Flew in an airplane for the first time last Tuesday morning, and the second time last night. (There are flights between Earth-44 and Earth-J now!). The take-offs and landings were exhilarating (the landings, especially), but the actual flying part wa
Read more…I watched Halloween last night for the first time in probably 30 years. I remembered the basic plot, but some of the details had faded from my memory over the course of the last three decades. (spoilers follow) A lot of horror movie clichés (or what
Read more…As a bit of a departure, I'll be covering a character I doubt many of you have heard of. He called himself the Bat-Man and three were a few comics about him back iin period of the late 1930's-early 1940's. I wonder whatever happened to him, as I thou
Read more…Once again I'm faced with a column topic where I need Legionnaire guidance: The Inhumans.
Sure, I've got all the Silver Age stuff from Fantastic Four and Thor. Sure, I read the series in Amazing Adventures. Sure, I got that 12-issue Inhumans series b
Read more…As part of their celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack "King" Kirby, DC has been publishing a bunch of specials featuring characters he worked on or created for the company. My favorite so far has been the Sandman Overdrive Specia
Read more…From Slate: "How Does a Batman Comic Book Writer Work?"
This is one of a series of podcasts on Slate that focuses on the making of Batman comics. This installment interviews writer Tom King. I haven't listened to it yet myself, but the introduction s
Read more…I was looking at the new costume promos, the Flash in particular:
I'm having real difficulty with the incredible stupidity of this costume design.
We're talking a super speedster with a ton of little crap all over the suit that will cause massive dr
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The Royal Family as they appeared in the comics in the 1960s: From left, Gorgon, Crystal, Black Bolt, Medusa, Karnak and Triton.
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The arrival of The Inhumans on the nation
Read more…Tonight the CW is showing the animated CW Seed series "Vixen" as one two-hour special, starting at 8PM. It also features the Flash and Arrow with those shows' leads providing the voices!
A "Golden Age" Vixen had appeared on "DC's Legends of Tomorro
Read more…Black Hammer Volume 1: Secret Origins
Jeff Lemire: script; Dean Ormston: art; Dave Stewart: colors
Dark Horse Books, 2017
Canadian cartoonist/writer Jeff Lemire first made his name as an indie creator, notably with the Essex County trilogy for Top S
Read more…An old thought surfaced as I was commenting on the "super-telepathy" thread, one i've never written about. To wit: The super-powers that we, as human beings, have imagined for millennia that are preposterous but somehow seem plausible to the point th
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Want more Defenders? Let Captain Comics take you to the source for the reaing that will tide you over until the next Netflix series comes out.
But first, let’s get this out of the way: While the comic book D
Read more…The Hellblazer Vol 1: The Poison Truth (Rebirth)
Simon Oliver, writer; Moritat, Pia Guerra, Jose Marzan Jr., artists; Andre Szymanowicz, colorist
DC Comics, 2017
They keep starting and cancelling John Constantine series, but he never stays away fo
Read more…I'm thinking about doing a story about Defenders "must-read" stories. It wouldn't be actual Defenders comics, of course, but instead stories about the TV roll call. Here's what I'm thinking about. Y'all feel free to chime in with your favorite ones o
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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It’s a pretty dizzying time for streaming services, especially if you’re a fan of Peak Geek TV.
First, Disney announced it was removing its content from Netflix and starting its own streaming service.
Then th
Read more…Here's a good news/bad news post.
The bad news:
As some of you may know, I was laid off from The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis back in late March.
This didn't come as that great a surprise. Even though I'd worked there for 27 years, the last
Read more…We’re all comics fans here, and some of us have been circling around this community for a very long time. I don’t know that we’ve ever discussed how we got into this particular hobby, however. So how and why did you come to love comics?
I’ll start.
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