Story Uderzo was the co-creator, with Rene Goscinny, of Asterix the Gaul. Another comics great gone.
Read more…So, given that we have all of this free time these days, I decided to use it to good advantage and dive into the Manga One PPiece. For those of you who have never heard of it, it's one of the most popular comics in the world today and has been for ye
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
March 26, 2020 — The year 1940 was, in general, a pretty lousy one, what with World War II and all. But it was a great one in comics, with roughly a jillion new superheroes debuting from roughly a jillion pu
Read more…Coronavirus claims a longtime member of The Legion of "Hey, It's That Guy!" Character Actors.
From USA Today: "Actor Mark Blum, 'Desperately Seeking Susan' and 'You' Star, Dies of Coronavirus Complications"
Read more…Excerpted from “Jack Kirby’s Gods & Heroes” by Greg Potter, Amazing Heroes #100, 1986.
“The first and most lasting impression we receive from Jack Kirby’s art is that of power. On page one, even while resting, Izaya and his elegant wife Avia are dep
Read more…The "Supergirl -- Season 5 SPOILERS!!" thread was starting to turn into a "Crisis on Infinite Earths" thread, so I figured somebody ought to start one.
"Crisis on Infinite Earths" is this year's annual Arrowverse crossover on the CW, which will inclu
Read more…The Dark & Bloody
Shawn Aldridge, writer; Scott Godlewski, artist; Patricia Mulvihill, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Iris Gentry is an Iraq war veteran, returned to his home in rural Kentucky. It's a dry county, so he pursues the family business of bo
Read more…I thought this might be a nice companion thread to "On the chopping block," where we can talk about currently running books that we're thinking of picking up in the middle of their run.
The one that comes to mind for me is Firestorm. Dan Jurgens is t
Read more…(EDITOR'S NOTE: This column was filed on March 16 for a March 18 release. By the time of release, more comics-related TV and movies had been delayed or canceled due to the coronvirus pandemic. Marvel's Black Widow has been indefinitely postponed, a
Read more…From Dateline: "'DC's Legends of Tomorrow': Brandon Routh & Courtney Ford to Depart CW Drama As Series Regulars in Season 5"
This wasn't their call[ it is, as they say, a storyline-dictated decision.
Too bad. I've felt increasingly iffy about the sho
Read more…Regarding “Outlawed”: I think that if I lived in a “super-hero” universe, I would be doubtful about having kids fighting crime, especially in unsupervised situations.
I never really thought about it until Courtney Whitmore joined the JSA, when it
Read more…Pirates comes out this month from Clover Press. (Cover art by Sol Brodsky, courtesy Clover Press)
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
March 12, 2020 — Avast, me hearties! Pull up a barrel and I’ll spin ye a tale of freebooters, sea-soaked adve
Read more…The Umbrella Academy Volume 3: Hotel Oblivion
Gerard Way, story; Gabriel Bá, art; Nick Filardi, colors; Nate Piekos, letters
Dark Horse Books, 2019
This installment opens with Hargreeves sending a super-villain to the title location: a hotel/prison lo
Read more…Though I didn't know it at the time, Superman Family #164 (My'74) was its first issue as, due to a paper shortage and falling sales, DC combined Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane and Superman's Cousin Supergirl into a bi-mon
Read more…In no particular order, here are the conventions that have been cancelled or postponed because of concern for COVID19/Coronavirus. All Round Table members are invited to add or update the list.
Read more…House of Whispers Vol. 2: Ananse
Nalo Hopkinson & Dan Watters, writers; Dominike "DOMO" Stanton, art; John Rauch & Zac Atkinson, colorists
DC Vertigo, 2020
The second installment finds Erzulie and company free of the Dreaming, sailing on the rivers of
Read more…I’ve probably mentioned on more than one occasion that Jonathan Hickman is one of my favorite writers. I consider his runs on Avengers and Fantastic Four to be among the best ever for those titles. So I was happy to hear about his new X-Men project.
Read more…Lucifer Vol. 2: The Divine Tragedy
Dan Watters, writer; Max Fiumara, Sebastian Fiumara, & Kelley Jones, illustrators; Dave McCaig, colorist
DC Vertigo, 2020
This installment takes over where the previous volume left off: the suave version of Lucifer
Read more…For most of my life, I never thought I would ever stop reading comic books. But these days I find myself buying fewer periodical comics than ever before. That’s because every time I pick up a highly-touted first issue in a new direction, I flip throu
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