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This site is dedicated to gathering all of the Internet's comic book annotations and bibliographies in one place.

Thanks to Wizard Magazine, who "recommended checking out" this "wonderful site". Thanks, Wizard!

Why do I do this?

1. Because I really enjoy annotations and bibliographies.
2. Because they're hard to find -- many annotations and bibliographies are difficult to find on the web, or have only been posted on newsgroups like rec.art.comics.misc, rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, or alt.comics.batman (or a host of others).  Without doing an extensive search, it's nearly impossible to know they're even out there.
3. Because my brother has put together some truly amazing bibliographies for Mike Carey, Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Kevin Smith, and Matt Wagner.  I thought I'd post those and then gather others so people who wanted could find them in one place.

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Site News and Updates

SITE UPDATES

Jul 9th update completed.  Changes:

1. BIG NEWS!!  Travis Hedge Coke has written annotations for Warren Ellis' & John Cassaday's Planetary.  As Travis puts it:  "the annotations are panel by panel and the analysis veers away from summarizing the stories and focuses more on the thematic and technical elements of the comic."

2. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Jun 6th update completed.  Changes:

1. Keith Smith hadn't updated his amazing 200 page (!) Eerie Index (Word doc file here) in a while, but the good news is he's finally done it!

2. Thanks to Sarah Hill, updated a Maurice Sendak link in Eroom Nala's Promethea annotations to replace a now dead one.

3. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

April 10th update completed.  Changes:

1. Updated Richard Arndt's Warren Magazines Interviews with a new interview with Bruce Jones (Word doc version)!

2. Art  Turner has written a blog titled Deciphering Hob's Hog which is, as he calls it, "an attempt to make sense of the first chapter of Alan Moore's VOICE OF THE FIRE."

3. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Feb 28th update completed.  Changes:

1. NEW!  BIG NEWS!  Gary Greenwood has clearly become THE annotator for DC events.  In the past, he's created some great annotations for DC's universe-changing Infinite Crisis, and then followed them up with annotations for Final Crisis as well as Blackest Night.  Well, as if that wasn't enough (!), he's now started The Annotated DC Project which will eventually hold notes on most if not all of the big DC summer crossover series from years gone by.  For now it has notes on Crisis on Infinite Earths and Zero Hour: Crisis in Time.  Definitely worth checking out.

Feb 26th update completed.  Changes:

1. Paul Andinach has annotated Alan Moore's Smax #5, ensuring that all of the Smax issues have annotations!

Jan 7th update completed.  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

2009 UPDATES

Oct 31st update completed.  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Aug 16th update completed.  Again, way too long between updates, so there's actually three (!) pieces of big news this time... Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

2. BIG NEWS!!  As he did with Infinite Crisis (link) and Final Crisis (link), Gary Greenwood has started annotating DC's next big event, Blackest Night, which you can find here.

3. BIG NEWS!!  Jess Nevins has, of course, written annotations for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 3, Chapter 1 (a.k.a. Century 1910).  As with all of his stuff, it's mirrored here on the site.  I also caught the fact that I hadn't mirrored two of his Top Ten: Beyond the Farthest Precinct annotations, so that's fixed as well.

4. BIG NEWS!!  Paul Andinach has added notations for Supreme, building on Aaron Severson's original annotations.

5. Updated a broken link relating to Mary Shelley that Sharon (last name withheld) pointed out to me.  Thanks, Sharon.

May 3rd update completed.  Long time between updates... too long!  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

2. Not an annotation or bibliography, but worth noting anyway (especially given the Wolverine movie opened this weekend):  the good folks at the non-profit Sequart Research & Literacy Organization have put out a new book.  Titled  Mutant Cinema: The X-Men Trilogy from Comics to Screen, it examines the history of X-Men comics and how they were adapted and changed for the screen. The book is written by Thomas J. McLean (Variety, Newsarama), a life-long X-Men fan as well as a Hollywood insider.  It is available exclusively from Diamond Comic Distributors and the Previews catalog (order code FEB094600).  Here's a link to Amazon's page on it as well.

