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Update History

2007 Updates

Dec 10th update completed.  Changes:

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

Nov 26th update completed.  Changes:

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

Nov 23rd update completed.  Changes:

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

Nov 19th update completed.  Changes:

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

Nov 15th update completed.  Changes:

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

Nov 13th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has already written annotations for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.  Lucky guy -- or, should I say, talented guy -- got an advance copy because of all the amazing work he's done on LoEG.  As always, we're mirroring them here at Enjolrasworld.  You can find all of Jess' League of Extraordinary Gentlemen annotations here.

Oct 28th update completed.  Changes:

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

Sep 23rd update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has done an interview with Angelique: The Unconventional ComiCon Costumer, filled with pictures as well.  Here's a link to a Word doc version of it as well, or you can get it at the Richard Arndt page.

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

Aug 21st update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Richard Arndt has updated his Warrior checklist (famed for V for Vendetta, Marvelman, The Bojeffries Saga, Father Shandor: Demon Stalker, The Spiral Path, and Madman, among other things) with an interview with its founder, Dez Skinn!  He's also updated his The Early Independents checklist.  You can get them both at the Richard Arndt page.

Aug 3rd update completed.  Changes:

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

Jul 15th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Norman Boyd has created an extremely impressive, extremely comprehensive listing of the works of Frank Bellamy.  To quote from the site, Frank Bellamy's "list of credits reads like a trip down nostalgia lane in post war Britain: magazines such as Boy's Own Paper, Lilliput, Home Notes, Everybody's and the Radio Times; comics such as Swift, Eagle, Mickey Mouse Weekly, TV21, and national newspapers such as the Sunday Times, and the Daily Mirror.  In his career in the late fifties he was well known as the artist who illustrated various biographies in the Eagle.  In the sixties he spent many years on Thunderbirds in TV21.  In the seventies, he became associated with Dr. Who and the daily comic strip Garth."  You can find it at the other bibliographies by fans page.

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

May 22nd update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Gary Greenwood has annotated DC's universe-changing Infinite Crisis!!

  2. Ido Reif updated his annotations for Y: the Last Man, including annotations for issue #6!

  3. Richard Arndt has updated his The Early Independents checklist with two new interviews:  Adam Malin (publisher of the 1970 fanzine Infinity) and writer Doug Murray.  You can get it at the Richard Arndt page.

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

Apr 1st update completed.  Changes:

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

Feb 24th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his The Early Independents checklist with a new interview with Reality publisher Robert Gerson.  You can get it at the Richard Arndt page.

Feb 10th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated 3 of his indexes:  The Complete Skywald Checklist, The Warren Magazines, and Negative Burn.  You can get them and all his other great stuff at the Richard Arndt page.

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

Jan 3rd update completed.  Changes:

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

Nov 11th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  A new annotation for an Alan Moore comic!  Damian Gordon and Pádraig Ó Méalóid, along with a lot of help from loads of fans, and major help from John Reppion, have annotated Moore's Albion comic.  Albion was "created" by Alan Moore, and written by Leah Moore and John Reppion.  You can find it and more at the Alan Moore Annotations page.

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

 

2006 Updates

Sep 10th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Richard Arndt has updated his The Early Indepdendents with additional information on "witzend", "Infinity", & "I'll Be Damned".

  3. Updated the links to Jason Pomerantz' “Mysteries and Conundrums in Neil Gaiman’s 1602”.

Aug 27th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  A new index from Richard Arndt.  His latest is for Negative Burn, an anthology "as ambitious in scope as any B&W magazine around".  You can get it and all his other great stuff at the Richard Arndt page. 

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

  3. Almost missed it, but last month the site broke 60,000 unique visitors to the home page (I don't track other pages) since I started tracking.

Jul 9th update completed.  Changes:

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

May 14th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Richard Arndt has two new updates.  First up:  a Star*Reach update with a new interview with artist/writer Mike Vosburg.  Batting second:  an update to the IDW Publishing index.

Apr 19th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Updated the description of www.mikecarey.net from "Carey fan site" to "Carey's official home site", as -- due to the great work of Matt Peckham -- Mike has now adopted it as his official site.

Apr 11th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Great news, bad news, then good news.  Great news:  Mike Carey's first novel has just been published, titled The Devil You Know: A Felix Castor Novel.  480 pages of pure Mike Carey goodness.  The bad news is it's only been published in the UK for now, so anyone in another country won't be able to get it at their local bookstore (in the U.S. it'll probably be over a year, if it follows the classic pattern).  The good news:  that's what Amazon UK is for.  Here's a link to buy the book.

  2. Ido Reif updated his annotations for Y: the Last Man. 

Apr 7th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Moved the V for Vendetta movie update off the home page.  You can still go to the V for Vendetta page for some cool art & pictures, and some great info from the press kit.

