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Dragon Girl

  Elite, all boy’s school Shoryu Senior High has just officially gone coed and among the handful of females attending for the first time ever is Rinna Aizen, who longs to join the boy’s cheering squad so that she can live up to her old man’s cheering legacy at the school. Dragon Girl is an [...]

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Laughing Ogre 2011 Gift Guide

Laughing Ogre 2011 Gift Guide

The holidays are upon us.  Here at Laughing Ogre we try and make your life a little easier with our 2011 Gift Guide.  Since our entire selection of  showcase books are on sale for 20% and those make the perfect gift for someone just getting started with comics.  Over the next few days we’ll be [...]

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Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

Hi There, Fellow Readers! Well, I’m still wading through all the new DC titles. I’ve dropped a few already, but am continuing to read many of them as well. One thing that has stuck out in my head is that the writers are at least TRYING to make things a bit more “real.” I mean, [...]

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If You Can’t Say Something Nice…

…well, then write a blog entry, I suppose. Quite frankly, I’m tired of reading new first issues. I long for the days of reading a good old issue twelve. Ahhhhh. But rather than make this a long entry about everything that is either boring me or annoying me, I’m just gonna give ya a few [...]

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How To Start Reading Comics

One of the biggest hurdles faced by the comic book industry is how to attract new readers. With storylines where continuity can span nearly a century, it’s hard to convince people to get on board. “I won’t understand what’s happening,“ people say. “I like to start at the beginning.” Recently, DC made the decision to [...]

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WWTD

WWTD

I typically spend a couple hundred bucks each month purchasing little magazines that I only read once, don’t collect, and never throw away. These tiny tabloids are usually filled with drawings of unrealistically fit people flying or hopping or teleporting around to save a person, tribe, species, town, city, state, country, continent, ocean, planet, galaxy, [...]

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The best day of the week

The best day of the week

Wednesday is my favorite day of the week.  If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you feel the same way.  I love the anticipation of new books on the racks at Laughing Ogre.  I usually roll into the Lansdowne store around 4:00, and 2 minutes later, Angie is handing me a stack of [...]

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