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Well, Sin City 2 didn't make any money, so I guess we’ve seen the end of movies based on comic books.
Ha ha! Just kidding. Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For tanked at the box office quite impressiv
Read more…In the episode “What They Become,” Cal (Kyle MacLachlan, left) tells his daughter Skye (Chloe Bennet) that her real name is Daisy. (ABC/Kelsey McNeal)
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Bobby “Mockingbird” Morse (Adrianne Palicki, left) is keeping a big secret fro
By Andrew A. Smith
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Sept. 4, 2014 -- Thanks to the Superman radio and TV show intros, everybody knows that Clark Kent has always been “a mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper.” But ongoing events in DC Comi
By Andrew A. Smith
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Dec. 4, 2014 -- Need a gift for the Nerd or Nerdette in your family, but every store clerk tell you these aren’t the droids you’re looking for? Then shop like Captain Comics, using his handy-dandy Holiday Gif
Read more…1. Lyndsy Fonseca plays Angie Martinelli (left) a sunny character that plays well off the darker Agent Carter (Hayley Atwell). ABC/Bob D'Amico
2. James D’Arcy plays the always impeccable Edwin Jarvis, a sort of sidekick on “Agent Carter.” ABC/Kelsey
By Andrew A. Smith
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Nov. 27, 2014 -- Archie Comics is experimenting with new books. It’s also experimenting with extra Archies – and extra Veronicas, Bettys, Jugheads and Sabrinas.
Recently, several different Archies have hit pr
Read more…Whether NBC will continue Constantine beyond its initial 13 episodes hasn’t been decided. Matt Ryan plays John Constantine. Quantrell Colbert/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Hayley Atwell goes undercover as a blonde in Marvel’s Agent Carter, airing J
By Andrew A. Smith
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Dec. 11, 2014 -- Comics characters are filling the airwaves, and they’re bringing more than costumes.
Take, for example, the concept of the crossover. That’s comic book terminology for a story that starts in
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Dec. 25, 2014 -- With 2014 ending, it’s a good time to look back – way back, to some great comics from the past.
One new collection is not only a terrific book, but is a foundation for any discussion of pop c
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Aug. 28, 2014 -- If anyone needs evidence that comics can tell any kind of story, adaptations of two Western literary classics by UDON should put the subject to rest.
UDON Entertainment (yes, named for the J
Read more…The Ruby Throne came out in September. Copyright Titan Comics
Battle scenes are appropriately bloody in this pre-industrial world. Copyright Titan Comics
The artists outdo themselves presenting the grandeur and awfulness of Melnibone. Copyright Tit
Like in the comics, it appears Constantine’s magic is minor, and his real “powers” are fast-talking and occult knowledge. Quantrell Colbert/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
How Constantine behaves is up to the writers, but actor Matt Ryan certainly
By Andrew A. Smith
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Neil Gaiman constantly surprises, and he’s done it again with The Graveyard Book Volume 2, the wrap-up of the novel’s adaptation to comics. What looked like a horror story, perhaps overlaid with a fable, to
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Oct. 21, 2014 -- The earliest promos for the horror series Wytches, which debuts Oct. 8, shows a misshapen finger with a monstrous fingernail scratching out the dictionary definition of “witches.” That’s mo
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Stephen Arnell plays Starling City's heroic vigilante in Arrow, whose third season premieres Oct. 8.
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Arsenal (Colton Haynes) becomes Arsenal in
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ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stars B.J. Britt as Antoine Triplett, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Nick Blood as Lance Hu
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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
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