  3. Ido Reif updated his annotations for Y: the Last Man, including new annotations for issue #5.

  4. Sanjay Shah and YourMomsBasement.com have started a new column where they break down comic book runs that "usually get passed over".  Their first guide is for the Denny O'Neil & Denys Cowen's volume of The Question (published by DC Comics in 1986).  They break down all 36 issues, citing the creators' influences, here.

Feb 12th update completed.  Changes:

  1. MASSIVE RICHARD ARNDT UPDATE!  The old cliché "When it rains, it pours" really held true this week as Richard Arndt ended up with FIVE updates to his indexes, one of which he'd been waiting for 8 months to get finalized.  You can get them all at the Richard Arndt page.  So, here goes: 
    1) Updated the Marvel B&W Horror Magazines index with interviews with Steve Bissette and Tim Conrad,
    2) Updated the Star*Reach index, which now includes a mini-interview with Steve Leialoha,
    3) Updated the Taboo index,
    4) Updated the Warren index, now including Vampirella's #113 issue from Harris Publications, and
    5) Updated the Warren Interviews page with an interview with Don McGregor. 
    Also, something pretty cool has come about with a little bit of help from Richard.  As Richard wrote:  "I'm really happy that I got Don & Joe Pruett together 'cause there's going to be new Sabre & Detectives, Inc. stories coming out of it."
    Again, you can get them all at the Richard Arndt page.

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

Jan 16th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  It's always big news when someone new enters the annotation game and takes on a very popular but un-annotated series.  Ido Reif is now that "big news" -- he's begun to annotate Y: the Last Man, an excellent series if you haven't been reading it.  He's already done issues #1-4 -- check it out!

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

  3. Updated many of the author-related links on the bibliographies page.

 

 

2005 Updates

Dec 17th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his Complete Skywald Checklist as well as his index to the Marvel B&W Horror Magazines (which now includes an interview with Steve Bissette).  You can get them all at the Richard Arndt page.

  2. Great news!  Julian Darius at Sequart.com is following in the footsteps of Jess Nevins by turning his annotations into a book!  Julian expanded his annotations on the film "Batman Begins" to include essays, box office numbers of all of the Batman films, and a section about previous attempts to bring the failing Batman film franchise back from the dead.  The book, titled Batman Begins and the Comics is for sale at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble's website, as well as "fine bookstores throughout the country".  Congratulation to Julian!

Dec 3rd update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Richard Arndt has a new index -- for IDW Publishing.  To quote Richard, "At last a return to the full-size B&W horror magazines of the 1960s-1990s!"  It includes an interview with IDW's editor-in-chief Chris Rydall.  You can also get it at the Richard Arndt page.

  3. Added Neil Gaiman's quote about Ng Kiat Han's Sandman #75 annotations:  "enjoyed your annotations, and I thought they were competent and fairly solid."

Oct 30th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his Web of Horror index to include an interview with former Eclipse publisher Dean Mullaney.

Oct 22nd update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has updated his annotations for Alan Moore's Top Ten:  Beyond the Farthest Precinct to include issues 2 & 3.  As always, Jess' annotations are mirrored here with his permission.  You can access them from the Top Ten Index page.

Oct 15th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Big Richard Arndt update.  Richard's updated his Complete Skywald Checklist, The Early Independents, and Star*Reach.  Star*Reach now even includes a long interview with publisher Mike Friedrich.  You can get them all at the Richard Arndt page.

Sep 28th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added a ton of Mirrormask stuff.  I've created a separate Mirrormask page which contains cool art as well as a document with some great information about the movie and the people behind it.

  2. Fixed the link to Jason Craft's annotations for Flex Mentallo, which had moved sites.  Thanks to Saranga Komanduri for pointing out the new site to me.

Sep 18th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Whenever Jess Nevins does new annotations, it qualifies as big news.  And whenever there are new annotations for an Alan Moore book, it's also big news (as can be seen from the traffic I get to the Alan Moore page).  Well, Jess has done annotations for Alan Moore's Top Ten:  The Forty-Niners and Top Ten:  Beyond the Farthest Precinct, so that's definitely big news.  As always, Jess' annotations are mirrored here with his permission.  You can access them from the Top Ten Index page.

Sep 4th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Added links to the bibliographies that Christopher Golden and Joe R. Lansdale put on their own web sites.  Thanks to Wheeler Hall for pointing them out.

  3. Julian Darius of Sequart.com has finished his annotations for the movie Batman Begins.  Here's the direct link to the final part, Part 6.

  4. Richard Ardt continues to interview many of the creators who worked on the Warren Magazines.  At this point, he's interviewed Bob Toomey, Clark Dimond, Barbara Leigh, Don Glut, Timothy Moriarty, Jerry Grandenetti, and David Allikas.  You can get all those interviews here at the Warren Magazine Interviews page, or in Word document format.

July 31st update completed.  Changes:

  1. Julian Darius of Sequart.com has continued his annotations for the movie Batman Begins.  Here are the direct links to Part 4 and Part 5.

