Cap reviewed this graphic novel back on January 19 (see p. 462 of “What Comic Books Have You Read Today?”), but it took me a while to track it down. I had a half-page of notes already written in my head based on what I thought it was, but after actua
Read more…I first read Jack Kirby’s The Demon in l1987. I remember because I know I read Matt Wagner’s limited series and John Byrne’s Action Comics #587 first. It was also right around this time I first read Alan Moore’s treatment of the Demon in Swamp Thing,
Read more…It's being widely reported that Dan Didio is no longer co-publisher of DC Comics. What this means for the upcoming 5G initiative, or DC Comics in general, remains to be seen. For now, it seems, Jim Lee is sole publisher, but that might be an interim
Read more…I know there's at least one other fan of anime on this board, and perhaps more, so I thought I'd do a review of some of the anime I've watched. I'm hoping others will do the same.
Read more…Doctor Star And The Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows
Jeff Lemire, writer; Max Fiumara, artist; Dave Stewart, colorist; Nate Piekos, letterer
Dark Horse Books, 2018
Another winner from the Black Hammer universe, a four-issue miniseries that is almost complete
Read more…Survivors' Club
Lauren Beukes & Dale Halverson, writers; Ryan Kelly, artist; Eva de la Cruz, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Bad things happened to a lot of children in 1987. Out of a long list of names found on the Internet, only six are not missing or
Read more…Thinker, mathematician, and theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has left the building. He was 96.
Read more…The Silver-Age Alfred was a real Renaissance man: butler, chef, actor, medic . . . and author!
Actually, he was more of a frustrated writer---because his work could never be published, nor even read. Except by two other people.
I'm talking, of cour
Read more…From left, Rosie Perez (as Renee Montoya), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Huntress), Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Ella Jay Basco (Cassandra Cain) and Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Black Canary) star in Birds of Prey, but only three of ever actually called that. H
I've seen little written about a recent decision by the Justice Department. They have decided to stop end or ing/declare no longer valid what's clad the Paramount Decision, an agreement reached in 1948 that ended an anti-trust lawsuit against eight m
Read more…New Romancer
Peter Milligan, writer; Brett Parson, artist; Brian Miller, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Alexia Ryan is a young computer genius with a fixation on classic authors, especially Lord Bryon and his romance poetry. She is working on a dating
Read more…With the recent news about a big change in the status quo of the rather bumpy relationship between Batman and Catwoman, I thought about their eighty year history and, well, wondered about a few things. Changes in continuity have played havoc with DC'
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Feb. 20, 2020 — Two TV shows launched from the comics last week, one horror and one humor. Those are the official genres, but both shows are much more of a blend than that.
Locke and Key began life as a hor
Read more…This is meant to be a thread for all versions of THE PHANTOM, the Lee Falk-created King Features Syndicate newspaper strip character who has appeared in many comic books as well from many publishers over the years. Fall also created MANDRAKE THE MAGI
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Feb. 6, 2020 — Have you begun watching Star Trek: Picard? Maybe binge-watched the third season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina? Have you sampled October Faction?
Well, if you haven’t read the comics that in
Read more…Blackbird Vol. 1: The Great Beast
Sam Humphries, writer; Jen Bartel, artist; Paul Reinwand, layout artist; Triona Farrell, colorist; Jodi Wynne, letterer; Dylan Todd, designer; Jim Gibbons, editor
Image Comics, 2019
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Read more…There are a few things that are worth discussing in this thread.
Die Vol. 2: Split the Party
Kieron Gillen, writer; Stephanie Hans, artist; Clayton Cowles, letterer
Image Comics, 2020
The second installment finds the group still stuck in the DIE world. As the title says, they have split up: this is never recommende
Read more…Jacked
Eric Kripke, writer; John Higgins, artist; John Higgins & SotoColor, colorists
Vertigo Comics, 2016
For writer Eric Kripke (creator of the TV series Supernatural) this was his writing debut for comics. But he had two of Vertigo's old hands on a
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