Still on the Shelf #87 – Runaways
Mar 21For a column that tends to focus on smaller titles in need of a little marketing boost, I do tend to get back to Marvel books an awful lot, I know. I do rant my fair share about what I often feel to be Marvel’s insane practice of printing 50 or so (only a SLIGHT exaggeration, believe it or not) X-Men books a month, only to kick their precious few...
Still on the Shelf #86 – Ultra
Feb 13Once upon a time, if you were going to make a super-hero comic, you had a pretty simple formula to use. You had your good guy, who went after the bad guys. The focus of the story was the action itself, and all that personal, real-life stuff was shoved in the background. Over the years, people started to demand stories that were a little...
Still on the Shelf #85 – Defex
Jan 14When I first read about Aftermath in Previews, it raised my eyebrows. Devil’s Due – perhaps in an attempt to reinvent themselves, or in an effort to expand their readership, launched this new line of superhero comics. The premise was pretty simple, if not a little unoriginal – a brand new group of “hero” books for a brand new generation, without all of the continuity...
Still on the Shelf #84 – Slingers
Dec 27Before I get started this week, I would like to let you all know that this is going to be the last “official” version of Still on the Shelf to appear on Comixtreme. It has been a fantastic couple of years there, and I wouldn’t give them back for anything, but the time has come for me to try a little something different with Still on the Shelf, which means I must move on. I just...
Still on the Shelf #83 – NBM
Dec 20Recently, you might have noticed a few mentions by me of some of NBM’s comics and other graphic literature. NBM has a pretty diverse line-up, but one of the things that struck me about them as a publisher is that they tend to do a lot of things that would qualify as more artistic than your average comic book. Sure they have their more traditional comic book type stories – Dungeon and The...
Still on the Shelf #82 – Demo
Dec 06by special guest Brandon Schatz Okay, kids, the first step, is to breathe into a paper bag. It’ll stop you from hyperventilating now that you’ve realized that Craig “Hero to the Indy Comics” Reade is not on his column duty again this week, and the only way I can tell you why, is if you stop freaking out. You calm down yet? No? Well, I don’t have time to wait....
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