  2. Richard Arndt has again updated his index to The Warren Magazines (warning:  it's a big page -- over 1.8 megs).  He's added an interview with Tim Moriarty.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

  3. Finally loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas (sorry about the delay, Michael).

June 30th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Julian Darius of Sequart.com has done annotations for the movie Batman Begins, with a scene by scene look commenting heavily on the comics precedents.  Direct links to:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

  2. Madelyn Boudreaux slightly updated her annotations to Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.

June 18th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Richard Arndt has updated his index to The Early Independents.  He's added an interview with Connor Freff Cochran.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

May 30th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt's got a new one -- this time it's Taboo (which included, among other things, the first publication of Alan Moore's "From Hell" series).  You can get it here in Word doc format.

  2. Richard L. Anderson has created a complete list of all comics for the Magnus Robot Fighter series, which started in 1963 and is still having stories published!  You can get it here in Word doc format.

  3. Loaded latest updates to the Judd Winick bibliography written by Peter Karpas.

May 14th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Richard Arndt has again updated his index to The Warren Magazines (warning:  it's a big page -- nearly 1.8 megs).  He's added an interview with Don Glut.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

  3. Updated my info on Peter Franken's The Incomplete Comic Book Artist Checklist.  On his site, he now has checklists for Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, John Cassaday, Duncan Fegredo, J.G. Jones, Michael Wm. Kaluta, Teddy Kristiansen, Jose Ladronn, Joe Quesada, Frank Quitely, Eduardo Risso, John Romita Jr., Alex Ross, Tim Sale, Peter Snejbjerg, and Bernie Wrightson.

Apr 24th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt's latest is the British -- magazine Warrior, famed for V for Vendetta, Marvelman, The Bojeffries Saga, Father Shandor: Demon Stalker, The Spiral Path, and Madman, among other things.  You can get it here in Word doc format.  Or, just go to to Richard's bibliography page.

  2. Loaded latest updates to the Judd Winick bibliography written by Peter Karpas.

Apr 9th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his The Early Independents, which now covers a host of early magazines.  It starts with Witzend Magazine, the first of the independent or "indy" magazines.  Premiering in 1966, it published 13 issues over almost two decades, most of them between 1966-1971 and provided a welcome link between mainstream comics and the then-new underground movement.  Witzend publisher and editor Bill Pearson has even supplied some comments in the notes.  "The Early Independents" then covers Abyss, Andromeda, Big Apple Comix, Bop, Colour Your Dreams, D'Arc Tangent, Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories, Faerie Star, Future Day, Gates of Eden, Heritage, High Adventure, The Horns of Elfland, Hot Stuf', I'll be Damned, Imagination, Infinity, The Journal of Popular Culture, New Paltz Comix, Orb, Phase, Reality, Scream Door, Tesserae, This is Legend, Venture, and Voyages (whew!).  You can also find "The Early Independents" here in Word doc format, or just go to Richard's bibliography page to see all his great work.

Apr 7th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his index to The Marvel B&W Horror Magazines.  A few months ago he added an interview with Tony Isabella.  This time he adds an interview with Walt Simonson.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

Apr 2nd update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Updated Kiat-Han's e-mail address in all his annotations.

Mar 13th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Richard Arndt has updated his Complete Skywald Checklist with a new interview with Maelo Cintron.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

  3. Added link to a Dave Sim bibliography of all things non-Cerebus.  It includes scans of much of his fanzine work -- a must see if you're a Dave Sim fan.

Mar 5th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has turned into a one-man updating machine.  He's updated his index to Web Of Horror with, and I quote, "lots more information."  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

  2. Added link to a nice Marvelman bibliography, complete with cover scans.

Mar 2nd update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has again updated his index to The Warren Magazines (warning:  it's a big page -- nearly 1.8 megs).  It now includes an interview with Vampirella/Playboy model Barbara Leigh.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

Feb 28th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his index to The Marvel B&W Horror Magazines, which now includes an interview with Tony Isabella.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

Feb 8th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has again updated his index to The Warren Magazines.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

Feb 5th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to the Judd Winick bibliography written by Peter Karpas.

Jan 16th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his index to The Warren Magazines.  There's a new interview with Warren and DC writer Bob Toomey.  You can get all of Richard's stuff at his page.

Jan 5th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Updated the links to the Books of Magick annotations & web site.

Jan 1st update completed.  Happy New Year!  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Richard Arndt has done so much good work that it only seemed right to give him his own individual page here at enjolrasworld.  Check it out at the bibliographies page or at the above link.  Congratulations, Richard!  And keep up the great work!

  2. Apropos, Richard's latest is an index for the Marvel Black & White Horror Magazines.

  3. Loaded latest updates to the Judd Winick bibliography written by Peter Karpas.

  4. Did some miscellaneous clean-up of broken links, most having to do with FrontPage & IE's lack of dealing with spaces very well.

 

 

2004 Updates

Dec 12th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Richard Arndt has again updated his index of the Warren Magazines.  Quote from Richard:  "For the time being, this is as complete as it gets."  Note to those on slower connections:  the file is 1.7 megabytes.

