Suspended Animation Review Betty #s 165, 166, 168, 169, 170-173/approx. 23 pgs. & $2.25 each from Archie Comics/principal artist, Stan Goldberg; various writers/available in lots of places and at www.archiecomics.com. Betty is a good girl. There was a time in America when saying someone is a good girl wasn’t insulting. Betty still lives in that time, along with Archie, Jughead, and the gang in Riverdale. In these reviewed issues, she spends her hours looking for a lost five dollar bill, reliving memories while cleaning her room, enjoying Friday night football, introducing romance into Pop’s eatery, playing pranks with a cell phone, planting trees, and dreaming of being a super heroine, among a host of other quiet, real world activities. Tags: archie comics, suspended animation Suspended Animation Review Batman Special #1, published by DC Comics, 48 pages, cover price $1.25. In honor of the theatrical release of The Dark Knight, I present to you one of the better Batman stories from the eighties, found in 1984's Batman Special #1. 02:05:59 pm, by ComicList Categories: Suspended Animation, Reviews, Checker Book Publishing Group Suspended Animation Review Scion V. 6 (reprinting CrossGen issues 34-39)/153 pgs. & $17.95 from Checker Book Publishing, principal artist, Jim Cheung; Ron Marz, writer/sold in comics shops and at www.checkerbpg.com. Imagine the 'knights and damsels' comic strip Prince Valiant sprinkled with pseudo light sabers and aliens and you've pictured Scion, a comic book series that ran for thirty-nine issues before its original publisher went out of business. Tags: checker bpg, suspended animation 12:41:35 pm, by ComicList Categories: Suspended Animation, Reviews, Contemporary Cartoon Militia Suspended Animation Review The Li’l Depressed Boy, published by Contemporary Cartoon Militia, 14 pages, $2.00. Oh, to be a sad, sock-headed boy, living a dreary life, loving music, but being loved by no one. 09:25:41 am, by ComicList Categories: Suspended Animation, DC Comics, Reviews, TwoMorrows Publishing Suspended Animation Review All Star Companion Volume 3/238 pages & $26.95, TwoMorrows Publishing/Roy Thomas, editor; various writers & artists/ available at comics shops and at www.twomorrows.com. There have been pivotal events in the history of comic strips and comic books. Among them are the creation of the first superhero, Superman, of the first non-super powered costumed hero, Batman, and the first female superhero, Wonder Woman. Suspended Animation Review Rom: Spaceknight, published by Marvel Comics, 32 pages. As an 11-year-old child, discovering Rom: Spaceknight was just more icing on the cake that was the world of comics. The exciting concept of a heroic alien, stationed on our planet to wipe out an evil alien race living right under our noses? C’mon! You expect any red-blooded boy to pass that up? Tag cloudaction comics avengers batman black canary cable captain america checker bpg comiclist critiques dark horse dc comics dynamite entertainment final crisis flash frank frazetta geek goggle reviews geek goggle weekly rankings gi joe goon green arrow green lantern hercules hulk huntress idw idw publishing image comics indiana jones iron man kick ass marvel comics mice templar midwest book review reviews secret invasion skaar spider-man star wars star wars superman suspended animation transformers trinity twomorrows ultimate human variant edition wildstorm wolverine world of warcraft x-men zondervan |