THE BIG STUFF
The Conjuring: The Lover #1 (of 5)
DC Comics | 17+ | $3.99
Writers: David L. Johnson-McGoldrick, Rex Ogle, Scott Snyder | Art: Garry Brown, Dave Johnson, Denys Cowan | Cover: Bill Sienkiewicz | Variant: Ryan Brown | 1:25 variant: Garry
Read more…Additional DC and Archie previews came in, which made the original post too long (more than 10,000 characters, the Ning limit). So I've split the post, like I had to do last week. I may have to do this every week I use all of the Future State preview
Read more…GENRE TV
His Dark Materials, "Malice" (HBO, Dec. 21)
The Expanse, "Guagamela" (Amazon Prime, Dec. 23)
Star Trek: Discovery, "The Citadel" (CBS All Access, Dec. 24)
The Stand, "Pocket Savior" (CBS All Access, Dec. 24)
Pennyworth, "The Belt and Welt"
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Barry Windsor-Smith: Monsters HC
Fantagraphics | $39.99
Writer/Art: Barry Windsor-Smith
I had never heard of this book until recently, despite the PR telling me that BWS has been working on it for 35 years. (35 years!!?!) Nor h
Read more…I don't remember when it was, exactly, that I lost interest in Superman. There was a time, from Crisis on Infinite Earths until well into the 2Ks, that I had complete collections of every Superman title published (Superman, Action Comics, Adventures
Read more…BOOM! STUDIOS
BUFFY VAMPIRE SLAYER LEGACY EDITION VOL 5 TPB
DARK BLOOD #2 (OF 6)
DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES #9 (OF 12)
FIREFLY #32
GOOD LUCK #3 (OF 5)
ONCE & FUTURE #19
SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN #19
DARK HORSE COMICS
BACON & OTHER MONSTROUS TALES
Read more…I always pronounced it with a hard "g", like "begin gold" without the "be"..
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Averee TPB
A Wave Blue World Inc | 6x9 | Teen | 136 pages | $16.99
Writers: Stephanie Phillips, Dave Johnson | Art/Cover: Marika Cresta, Andrew Dalhouse
According to the PR, this is a story that takes place in the near future,
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"In my younger and more vulnerable years," when I was actively seeking to build my comic book collection (as opposed to merely maintain it), I used to say that I collected in two directions at once. By that I meant that I not only collected from the
Read more…Captain's Note: It's a new year, so let's try something new with this feature. Y'all let me know if you like this approach.
GENRE TV OF NOTE
The Expanse, "Tribes" (Amazon Prime, Jan. 6)
Star Trek: Discovery, season 3 finale, "Outside" (CBS All Acces
Read more…This is cool: A graphic designer reworked the Marshall Rogers issues of Detective Comics, putting in the classic Golden Age logo.
From the 13th Dimension blog: "More Classic MARSHALL ROGERS Covers Get Glorious Golden Age Revamp"
GENRE TV
Justice League (movie, Cartoon Network, 6 p.m. ET/PT, Jan. 18)
The Expanse, "Hard Vacuum" (Amazon Prime, Jan. 20)
Riverdale, season 5 premiere, "Chapter Seventy-Seven: Climax" (CW, Jan. 20)
The Stand, "The Vigil" (CBS All Access, Jan. 21)
Wa
Read more…This will be a discussion of Walt Simonson’s run on Thor. I’ll be covering issues of Thor from 337-382, as well as the Balder the Brave mini-series.
Read more…GENRE TV
Snowpiercer, "A Great Odyssey" (TNT, Feb. 8)
Black Lightning, season 4 premiere, "The Book of Reconstruction: Chapter One" (CW, Feb. 8)
As CK says, watching this show feels like homework. The lives and experiences of Black people need more e
Read more…(A while back, Jeff Of EarthJ started doing retrospectives of various JSA members., and I wanted to continue this with my own musings on a couple of my favorite characters).
Johnny Thunder was born the 7th son of a seventh son at 7am on A Saturday, t
Read more…Inspired by the excellent The OTHER HISTORY of the DC Universe, I decided to re-read some of my Black Lightning comics. (I don't have that many so this won't take long.) I haven't read any of his original series, and passed on the tpb which reprinted
Read more…This hefty tome can be broken into three sections (the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s), and that's how I'm going to handle it. the introduction by Peter J. Sanderson is dated 2005 and was obviously originally written for an earlier collection of the
Read more…Back when Kyle Rayner was Green Lantern, editorial edict had it that he never use his ring the same way twice. Because he was an artist, it was decided that his imagination be used to create all manner of light constructs. Ironically, Kyle Rayner bec
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