Nickel City Comics

The Daredevil comic book will always have a special place in my geeky heart. It was one of the first American comics that I bought and read monthly. This is going back to the late 1980s when Ann Nocenti was writing it after Frank Miller’s famous run on the title. I was fascinated by the…

I have so many thoughts on the Comic-Con Marvel news I’m doing two posts. A comic-con wrap up Marvel & than one for everything else! On the Marvel front part of me thinks its still too much stuff and another part of me is happy enough about the big stuff that I’m willing to put…

That’s correct, old chum, these burly, brawly bodacious Batmen are battling it out once again, to see which of these utter comic cover classics end up on top of the veritable bat-pile! Delightful and dazzling DC have bestowed upon us, humble comic book fans, another perfect plethora of pictorials starring everyone’s favourite curmudgeonly creature of…

A Different Kind of Convention Anime conventions and Comic Cons are such different things. The focus is obvious right? Comic Cons these days are focused on everything that can slightly be considered geeky. It’s a larger celebration of people enjoying what they see and what they watch and put them together. I should also mention…

Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Shanah, the Bionic Book Worm, and now hosted by Meeghan at Meeghan Reads. This week’s topic: Top 5 books set at a school Here are five comic books that take place at a school of some kind or involves characters attending such institutions. Archie, Vol. 1: The New Riverdale…

The “Dark Phoenix Saga” in 1980 led to a change in the line-up of the team, with the death of Phoenix (Jean Grey), and Cyclops leaving the team to mourn for her. Comics writers and historians Roy Thomas and Peter Sanderson observed that “‘The Dark Phoenix Saga’ is to Claremont and Byrne what ‘the Galactus Trilogy‘…