The Quantum Age (From the World of Black Hammer)
Jeff Lemire, writer; Wilfredo Torres, artist; Dave Stewart, colorist; Nate Piekos, letterer
Dark Horse Books, 2019
This story begins in "Spiral City, One Hundred Years From Now." The teenage superhero te
Read more…B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know, Vol. 2: Pandemonium
Mike Mignola & Scott Allie, story; Sebastian Fiumara, Mike Mignola & Laurence Campbell, artists; Dave Stewart, colors
Dark Horse Comics, 2019
Hellboy is back--reunited with Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien--bu
Read more…Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise. Copyright: © 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM & © DC Comics
Joaquin Phoenix turns in a tour de force performance in Joker, starring a character who may or may not be who we’ve seen in other e
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Vol. 32: Rest In Peace
SPOILER ALERT: Everything about this collection was very carefully kept secret--especially the issue number of the final issue. Even now the solicitations for the collection avoid mentioning that it is the finale! There is no
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Sept. 25, 2019 -- Summer’s over, school’s begun … but the drumbeat of genre material on screen, in print and on TV continues unabated. Fall will be (in some cases literally) fantastic. Let’s preview:
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Do you have a favorite comic that the cover wraps around to the back.
I enjoy displaying my comic book collection almost as much as reading them.
I've collected various wrap-arounds which include Worlds Finest #255, X-Men #1 and
NAMOR (2003):
By "recent" I mean "2003." I've led a discussion of this series once before, when it was new. I hate to repeat myself, but those posts are no longer accessible. Also, with the upcoming release of Bill Evertt's Sub-Mariner (not to mentio
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A NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY LAYS DOWN THE LAW IN RIVERDALE — PENELOPE ANN MILLER TO PLAY MS. WRIGHT
BURBANK, Calif. (July 22, 2018) — Archie Andrews’ legal woes may have just gotten a little more challenging today when the producers of Riverdale announ
Read more…I've been a fan of Marvel's monsters for as long as I've been reading comics. This discussion will be divided into two "phases." Phase One will be "The Monster Age" and will focus on monsters which will cross over into Phase Two, "The Marvel Age," pa
Read more…Paper Girls Vol. 6
Brian K. Vaughan, writer; Cliff Chiang, artist; Matt Wilson, colors; Jared K. Fletcher, letters
Image Comics, 2019
The finale of the series, so it goes without saying that Here There Be Spoilers. At the end of the previous volume t
Read more…Story Another one of those guys that I thought had died years ago. Not my favorite style of humor, but he had his moments.
Read more…B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know Vol. 1: Messiah
Mike Mignola & Scott Allie, story; Laurence Campbell, art; Dave Stewart, colors
Dark Horse Comics, 2018
The Mignolaverse can be daunting: when I was buying monthly issues it sometimes felt like being a Batman
Read more…It's that time of year again!
Continuing the tradition started by Doctor Hmmm? back in 2010, and followed inconsistently since (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018), here's a catchall thread about any and all shows debuting or returning this
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JORDAN CALLOWAY UPPED TO SERIES REGULAR AS DC VILLAIN PAINKILLER IN BLACK LIGHTNING SEASON TWO
“PREDICTION? PAIN!”
BURBANK, Calif. (July 21, 2018) — He may have saved Freeland in season one, but Black Lightning (Cress Williams) is in for a new seas
Read more…From Bleeding Cool: "After Twenty-Six Years, DC Comics Rumoured to Close Vertigo"
It seems some Warner Bros. suit questioned why more Vertigo properties aren't fodder for movies, and learned that's because most of them are creator-owned. The reaction
Read more…I originally wrote this intending it to be a few different posts, but it occurred to me that they all had a common theme, so I figured I’d kind of lump them together.
A couple months ago, I created a post called “Why Is Acceptance Important?” In the
Read more…As you guys may (or may not) have noticed, I have been absent from this site for awhile. That's because I suffered a heart attack on Aug. 29 but didn't go the hospital until the 31th. I thought that I had the flu or something then the truth came out.
Read more…Hello folks.
Some of you are friends with me on Facebook. For any of you that are not, my wife Tracy passed away on Sept 17 after a long battle with primary biliary cirrhosis or liver disease. It is a condition that she inherited genetically. You
Read more…Hivemind, a production company for Sony and others, has announced its panels for NYCC, and there were some surprises on there, at least for me. Did everyone else know Weird Fantasy was going to become a TV show? Well, it is.
Hivemind is the productio
Read more…Story Kazuhiko Katō, better known by his pseudonym "Monkey Punch", has passed away. He was most famous for creating the manga Lupin III. I've never seen any of it, but I have seen references to it in many manga and anime that I have seen. One of the
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