Yesterday when I was pulling the cash register drawer from the pharmacy that I work, I found that someone had paid with a roll of dimes, which they opened. To my amazement, the dimes were very old, the earliest being several Mercury dimes from 1941!
Read more…The success of the WONDER WOMAN movie may make DC revise the character yet again to have her debut not in World War II but in World War I. Stranger things have happened,
But what if they did? It would certainly limit her access to the other DC heroes
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Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash
Dave McKean
Dark Horse Books, 2016
Paul Nash was a British artist famous for his paintings inspired by his experiences on the frontline during the First World War: first as a soldier, and then as an official war a
Read more…This will be a re-reading project for the series and character of Blue Devil. Included issues will be Fury of Firestorm #24, Blue Devil #1-31, Blue Devil Annual #1, Fury of Firestorm #46-47 and DC Comics Presents #96.
Read more…Scanning the Amazon solicits, I am realizing that many seemingly relatively recent comics are reaching what is actually 25 years in age!
Has anyone watched the masterful Fargo TV series? I must discuss if possible...
Read more…Daredevil #22 - Daredevil testifies in court. Story by Charles Soule, art by Goran Sudzuka.
Once again, this is the sort of thing I was hoping for when Charles Soule took over writing this title, and this delivers. Well done.
Doctor Strange #22 - Docto
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
NBC’s Powerless premiered Feb. 2, and it’s based on the same DC Comics universe as TV shows like Arrow and movies like Batman v Superman. It’s just not connected.
Just as the DC superhero movies and DC superh
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Solomon Grundy first appeared as a Green Lantern foe in All-American Comics #61 in 1944.
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Most of the comics-based TV shows on The CW and Fox have reached their season finales,
Read more…ADAM WEST, R.I.P. The Batman of the 60s has died at 88 . Goodbye, old chum . :-(
Read more…I enjoyed this episode. I always liked the Ice Warriors, and it's interesting to see a new side to them with the introduction of the Ice Queen. I also liked the contrast between the two empires, British and Martians. It'd be interesting to see what i
Read more…Yes, I'm going to spoil the ending to 'Batman' #24. I have a question to ask about it. Ready?
Not enough? Here's a Baron Break(TM) Spoiler picture:
No? Not enough: OK, more Spoiler warnings:
Whew! That's enough. OK, here's the deal. In the
Read more…Avengers #8 - After Avenger X takes down all of the Avengers save the Wasp, Doom shows up to help out. Story by Mark Waid, art by Jeremy Whitley.
The art's better. However, this story just screamed "let's make the heroes act like idiots to further the
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Wonder Woman, the movie, is shattering box office records like, I dunno, glass ceilings. Which means a lot of new Wonderfans are going to be looking for some supplemental reading.
But where to start? Like
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I figure someone's gotta know.
In Green Lantern/Green Arrow #83, Carol is paralyzed by a Richard-Nixon-looking mutant little girl, Sybil. She remains paralyzed throughout the rest of the O'Neil/Adams run, last appearing in issue #89, the final issue
Read more…Constantine: The Hellblazer Volume 1: Going Down
Ming Doyle, James Tynion IV, writers; Riley Rossmo & others, artists; Ivan Plascencia, colors
DC Comics, 2016
Rogue mage John Constantine gets another DC series, this time with "the Hellblazer" back
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Tribune Content Agency
With the release of The Mummy on June 9, Universal launches its “Dark Universe” – a series of inter-connected movies featuring classic monsters. That’s reason enough to look at these Important Dates in Mummy
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