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I never thought I would rate a licensed Superman novel as high as this one, it’s right up there with Kavalier & Clay for me. It’s Superman by Tom De Haven was published in 2006 and it never r...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2023/03/its-superman-by-tom-de-haven.html

 I saw this on Facebook and had to save it for posterity... These are the artists of my formative years as a comic book fan, from 1969 to 1979. I shared this in the Jim Aparo Facebook group...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2022/05/nine-great-comic-book-artists-from.html

I watched The Batman on HBO Max. I enjoyed it. The cinematography was superb and I loved the Riddler taken seriously. I liked the portrayal of Catwoman. Batman has never used his detective skills...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2022/04/the-batman-adam-west-vs-robert-pattinson.html

Looking back here on my blog, I see that I discovered Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series back in 2010 . At that point, it felt like modern/urban fantasy comfort food. A private detective who was ...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2020/11/dresden-files-king-size-deus-ex-machina.html

This documentary about booksellers in New York City is now available for free on Amazon Prime. I've been tracking this since last year, glad to finally view it. I hope some of these people are ...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2020/09/the-booksellers-official-trailer.html

I've been re-reading Alan Moore's Supreme run from the 1990s. If you're a Superman fan like me, who often wondered what would have happened if DC Comics let Moore run the Superman franchise inste...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2020/09/supreme-50-and-meta-commentary-on.html

Recap pages! Those introductory splash pages that try to summarize the continuing story for a new reader. In earlier eras, comics were bound to a single story per issue, often there were 2...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/09/story-recap-pages-from-marvel-and-dc.html

The upcoming to cover to Superman 13, shipping in July 2019, has an iconic cover by Ivan Reis and inker Joe Prado. The colors are by Alex Sinclair. The image relates to the "Unity" storyline...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/04/superman-13-2019-cover-progression-by.html

The movie SHAZAM! is releasing this Friday, April 4th. I've got a case of Shazam fever, looking at various incarnations of The Big Red Cheese since DC Comics started publishing the character in 1...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/04/shazam-many-revisions-of-original.html

I'm obviously obsessed over the fact that Marvel's Captain Marvel and the DC Original Big Red Cheese are coming out at the same time . Just saw these two photoshopped comic book covers today! ...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/03/more-fun-with-original-captain-marvel.html

In a few weeks we will see the publication of Detective Comics 1000. With dozens of variant covers, per usual! Brian Bolland's variant cover features a colorful look at Batman's rogues gall...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/02/brian-bollands-detective-comics-1000.html

Marvel's Captain Marvel (created in 1967) gets released on March 8th. DC Comics' Captain Marvel (created in 1939), aka Shazam, gets released on April 5th. There is a history behind the orig...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/02/will-real-captain-marvel-please-stand-up.html

I recently read Robin by Dave Itzkoff , which was published in May 2018. I think anyone who first saw Robin Williams doing standup during the 1970s or that first year of Mork and Mindy will...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/02/robin-by-dave-itzkoff.html

Adam Hughes has always been a craftsman and one of the clever designers of comics covers for the past decade or so. He's great at drawing women but even in his convention sketches he has a sense ...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/02/adam-hughes-brilliant-covers-for.html

Loved this variant cover when I saw it this week... By Michael Golden, very clever for The Flash. Nuff Said!

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/02/the-flash-65-variant-cover-by-michael.html

Conan the Barbarian is back in the cultural zeitgeist due to Marvel's 2019 relaunch. The first issue had quite a few variant covers. Here are some mockups of cool variants that a fan named James ...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/01/conan-barbarian-variant-covers-by-frank.html

From a George Perez FB group: an unlikely jam piece by George Perez (Starfire), Sergio Aragones (Groo & little people), and Will Eisner (The Spirit) in 1985!

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2019/01/art-jam-will-eisner-george-perez-and.html

Ever since signing up for the DC Universe streaming service, I've been doing a rewatch of both Justice League animated series, the original and Unlimited. I've been making screencaps and gifs of ...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2018/12/justice-league-unlimited-dark-heart.html

Beautifully executed drawing of Superman by Chris Samnee in 2013, love the colors and perspective here... Nuff Said!

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2018/11/superman-by-chris-samnee.html

A nice illustration of The Joker, circa 1985, by Brian Bolland... He did it for Joe Orlando. What a great piece of classic Batman art to own! Nuff Said.

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2018/10/the-joker-by-brian-bolland.html

I saw this recently on Twitter: an image that depicts the various DC Comics logos used by the company from 1940 up until the current day. Which was your favorite and/or least favorite? ...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2018/08/dc-comics-logos-1940-to-2016.html

I am a Neal Adams fan as I am sure many of you are. I love his Superman covers, he did dozens from the late 60s to the early 70s. My favorite cover is a 100 page Super Spectacular that I wrote ab...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2017/08/action-comics-419-cover-by-neal-adams.html

Gary Frank is making a big splash this year with the publication of The Doomsday Clock in late November. Here are some illustrations of the World's Finest team... Superman, which is the clas...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2017/10/superman-and-batman-by-gary-frank.html

Last weekend (labor day 2017) I attended San Francisco Comic Con 2017. Now I haven't been to a con in over a decade. The deciding factor for me to attend was the fact that Peter Capaldi was going...

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2017/09/san-francisco-comic-con-2017-and-doctor.html

I made it a goal to re-read all of Jack Kirby's mid-seventies Marvel work this year. I hadn't liked it when originally published, but now I find them to filled with Kirby's wonderful imagination....

http://www.giantsizegeek.com/2017/08/kirby-100-look-at-2001-space-odyssey.html