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April 16, 2020 — Roughly every 20 years, Zombie Chicken Little rises from his grave and predicts the end of the comic book industry. The last time was in the late ‘90s, sooo … yep, here he comes, shambling a
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Jan. 30, 2020 — With Wonder Woman 1984 arriving June 5, the Amazing Amazon should have a good year. Heck, she’s already having a really impressive month!
January saw the release of three important books starr
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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:
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Feb. 20, 2020 — Two TV shows launched from the comics last week, one horror and one humor. Those are the official genres, but both shows are much more of a blend than that.
Locke and Key began life as a hor
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April 9, 2020 — The pandemic burning through the world right now is terrifying, lethal and virtually unstoppable. But one thing it isn’t, is unexpected. We’ve been through this before — the 1918 flu, the B
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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…From left, Rosie Perez (as Renee Montoya), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Huntress), Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Ella Jay Basco (Cassandra Cain) and Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Black Canary) star in Birds of Prey, but only three of ever actually called that. H
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Sep. 18, 2019 -- Alex Segura, the co-president of Archie Comics, has been telling an entirely non-comics story for many years. Starting with 2013’s Silent City, Segura related the travails of Miami P.I. Pete
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Titans: Burning Rage reprints stories heretofore seen only in Walmart-exclusive comics, and the first issue stars (from left) Beast Boy, Starfire, Raven and Robin III.
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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
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Feb. 6, 2020 — Have you begun watching Star Trek: Picard? Maybe binge-watched the third season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina? Have you sampled October Faction?
Well, if you haven’t read the comics that in
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Sept. 3, 2019 -- A few weeks back, DC Comics promised to bring a long-abandoned, fan-favorite super-team back to its pages, and sure enough, the Legion of Super-Heroes reappeared in all its old (and updated)
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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.
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Oct. 24. 2019 -- Watchmen arrived on HBO Oct. 20, to rave reviews, viewer excitement and … well, honestly, a lot of anxious confusion. Let’s deal with that.
For those living under a rock for the last 33 yea
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Jan. 16, 2020 — So “Crisis on Infinite Earths” has wrapped up. How’s everyone doing? Jazzed about that ending? Tired of all the whinging over Oliver Queen’s death? Wondering why The CW scheduled a five-week
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If you’re a genre fan, Disney+ is going to get your money.
The new streaming channel doesn’t launch until Nov. 12, but the House of Mouse held its biennial D23 Expo Aug. 23-25 with enough juicy announcements
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Sept. 25, 2019 -- Summer’s over, school’s begun … but the drumbeat of genre material on screen, in print and on TV continues unabated. Fall will be (in some cases literally) fantastic. Let’s preview:
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Marvel Comics made a big announcement about the X-Men at San Diego’s Comic-Con last month, which was – ironically – buried under Marvel Cinematic Universe news. But now that it’s underway, the X-Men re-launc
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Joaquin Phoenix turns in a tour de force performance in Joker, starring a character who may or may not be who we’ve seen in other e
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The TV show is relatively faithful adaptation of the comics character, who first appeared in 2006.
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Oct. 17, 2019 -- Batwoman has arrived on The CW, filling
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