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...]
Comic Shop Woman, Episode #001: Pirates!
It was about a half an hour before closing up. A couple I hadn’t seen before walked into the store. They were in a cheerful mood, joking around with each other, holding hands. But as they wandered further in, they both got a puzzled look on their faces. I could hear them whisper. “It looks different in here, doesn’t it?” “It does. It’s cleaner.” She chuckled to … [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...]
Games January, 2017!
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