Posts Tagged ‘vertigo’

As I have grown older ( notice that the title of this blog con­tin­ues to be ” fanboy@50! ) my taste for the comic book has changed over the past few years. While I still love a great super­hero yarn, I find them very far and in between so I have slowly but surly moved […]

Hey Every­body.
I hope that every­one is pre­pared to spend time with fam­ily and friends tomor­row and of course watch the ” Macy’s Thanks­giv­ing Day Parade ” on what­ever local chan­nel of your pref­er­ence.
Okay, so let’s get right to this week’s fan­cast shall we…

I actu­ally had more to say in this cast at the very […]

Zom­bies!
I have noticed over the past few years this big surge in the pop­u­lar­ity of the Zom­bie Comics genre, and I’m just wondering…Why?

What is the attrac­tion?
What is it about zom­bies that have dri­ven this genre to all new highs?
I mean there are zom­bies every­where any­more.
Mar­vel has their line of zom­bie comics.
Ver­tigo, is get­ting ready for their […]

Hi every­one.
First, I have to apol­o­gize to every­one for the lack of post­ing here on fan­boy over the last few days, but I’m afraid that my Churg Strauss con­di­tion has been act­ing up on and off over the past few days and has unfor­tu­nately kind of lim­ited what I have been able to do so […]

Hi and wel­come to another ” Comic­book Wednes­day ” for the week of July/22/09, and lets start out with my fan­boy ” Fancast “.…

Okay, so here’s the break­down for this week’s pulls…
Okay, so there’s only one Mar­vel comic this week so..
Mar­vel
The ” Incred­i­ble Hulk ” #600 brought to us by Jeph Loeb and Ed Mcguin­ness
Okay, you […]

Evening every­one!
Just fin­ished din­ner and read­ing the first issue of Vertigo’s ” The Unwrit­ten ” and this promises to be an enter­tainer. More on this after I fin­ish issue#2…okay so let’s get to it…
This week made up for last weeks lack of titles.
Mar­vel this week has dom­i­nated my pull list with  six titles in all including […]

Good Evening and wel­come to another ” Comic Book Wednes­day ” here on Fanboy@50!
This week was actu­ally a large week as far as releases were con­cerned and I actu­ally had to put a few titles back on the shelf because of the expense involved.
Okay, this week I’ll not only fea­ture what I brought home, but […]

When you think of writ­ers and artists most asso­ci­ated with the comic series the Sand­man, two names should stand out imme­di­ately.
Writer Neil Gaiman, and artist extra­or­di­naire P. Craig Rus­sell, and these two big guns recently teamed up again for the lim­ited run series, The Sand­man, ” The Dreamhunters ” a four issue series that was […]

Evening every­one and wel­come to another comic book Wednes­day
And the win­ners this week were…
DC Comics
Bat­man: Bat­tle for the Cowl #3-Okay, this will be what I read before any other comic
Ver­tigo
John Con­stan­tine: Hell­blazer #255– The sec­ond part of ” Regen­er­a­tion ”
IDW
Locke & Key: Head Games #5-I can’t believe that issue five is here already. This is just a […]

My order from Ama­zon came in last week „„and I wasn’t sure which item was in the pack­age to be hon­est with you, but it turned out to be my order for the Absolute Sand­man Volume#2.
I am not even close to fin­ish­ing the first vol­ume yet ( and yes, I am ashamed as this was […]