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Jim Johnson – Ramblings About Comics and Stuff
Ramblings About Comics and Stuff Convention Special #3: Detroit Fanfare 2011
The second Detroit Fanfare is currently taking place in downtown Detroit at the Cobo Hall convention center, making it the first major comics-related convention to take place within the city in nearly thirty years, and believed to be the first … See More
Ramblings About Comics and Stuff Convention Special #2: Motor City Comic Con 2011
“We have much stronger comic book guests this year than we’ve had in the past few years,” admitted convention organizer Michael Goldman. See More
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Ramblings About Comics and Stuff Convention Special #1: C2E2 2011
Many of those exhibiting at the show just might have fallen victim to a strange illness that befalls many on this day, and one that typically strikes The Windy City with enough vigor to turn even its river green. See More
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With a nod to Mr. Silver Age, I’d also like to do my part to help keep the discussions on this site going while the forums are offline. So feel free to bring up any topic in this space, if … See More
Ramblings About Comics and Stuff Holiday Special #2: A Christmas Wish
Few things are as pervasive as Christmas. It’s like a snowfall that blankets everything. See More
Ramblings About Comics and Stuff #156: Detroit FanFare 2010
It was cool seeing the other veterans like Starlin, Tony Isabella, and William Messner-Loebs chatting it up with Stan, too. But cooler still was seeing Stan pose with the Detroit FanFare girls, where he urged the all those taking pictures to take their time, and that he was in no hurry to walk away from posing with the ladies. See More
Ramblings About Comics and Stuff #155: The Dawn is Dead
The eventual moral of the film makes its message meaningless. Are you materialistic? You die. Do you live a mobile lifestyle, free of such trappings? You die. Are you anyone else in the film? You die, even though you’re already dead. See More
Ramblings About Comics and Stuff #154: The Night Lives On
As chilling as the idea of being surrounded by untold numbers of undead ghouls is, what remains just as chilling to me to this day is the dry, clinical, Walter Cronkite-like commentary by the TV news programs as the commentators attempted to explain the crisis. See More
Ramblings About Comics and Stuff #153: One Moment in Time, And I Want It Back – Pt 3 of 3
Believe if you want that Peter could succeed where trained medical specialists could not, but if you do, then ask yourself: why didn’t Peter do this in the first place during OMD, instead of making a deal with Mephisto? See More
Ramblings About Comics and Stuff #152: One Moment in Time, And I Want It Back – Part 2 of 3
In a classic case of throwing out Baby May with the bathwater, negating the marriage and reinstating the secret identity wasn’t enough; Marvel also undid decades of character growth, reverting Peter back to essentially the way the character was in the seventies. See More
