Gal Gadot plays the Amazing Amazon again in Wonder Woman 1984. (Courtesy WarnerMedia)
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Dec. 31, 2020 — If you haven’t seen Wonder Woman 1984 yet, do so! In the meantime, spoilers ahoy as we take a look at t
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Aug. 13, 2020 — There’s a lot of sorrow in Batman’s Gotham City. This week it may be worse in the real-life city of Burbank, California, home of DC Comics.
On Monday, Aug. 10, WarnerMedia announced layoffs of
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Aug. 6, 2020 — Call it the Summer of the C-List.
Despite the pandemic, TV still has a lot of original content — much of which is based on comic books. But with so many shows lifting concepts, ideas and entire
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July 30, 2020 — Comic-Con@Home, the attempt by the San Diego Comic-Con to replicate the show’s experience online, had at least one major similarity to its live-action predecessors: Tons of big announcement
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Sept. 10, 2020 — It’s been raining graphic novels here in the Comics Cave. Let’s look at a few:
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
Art/writing: John “Derf” Backderf
Abrams ComicArts, $24.99
Backderf made a na
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July 2, 2020 — The pandemic delayed the usual summer comics crossovers, but the first shots have finally been fired.
In Burbank, in the red Superman trunks, is DC Comics and “Death Metal.” In New York, in t
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July 23, 2020 — What do you do if the pandemic has canceled your comic convention? If you’re the big dog, Comic-Con International: San Diego, you take it online.
And it’s already started.
Comic-Con@Home runs
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July 16, 2020 — Watching Doom Patrol it might be hard to believe the bizarre characters on the screen actually first appeared in comic books. But it’s true, as we shall see with this stroll down Memory Lane.
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Oct 8, 2020 — The pandemic has curtailed a lot of TV filming, and Netflix has begun canceling even successful shows over delayed production. But, amazingly, there’s still an awesome amount of TV on the air wo
Read more…Slugfest is a documentary series on Quibi that explores the eight-decade rivalry between the Big Two comic book publishers, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. The NYCC panel included luminaries like Kevin Smith (top left) and Brandon Routh (center bottom
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July 9, 2020 — The popularity of Young Adult graphic novels has exploded, along with their shelf space in bookstores and comic shops. Here are some of the latest:
Bluebeard cover: This Papercutz graphic nov
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DC Comics skipped the online San Diego Comic-Con this year, and launched one of its own, “DC FanDome.” Part One ran Aug. 22, and boy howdy, they didn’t skimp on the big announcements. Here are the ones that g
Read more…The Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek makes announcements at the Investor Day 2020 presentation. (© The Walt Disney Co. 2020.)
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Dec. 17, 2020 — OK, that’s … a lot to process.
I’m talking about Disney’s Investor
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July 2, 2020 — The pandemic delayed the usual summer comics crossovers, but the first shots have finally been fired.
In Burbank, in the red Superman trunks, is DC Comics and “Death Metal.” In New York, in the
Read more…Teen Titans: Beast Boy is a new take on the DC Comics character, showing his teen years in Georgia in a new YA graphic novel. (Art by Gabriel Picolo, copyright DC Comics)
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Oct. 1, 2020 — If you’ve read the Yo
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Black Canary: Ignite is a new Young Adult graphic novel by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee, about a 13-year-old Dinah Lance just growing into her inherited super-power.
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Nov. 5, 2019 -- How
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Dec. 10, 2020 — Oh, Walking Dead, wherefore dost thou vex me so?
I really want to like TWD and, by extension, its spinoffs. I loved the first few seasons of the original, and still remember the thrills I on
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Nov. 12, 2020 — It’s been a Joker kind of month.
Not because of the pandemic, or the Election Week Death March or the myriad other problems and tragedies that beset us. It’s because DC Comics has put so many
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Oct. 31, 2019 -- The Geek-O-Tron 1000 News Ticker has been working overtime. Let’s take a look at the whats, and then discuss the whos, whys, wheres and the sometimes how muches of the latest developments:
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Oct. 22, 2020 — If you caught the first season of Helstrom when it dropped on Hulu on Oct. 16, you may be wondering if it’s a Marvel TV show or not. The answer is yes, but at such a remove that you can be for
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