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April 30, 2020 — The long drought is broken. Diamond Comic Distributors, which delivers most comics to retailers in North America, announced April 28 on Twitter that it would resume full service on May 20.
Di
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April 2, 2020 — Fans of Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon’s daughter, know the strengths of the character. Her determination, tough-mindedness and eidetic memory led her to be effervescent Batgirl in 1967,
Read more…Pirates comes out this month from Clover Press. (Cover art by Sol Brodsky, courtesy Clover Press)
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March 12, 2020 — Avast, me hearties! Pull up a barrel and I’ll spin ye a tale of freebooters, sea-soaked adve
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June 25, 2020 — The comics industry has barely begun shipping again, and already the Comics Teletype is overheating. Here are the top stories:
ITEM: The Dark Mr. Mom Returns? A lot of comics sites have had a
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March 5, 2020 — In these days of digital everything, it’s rare when we ink-stained wretches receive physical, analog review copies. And when there are nine of them – well, we tend to take notice.
The nine boo
Read more…The cover to Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974 uses both a photo and an illustration, which is a taste of what’s inside. (Photo by Abbas, art by Rafael Ortiz, Courtesy Titan Comics)
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Sept. 24, 2020 — He’s still th
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May 7, 2020 — Nothing stops the Dark Knight, not even a pandemic. Here are some Bat and Bat-adjacent graphic novels, all from DC Comics, all $29.99 (for the hardbacks), all available from bookstores and onli
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Sept. 17, 2020 — The DC Comics/Warner Bros. online convention has completed its second and final day — and just like FanDome I on Aug. 22, FanDome II on Sept. 12 was an impressive enterprise with lots of anno
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March 26, 2020 — The year 1940 was, in general, a pretty lousy one, what with World War II and all. But it was a great one in comics, with roughly a jillion new superheroes debuting from roughly a jillion pu
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April 23, 2020 — Not only is it “safer at home,” but it’s also an opportunity to do some recreational reading. Here are some of the more offbeat graphic novels that have recently crossed my desk:
The Runaw
Key art for the seventh season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. shows the main characters for the season premiere, as well as the milieu: 1931 New York City. (Courtesy ABC)
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June 4, 2020 — Marvel’s Agents of
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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…Donald Trump's re-election campaign got a satirical editorial cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winning 'toonist Nick Anderson taken down from Redbubble temporarily before the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund intervened and the merchandise showing the cartoon w
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May 28, 2020 — Stargirl has arrived on DC Universe and The CW, bringing with it the return of the justly legendary Justice Society of America.
The Justice Society is the oldest superhero team in comics, arriv
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May 21, 2020 — Snowpiercer the series arrived May 17 on TNT, a weekly show set after the end of the world.
While not as depressing as it sounds, it’s still pretty bleak. The premise is a new ice age, and what
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May 14, 2020 — New comic books are back in the pipeline to comic shops, after the pandemic halted distribution back in March. Here’s the A-list:
'2020 Ironheart' #1
of 2, Marvel Comics, May 20, $3.99, digita
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Feb. 27, 2020 — The Walking Dead returned for the second half of its 10th season Feb. 23, outliving most genre shows (and the majority of its major characters). While I enjoy the series, I have long couch-cr
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June 18, 2020 — In case you love the new DC Universe/CW show Stargirl as much as I do, here are two dozen Fun Facts to Know and Tell about the star-spangled superhero show:
1. Geoff Johns (with artist Lee Mod
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Jan. 30, 2020 — So now Quentin Tarantino has jumped on the anti-Marvel bandwagon.
“When you say, despite the sequels and the Avengers: Endgame and all of that, I actually think a war for movies got played
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