's 10 Awesome Things - Wonder Woman Edition! This is the first of a series of 10 Awesome Things posts and it's entirely appropriate that it's about My Weird Fantasy, an Amazon Princess. I barely remember the first time I read a comic book. I must have been about 6 or 7 and I think it was a Sad Sack comic. I also can't remember the first time I fell in love, … [Read more...]
Off the Wall, Episode #002: Sociopaths, Detective Animals, and Herb Trimpe
Item of interest #1: Savage Things, #1 Like many collectors, the amount of comics I buy often ebbs and flows on foolish tides, or tides of necessity, or tides of convenience or inconvenience. When my kids were little and most of my so-called disposable income went towards pesky items like formula and diapers and I'd find myself cutting back to one or two titles a … [Read more...]
Reviewing Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad
Justice League vs. Suicide Squad is a comic book mini-series done right. I approached this event with a bit of trepidation. With a Suicide Squad movie this last summer and a Justice League film coming soon, there was a part of me that suspected that this was a cynical, synergistic cash grab. But I was very happy to be wrong. In the story, the Justice League, the … [Read more...]