Posted by: pspteacher on: February 28, 2009
Follow the link for an interview with Ennis as he explains his interest in WWII and his purpose for producing the Battlefield series and in particular Tankies clipped from www.comicbookresources.com This April, Garth Ennis takes to the battlefields one more time.On the heels of his well received “Battlefields: The Night Witches” and “Battlefields: Dear Billy” [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: February 27, 2009
Marvel likes to “waste” a page in it’s issues with enlarged credits and a summary of previous issues. Here Marvel has taken the step of showing the characters, a typical conceit, but in a family tree fashion. A incorrect family tree However, as a relationship chart it is servicable…. just don’t try and learn family [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: February 27, 2009
Follow the link below for more information on the collection of the series and the free issue clipped from comicbookresources.com The Golden Age Lives Again! From the dawn of the 20th Century came a new chapter in mankind’s history, unleashed during a time of great war and destruction. It was the beginning of the Age [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: February 22, 2009
Follow the link for this great interview clipped from www.newsarama.com Garth Ennis on Battlefields: The Tankies Garth Ennis moves his theater of war from the Pacific (in the currently-running Garth Ennis’ Battlefields: Dear Billy miniseries) to France for the final of three Battlefields miniseries, The Tankies. The three issue miniseries is set after D-Day, and [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: February 20, 2009
Follow the link for more details on this interesting story clipped from www.comicbookresources.com Folks in Steubenville, Ohio, were excited to learn that their own hometown hero Frank McGee won not only the Silver Star for his bravery during the Korean War, but that he would be immortalized in a comic book dedicated to war heroes.The [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: February 17, 2009
I love the idea of this. The continuity of the storylines in the marvel universe and not be rehashed like those of the DCU but none the less there are inconsistencies and errors. As an Historian I will enjoy how they will record their events and how they choose for audiences young and old, to [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: February 8, 2009
A more mature view on the Wild West. Download the free PDF. clipped from www.dccomics.com JONAH HEX #40 » View Larger Image » Download Preview Written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti; Art and Cover by David Michael Beck Meet Doctor Zimmerman, a physician with a hunger for knowledge matched only by his appetite for [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: January 31, 2009
Follow the link for more information and over twenty preview pages including the famous wink from Alaska’s Governor! clipped from www.comicbookresources.com After a long and contentious Democratic primary, having triumphed over his Republican rival in the general election, and following an unusually active period of transition, Barack Obama finally took his place last week as [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: January 30, 2009
Difficult subject mixed into the origin of Magneto. See how he survived WWII. clipped from www.comicbookresources.com The boy survived Kristallnacht, the Einsatzgruppe, and the Warsaw Ghetto. But now Max Eisenhardt faces Hitler’s Final Solution in the death camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau. What will it take to endure? Who are the Sonderkommando? And will a vision [...]
Posted by: pspteacher on: January 17, 2009
This comic explores how the comic industry became a scapegoat for youth crime in the 1950s. Great historical account clipped from www.newsarama.com Fred van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey have provided Newsarama with a look at the history of comics in a comic – Comic Book Comics #3. The solicitation for the issue reads: COMIC BOOK [...]
