I am going to review the entire 1977-1969 CBS " The Amazing Spider-Man " CBS TV series!(more later juice runs out of appliance now)
Read more…The Legion of "Hey, It's That Guy!" Character Actors loses another one: Anthony James, a lanky guy with a distinct face who appeared in lots of TV shows and a few movies, including Unforgiven.
After that, he retired from acting.
From the New York Pos
Read more…Pretty Deadly Vol. 3: The Rat
Kelly Sue DeConnick, script; Emma Ríos, art & covers; Jordie Bellaire, coloring; Clayton Cowles, lettering
Image Comics, 2020
Vol. 1 of this series had an old West setting, and Vol. 2 had a wartime setting. The storytel
Read more…Donald Trump's re-election campaign got a satirical editorial cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winning 'toonist Nick Anderson taken down from Redbubble temporarily before the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund intervened and the merchandise showing the cartoon w
Read more…A new streaming service, BROADWAY ON DEMAND, has debuted this month. It is on Roku and the other streaming devices or on your computer screen.
I attended a special movie showing a couple of years ago of GEORGE TAKEI'S ALLEGIANCE, inspired by his inte
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The first print Marvels arrive since late April, on May 27.
Bleeding Cool posted a press release from Yen Press alerting me to the fact that the publisher was releasing a great many manga on May 26. The list on Bleeding Cool didn’t match the on
Read more…High Level
Rob Sheridan, story; Barnaby Bagenda, artist; Romulo Fajardo Jr., colorist
DC Vertigo, 2020
High Level is set in a world hundreds of years after the big apocalyptic event (no dates are given), with the motto"Welcome to the Post-Post-Apocaly
Read more…Lodger
David Lapham & Maria Lapham, writers; David Lapham, art & cover
Black Crown, 2019
Lodger finds David and Maria Lapham in familiar black and white crime noir territory, a creative space very similar to their continuing magnum opus Stray Bullet
Read more…Wow, the planets have all lined up again in their cosmic collaborative conglomerations to acknowledge and yes, revel in the birthday of our old pal and fearless leader, Craig A. Shutt, aka Mr. Silver Age himself. While some buffoonish wags have sugge
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May 21, 2020 — Snowpiercer the series arrived May 17 on TNT, a weekly show set after the end of the world.
While not as depressing as it sounds, it’s still pretty bleak. The premise is a new ice age, and what
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May 14, 2020 — New comic books are back in the pipeline to comic shops, after the pandemic halted distribution back in March. Here’s the A-list:
'2020 Ironheart' #1
of 2, Marvel Comics, May 20, $3.99, digita
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June 6, 2019 -- The new Swamp Thing TV show isn’t your daddy’s swamp monster. It isn’t even Alan Moore’s.
Moore is the English writer famous for From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta Wa
Read more…A year ago today, I was on the open sea, on a cruise celebrating my 30th wedding anniversary.
Don't know when I'll do that again.
(Taking a cruise, that is. I'll gladly do more anniversaries.)
Read more…Was it ever specified how Night Girl's powers worked? Did it really need to be at night, or could they function in darkness as well? And if the latter is true, why would she carry around a variation of Dr. Mid-Nite's blackout bombs (aside from the ob
Read more…According to various news reports, IDW lost $800,000 in Q4, and $5.2M for 2019. Worse, they're not expecting to be profitable for 2020, either. They promise a return to profitability in 2021.
From the story above it appear
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This has been a bad week for comedic character actors. First, we lose Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld, King of Queens) on Monday, and now Fred Willard (Modern Family, This Is Spinal Tap, Fernwood 2 Night) on Friday. Not to mention Little Richard last Saturda
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May 7, 2020 — Nothing stops the Dark Knight, not even a pandemic. Here are some Bat and Bat-adjacent graphic novels, all from DC Comics, all $29.99 (for the hardbacks), all available from bookstores and onli
Of all of JACK KIRBY's 70s DC work, the book that lasted the longest was Kamandi the Last Boy On Earth which lasted fifty-nine issues but not with the King at the end. #33 (S'75) was the last issue that was written, drawn and edited by Kirby, #37 (Ja
Read more…1)It seems to me that I saw the Maggia mentioned a lot in Marvel comics 40 years ago, but I haven't seen them mentioned in a while. Of course, I don't read as many Marvels as I used to, so maybe they're just not in the books I read.
2)Is there any
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