  3. Added link to Rich Corben's web site, which has his checklist.

Dec 1st update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added link to Craig Klein's fantastic site, the V for Vendetta Shrine.  It has tons of analysis, interviews, media, etc. and is a great place to check out if you have any interest at all in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.

Nov 21st update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has again updated his index of the Warren Magazines.  That's 4 updates in about 5 weeks -- so if you have any suggestions for him, please send them because clearly he's listening!

Nov 13th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his index of the Warren Magazines.

Oct 31st update completed.  Happy Halloween!  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his index of the Warren Magazines.

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

Oct 17th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has updated his Complete Skywald Checklist and his index of the Warren Magazines.

Oct 10th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt continues his indexing of the black and white horror magazines.  This time, he's indexed the Warren Magazines which were, as he says, "the big cheese in the black & white horror magazine boom for the 1960s-1970s, if only because they were there first and they lasted the longest."  As always, exclusively hosted here at enjolrasworld.

  2. Foo Sek Han has created annotations to issue #4, and updated his annotations to issue #3, of the 5 issue mini-series Smax, written by Alan Moore.

 

BIG NEWS!
During the last week of September 2004, on its 1001st day of hit tracking, Enjolrasworld.com hit 40,000 unique visitors!  The site's been visited by 100 different domains, including Iceland, Nigeria, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, etc...

 

Sep 26th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Thanks to an e-mail by Richard Arndt, I added links to bibliographies for Steve Englehart, Mike Mignola, and Marshall Rogers.

  3. News:  It turns out that the search engine I added to the site hadn't been automatically re-indexing the site's contents.  So... for the last 18 months it's only had in the search anything that was on the site 18 months ago.  <sigh>  Needless to say, this has been fixed.

Sep 18th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Richard Arndt has done another large update to his Complete Skywald Checklist.  This update includes new interviews with Skywald writers Ed Fedory & Augustine Funnell, general corrections, and a new section on the Skywald color comics!

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

Aug 21st update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Jason Pomerantz has done an analysis of Identity Crisis #3.

 

Jul 26th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Matt Peckham (of Lucifer fan site and annotation fame) has started annotating Si Spencer and Neil Gaiman's Books of Magick monthly, from the beginning.  Here are annotations to #1.  He also has a new blogsite about the series.

Jul 19th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jason Pomerantz has done an analysis of Identity Crisis #2.

Jul 3rd update completed.  Longest time between updates that I can remember, so there's a lot here...  Changes:

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

  2. Jason Pomerantz has done an analysis of Identity Crisis #1.

  3. The Comix-fan website has annotations for the DC/Marvel cross-over event JLA/Avengers #1, with notes to all the hidden (and not so hidden) references.

  4. The prodigious Eroom Nala has annotated Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #9, featuring "From Hell and Back" written, pencilled, inked and lettered by Gary Spencer Millidge with coloring by Nathan Kane.  You can also find it here if the other site has exceeded its transfer limit.

  5. While not annotations per se, there's an interesting analysis written by Jon Haddock called "A Subjective History of Super Heroes - (for people who don't read comics)".  Worth a look.

  6. Eroom Nala is also planning to publish a Promethea Guide Book.  Click here to get updates on it.

  7. Updated links to the Lucifer annotations done by Matt Peckham, as he now owns the URL for lucifermorningstar.com (great news for Matt!).

  8. The folks at www.jorgo.org sent me a nice note asking to me to tell people about their new review web site...  So consider yourself told.

May 8th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. James Enelow has begun to annotate Planetary, by Warren Ellis.

  3. Jason Pomerantz did an interesting interview with Neil Gaiman, which covers (in part) 1602.  You can find it here.

Apr 26th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Matt Peckham dropped a note saying he's finished the annotations for Lucifer #49.

Apr 19th update completed.  Changes:

  1. The eighth and final in Jason Pomerantz' 1602 articles, “Mysteries and Conundrums #8” is up on Comic World News.  Unlike the other annotations for 1602, this article focuses on trying to decipher the puzzles and guess the plot points in the story.

  2. Deleted the link to the Mike Wagner fan site watchers.net/abp, as it seems to be down.  If anyone has any info on whether it moved or not, please let me know.

Apr 18th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Ng Kiat Han has annotated Sandman #75.

  2. Updated a bunch of broken links and site moves.

Apr 17th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Eroom Nala's annotations for Promethea are now hosted on this site.  The annotations are extensive, so I highly recommend them if you read Promethea or are interested in Alan Moore.  Be forewarned if you are on a dial-up modem:  the pages are graphics heavy!

Apr 10th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Matt Peckham has updated his annotations for The Sandman: Endless Nights Special.

  2. Matt has also begun to annotate the current monthly Lucifer issues, "partially to prepare for my second volume, but also equally to help keep current and new readers involved in things that are happening right now in the series."  He just put up annotations to Lucifer #48.  Note:  Available soon from Wildside Press is Matt's "Lightbringer: A Guide to Mike Carey's Lucifer"!

