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Coming to Image Comics in January 2019: Battlepug Compendium

PORTLAND, OR, 06/01/2018 — At long last, Image Comics is pleased to announce that the award-winning webcomic BATTLEPUG by Mike Norton will be collected into a trade paperback COMPUGDIUM and available in January 2019.

BATTLEPUG: COMPUGDIUM will includ

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Syfy orders pilot of Dark Horse's 'Resident Alien'

DARK HORSE COMICS SERIES ‘RESIDENT ALIEN’ PICKED UP TO PILOT AT SYFY

From Universal Cable Productions, Chris Sheridan (“Family Guy”) Will Executive Produce, Alongside Dark Horse Entertainment and Amblin TV

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., (May 31, 2018)–SYFY

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'Spawn' reboot to star Jamie Foxx

STAR OF NEW SPAWN FILM REVEALED: OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR JAMIE FOXX

PORTLAND, OR, 05/30/2018 — In an exclusive scoop, Deadline broke the news that Jamie Foxx is set to play the titular character in Todd McFarlane’s forthcoming Blumho

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'Locke & Key' question

It looks like Locke & Key will become a TV show on Netflix, according to various entertainment media. My question is: Of the many collections and reprints of the material, which one is A) the most complete and/or B) the classiest? A is more important

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Captain Comics: The many lives (and many names) of the man called Cable

TM & © 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Deadpool (left) and Cable are antagonists in Deadpool 2. They began that way in the comics, too, before becoming uneasy allies.

 

Andrew A. Smith

Tribune Content Agency

May 17, 2018 -- If you’re not

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'The Walking Dead' Season 8

Here's the trailer from SDCC. Season 8 launches Oct. 22, 2017.

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Comic Book Twenty Questions - Characters Already Featured

These are the characters featured so far in Comic Book Twenty Questions:

Space Ranger

Absorbing Man (unsolved)

Abdul Smith

Dexter Myles

Master Khan

Storm

Man-Wolf

Metamorpho

Silver Banshee

Trapster

Gnarrk

Bouncing Boy

Peachy Pet

Harlequin (Golden Ag

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Good news and bad news for 'Gotham,' 'iZombie,' 'Lucifer,' 'S.H.I.E.L.D.'

Andrew A. Smith

Tribune Content Agency

May 24, 2018 -- Cable and broadcast networks have announced the annual culling of their TV rosters, and for most genre shows the news was good. However, for four comics-based series it’s a good news/bad news sit

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R.I.P. Margot Kidder, 1948-2018

From People: "Superman's Lois Lane, Margot Kidder, Dies at Age 69"

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Veterans in DC Comics?

How many classic DC characters were actual veterans in their initial runs?

Off the top of my head, I got:

• Commissioner Gordon
• Wonder Woman
• Most of the Justice Society
• Ace Morgan
• Hal Jordan (ever mentioned in the Silver/Bronze Ages?)
• Rick Flagg
• Ragma

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Happy birthday to our host, Mr. Silver Age, Craig Shutt

Even though he rarely shows up to celebrate goofy comics with us these days, we can't let this special day go by without wishing our host Craig Shutt, aka Mr. Silver Age, the happiest of birthdays.

--you pal, Hoy

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book One

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book One

Emil Ferris 

Fantagraphics Books, 2016

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional diary of ten year old Karen Reyes--it's even presented on lined school notebook paper, complete with spiral wire binding and

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Review: Silver Age Suicide Squad and Silver Age Adam Strange Omnibuses

Back when there was a CBGXtra, I frequently reviewed DC’s Showcase Presents volumes that reprinted Silver Age series, many of which had never been reprinted before. Can you believe there was a time they published two a month? Now they are gone, and s

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'Black Lightning' Season 1

PRESS RELEASE

JAMES REMAR (DEXTER) AND DAMON GUPTON (BATES MOTEL) JOIN ELECTRIFYING CAST OF BLACK LIGHTNING

Fans Learn More Details About The CW’s New DC Super Hero During Saturday’s Comic-Con Panel

AN DIEGO and BURBANK, Calif. (July 22, 2017) —

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Quicksilver Question

Just something I had a sudden thought about. When Pietro was first introduced as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, he was more or less a reluctant villain--you could see the groundwork being laid for his eventual reformation. During the "C

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Gail Simone to write new 'Plastic Man' series

GAIL SIMONE AND ADRIANA MELO TEAM UP FOR PLASTIC MAN IN JUNE

The Stretchable Superhero Goes Solo in Six-Issue Miniseries

On June 13, celebrated writer Gail Simone debuts a new monthly six-issue miniseries for PLASTIC MAN. After making her DC debut wit

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A question about "Gotham"

As many of you know, I used to watch Gotham but it drove me to frothing fits of outrage and led me to spend the week venting about how awful it all is, so I stopped. 

Today, however, I need to know something, and I'm asking the fans who had far more

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Did They Kill Off Patty on the Simpsons?

It's been yers since I watched this show regularly; so, I thought I'd tune in tonight. The episode had (spoiler) Bart in a coma, seeing dead people. Maude Flanders figured prominently. Others yiu may remember as having passed on appeared, as well as

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Pyjm Particles and Giant Beings

Given the current storyline in Avengers, I started thinking, "has anyone ever attempted to use Pym Particles on the likes of the Celestials or Galactus?" Really, just wondering. I'm sure there are all sorts of explanations as to why it wouldn't work

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DC plans more superhero/Looney Tunes specials

SUFFERIN’ SUCCOTASH!

MORE DC/LOONEY TUNES SPECIALS COMING THIS SUMMER!

 

Following the sales and critical success of titles like Batman/Elmer Fudd, more of Warner Bros classic cartoon characters will get the DC Universe treatment this August as DC re

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