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DC Comics April 2012 Solicitations

PREVIEW: “Jim Henson’s Tale Of Sand”

DC Comics March 2012 Solicitations

DC Comics February 2012 Solicitations

Preview: “Darkwing Duck” #18 — Like A Fenton From The Ashes!

Preview: “Daredevil” #6

Preview: Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes #1

Attack Of The ComicMix Columnists!

• MICHAEL DAVIS: David
  When I was a kid around 12 years old I met another kid around the same age while at the library. This was a big deal because I was black ...

• MINDY NEWELL: Great Books! And 1 Movie!
  So what are you reading? Fellow ComicMixer Bob Greenberger recently talked about To Kill A Mockingbird a couple days ago as he prepares to teach his class. To Kill A Mockingbird is, ...

• JOHN OSTRANDER: 101 Mistakes
  Almost every mistake I’ve ever made as a writer comes down to what I call a “Writing 101” mistake. I’ve been writing for a living for umpty-bum years at this ...

• MARC ALAN FISHMAN: Justice League Light Vs. Justice League Dark
  This past week, I read both Justice League #5 and Justice League Dark #5. To say they are worlds apart is a bit on-the-nose, but suffice to say... it’s the ...

• MARTHA THOMASES: George Lucas, Black History, and African-American Comics
  In the hopes of beating the Black History Month rush, I went to see Red Tails last weekend. George Lucas had been making the interview rounds and he discussed how difficult ...

• Dennis O’Neil – Sick, Sick, Sick
  Our pal Denny O'Neil usually occupies this space at this date and time. Sadly, he's under the weather, which sucks because the weather was 60 degrees and mostly sunny in ...

• MIKE GOLD: Stupid Logo Tricks
  Sometime around 1987, DC Comics’ then-publisher Jenette Kahn told DC’s next publisher Paul Levitz that it was time to change the DC logo. Paul protested and pulled me in – ...

Reviews

• REVIEW: “Wally Wood: Strange Worlds of Science Fiction”, by Glenn Hauman
  [[[Wally Wood: Strange Worlds of Science Fiction]]] Vanguard Publishing, Trade paperback, 224 pages. $24.95 Introduction by J. David Spurlock A friend ...

• REVIEWS: “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan”, by Robert Greenberger
  20th Century Home Entertainment continues to explore their library, releasing Blu-ray editions of popular and important films. Recently, two of ...

• REVIEW: “In Time”, by Robert Greenberger
  Andrew Niccol is an English teacher’s dream, presenting visually compelling dystopia in movies that feature pretty people in dire straits. ...

• REVIEW: “Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume One: 1980-1982″ by Berkley Breathed, by Andrew Wheeler
  The erstwhile "Berke" Breathed, who at some point in the last two decades learned what a "berk" was in British ...

• MARC ALAN FISHMAN: Justice League Light Vs. Justice League Dark, by Marc Alan Fishman
  This past week, I read both Justice League #5 and Justice League Dark #5. To say they are worlds apart ...

• Primeval Volume Three, by Robert Greenberger
  Thank goodness the wicked Helen did not bring about the end of mankind and civilization as we knew it. This ...

• Busting, by Robert Greenberger
  Back in the early days of cable, movies were rerun endlessly so if you liked one, you could burn their ...

• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Robert Greenberger
  Few 20th century novels have been as warmly regarded as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Currently a perennial work ...

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon, by Robert Greenberger
  There is absolutely nowhere near enough story to sustain the 2:30 running time of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. This ...

• Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level, by Robert Greenberger
  Star Trek: The Next Generation had to do a lot to convince fans of Gene Roddenberry’s trendsetting original series that ...