TITANS follows young heroes from across the DC Universe as they come of age and find belonging in a gritty take on the classic Teen Titans franchise. Pre-order now at DCUniverse.com. #DCUniverse
Read more…Note: The disks I have are in Japanese, without dubbing or subtitles. I only know about twenty or so words of Japanese, although many of those are words that are likely to occur in tokusatsu. The challenge I am setting myself is to see whether I ca
Read more…Invisible Republic Vol. 01
Gabriel Hardman & Corinna Bechko, writers; Gabriel Hardman, artist; Jordan Boyd, colors
Image Comics, 2015
I'm a big fan of Hardman's Image series Kinski, but I somehow missed this one, so I'm catching up. Very different sett
Read more…Bodies
Si Spencer, writer; Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick, Tula Lotay, artists; Lee Loughridge, colorist
Vertigo, 2015
An ambitious eight-part miniseries which spans four time periods, each illustrated by a different artist, united by the
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Things are about to get weird on the DC Universe streaming service.
Doom Patrol premieres Feb. 15, featuring a superhero team that’s one of the oddest in DC Comics’ enormous stable of characters. And it’s on
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Deadly Class, which arrived as an ongoing series on Syfy Jan. 15, is that rare critter: a comics-based TV show that improves on its source material.
These changes were evident in the pilot, which aired online
Read more…Men of Wrath
Jason Aaron, writer; Ron Garney, artist
Image Comics, 2018
Aaron and Garney present a short, brutal picture of a Southern family with a history of violence. Originally published by Marvel's Icon imprint in 2015, this Image edition is bill
Read more…Ice Cream Man Vol. 1: Rainbow Sprinkles
W. Maxwell Prince, writer; Matthew Morazzo, artist; Chris O'Halloran, colorist
Image Comics, 2018
In some ways this series hearkens back to vintage EC and DC comics horror series: an anthology unified by a centr
Read more…I haven't binged the entire thing yet -- we're only at ep 8 - but my wife and I are really enjoying it.
It's not at all what you'd expect. That is to say, there is mayhem, but its relatively restrained and very focused. Instead of Frank going after
Read more…(Continued from Pre-Modern History)
THE MODERN AGE (A.D. 1601 - A.D. 1912)
A.D. 1605:
Character Debuts:
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Batton Lash, of Supernatural Law, previously known as Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, died Saturday, after a bout with brain cancer.
From Bleeding Cool: "Batton Lash, Creator of Supernatural Law, Dies"
From Mark Evanier's News from ME blog:
Read more…EPISODE 79: “Home”
The first warp-five starship, Enterprise (NX-01), was launched in 2151 under the command of Jonathan Archer. This was long before the time of the standard “five-year missions,” but it stayed out for three years before returning to
Read more…This is a discussion of the " Aquaman " movie.Out " SPOILERS at the top of posts that include thhem. I just saw the movie, on this night.
Read more…In a sidebar to my December CBG column on good reading for Silver Age fans in 2010, I suggested five collections that I wanted to see in 2011. Amazingly enough, between the time I wrote the column and it was published, TWO of those collections (Sugar
Read more…Archangel
William Gibson & Michael St. John Smith, creators; William Gibson, script; Butch Guice, art
IDW Publishing, 2017
Renowned science fiction writer William Gibson makes his debut in comics with this series. The story revolves around time trave
Read more…Justice League has been hinting at something for several issues. Mainly, a being named Perpetua who created the multiverse before the one we're reading. The next-issue blurb promises "The Other History of the Universe"!
So that raises a lot of questi
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
The geek have inherited the earth. Or at least television.
Once we were the red-haired step-children of American audiences, subsisting on a thin gruel of giant-insect movies, Famous Monsters of Filmlandmagazi
Read more…When I stopped reading comics, towards the end of the 70's, I don't remember anything referred to as a Silver Age and certainly not a Bronze Age. I think there was just Golden Age and modern comics. I may be wrong but that's how I remember it.
Anyw
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