The Cage, as one of my fave new customers refers to the shop, has a pretty basic set-up; as you come through the door, there’s a wall of comics to the right. First up, there’s all the new things for the week, starting with the small press stuff, like Image (though it’s hard to call them a small press these days), Archie, and Dynamite, then you have DC, and finally … [Read more...]
Three and a Throwback, Episode #2: Fashion Tips from Steve Trevor
by The Daily Planeteer Picking up where we left off: I loved it... #2 ...when in Wonder Woman #6 (Rebirth), after rescuing Steve Trevor and returning the bodies of his deceased fellow soldiers to the U.S. from Themyscira, Diana is arrested and processed by the military police. An officer issues a stern directive (but Diana doesn’t speak English) and reaches for her … [Read more...]
Three and a Throwback
Three and a Throwback By The Daily Planeteer This unabashed celebration blog is devoted to all my favorite moments from DC Comics. Its title, “Three and a Throwback” refers to the structure of the thing. For every three current mentions--as in stuff that happened in the last year or so--I’ll include one throwback... something from the DC days of yore that’s worthy of a … [Read more...]
A Quick, Nifty Sequence
Here's one of my favorite moments from this week's new comics; these two panels come from God Country, a new Image series from Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw. The first panel gives us a lovely and horrifying sequence: the police, the child's head centered in the panel, then the monstrous shape bellowing down the stairs. Even the colors seem to sweep us through the panel, blue to … [Read more...]
The Thing(s) That Wander into the Shop
Some of our favorite customers are the guys who clean out houses for a living; they often find boxes of old comics. Granted, most of the time, those comics are from the Trainwreck 90's: we're talking foil covers, people. Multiple copies of multiple foils, often bagged and boarded using bags and boards that are now worth more than the comics themselves. Every once in a while, … [Read more...]