Mar 28th update completed.  Changes:

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

Mar 17th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added Richard Arndt's checklists for "The Hot Stuf'" and "Andromeda".

Mar 16th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added Richard Arndt's checklist for "Star*Reach".  Interestingly, Richard makes a case at the beginning for "Star*Reach" being the most important comic of the 1970's.  A highly recommended and thought-provoking read.

Mar 6th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. David Salley is also now completely up to date on his annotations for Girl Genius -- all the way through issue 10.

Feb 22nd update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added link to Matt Peckham's annotations for The Sandman Present: Lucifer (the Morningstar Option), issues #2 and #3.  Note:  Available soon from Wildside Press is Matt's "Lightbringer: A Guide to Mike Carey's Lucifer"!

  2. Moved Matt Peckham's annotations for The Sandman: Endless Nights Special to this site, hosted with Matt's permission.

Feb 14th update completed.  Changes:

  1. The seventh in Jason Pomerantz' 1602 articles, “Mysteries and Conundrums #7” is up on Comic World News.  Unlike the other annotations for 1602, this article focuses on trying to decipher the puzzles and guess the plot points in the story.

  2. BIG NEWS!  Richard Arndt has done a massive update to his index of Skywald's black & white horror magazines.  With the help of Al Hewetson (writer of many of the stories and editor of the line), who gave him access to his notes and checklists, many of the "mysteries" have been solved.  In addition, at the end of the index is a brand new interview with Al Hewetson that Richard conducted less than a month before Al sadly passed away.  Following the interview is a short remembrance written by Richard.

Feb 1st update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Jackie Williams has added to his annotations to Peter David's "Fallen Angel" series, which include some comments from Peter David himself.  Click for issue #5, #6, and #7.

 

BIG NEWS!
The week of Jan 25th 2004 saw another major milestone here at Enjolrasworld.com.  The site broke the 30,000 unique visitor mark!  In less than 6 months, over 10,000 new unique visitors came to the site, whereas beforehand the average had been ~10,000 every 10 months. 

 

Jan 17th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jackie Williams has updated his annotations to Peter David's "Fallen Angel" series, including some comments from Peter David himself.  Click for issue #1, #2, #3, and #4.

  2. The sixth in Jason Pomerantz' 1602 articles, “Mysteries and Conundrums #6” is up on Comic World News.  Unlike the other annotations for 1602, this article focuses on trying to decipher the puzzles and guess the plot points in the story.

  3. Updated the annotations to Supreme #41 to include a host of very interesting thoughts from Jim Allan.

Jan 1st update completed.  Changes:

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

 

 

2003 Updates

Dec 15th update completed.  Lots of changes:

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

  2. The fifth in Jason Pomerantz' 1602 articles, “Mysteries and Conundrums #5” is up on Comic World News.  Unlike the other annotations for 1602, this article focuses on trying to decipher the puzzles and guess the plot points in the story.

Nov 30th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Foo Sek Han has updated his annotations to issue #3 of the 5 issue mini-series Smax, written by Alan Moore.

  2. If you're looking for 1602 stuff, FYI that Julian Darius of the Continuity Pages continues to update his annotations.

  3. Added link to Floro Dery's site, the visual creator of Transformers The Movie and series, and the illustrator of the syndicated Spider-Man with Stan Lee in the newspaper from 1982-1992.  You'll find some nice copies of his work, references to his other works, and his bio.

Nov 17th update completed.  Changes:

  1. The fourth in Jason Pomerantz' 1602 articles, “Mysteries and Conundrums #4” is up on Comic World News.  Unlike the other annotations for 1602, this article focuses on trying to decipher the puzzles and guess the plot points in the story.

Nov 13th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  1602 #4 has shipped, which means we'll see a lot of annotations activity.  Julian Darius of the Continuity Pages has already updated his annotations, which you can get here.  He's also recently posted #3, and revised #1 & #2, all of which you can get at his page.

Nov 10th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added link to Julian Darius' chronologies section at the Continuity Pages.  It's a bibliography of sorts, putting different authors' or imprints' output on a date shipped basis.  Pretty cool stuff.

  2. Reverted the bibliographies back to html from mhtml (the new MS format), as some browsers had difficulty reading the new format.

Nov 8th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Foo Sek Han has updated his annotations to issue #3 of the 5 issue mini-series Smax, written by Alan Moore.

Nov 5th update completed.  Lots of changes:

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

  2. BIG NEWS!  Foo Sek Han (who is potentially taking over this entire series of annotations from Jess Nevins, though definitely is for issue #3) has annotated issue #3 of the 5 issue mini-series Smax, written by Alan Moore.  Smax comes from the pages of the great series Top Ten, which has also been annotated by Jess Nevins.

  3. Matt Peckham has started annotations to Mike Carey's Inferno, which was just reprinted by Titan Books and released as one single collected edition.

