After voraciously picking up his sister’s leftover comics as a young lad, Pedro bought anything that had John Romita Jr drawing it, something he still does to this day. His tiny little hands grabbed whatever they could, and left him with a taste for Captain America, Over-Sized Hardcovers, Steve Weismann, Ballin’, Amanda Waller, and Hello Kitty. He has been known to call Alan Moore a crybaby, seen suggesting tweaks to Geoff Johns’ JSA, laughing at Joe’s Manifesto and awaiting the next single of Blue Beetle. The only thing he loves more than America are gay mutants. His current pursuits are playing Hard drums in Rock Band and finding your kiddie porn. He is happy to hear that his Metal Gear Solid fan-fiction has finally disappeared off the internet.
Ever since I started grad school, I haven’t been able to go to many events in the city. But with school out this week, I had some spare time and noticed a posting on G. Willow Wilson’s blog about a talk she was giving and decided to check it out. I’m glad I did, […]
I hate panels. I can imagine they are funny or thought provoking discussions about the industry and the process. I can even see them being more than just press releases I can get off Newsarama and CBR. Creators can use that space to discuss ideas and topics that can’t be done anywhere else. The hope […]
Tomorrow is the big day!
The whole crew is off to the Javits Center to wade among the throngs of Wolf T-shirts. We’ll be attempting to bring some sort of coverage from the show, we will be hitting panels, talking to people getting pictures and giving you the classic FBB tough […]
This week we talk Criminal #2, The new Howard Zinn comic book, and Pedro comes clean about JSA. Chris got his hands on some preview copies of some Minx Books, and relates his experiences.
We also have a deeper conversation of the about the ign Geoff Johns interview, and I ask “Why should we care?” This […]
I kind of asked Joe to do a little write up about this, but in typical Joe fashion it went in one ear and bounced off the portion of his mind dedicated to Smash Brothers.
So I took it upon myself to point out something that has been painfully obvious to everyone who has visited the […]
Right after the Wizard World LA announcement of the new additions to the Uncanny X-Men creative teams, FBB and FBB followers reacted with similar opinions. We love the writers, but one of the artists makes us shake our heads. It led to the production of an image that hit a couple of sites and eventually […]
There was a recent discussion among several contributors on this site about the viability of a book put out by Marvel or DC that didn’t feature superheroes as the main hook in some format. The truth is books like that only speak to a small subset of the audience. It also got us talking about […]
Wizard is doing an online poll for their annual fan award. They state it’s the only place online where fans pick their favorites in comics and pop culture. Yeah, Wizard is a pop culture magazine on the level of Maxim. Don’t think about it, it’s as stupid as it sounds. Besides we here at FBB […]
Tamora Pierce, Timothy Liebe, Phil Briones, Al Rio
White Tiger: A Hero’s Compulsion
Marvel Comics
White Tiger isn’t a little bad, or a book that was marred with a few missteps. It is an outright handbook on how not to write a superhero comic. It seems to relish in a obscene number of cameos that will confuse […]
I was flipping through the previews for JSA on Newsarama. It was cute to see Johns point out that character count on JSA may be a tad bit high, but I was quite in love with this comedic bit featuring Jakeem Thunder, Black Lightning, and Lil’ Lightning (Sparkess?). It was a combination of something straight […]
At first glance, this solicit made me pause.
BLUE BEETLE #27
Written by Will Pfeifer;
Art and Cover by Rafael Albuquerque
Hold me closer, tiny demon! Blue Beetle and Traci 13 are just trying to have a normal date, but when that old black magic kicks up, there can’t be anything normal about it!
However, I have heard John […]
CHECKMATE #26
Written by Bruce Jones
Art and cover by Manual Garcia
“Chimera, ” by Bruce Jones (Hulk) and Manuel Garcia (COUNTDOWN) begins! Left for dead on a Middle East minefield, one soldier’s only chance to survive is as a test subject of a dangerous-but-invaluable project run by the Black King. Both the King’s wildest hopes and fears […]
We been messing with the site design a bit, tweaking things and also changing stuff on the back end. We hope you like the small bug fixes.
I also like to say, that it’s great that there is going to be an arc of Rucka/Brubaker/Lark on Daredevil. The name just happens to be Other People’s Problems. […]
Pedro, you don’t really care about story integrity or my integrity or about defending Black Lightning or Geoff Johns.
You just want to feel like
“somebody” for instigating and winning a “debate” on teh internets.
Sir, it is a dick move.
Go on the Newsarama boards and pick a fight with some comic writer. I grow weary of you. […]
There is nothing wrong with the fact the current one is strapped.
Steve Rogers has used a gun in his time. He served in WW2. There is no reason he would not have used a gun in a time of war. He however had a impenetrable shield and super human strength. He had options that most […]