I don't know how this year can get any worse, but there's still nine weeks to go ...
"Sean Connery: James Bond Actor Dies Aged 90" via the BBC.
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Oct. 22, 2020 — If you caught the first season of Helstrom when it dropped on Hulu on Oct. 16, you may be wondering if it’s a Marvel TV show or not. The answer is yes, but at such a remove that you can be for
Read more…OK, same rules as in the JLA thread . (I'm not doing threads for every team, although I'm mulling over X-Men and JSA line-ups.)
Anyway, here's "my" line-up
1)John Steed
2)Emma Peel
Har-har-har...
More seriously...
1)The Beast (Henry McCoy)
2)The
Read more…Oct. 26-Nov. 1
GENRE T V
Next, "File #4" (Fox, Oct. 27)
Archer, season 11 finale, "Cold Fusion" (FX, Oct. 28)
Star Trek: Discovery, "People of Earth" (CBS All Access, Oct. 29)
The Mandalorian, season 2 premiere, "Chapter 9: The Marshal" (Disney+, Oct
Read more…Invisible Kingdom Vol. 2: Edge of Everything
G. Willow Wilson, writer; Christian Ward, artist
Berger Books, 2020
The second installment of this series is very much an "out of the frying pan, into the fire" situation. Having revealed that the domin
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The Original "The Man from UNCLE Movies – Now on Digital HD!
As filmgoers go gaga over Guy Ritchie’s stylish and swinging origin story for "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment offers a chance t
Read more…Manhunter, by Archie Goodwin & Walter Simonson
1)There’s been, I think, something like four characters called “Manhunter” over the years (Dan Richards, Paul Kirk, the Tangent Manhunter and Kate Spencer), and I may be missing some. I’ve never been al
Read more…WOLVERINE #1:
Now that my “Frank Miller Daredevil” discussion is nearing the end of Miller’s first run, I find myself in the mood to read the 1982 Wolverine limited series, also by Miller (with Chris Claremont). Wolverine was only Marvel’s third lim
Read more…The Old Guard Book 2: Force Multiplied
Greg Rucka, writer; Leandro Fernández, art & cover; Daniela Miwa, colors; Jodi Wynne, letters
Image Comics, 2020
Andy and her team spend this arc in search of the head of a large human trafficking operation. B
Read more…GREEN ARROW: THE WONDER YEAR:
When Dick Giordano brought Mike Gold over to DC from First Comics, it was with the understanding that Gold would bring talent with him just as Giordano would bring talent from Charleton when Carmine Infantino recruited
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Genre TV
Next, "File #3" (Fox, Oct. 20)
Archer, "Caught Napping" (FX, Oct. 21)
Star Trek: Discovery, "Far from Home," "That Hope Is You Part 2" (CBS All Access, Oct. 22)
Pandora, "Beyond Here Lies Nothing'" (CW, Oct. 25)
Fargo (FX, Oct. 25)
Read more…I recently saw PSYCHO (1960) directed, of course, by Alfred Hitchcock in its entirety for the first time in years. Most people rightfully consider it a classic in both horror and suspense but without the shock ending (and was it really that shocking?
Read more…The Low, Low WoodsCarmen Maria Machado, writer; DaNi, artist; Tamra Bonvillain, colorist DC Black Label, 2020
This entry in Joe Hill's Hill House Comics is a strange one. It takes place in a hellscape called Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania. The coal
Slugfest is a documentary series on Quibi that explores the eight-decade rivalry between the Big Two comic book publishers, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. The NYCC panel included luminaries like Kevin Smith (top left) and Brandon Routh (center bottom
Teen Titans: Beast Boy is a new take on the DC Comics character, showing his teen years in Georgia in a new YA graphic novel. (Art by Gabriel Picolo, copyright DC Comics)
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Oct. 1, 2020 — If you’ve read the Yo
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
June 11, 2020 — So, here’s some news: DC Comics has cut ties with Diamond Comic Distributors Inc.
Yes, I hear the yawns. Most people don’t know how comic books and graphic novels get to where they buy them,
Read more…Today, I came across an article touting a new one-shot coming in January, Legend of Shang-Chi #1. I was a fan of his original series, Master of Kung Fu, and read it to the end, when Shang-Chi turns his back on spying and their "games of deceit and de
Read more…Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade
Story by Kurt Vonnegut; written by Ryan North; illustrated by Albert Monteys
Archaia, 2020
I'm not usually a great fan of adaptations of novels, in movie or graphic form. Too often essential aspects of
Read more…Basketful of Heads
Joe Hill, writer; Leomacs, artist; Dave Stewart, colorist
DC Black Label, 2020
The first of horror writer Joe Hill's Hill House Comics line for DC Comics, this collects the seven issue miniseries published 2019 - 2020. The settin
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