  4. Ng Kiat Han has completed his annotations to the story "Young Alan Moore in "Saga of the Vile Thing" ", by Darren Shan, found on Pages 95-99 of "Alan Moore: Portrait of An Extraordinary Gentleman".  It's a bibliography of sorts, very nicely crafted into the events of one day.

  5. Ng Kiat Han has also updated his annotations to Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbis's 9-11 story, This is Information, which appeared in the first book (Artists Respond) of the two 911 memorial editions published in January 2002.

Oct 19th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jackie Williams has written annotations to Peter David's "Fallen Angel" series.  Click for issue #1, #2, #3, and #4.

Oct 13th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins has updated his annotations to 1602 #3.

  2. The third in Jason Pomerantz' 1602 articles, “Mysteries and Conundrums #3” is up on Comic World News.  Unlike the other annotations for 1602, this article focuses on trying to decipher the puzzles and guess the plot points in the story.

Oct 11th update completed.  Changes:

  1. While this isn't exactly an annotation, it's worth checking out:  Adam Frey has created an unofficial timeline for Marvel's Earth X trilogy.

Oct 8th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  1602 #3 has shipped, which means we'll see a lot of annotations activity.  Jess Nevins already has his annotations up for 1602 #3.

  2. Matt Peckham has completed the annotations to the three issue mini-series, Sandman Presents: Lucifer, The Morningstar Option.

  3. Added a link to Dylan Verheul's annotations to Neil Gaiman's Death: the High Cost of Living #1.  This one's been around for a while and I just missed it!  Thanks to Ido Reif for pointing it out to me.

Oct 4th update completed.  Changes:

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

Oct 3rd update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins has updated his annotations to Smax #1 and #2.

Sep 30th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins has updated his annotations to 1602 #1 and #2.

  2. Ng Kiat Han has written annotations to Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbis's 9-11 story, This is Information, which appeared in the first book (Artists Respond) of the two 911 memorial editions published in January 2002.

Sep 20th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has annotated issue #2 of the 5 issue mini-series Smax, written by Alan Moore.  Smax comes from the pages of the great series Top Ten, which has also been annotated by Jess.

  2. Richard Arndt continues to work on early comic independents and fanzines.  His latest is "The Independents, Part 2", this time covering Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories, Future Day, and Phase.  On a related note, he's looking for some help on I’ll Be Damned, Venture, and Orb, so if you have issues of these magazines please contact him.

  3. Julian Darius of the Continuity Pages has updated his 1602 annotations for issue #2.  You can get them here.

Sep 16th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins has updated his annotations to 1602 #2.  I've also mirrored the small change he made later today to it.

Sep 15th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins has updated his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen V2 #6 annotations.  I've also fixed some of the linking errors to that annotation as well as the others in V2.  Thanks to James Mackay for pointing them out.

  2. Jason Pomerantz has done the second installment of his piece on 1602 called “Mysteries and Conundrums in Neil Gaiman’s 1602".  Unlike the other annotations for 1602, this article focuses on trying to decipher the puzzles and guess the plot points in the story.  It can be found at the Comic World News forum, #2 is here.

Sep 12th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  1602 #2 has shipped, which means we'll see a lot of annotations activity.  Jess Nevins has his annotations up for 1602 #2.  Julian Darius of the Continuity Pages has also updated his own annotations to include issue #2, which you can get here.

  2. MORE BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has annotated League of Extraordinary Gentlemen V2 #6!  As always, they're hosted here with Jess' permission.

Sep 8th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Julian Darius of the Continuity Pages has updated his annotations to 1602.  You can get them here.

Sep 4th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Matt Peckham looks like he has aspirations of being a star annotator.  In addition to his Lucifer annotations, he has also begun to annotate The Sandman: Endless Nights Special.

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

Sep 1st update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins has updated his 1602 annotations.

  2. Loaded latest update to the Judd Winick bibliography.

Aug 29th update completed.  The drumbeat continues... Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins has updated his annotations for Smax.  Lots of new stuff!

  2. Julian Darius of the Continuity Pages has updated his annotations to 1602.  You can get them here.

  3. Julian has also updated his annotations for Michael Bendis' "Underboss" storyline in Daredevil (volume 2) #26-#31.

  4. Gareth Jelley has done a commentary/annotation for the first issue of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright.  He's planning to do more, so please contact him if you'd like to help.

Aug 24th update completed.  At this point, the annotation creation activity over the last week and a half has hit an all-time high.  Changes:

  1. MORE BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has annotated issue #1 of the 5 issue mini-series Smax, written by Alan Moore.  Smax comes from the pages of the great series Top Ten, which has also been annotated by Jess.  Also note that this marks the 11th series by Alan Moore that's been annotated.

  2. More Jess Nevins!  Jess has done a very large update to his 1602 annotations.

  3. More 1602!  Jason Pomerantz has done has written a piece on 1602 called “Mysteries and Conundrums in Neil Gaiman’s 1602 Issue 1”.  Unlike the other annotations for 1602, this article focuses on trying to decipher the puzzles and guess the plot points in the story.  It can be found at the Comic World News forum, here.

  4. Richard Arndt is continuing his (at this point) amazing run on early comic independents and fanzines.  This time, he's covered "The Early Independents", including Abyss, Heritage, The Horns of Elfland, Imagination, Scream Door, This is Legend, and This is Reality.  On a related note, he's looking for some help on I’ll Be Damned, Venture, and Orb, so if you have issues of these magazines please contact him.

  5. Thanks to Dr. Joseph Camhi, who was kind enough to let me know of a bug in the re-design of the site that prevented some of the bibliographies from showing.  It's been fixed.

Aug 21st update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Wow, what a week for annotations.  Matt Peckham has taken on the responsibility for annotating the great comic book series Lucifer, written by Mike Carey.  He's already got the annotations for Sandman Presents: Lucifer #1 up, and is working on more.  Check it out here!

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

Aug 20th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  1602 is a quite popular annotation topic, as one would guess given it's written by Neil Gaiman (along with Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove).  In addition to Jess Nevins' annotation noted below, Julian Darius of the Continuity Pages has also started one independently, which you can get here.

Aug 18th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  I've begun the complete redesign of the site.  Check out the new graphics, new typeface, and new navigation.  If you catch any errors, or have any thoughts/comments, please let me know.

  2. BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has updated (for the 3rd time in 3 days!) his annotations for 1602, by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove.  As always, Jess' annotations are mirrored here.  Click here for the annotations.

Aug 16th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins has begun to annotate 1602.  As always, Jess' annotations are mirrored here.  Click here for the annotations.

Aug 9th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest update to the Judd Winick bibliography written by Peter Karpas.

Wow!
The week of August 7th 2003 saw two major milestones here at Enjolrasworld.com:

Milestone #1:  It was the largest week ever -- over 800 unique visitors to the home page (and that doesn't count people who go straight to other pages)!

Milestone #2: The site passed over 20,000 unique visitors to the home page since its inception less than 2 years ago.  Honestly, I never thought this site would be so popular!

Jul 28th update completed.  Changes:

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

Jul 17th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Again, not so much an update, but Michael Karpas (author of many of the great bibliographies on this site and, of course, my brother) did an interview for the Alan Moore fan site run by Jose Carlos Neves.  If you're interested, you can find it here.

Jul 13th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Not so much an update, but for those of you being introduced to the wonderful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by the release of the movie this weekend, here's a quick link to get to the annotations:   just click here.

Jun 30th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added new annotations done by Loki Carbis.  Hosted here at enjolrasworld.com, Loki has annotated Batman: Holy Terror, written by Alan Brennert & Norm Breyfogle.

Jun 28th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Added link to Adrian Brown's pretty extensive annotations for Hellblazer.  He's done #175 on, as well as the individual issue #3.

Jun 19th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  For the first time, I've written a bibliography myself.  It's for Judd Winick, the author of Pedro and Me, the Barry Ween, Boy Genius books, and currently writing Green Arrow, the X-Men comic Exiles, and DC's Outsiders.

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

Jun 2nd update completed.  Changes:

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

May 26th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Madelyn Boudreaux has revised her V for Vendetta annotations!  Here are the new complete V for Vendetta annotations (warning: about 50 seconds on a 28.8 modem; alternatively, this long page has been broken up on the annotations page).

May 23rd update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt keeps going.  This time he's indexed Witzend Magazine, the first of the independent or "indy" magazines.  Premiering in 1966, it published 13 issues over almost two decades, most of them between 1966-1971 and provided a welcome link between mainstream comics and the then-new underground movement.

May 11th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Updated Jess Nevins' annotations for the fifth book in the second The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.

May 7th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has completed the annotations for the fifth book in the second The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series!  As with all of Jess' annotations, it is (with permission) mirrored here.

  2. I should also mention that Jess' book which collects all his annotations for LoEG Volume 1, Heroes and Monsters, The Unofficial Companion to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is now available from MonkeyBrain Press and was in the May Previews for ordering (page 403).  Here's the link to its web page if you'd like to check out more.

May 5th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has continued his trend of indexing old comic books.  Similar to his index of Skywald's black & white horror magazines, he has now created an index for Web of Horror.  Web of Horror, among other things, included Bruce Jones' professional debut.

Apr 29th update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Slight correction to Jess Nevins' Kingdom Come annotations, pointed out by Kris Rahm.  A reference was accidentally made to Wally "West" when it should have been Wally "Wood".

Apr 2nd update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Julian Darius of The Continuity Pages has done an extensive annotation of Michael Bendis' "Underboss" storyline in Daredevil (volume 2) #26-#31!!  The main link can be found on the "Annotations for all other Comic Books" page.

