“Cal” is Cal Willingham, Fanboy’s best friend. Cal’s a popular jock, but he’s also smart as hell and loves comic books, especially old comics from the 1980s and even earlier.

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So, did everyone see this article on Slate?
It’s mainly about Heroes, which I love, but it’s a real backhanded slap at comics.
Man, I think it’s a bunch of crap. “Starting in the 1980s…” Look I’m not the oldest comic fan I know, not even close really, but has this writer ever checked out the Essentials […]

I gotta get serious for a minute, gang…
Okay, here’s what the AP said: “Michael Richards said Monday he spewed racial epithets during a stand-up comedy routine because he lost his cool while being heckled and not because he’s a bigot.”
I wasn’t involved. I have seen the video, it’s pretty rough, and I’m sure that many […]

what does everyone think of this STAN LEE MEETS… Doctor Strange, Spider-Man and all these other characters?
they’ve got my buddy’s boy Bendis on the line for one of them, right, and Joss Whedon, whose Astonishing X-Men is definitely all that, BUT… what’s the deal man? just more cornball hype? it’s cool that Stan created all […]

license to drive
which is better?

i know its a little late but i posted some pictures from this years AWESOME comic-con
they’re here: http://fanboyandgothgirl.com/plog/index.php?level=album&id=6
hey, fanboy — did you see the picture of neil vokes and mike oeming i e-mailed to you? you never said anything…

Remember how positive I was about USM #99 and how I thought maybe the issues before it had been somewhat… lacking? Well, I was right.
Only it’s worse than I remembered. I just picked up the trade paperback (it was sort of a slow week for me, though I did pick up a few other comics) […]

I didn’t love the last couple storylines in Ultimate Spider-Man. Of course BMB’s “average” story is better than most creators’ best work. The last few have just left me wanting his best work. Then he decided he was going to take on “The Clone Sage,” which in the regular Marvel universe stunk on ice. It’s […]

Here’s a review of the new hardcover collecting the Spider-Woman: Origin hardcover.
From SCOOP:
http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=12983&si=129
Brian Michael Bendis (New Avengers) and Brian Reed (Ultimate Spider-Man video game) teamed up to write the mini-series collected in this new hard cover. Their objective was to somehow weave together the sometimes highly contradictory different versions of Spider-Woman’s origin. They succeed, […]

OK, so I was gone for a couple weeks on the Dreaded Family Vacation (complete with Annoying Reunion), but now I’m back and I’m reading about this series MIGHTY AVENGERS. It took me a minute, but I gather it’s a new series, not just a re-titled NEW AVENGERS. Now that Luke Cage is with Captain […]