On Sunday, I visited an antique store in Harrisburg, Pa.
One of the attendants at the place pointed me to a box of comics, and I was surprised by the contents. All early 1970s books. All in good shape. A few Marvels. Lots of DC. A few Gold Keys too.
Read more…Palomino Volume 1
Written & illustrated by Stephan Franck
Dark Planet Comics, 2020
Los Angeles is not usually thought of as a country music town. But in the 1980s there were lots of country bars, and the main venue was The Palomino Club in North Hol
Read more…Genre TV
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (CBS All Access, Sept. 3)
Raised by Wolves, "Raised by Wolves" (HBO Max, Sep. 3)
Raised by Wolves, "Pentagram" (HBO Max, Sep. 3)
Raised by Wolves, "Virtual Faith" (HBO Max, Sep. 3)
The Boys, "Th
Read more…Family Tree Vol. 1: Sapling
Jeff Lemire, writer; Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, Ryan Cody, artists
Image Comics, 2020
A new series co-created by writer Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Descender) and artist Phil Hester (Swamp Thing, Green Arrow) is bound to be wo
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
AUG. 20, 2020 — This is a month of endings.
No less than five of the Captain’s favorite genre TV shows have reached a season finale. Maybe it’s only noticeable because the pandemic has delayed the beginning
Read more…Allan Rich, a longtime member of The Legion of 'Hey, It's That Guy!' Character Actors, dies of dementia at 94.
From The Hollywood Reporter: "Allan Rich, Character Actor Who Overcame the Blacklist, Dies at 94"
After 10 years or so of theater and movi
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Aug. 13, 2020 — There’s a lot of sorrow in Batman’s Gotham City. This week it may be worse in the real-life city of Burbank, California, home of DC Comics.
On Monday, Aug. 10, WarnerMedia announced layoffs of
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…A ‘Giant-Size’ beginning, 41 regular issues ,one Annual, from the 1970s, a follow up 4-issue mini-series and some significant tales in Captain America and Namor before a mini revival in the new millennium…!
We will be starting in June 1975 – with G
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GENRE TV
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Temporal Edict" (CBS All Access, Aug. 20)
Lucifer, Season 5 (Netflix, Aug. 21)
Wynonna Earp, "Holy War Part One" (Syfy, Aug. 23)
NOS4A2, "Bats" (AMC, Aug. 23)
Lovecraft Country, "Whitey's
Read more…Many years ago, I taught folklore at a summer camp(we had new campers each week of different ages, from 8-15). At the time, the folklore class was pretty unstructured, so I could more or less do as I pleased. Sometimes I told ghost stories, sometimes
Read more…Pulp
Ed Brubaker, writer; Sean Phillips, artist
Image Comics, 2020
Max Winters is a pulp writer in 1930s New York, churning out Westerns at five cents a word. It turns out that the Red River Kid (his signature character) is actually based on his earli
Read more…About a third of DC Comics editorial staffers are being laid off, Jim Lee demoted as publisher, editor-in-chief Bob Harras gets the ax, and DC Universe streaming service is gutted. Also, DC Collectibles may have been shelved.
from The Hollywood Repor
Read more…GENRE TV
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…Gideon Falls Vol. 4: The Pentoculus
Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino: creators; Dave Stewart, colors
Image Comics, 2020
The previous volume was full of travels though worlds and times. This one picks up the action in two scenes. In the first, Angie and
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Aug. 6, 2020 — Call it the Summer of the C-List.
Despite the pandemic, TV still has a lot of original content — much of which is based on comic books. But with so many shows lifting concepts, ideas and entire
Read more…Story I must confess that I wasn't up on this story. Anyone have any thoughts or insights on this?
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
July 30, 2020 — Comic-Con@Home, the attempt by the San Diego Comic-Con to replicate the show’s experience online, had at least one major similarity to its live-action predecessors: Tons of big announcement
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