  2. Hooper X has updated his annotations for Transformers: The War Within to include the series finale, issue #6.  The main link can be found on the "Annotations for all other Comic Books" page.

  3. Loaded latest update to the Alan Moore bibliography written by Michael Karpas.

Mar 30th update completed.  Changes:

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

Mar 1st update completed.  Changes:

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

  2. Eroom Nala has now created annotations for Promethea issues #1-24, with ongoing annotations occurring as new issues get released.

  3. Eroom has also decided to annotate The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones, and is looking for contributors.  If you would like to help, please join his Yahoo Group; if you'd like to watch the page itself as it grows, it can be found here.

Feb 16th update completed.  Lots of changes today:

  1. BIG NEWS!  If you like CrossGen (CGE), you going to love what Travis Howard and Elliot Kane have done.  They've pulled together a literary analysis -- including symbolism, themes, psychological profiles, and histories -- of all the Crossgen titles.

  2. David Salley has annotated the first eight issues of Girl Genius by Studio Foglio. Issues #0-5 are up, with #6-8 due to be posted soon.

  3. Hooper X has updated his annotations for Transformers: The War Within to include issue #5.  The main link can be found on the "Annotations for all other Comic Books" page.

  4. Added a link at the bottom of the Alan Moore annotations page to a mostly Spanish-language Alan Moore site created by Josi Carlos Neves.

Feb 6th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has now completed his index of Skywald's black & white horror magazines; they now cover the magazines Nightmare, Psycho, and Scream, as well as their related annuals and specials.

Feb 1st update completed.  Changes:

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

Jan 18th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added Hooper X's updated annotations for Transformers: The War Within -- now including #4.  The main link can be found on the "Annotations for all other Comic Books" page.

Jan 1st update completed.  A great way to start the new year, with some excellent updates!  Changes:

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

  2. Jess Nevins has updated his annotations to the fourth book in the second The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series!  As with all of Jess' annotations, it is (with permission) mirrored here.

 

2002 Updates

Dec 28th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added Hooper_X's annotations for Kevin Smith's Chasing Dogma.  The main link can be found on the "Annotations for all other Comic Books" page.

  2. Added Hooper X's annotations for Transformers: The War Within.  The main link can be found on the "Annotations for all other Comic Books" page.

  3. The web site hosting the Radioactive Man (Simpsons' related) annotations disappeared; thanks to the help of Alex Mills (who tracked them down), they are now hosted on this site.

  4. Fixed a slight navigational bug in the latest LoEG pages; thanks to Philip Graves for pointing it out.

Dec 24th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has now annotated the fourth book in the second The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series!  As with all of Jess' annotations, it is (with permission) mirrored here.

Dec 16th update completed.  Changes:

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

Dec 2nd update completed.  Changes:

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

Nov 29th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added Richard Arndt's index of Skywald's black & white horror magazines, which begin with the magazine Nightmare.

Nov 14th update completed.  Changes:

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

Nov. "not an update".

  1. A thank you goes out to Wizard Magazine, who on page 98 in their latest issue (#135), "recommended checking out" this "wonderful site".  Thanks, Wizard!

Nov 2nd update completed.  Changes:

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

Oct 26th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Jess Nevins updated the annotations to all 3 issues of the second The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.  The updates are (as always) mirrored here.

Oct 6th update completed.  Changes:

  1. For you Hellboy fans, added a compilation of research materials read or used by Mike Mignola (the author of Hellboy) to the annotation section.

Oct 5th update completed.  Changes:

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

Sep 27th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added annotations done by Rick Lai for Jean-Marc Lofficier's Alone in the Dark comic.  For those interested in occult terminology, both Non-Mythos and Mythos, it's nicely done.

Sep 24th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has now annotated the third book in the second The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series!  As with all of Jess' annotations, it is (with permission) mirrored here.

  2. On a related note, Jess updated the first and second books on September 2nd and 8th, respectively.  If you haven't looked at them since then, you might want to see what's been updated....

Sep 12th update completed.  Changes:

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

Sep 7th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added link to the Ultimate Hellblazer info site:  www.insanerantings.com/hell/.

Aug 30th update completed.  Changes:

  1. The Promethea annotations now have rough drafts for issues #1-6, with steady progress towards having all 21 done by the time #22 comes out in a few weeks.  I've updated the link to their new permanent new home on Angelfire.  Check it out, and be sure to give their creator, Eroom Nala, your feedback.

Aug 28th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!  Jess Nevins has now annotated the second book in the second The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series!  As with all of Jess' annotations, it is (with permission) mirrored here.

Aug 21st update completed.  Changes:

  1. Updated the link to the new Promethea annotations site, which is now moving from GeoCities to Angelfire.  If you get the standard GeoCities "data transfer exceeded" message, go to the annotations page for a link to the Angelfire version of the homepage.

Aug 19th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Added link to a new Promethea annotations site, written and maintained by Eroom Nala.  The annotations are just getting going -- please check it out and give Eroom feedback.

Aug 16th update completed.  Changes:

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