Liberty Wears Long Pants
Fears in the 1950s sends a beloved icon from trunks to trousers…
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The Naked Censorship Of Liberty Lad
A special blast from the past — a classic article from OnceUponADime.com, covering real history for a fake comic book character!
Rediscovered: Once Upon A Dime
In 2003, Mark Hamill had a dream. We helped support it by creating a sister website, Once Upon A Dime.
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 519: The Lone Fanboy
The big red cheese stands alone as Derek updates hot news of the week and interviews “The Red King” writer Shaun Manning!
Fanboy Planet Podcast #518: Put Down Those Chips!
Continuing Comic-Con 2018 coverage featuring Paul Tobin, Colleen Coover, and George Mann! Plus comics, movie, and TV news!
What’s The Top-Selling Superhero? Did You Say Dog Man?
Right now he’s overshadowing Batman, Spider-Man, and anything that Animal Man has been in. You haven’t seen a movie about him, nor seen him on […]
Comic-Con 2018: Captain Action Attacks Mars!
Captain Action attacks Mars, and Mars attacks back! At least, that’s the promise from Atomic Toybox. But wait! There’s more!
BOOM! Previews The Sons Of El Topo
This right here. I recently have had a lot of conversations about how comics have become so much more than what people think they remember. […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast #517: Conversations at Comic-Con 2018
Comic-Con interviews, spotlighting Max Allan Collins (Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer) and Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth (Instant), then Comic-Con news and What’s in the Bag?
Gail Simone’s Tribute To Bongo Comics
One of the best writers around, Gail Simone started as one of us, a comics fan turned internet writer. And then Bongo Comics accepted a […]
Junior Jr.’s Guns A’Blazin’ Music Video
You know a comic book has struck a chord when a rock band puts together a song AND a music video for it. After running […]
Comic-Con 2018: Guns A’Blazin’!
It’s odd to say this about a comic that comes out once a year, but one thing that stands out about Guns A’Blazin’ #6 is its […]
Even Weirdworld Needs Champions
All day long, Marvel had been sending out emails with the header “Change the World?” As it turns out, they meant Weirdworld, an other-dimensional planet […]
Comic-Con 2018: The DC Universe Experience
Whether under the streets of Gotham City or deep in the swamps of Louisiana, the DC Universe contains a lot of darkness. There’s a lot […]
Comic-Con 2018: Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein Gets An Artist’s Edition
When Bernie Wrightson passed away last year, we lamented on the podcast that his illustrated edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein had gone out of print. Sure, […]
Comic-Con 2018: Tales From Vader’s Castle
Since Darth Vader acts as the boogie man to real children anyway, why not show how he’s used in storytelling in a galaxy far, far […]
Comic-Con 2018: George Takei Tells His Story In Comics
George Takei has long served his community, spending time in politics in the 1980s, and then leveraging a late-in-life fame to start talking about injustice […]
Comic-Con 2018: ComiXology Originals
Where are new comics readers going to come from? That’s the question that David Steinberger hoped to answer when he launched ComiXology 10 years ago, […]
Comic-Con 2018: Jessica Jones Kicks Off Marvel Digital Originals
Right here. This may not be THE pivotal moment, but it does mark a change in comics distribution on the level of Marvel turning three […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast #516: The Return of MEGO!
It’s a Comic-Con preview episode with Marty Abrams, the president of MEGO, relaunching in San Diego this week! Then who was Flesh Gordon, what’s in the bag, and much more!
