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Some of the players in Gotham include (from left) Oswald Cobblepot, Fish Mooney, Edward Nygma, Ivy Pepper (the future Poison Ivy, played by Clare Foley), Harvey Bullock, Jim Gordon, Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennywor
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Aug. 14, 2014 -- Marv is dead. Honestly.
You remember Marv. He was the one-man wrecking ball, played by Mickey Rourke in Sin City (2005), with an undisclosed mental “condition” that made him plenty dangerous
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Aug. 7, 2014: We all know from Coraline, Murder Mysteries and Dream Hunters how good a writer Neil Gaiman is. We also know from the Coraline, Murder Mysteries and Dream Hunters graphic novels how good an ar
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July 31, 2014 -- The annual geekfest known as Comic-Con International: San Diego wrapped up July 28, and as usual there was plenty of eye-popping, head-bursting news about comics and movies. But what stood ou
Read more…Welcome back, gang, for another stab at Grant Morrison's Multiversity. We had a thread about this title once before, but it petered out. Which was fine, until the second issue came out, which just begs for closer examination. So let's begin again.
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July 24, 2014 -- In a trailer for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie, premiering Aug. 1, a law enforcement official of some kind says in that the team is a bunch of … ah, how can I phrase this? Let’s say
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If you’re looking forward to How to Train Your Dragon 2, which premiered June 13, you’ll be pleased to know there’s already a sequel out – in print.
English publisher Titan Comics has launched a new series chroni
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May 13, 2014 -- If you’ve seen the trailers for X-Men: Days of Future Past, the Twentieth Century Fox movie that premieres May 23, your reaction has probably been “What the heck is going on here?”
Tha
By Andrew A. Smith
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April 29, 2014 -- You know Gwen Stacy is dead, right?
I’m not talking about her fate in the movie Amazing Spider-Man 2, premiering May 3. I don’t know that myself, and wouldn’t tell you if I knew.
No, I’m talking
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July 17, 2014 -- If you’ve seen a Hercules movie at the theater this year, you saw the wrong one.
That’s a pretty subjective call, especially since I don’t know you. But here are some facts to back it up. T
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It’s coming for you. There is no escape. You cannot avoid The Strain.
Mainly because The Strain – an infectious disease that spreads vampirism – has already appeared in novels and comics, and will launch as a
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Comics writer/artist Jack Kirby is often, and justly, referred to as “The King .” And even though he died in 1994, he’s still making news.
For the uninitiated, Kirby’s claims to fame are many, and stretch acro
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July 11, 2014 -- Happy birthday, Batman!
“The Bat-Man” debuted in Detective Comics #27 in 1939, meaning the now hypen-less character is 75 years old. And Warner Bros., parent company of Batman’s publisher DC Co
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May 6, 2014 -- SKREE-ONNNK!
If you recognize that sound effect, then it’s clear you are reading or have read IDW’s line of Godzilla comic books. Because that’s how The Big G expresses himself in those
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Jun 17, 2014 -- Who would guess that happy, frivolous Archie Andrews and violent, bloodthirsty zombies would make a good mix?
According to the afterword in the recently released Afterlife with Archie
Given the "Captain Re-Reads Avengers" thread, I thought it advisable to resurrect this old file. It stops somewhere around "Avengers Disassemble," so it's a little out of date. But it includes the expansion of the Avengers line-up in the early years,
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The treasures of the Louvre museum have inspired an untold number of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians and other artists. Now, comics artists are prominently on that list.
That’s because French
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May 27, 2014 -- What if Groundhog Day was set in the future during an alien invasion, the day kept starting over because the protagonist kept getting killed and it starred Tom Cruise instead of Bill Mur
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May 20, 2014 -- Two men have died in recent weeks whose names you’re unlikely to know, but whose work you’ve probably enjoyed.
That is almost certainly true of Al Feldstein, who died April 29 at the a
Read more…One of three S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarriers engages in combat in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. All photos © 2014 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
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April 15, 2014 -- Captain America: The Winter Soldier has blo
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