As I write this, I’m in Belgium. Yes, this is relevant. At Carrefour, which is sort of the Belgian equivalent of a Super Target store, I saw something that really surprised me. In the Books and Magazines section, there’s an entire aisle devoted to comics. They’re books, what we’d call […]
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A Beautiful Gory Display: The Moments of Joy Edition
So, we’ve got big plans for “A Beautiful Gory Display” coming up – actual professional people talked to me about things, and we’ll be presenting them here. It’s going to be pretty awesome. But until we go live with that, we have the Moments of Joy edition of A Beautiful […]
A Beautiful Gory Display: The Black Diamond and Sad Superman
You know, I really try to keep A Beautiful Gory Display positive.There are so many things out there worth reading, and I’d rather maybe introduce people to something good then tell them why something is bad.Also, there’s the fact that I’m just a regular guy who doesn’t generally get free […]
A Beautiful Gory Display: Bruce Wayne Returns, and So Do We!
It’s been a long time since the last Beautiful Gory Display. Recap season sort of drained all of our available time, but now we’re back and ready to talk comics. This week, we’ve got a couple of major releases, one of which involves Batman, and a series that’s soon to […]
A Beautiful Gory Display: Things You Should Buy
Merry Christmas from A Beautiful Gory Display! Ordinarily, this time of year would have us talking about that time Santa Claus joined the Justice League, our focus is different this year. See, thanks to Christmas falling on a Friday, there’s a weird convergence with UPS shipping schedules and Diamond Distribution’s […]
A Beautiful Gory Display: Hokka Hokka Hey!
In this week’s installment of “A Beautiful Gory Display”, Beanworld Returns, the Punisher gets turned into a Frankenstein, and bad Batman comics make EJ sad. Punisher and Punisher: MAX (Marvel) – In general, I’m not really a fan of the Punisher. Even when I was young and dumb and his […]