Here are many of the comics message boards and discussion groups that I've come across during my travels on the Web. Let me know if I missed any boards worthy of being included here. (To clarify: this list does not include blogs or other webpages which only feature a "comments" section for readers to post a response to an article on the site. That format is more akin to the "guestbook" section of webpages in the old days; same with MySpace, which allows readers to post a comment on the page but not initiate new threads. The list below is for webpages which allow posters to start threads of their own on the site; blogs will be found in the general "Comics Links" section of my site -- when I get around to updating that page, that is!)
Not all of the sites listed below are all that active, but I hope that my listing of them in this manner will steer some people to those sites, so that they may become more useful forums for concentrated discussion about their particular area of interest. Of course, some of the places listed below may even be abandoned by their moderators and not worth your time; still, who knows, if placed in a list like this, it may cause fans of that subject to gravitate to that board and rescue it from its dormant state.
My two favorite comics message board sites are Comic Book Resources (CBR) and Comicboards.com. I've been posting on both sites since early 1997 (not so much within the past five years, though). Yahoo Groups and Facebook have become my preferred internet communication forums in more recent years. However, in the process of compiling this list, I've found attractive, active and well-maintained message boards that I never knew existed, often spin-offs of a particular website devoted to that topic, unconnected to any larger network of forums (like CBR, etc.) and therefore unnoticed and unvisited by the casual fan. Thus, this "Message Board Central" page can hopefully help bringing those unconnected forums into the awareness of more message-board posters.
For quicker navigation of this page you can click the topics here to go directly to the section you are looking for:
2099 UNDERGROUND:
ALPHA FLIGHT:
AQUAMAN:
THE ATOM:
THE AVENGERS:
BATGIRL:
BATMAN:
BIRDS OF PREY:
BLACK PANTHER:
BLUE BEETLE:
BONE:
BOOSTER GOLD:
BRENDA STARR:
BROOM-HILDA:
CAPTAIN AMERICA:
CAPTAIN MARVEL (SHAZAM!):
CAPTAIN MARVEL (Mar-Vell):
CATWOMAN:
CEREBUS:
CHECKMATE:
CONAN THE BARBARIAN:
DAREDEVIL:
DEADPOOL:
THE DEFENDERS:
DICK TRACY:
DOCTOR WHO
ELFQUEST:
THE ETERNALS:
THE EXILES:
FABLES:
FANTASTIC FOUR:
FIRESTORM:
THE FLASH:
GASOLINE ALLEY:
GHOST RIDER:
G. I. JOE:
GIL THORPE:
GREEN ARROW:
THE GREEN HORNET:
GREEN LANTERN:
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY:
HAWKMAN:
HELLBLAZER:
HELLBOY:
HELLCAT:
HERCULES:
HEROES (TV series)
HEROES FOR HIRE:
THE HULK:
INDIANA JONES:
THE INITIATIVE:
THE INVADERS
IRON MAN
JACK STAFF:
JAMES BOND
JONAH HEX:
JUSTICE LEAGUE (JLA):
JUSTICE SOCIETY (JSA):
KULL THE CONQUEROR:
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES:
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE:
LOVE AND ROCKETS:
MAD MAGAZINE:
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN:
MANHUNTER:
MIGHTY CRUSADERS:
MOCKINGBIRD:
MOON KNIGHT:
MS. MARVEL:
NEW GODS:
NEW WARRIORS:
NIGHTWING:
NOVA:
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PEANUTS:
THE PHANTOM:
PINK PANTHER:
POWER GIRL:
THE PUNISHER:
RICHIE RICH:
ROBIN:
RUNAWAYS:
SANDMAN:
SCARLET WITCH:
THE SECRET SIX:
THE SENTRY:
SHADOWPACT:
SHE-HULK:
S.H.I.E.L.D. (NICK FURY):
SILVER SURFER:
SPAWN:
SPIDER-GIRL:
SPIDER-MAN:
SPIDER-WOMAN:
STARMAN:
STAR TREK
STAR WARS
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SUPERBOY:
SUPERGIRL:
SUPERMAN:
SWAMP-THING:
TEEN TITANS:
THOR:
THUNDERBOLTS:
THUNDERCATS:
TRANSFORMERS:
ULTIMATE MARVEL:
VAMPIRELLA:
VIGILANTE:
WATCHMEN:
WITCHBLADE:
WOLVERINE:
WONDER MAN:
WONDER WOMAN:
X-MEN:
YOUNG MARVELS:
ATLAS-SEABOARD COMICS:
BIG BANG COMICS:
CHAOS! COMICS:
CHARLTON COMICS:
DARK HORSE COMICS:
DC ARCHIVES:
DC CARTOONS:
DC COMICS:
DISNEY COMICS & ANIMATION:
HEAVY METAL:
IMAGE COMICS:
MARVEL CARTOONS:
MARVEL COMICS:
MARVEL MASTERWORKS:
TIMELY-ATLAS (1940s-50s MARVEL):
TOP COW COMICS:
VERTIGO:
WILDSTORM/ABC:
ANIMATION/CARTOONS:
DIGITAL/WEBCOMICS:
FAN FICTION:
FANZINES:
INDEPENDENT & SMALL-PRESS COMICS:
INTERNATIONAL:
MISCELLANEOUS boards:
OLD COMICS:
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY:
VERSUS (character vs. character):
WOMEN IN COMICS:
NEAL ADAMS:
MIKE ALLRED:
BOB ALMOND:
ROSS ANDRU and MIKE ESPOSITO:
JIM APARO:
DICK AYERS:
PETER BAGGE:
TONY BEDARD:
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS:
BRIAN BOLLAND:
WAYNE BORING:
JACK BRADBURY:
DAN BRERETON:
JOHN BYRNE:
JOHN BUSCEMA:
JOHN CASSADY:
JIM CHEUNG:
GENE COLAN:
DARWYN COOKE:
STEVE DITKO:
MARKO DJURDJEVIC:
JAN DUURSEMA:
KEVIN EASTMAN:
WILL EISNER:
WARREN ELLIS:
DANNY FINGEROTH:
FRANK FRAZETTA:
STEVEN GRANT:
CULLY HAMNER:
DON HECK:
BRYAN HITCH:
TONY ISABELLA:
STEPHEN KING:
JACK KIRBY:
ROBERT KIRKMAN:
ERIK LARSEN:
STAN LEE:
DICK LOCHER:
DAVID MACK:
TOM MANDRAKE:
RON MARZ:
MORT MESKIN:
JIM MOONEY:
ALAN MOORE:
DENNY O'NEIL:
JOHN OSTRANDER:
KILIAN PLUNKETT:
FRANK QUITELY:
HUMBERTO RAMOS:
AL RIO:
JOHN ROMITA Sr.:
STUART SAYGER:
MARK SCHULTZ:
ALVIN SCHWARTZ:
GAIL SIMONE:
JEFF SMITH:
KEVIN SMITH:
PAUL SMITH:
JIM STARLIN:
ROGER STERN:
BRYAN TALBOT:
BRUCE TIMM:
ALEX TOTH:
NEIL VOKES:
ANDI WATSON:
BARRY WINSOR-SMITH:
BASIL WOLVERTON:
TERI S. WOOD:
WALLY WOOD:
JIM WOODRING:
LEINIL FRANCIS YU: