Story Innes was a song-writer for the Pythons and one of the Rutles, a Beatles parody band.
Read more…I’m something of a late-comer to Doctor Who. When I started buying the DVDs in 2010, I was so far behind I didn’t even think about which ones had yet to be collected. But the BBC kept releasing them and I kept buying them so that, eventually, we got
Read more…Holidays are marked by traditions, and any given tradition has many fathers. Nearly all of the time, it's impossible to trace a tradition's beginning to one specific instance. Still, if you happen to be in Cleveland, Ohio, drop by the corner of Lak
Pretty much the whole year, but especially as the summer winds down, I keep my eyes peeled for a good Thanksgiving tidbit to share with you in my annual turkey day entry. Some of them---such as Sarah Hale, authoress of the poem "Mary's Lamb" (Mary h
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You’d think this much leather could beat anything. But “Crisis on Infinite Earths” is proving a challenge for (top row, from left) Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), The Atom (Brandon Routh), Green Arrow (Stephen Amell), (Batwoman) Ruby Ros
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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It’s easy for great shows to get overlooked during this era of Peak TV, especially with the content spread over a variety of providers. Here are three that are must-sees, just in time to binge with your visi
Read more…Days of Hate: Act Two
Aleš Kot, writer; Danijel Žeželj, drawing; Jordie Bellaire, colors; Aditya Bidikar, letters; Tom Muller, design
Image Comics, 2019
The publisher's blurb for this just says "Endgame," while the back cover has the description "The f
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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Dec. 19, 2019 – It’s been a Super month! Not in a general sense, necessarily, but in a Kal-El from Krypton kind of way.
First we were treated to multiple Supermen on The CW’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths” Dec.
Read more…Crude Vol. 1
Steve Orlando, writer/creator; Garry Brown, artist/creator; Lee Loughridge, colorist
Image Comics, 2018
The distinguishing feature of this story is the Russian setting: it's possible to imagine it taking place in a violent working class
Read more…Story I suppose there'll be tariffs on vibranium now.
Read more…The Empty Man: Recurrence
Cullen Bunn, writer; Jesús Hervás, illustrator; Niko Guardia, colorist
Boom! Studios, 2019
The original The Empty Man series revealed enough about the Empty Man phenomenon to be self-contained. So where does a sequel go? It go
Read more…Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross are curating a series of done-in-one stories by different creative teams set at different times in the Marvel universe. Which is definitely intriguing... but then the first one has been announced, and it stars the Invaders a
Read more…I wasn’t expecting the fourth set of lost television episode audios until next month, so I had a nice surprise earlier this week when they shipped ahead of schedule. I have wanted to see “The Macra Terror” ever since I saw “Gridlock” for the first ti
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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Dec. 5, 2019 — New graphic novels come out all year long, but they take on extra significance during the holiday season. Here are a few that crossed my desk recently that could find a place on your gift list:
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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Nov. 28, 2019 — ‘Tis the season of Thanksgiving, and as it happens, I do have a lot of people to thank. The public relations folks I deal with all the time are often unknown to the public, but they make my co
Read more…I know some of you were following Wonder Woman during G. Willow Wilson's tenure, although I don't know about now. Anyhow, here's the press release:
AN ALL-STAR COLLECTION OF CREATIVE TALENT CELEBRATE WONDER WOMAN THIS JANUARY IN LANDMARK ISSUE
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Read more…As with part two, each question this time has at least two answers:
Edit: The above line is mostly true, but it isn't correct for Q.30. Except one could count that character as two or even three characters!
21.What villains who first appeared as JL
Read more…One of the most noteworthy threads here at the Comics Round Table is the What Comic Books Have You Read Today? thread. It was started over 10 years ago and as of today has over 5400 posts! Safe to say a popular and active thread. Created by Wander
Read more…It has now been six months since I stepped away from Little Orphan Annie, much longer than I had intended to. It occurs to me that it would be nice to have all those posts in one place. As soon as I get them moved here, I will continue from where I l
Read more…Skyward Vol. 3: Fix The World
Joe Henderson, writer; Lee Garbett, art & cover; Antonio Fabela, colorist; Simon Bowland, letterer
Image Comics, 2019
This collection completes the series, which was always intended to be told in three five-issue story arc
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