Comics on Our Pull List 9/1/10

I know what you’re thinking. It’s nearly Wednesday. Again. It’s time to go and wait for that one guy to put down the stack of Brightest Days after he finally finds the one with the cleanest binding. It’s time to maneuver around the clown reading the store’s employee copy of Wizard just so you can [...]

A Brief History of DC’s War Comics

This month, DC is publishing one-shot revivals of five of their old war series: Our Army at War, Weird War Tales, Our Fighting Forces, G.I. Combat and Star-Spangled War Stories. There aren’t many ongoing war comics being published these days–and all-ages war comics are a thing of the past–but from the ’50s to the ’80s, [...]

New Comics 9/1/10

While Diamond may be delivering comics earlier in the week in 2011 we’ve still got some soldiering to do here in the ten. Here is your list of new comics for the week. There are some interesting things happening here. Wolverine might be trying to take back his title from Deadpool and there’s a new [...]

Emanata: Old Soldiers Die

We never met Frank Rock until he was already dead. Sgt. Rock and Easy Company were longest-running protagonists of American war comic books: from their initial appearances in G.I. Combat and Our Army at War in 1959 to the end of Sgt. Rock in 1988, they appeared monthly for more than 28 years. By the [...]