Jan 19th update completed.  Changes:

1. Updated Keith Smith's "index and collector's guide to Eerie Publications" to V1.1.  Updates include more information plus some usability enhancements, including page numbers and a table of contents (helpful given how massive it is).  Check out the word doc here, or the HTML version here (caution:  long load times depending on the speed of your connection).

2. Added additional links to the Comix-fan website annotations for the DC/Marvel cross-over event JLA/Avengers, issues #1-4, with notes to all the hidden (and not so hidden) references.  Links:  JLA/Avengers #1, JLA/Avengers #2, JLA/Avengers #3, JLA/Avengers #4.

3. Minor update to a web page address in Richard Arndt's Warren Magazine Interviews.

4. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Jan 4th update completed.  Changes:

1. BIG NEWS!!  Keith Smith has done a massive, incredibly impressive "index and collector's guide" to Eerie Publications.  Just two quick stats for you:  it's 195 pages (!) and 88,836 words.

It includes the index itself plus a brief history of Eerie Publications, a checklist, brief bios of the artists, a listing of other personnel who worked at the company, artist & story cross-indexes, a pre-code index, and (finally) his favorite stories.

 

This is a seriously impressive piece of work.  Check out the word doc here, or the HTML version here (caution:  long load times depending on the speed of your connection).

2. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

2008 Updates

Nov 16th update completed.  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Oct 5th update completed.  Sizable update this time, since I've been a bit remiss in making changes to the site lately.  Changes:

1. Eamonn Clarke has written a set of annotations to the Leviathan by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli.

2. Eamonn Clarke has also written annotations for the heretofore un-annotated Judgement Day series by Alan Moore.  This marks the THIRTEENTH series of Alan Moore's that has been annotated.

3. Richard Arndt has updated his Warren Magazines checklist.  You can get it at the Richard Arndt page.

4. Richard Arndt has updated his Web of Horror checklist.  You can get it at the Richard Arndt page.

5. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

6. While not an annotation... let me put in a plug for Sequart Research & Literacy Organization's Mutant Cinema: The X-Men Trilogy from Comics to Screen.  I think they do a nice job on their site (though I haven't yet had a chance to look at the book).  The book is billed as the "the definitive unauthorized study of the popular movie saga, including:
   • The history of X-Men comic books; 
   • Previous adaptations, including early cartoon appearances, the successful 1990s animated series, and initial attempts to bring the mutants to the big screen; 
   • The development process for each film, including behind-the-scenes stories, interviews with the screenwriters, and details on omitted scenes and storylines; 
   • Detailed scene-by-scene examinations of each film and the comic book stories that infuse every aspect of the movies; 
   • Critical and fan receptions of each film, plus box office performances; 
   • What the future may hold for the franchise; and 
   • Tips on some essential X-Men reading."

Aug 13th update completed.  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Jul 20th update completed.  Changes:

1. BIG NEWS!!  Eamonn Clarke has written a set of annotations to the three Scarlet Traces graphic novels by Ian Edginton and Matt Brooker aka D’Israeli.  The first volume is a fairly faithful adaptation of The War of the Worlds itself. The second book in the series (although it was published first), Scarlet Traces, is set ten years later in a dramatically altered England and features a murder investigation and some unpleasant events.  The third book is Scarlet Traces: The Great Game which takes the action forward another thirty years to a time when hostilities between the two worlds have resumed.

Jul 6th update completed.  Changes:

1. BIG NEWS!!  Gary Greenwood has written annotations for the big DC Comics mini-series Final Crisis.

2. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

May 13th update completed.  Changes:

1. Richard Arndt has updated his Negative Burn checklist.  You can get it at the Richard Arndt page.

May 2nd update completed.  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

2. Free Comic Day is tomorrow!  Go to your local comic store!

Mar 18th update completed.  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Feb 17th update completed.  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

2. Updated the acknowledgement section for the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas, as well.

Feb 2nd update completed.  Changes:

1. Jess Nevins updated his written annotations for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.

Jan 5th update completed.  Changes:

1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

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