Category: Comics

  • Super Hero Tournament of Champions: Superman vs. Thing

    Super Hero Tournament of Champions: Superman vs. Thing

    It’s tournament time! The greatest heroes of all-time battle each other in a drop down, drag out cage match. Who will win? The three of us Sci-Fi guys each get one vote and the fans also get a vote (That equals 4 total votes)! THIS IS NOT WHO YOU WOULD WANT TO WIN, BUT WHO…

  • Famous Funnies #214 (Cool Comic Covers #10)

    Famous Funnies #214 (Cool Comic Covers #10)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: After Avengers Week, we’re getting away from superhero comics and getting back to some sci-fi comics. Frank Frazetta is one of the giants of fantasy art, and did a number of comic…

  • FEEDBACK — What did YOU think of Avengers? (Poll)

    FEEDBACK — What did YOU think of Avengers? (Poll)

    What did you think of The Avengers? Did it deserve the half billion dollars it made last weekend? Did it meet your expectations? Exceed them? Not even come close to them? Let us know in our poll . . . [poll id=”8″]

  • AVENGERS WEEK: The Avengers (Ben’s movie review)

    AVENGERS WEEK: The Avengers (Ben’s movie review)

      No movie lives up to the hype. But some come close. The Avengers comes very, very close. It already has many difficulties to overcome: an ensemble cast; a couple years of build up and fan expectation; the enormous shadow of Iron Man and Robert Downey Jr. over the other characters and actors; a mix…

  • AVENGERS WEEK: Thor (COOL COMIC COVERS #9)

    AVENGERS WEEK: Thor (COOL COMIC COVERS #9)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: Thor! Continuing Avengers Week here at Strangers and Aliens, it’s Thor’s-day. Yes, we had to do it. So even though Captain America was after Thor, we had to do do Thor today.…

  • AVENGERS WEEK: Captain America (COOL COMIC COVERS #8)

    AVENGERS WEEK: Captain America (COOL COMIC COVERS #8)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: It’s Avengers week! Each day we are taking a look at the characters who will be featured in the upcoming (depending on when you are reading this) Avengers movie. First, Iron Man.…

  • AVENGERS WEEK: Hulk (COOL COMIC COVERS #7)

    AVENGERS WEEK: Hulk (COOL COMIC COVERS #7)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: It’s Avengers week here at Strangers and Aliens! Each day we are going to take a look at the characters who will be featured in the upcoming (depending on when you are…

  • AVENGERS WEEK: Iron Man (COOL COMIC COVERS #6)

    AVENGERS WEEK: Iron Man (COOL COMIC COVERS #6)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: Iron Man! It’s Avengers week here at Strangers and Aliens! Each day we are going to take a look at the characters who will be featured in the upcoming (depending on when…

  • AVENGERS WEEK

    AVENGERS WEEK

    It’s Avengers week here at Strangers and Aliens! Monday through Sunday, we will be celebrating and geeing out about the Avengers series of movies, starting with Iron Man,  going through the individual movies, and culminating in a weekend of release podcast episode! The Avengers is a unique product in that instead of a movie studio…

  • “Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction” Giant Size Special (COOL COMIC COVERS #5)

    “Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction” Giant Size Special (COOL COMIC COVERS #5)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction Giant Size Special. Next week we’ve got a lot of superhero things happening around here, so here’s an amazing sci-fi cover. It’s got bubble helmets. A rocket.…

  • Fear #1 (COOL COMIC COVERS #4)

    Fear #1 (COOL COMIC COVERS #4)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: I don’t know why I love swamp monsters. It has something to do with the primal idea of the very earth or soil coming alive beneath you, perhaps. Or the idea of…

  • “From Beyond the Unknown” #12 (COOL COMIC COVERS #3)

    “From Beyond the Unknown” #12 (COOL COMIC COVERS #3)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: Cavemen on dinosaurs vs. fighter jets. Drawn by Joe Kubert! Does anything else need to be said? ~ Ben Previous Cool Comic Covers: #2 — “Action Comics” #419 #1 — “Weird Science-Fantasy” #27

  • “Action Comics” #419 (COOL COMIC COVERS #2)

    “Action Comics” #419 (COOL COMIC COVERS #2)

    Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: I’m not going to say too much about the covers that appear here. If I have some sort of historical tidbit to give, I may elaborate some. But often I’m just going…

  • THOUGHT CLOUDS: Harlan Ellison’s Phoenix Without Ashes (Comic Review)

    THOUGHT CLOUDS: Harlan Ellison’s Phoenix Without Ashes (Comic Review)

    PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES Harlan Ellison, writer; Alan Robinson, artist This review of a graphic novel starts with a review of a TV series from 1973, so bear with me. When I was but a lad, I went and saw Star Wars on the big screen and wanted more. On the small screen, in my very…

  • “Weird Science-Fantasy” #27 (COOL COMIC COVERS #1)

    “Weird Science-Fantasy” #27 (COOL COMIC COVERS #1)

    Cool Comic Covers is a new series for the Strangers and Aliens blog. As listeners and readers know, Ben, Steve, and Dr. Jayce are all comic book fans. And comic book covers have some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This series will spotlight some of the comic book covers…

  • THOUGHT CLOUDS: Dark Matter (Comic Review)

    THOUGHT CLOUDS: Dark Matter (Comic Review)

    DARK MATTER Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, writers; Garry Brown, artist As you may probably know if you are familiar with the podcast, I write comic books. I also read them. If you’ve listened to the podcast, you also know I am a fan of the Stargate franchise. All of the series. So, by proxy, that…