By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
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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McClatchy-Tribune
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
By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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
McClatchy-Tribune
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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Tribune Content Agency
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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Tribune News Service
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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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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.
By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
April 15, 2014 -- Captain America: The Winter Soldier has blo
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Comics can be many things, from quiet dramas to flights of fancy to superheroic clashes of good and evil. But some times – maybe the best times – they’re just fun.
Case in point: Steve Mannion’s Fearless Dawn, bro
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McClatchy Newspapers
Free Comic Book Day is back, bigger and better than ever. So big, in fact, that the following guide is necessary
First, the details: On Saturday, May 3, participating comic shops will give away free comics. (To
Valiant Comics, which went out of business about 12 years ago, made a comeback under new ownership in 2012. And it only took the new guys two years to achieve Unity.
Unity is the name of Valiant’s version of “Avengers” or “Justice League” – it’s a bo
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McClatchy Newspapers
April 1, 2014 -- Last week, the box office charts domestically and internationally were topped by different American movies – and both have comic-book roots.
The big hit was Captain America: The Winter Soldier,
Read more…Magneto, the long-time X-Men foe, is getting his own ongoing title. And, thankfully, he’s going to be a villain – again.
That last bit might not make sense to folks who have only watched the X-Men movies, or older fans who drifted away a couple of de
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