By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
If you listened carefully when "Flash of Two Worlds" aired on The CW Oct. 12, you could have heard the distant roar of many minds being blown.
That episode of Flash, the second of season two, wasn't named r
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In 1941, Green Arrow and Speedy debuted as the protectors of Star City. After more than three seasons, the TV show Arrow has finally caught up with the comics -- in more ways than one.
Astute viewers of Arr
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In the month of October, Marvel Comics produced 17 first issues of new series. What th-? Here’s the dillio:
Over the summer, Marvel canceled its entire line after a huge, climactic crossover destroyed its sup
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2 SISTERS: A SUPER-SPY GRAPHIC NOVEL (HC)
Writer/Art/Cover: MATT KINDT
Colors: MARIE ENGER
On sale Sept 16
FC, 344 pages, $27.99
HC, 8 1/4″ x 10 1/4″
SISTERS AGAINST THE WORLD!
“Kindt’s work is more complex, ambitious and somber than its s
Read more…It's another monster week, with lots of No. Ones from Marvel and serious competition from other publishers. Sorry it's long, but isn't that a good thing?
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THE BIG GUY AND RUSTY THE BOY ROBOT
(SECOND EDITION HC)
Writers: FRANK MILLE
Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) combines the best elements of the character’s personalities and costumes from her many iterations in the comics. Photo by Darren Michaels/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. © 2015 WBEI. All rights reserved.
James Olsen (
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Call it the Mad Men effect: Some of the best writers in comics are setting series in America's past. If you want to get your historical fiction on, here are some of the more notable titles:
REBELS (Dark H
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Fantastic Four, premiering Aug. 7, is one strange movie. I don't mean on the screen, although it very well may be. Behind the scenes, though, it's complicated.
Let's tackle the movie first, which needs a lot
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AGE OF REPTILES: ANCIENT EGYPTIANS #3 (OF 4)
RICARDO DELGADO (W/A/COVER) AND RYAN HILL (C)
On sale Aug 5
FC, 32 pages, $3.99
Miniseries
Ricardo Delgado’s wordless tale of survival continues in this exciting new installment of the mu
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Happy birthday, S.H.I.E.L.D.!
Fifty years ago, Marvel's Stan Lee and Jack Kirby rode the wave of James Bond mania by taking an old World War II character, wrapping an espionage agency around him, and coming
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B.P.R.D. HELL ON EARTH VOLUME 11: FLESH AND STONE (TPB)
Writers: MIKE MIGNOLA, JOHN ARCUDI
Art: JAMES HARREN
Colors: DAVE STEWART
Cover: LAURENCE CAMPBELL
On sale Sept 23
FC, 144 pages, $19.99
TPB, 7″ x 10″
Things seem to be going w
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ABE SAPIEN #24
I know why Abe is leaving. All those smokers! They'd dry him up like a sardine.
Writers: MIKE MIGNOLA, SCOTT ALLIE
Art: SEBASTIÁN FIUMARA
Colors: DAVE STEWART
Cover: MAX FIUMARA
FC, 32 pages, $3.50
Ongoing
New arc begins her
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If there's one comics character I wouldn't mind being, it's Jughead Jones. And never moreso than now, when he's been re-invented for a new generation.
And he isn't alone.
Archie Comics, once famous for being
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The French are invading! (And they’re bringing comic books!)
Delcourt Group, the leading independent comic book publisher in France, launched an exclusive line of English language, digital-first comics and
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Every Tuesday or early Wednesday I post a "Comics Guide" on the Captain Comics Round Table website, chock-full of reviews, previews and press releases about the week's most interesting new comics and graphi
Read more…We're going to try something new this week. In order to make the Guide more scroll-friendly, I'm putting the previews on our Facebook page. So if you're interested in seeing a preview of a given book (provided one is available), click on the link. An
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ABE SAPIEN #26
Writers: MIKE MIGNOLA, SCOTT ALLIE
Art: SEBASTIÁN FIUMARA, MAX FIUMARA
Colors: DAVE STEWART
Cover: MAX FIUMARA
On sale Sept 9
FC, 32 pages, $3.50
Ongoing
Abe left the BPRD to confront the monsters to which people said he was
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Everybody loves a story about a boy and his dog. Even if they're both robots.
Tim-21 (boy) and Bandit (dog) are the stars of writer Jeff Lemire's new Image Comics series, Descender, whose first trade paperb
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ADAM.3 #1 (of 5)
Writer/Art/Cover: SCOTT KOLINS
FC, 32 pages, $3.99
Miniseries
Award-winning writer/artist Scott Kolins (Past Aways, The Flash, The Avengers) premieres his first original comic book creation: ADAM.3! A man born into
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Frankenstein Underground #1 (of 5), comes out in March.
Cover by Mike Mignola. Copyright Dark Horse Comics.
Frankenstein Underground #2 comes out in April.
Cover by Mike Mignola. Copyright Dark Horse Comics.
Frankenstein Underground #3 comes o
