About six months ago, I was listening to a critic on the radio discussing spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. It was her opinion that, if knowing a spoiler in advance can ruin the movie for you, then it’s not a very good movie in the first place. Period.
Read more…Supergirl returns for Season 5 on Sunday, Oct. 6 at a new time, 9 p.m. Eastern, following Batwoman at 8.
Den of Geek offers details and speculation here: "Supergirl Season 5: Release Date, Cast, Story, Villain, and News"
Read more…Last year (or maybe two years ago...time flies) I tried to start up a reading club, trying to get everyone to read the same set of Commissioner Gordon stories along with me. It failed, and understandably so, since not everyone probably had the same i
Read more…(Continued from The Heroic Age, Part Six)
THE HEROIC AGE, PART SEVEN (A.D. 2001 - A.D. 2053)
A.D. 2001:
Character Debuts:
Among the earliest intelligent races to evolve were the inhabitants of the planet Maltus. Little is known about their earliest years until, in the year 10,000,000,000 B.C., a group of Maltusians emigrated to the planet Oa, in the center of the Univer
Read more…Lobster Johnson Volume 5: The Pirate's Ghost and Metal Monsters of Midtown
Mike Mignola & John Arcudi, story; Tonci Zonjic, art; Dave Stewart, colors (Metal Monsters of Midtown)
Dark Horse Books, 2017
The pulp adventures of Lobster Johnson take an espe
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Black Canary: Ignite is a new Young Adult graphic novel by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee, about a 13-year-old Dinah Lance just growing into her inherited super-power.
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Nov. 5, 2019 -- How
Read more…Gideon Falls Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross
Jeff Lemire, writer; Andrea Sorrentino, art; Dave Stewart, colors
Image Comics, 2019
This installment centers around Father Burke. He had already become deeply involved in the mystery of Gideon Falls, but no
Read more…So says Architectural Digest: "The 26 Most Iconic TV Interiors of the Past 100 Years"
A neat trick, since television broadcasting itself hasn't been around for 100 years.
This list is far too heavy on shows from the 1980s and 1990s. Worse, there are
Read more…Gojira (1954), a.k.a Godzilla
Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka had a problem. The film he was meant to be producing, a grand Japanese/Indonesian co-production, had fallen through, owing to a dispute with the Indonesian government. So, now he needed a film to
Black Hammer: Streets Of Spiral
Jeff Lemire, writer/creator; Dean Ormston, creator; Emi Lenox, art; and many others
Dark Horse Comics, 2019
It's kind of amazing that Black Hammer has been around long enough to generate a miscellaneous collection like t
Read more…Black Science Vol. 9: No Authority But Yourself
Rick Remender, writer; Matteo Scalera, artist; Moreno Dinisio, colors
Image Comics, 2019
After all this time, the finale caught me by surprise. Not only did I not realize this was the series ending before
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Oct. 31, 2019 -- The Geek-O-Tron 1000 News Ticker has been working overtime. Let’s take a look at the whats, and then discuss the whos, whys, wheres and the sometimes how muches of the latest developments:
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Due to actually having a life, I had only one night to read DC’s output this weekend before the books were withdrawn. I caution once again that since I don't have the books in front of me, I'm not doing actual reviews; I'm just reporting my impressio
Read more…Rusty Brown
Chris Ware, writing & art
Jonathan Cape, 2019
Chris Ware began work on Rusty Brown immediately after completing the acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. There are definite similarities between the two: both were partially
Read more…I found this DC "greatest hits" on markdown for $3, so even though I knew I wouldn't agree with its choices, I bought it.
Robert Greenberger's text is pretty much what I expected: it's a list of touchstones for hardcore fans, discussing thing
Read more…DC has changed their DRC policy (at least for me), where I can no longer download the books. Instead, I can read them, but only between the time they're posted (usually Friday afternoon) and when they're removed (Monday morning). Since reviews are em
Read more…So I picked up Wonder Woman 101 in a dollar box the other day (well, a 3 for $5 box but I digress). It's the first issue of John Byrne's 3 year run on the title, and it was 1995-1998, so in my opinion, Byrne's best days were behind him at this poi
Read more…By all accounts, Kirby came close to being killed in the Second World War. If he had, I suppose he'd be remembered today as the co-creator of Captain America, and as a prolific artist who'd worked on a number of strips during his all-too-short care
Read more…https://news.avclub.com/hbo-max-announces-a-game-of-thrones-spin-off-a-green-l-1839450661
HBO MAX just announced the new show, along with a couple of other DC programs, including an anthology series called Strange Adventures and a comedy show about
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