Author: Jeff Meyer

by Jeff Meyer | December 1, 2007

Even a manga editor reads other things besides manga every so often, and I recently re-read one of my favorite novels, Jane Eyre. (By the way, I'm such a fan of nineteenth-century novels it's hard to restrain myself from proposing that Del Rey turn all of them into manga: Wuthering Heights manga! Persuasion manga! Middlemarch...

by Jeff Meyer | December 1, 2007

November 30, 2007 - Scorchy Smith, the daily strip that exploded in popularity in the 1930s and catapulted author and illustrator Noel Sickles to comics fame, has been a Holy Grail among fans, landing on countless top-ten lists. But a complete collection hasn’t existed in 70 years. Next summer, IDW Publishing will release the first...

by Jeff Meyer | December 1, 2007

Cold Cut Distribution announces big discounts for the first half of December- encourage your local retailer to order from them and save! December 1, 2007- For two weeks only, Cold Cut Distribution's entire catalog is available for 60% off retail price! Nothing is being held back - our entire inventory of graphic novels, comic books...

by Jeff Meyer | December 1, 2007

Brandon Borzelli's Geek Goggle Reviews Green Lantern Corps #18 DC Comics Tomasi, Gleason, Igle, Rollins & Ordway Sinestro Corps War Part 10. This issue is all about the battle between Ion and Superman/Superboy-Prime. The issue is essentially one battle with some of Ion’s origin sprinkled in the...

by Jeff Meyer | December 1, 2007

Marc-Oliver Frisch writes: At first glance, October was a great month for DC Comics. For starters, for the first time in ages, the publisher’s market share, both in dollars and in units, was slightly higher than Marvel’s. More significantly, though, the dollar volume of DC’s October 2007 direct market periodical sales - as usual, not...

by Jeff Meyer | November 30, 2007

November 29th, 2007 This Week's 99-Cent Comics Find out about the origins of a Lantern and watch him take on Superman Prime in Green Lantern Corps #18. Iron Man dons his Ghost Armor and travels to Latveria in Marvel Adventures Iron…

by Jeff Meyer | November 30, 2007

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #545 (SEP072177) Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Pencils & 50/50 Cover by JOE QUESADA 50/50 Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC “ONE MORE DAY” PART...

by Jeff Meyer | November 30, 2007

Updated shipping information for comics and products being released beyond the week of 12/05/2007, provided by Diamond Distribution and our friends at Things From Another World. SUPPLIER/TITLE NEW DATE DC COMICS ALL STAR SUPERMAN #10 02/06/2008 BAT LASH #1 12/12/2007 BAT LASH #1 VARIANT EDITION 12/12/2007 BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #3 12/19/2007 BATMAN...

by Jeff Meyer | November 30, 2007

ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, December 5, 2007, by Charles LePage. Information provided by our friends at Things From Another World. This is the *preliminary* list and is not complete. The complete, and much more accurate, list will be published next week. This information is primarily compiled from Diamond Distribution who...

by Jeff Meyer | November 30, 2007

My Back Pages, by Thomas Aylesworth As I discussed in the last issue, Superman went through some major changes in the early 1970s. Editor Julius Schwartz took away the gimmicks and campiness that had plagued Superman stories for the...