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.
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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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Genre TV
Next, "File #2" (Fox, Oct. 13)
Archer, "The Double Date" (FX, Oct. 14)
Star Trek: Discovery, season 3 premiere (CBS All Access, Oct. 15)
Helstrom, season 1 (Hulu, Oct. 16)
Lovecraft Country, season 1 finale, "Full Circle" (HBO, Oct
Read more…Welcome, everyone, to This Week in Comics, or as I call it, Captain Comics' Random Thoughts About Comics and Stuff. I hope someone brought snacks.
GENRE MOVIES & TV
It's a quiet week on screens. There are no new fantasy/sci-fi movies and no genre TV
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His Dark Materials, "The Cave" (HBO, Nov. 23)
Next, "File #8" (Fox, Nov. 24)
Star Trek: Discovery, "Unification III" (CBS All Access, Nov. 26)
The Mandalorian, "Chapter 13" (Disney+, Nov. 27)
Pandora, "Tell Me That It Isn't True" (Fox, Nov.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Moist Vessel" (CBS All Access, Aug. 27)
Wynonna Earp, "Holy War Part Two" (Syfy, Aug. 30)
Lovecraft Country, "Holy Ghost" (HBO, Aug. 30)
MOVIES
The New Mutants (Aug. 28)
ONLINE
Marvel Storyboards, Episode 6 featuri
Read more…Genre TV
Archer, season 11 premiere, "The Orpheus Gambit" (FX, Sept. 16)
Archer, "Bloodsmoosh" (FX, Sept. 16)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Much Ado About Boimer" (CBS All Access, Sept. 17)
Raised by Wolves, "Lost Paradise" (HBO Max, Sept. 17)
Raised by W
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Snowpiercer runs two episodes this week back to back as the season 2 finale. "The Show Must Go On" and "Into the White" run on TNT on March 29. The show skipped last week, which is how we get two episodes this week, but it's been tough on v
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