The final season has arrived!
The story thus far: In a well-written, brilliantly-acted, expensively-produced show based on what European history would look like in the imagination of a clever 12-year-old boy, many people and one dragon have died, and
Read more…Here's a promo/teaser compilation. Season 4 begins Sept. 20!
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The Discipline Vol. 1: The Seduction
Peter Milligan, writer; Leandro Fernández, artist; Cris Peter, colorist; Simon Bowland, letterer
Image Comics, 2016
Here's a twisted tale. In his Introduction Milligan acknowledges that the first thing readers noti
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Genre fiction seems to have rediscovered a powerful piece of storytelling: The ending.
The most obvious example of that is Avengers: Endgame, which has been described all over the media by Marvel Cinematic Un
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Publishers have gotten much better at Free Comic Book Day. Rather than a collection of teases to books we may never see, most of the 51 titles that were given away May 6 had full stories – and then some teas
Read more…Did anyone read the first issue of Young Justice? I loved it, but I want to read it again before posting because it moved so fast and I know I missed so much.
Read more…Welcome back, gang, for another stab at Grant Morrison's Multiversity. We had a thread about this title once before, but it petered out. Which was fine, until the second issue came out, which just begs for closer examination. So let's begin again.
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PRESS RELEASE
TOM WELLING JOINS “LUCIFER” IN SEASON THREE
LUCIFER Returns Monday, October 2, in its New Time Period (8:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX
Tom Welling (“Smallville”) will join Season Three of LUCIFER. Welling will play “Marcus Pierce,” an accompli
Read more…I finally saw Glass (2019), which completes M. Night Shyamalan's superpowers trilogy with Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016). Anyone who appreciates movies that look at superhumans in a new way should see these movies in the order they were release
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Avengers: Endgame had a lot of great callbacks to the comics, not all of which were obvious. With a huge, honkin’ SPOILERS AHEAD warning, let’s look at a few:
CAP vs. CAP: Superheroes battling their own dopp
Read more…I never read any of the MAD magazine knockoffs of the sixties. However, in recent years I got a little curious about SICK, the magazine that provided most of Joe Simon's daily bread in that decade. It doesn't seem to have been really popular with com
Read more…After the Fox deal, Disney enjoys majority ownership of Hulu, which is weird, because that's sorta-kinda competition for its own Disney+ streaming service, ABC network and various cable outlets. According to this annoumcement at the upfronts, Hulu is
Read more…It's a couplish days till AVENGERS: ENDGAME fully opens in North America. To-day, there will be a stunt of a number of theaters running all 22 MCU movies in order in mega-MEGA-mega marathon...and, after it being announced as bring in only 3 theaters/
Read more…1)Another fun commentary track, this time with just the regulars with no one to reign them in. Again, often more fun than the story itself. Boy, Davison sure has it in for Terence Dudley, taking time to point out again that he doesn't like Dudley's
Read more…Skyward Vol. 1: My Low-G Life
Joe Henderson, writer; Lee Garbett, art & cover; Antonio Fabela, colorist; Simon Bowland, letterer
Image Comics, 2018
Skyward has a simple, but powerful premise: what if gravity were suddenly reduced to a fraction of norm
Read more…The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 8: Old Is The New New
Kieron Gillen, writer; Jamie McKelvie, artist; Matthew Wilson, colorist; Clayton Cowles, letterer; Ryan Kelly, Aud Koch, Carla Speed McNeil, Emma Vieceli, Chynna Clugston Flores, Tamra Bonvillain, Ra
The Old Guard Book One: Opening Fire
Greg Rucka, writer; Leandro Fernández, art & cover; Daniel Miwa, colors; Jodi Wynee, letters
Image Comics, 2017
Co-creators Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández present their take on immortality. It's a lot like the Hi
Read more…Gideon Falls Vol. 2: Original Sins
Jeff Lemire, writer; Andrea Sorrentino, artist; Dave Stewart, colors
Image Comics, 2019
The spookiness continues in the second installment, as several disparate plot elements slowly come together. The opening scene s
Read more…Story. One of the sports heroes of my youth, and the man who stole the ball.
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