BARRY’S BIG BAD IS BREAKING NEWS!
CHRIS KLEIN ANNOUNCED AS DC SUPER-VILLAIN CICADA FOR THE FLASH SEASON FIVE
BURBANK, Calif. (July 21, 2018) — After outthinking The Thinker, you’d hope that Barry Allen aka The Flash (Grant Gustin) might have some d
Read more…The New York mobs are run by Rigoletto. He refuses to “cater to unholy perversions” even though there is money to be made preying on children and dealing crack cocaine. He wants to stick to the old rackets, saying, “We may be criminals, but we are no
Read more…My Facebook memories just reminded me that it's been five years since we lost our friend Brian Jacoby, aka Dagwan. He was a special guy, a warm and friendly soul. I'll be among friends, and raising a glass to him tonight.
Take good care of yourselves
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First off, if you’re not watching The Mandelorian, it is well worth the Disney + membership alone. In fact, I think it may be the only use I’ve made of it personally,
Read more…Days of Hate: Act One
Aleš Kot, writer; Danijel Žeželj, drawing; Jordie Bellaire, colors; Aditya Bidikar, letters; Tom Muller, design
Image Comics, 2018
The title of this maxi-series says it all. Set in the United States in 2022, it depicts a country w
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Tribune Content Agency
Nov. 19, 2019 -- “Dawn of X” has arrived at Marvel Comics, and the morning light has revealed the contours of a new world for the X-Men.
Here’s how it began: Back in July, superstar writer Jonathan Hickman
Read more…November Vol. 1: The Girl On The Roof
Matt Fraction, writer; Elsa Charratier, artist; Matt Hollingsworth, colorist; Kurt Ankeny, letterer
Image Comics, 2019
The first of three novellas following the intersecting lives of three women. The tag line reads
Read more…As we all know, he was the prominent character Jahn in the Star Trek TOS season 1 episode Miri.
I first heard of him in the late 80's/early 90's. My best friend from college was gay, and I went with him to a gay bookstore in downtown Boston, where I discovered the works of cartoonists like Cruse, Alison Bechdel, Diane DiMassa, and others
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Nov. 12, 2019 -- It’s begun.
I’m talking about the streaming wars. Yes, they’ve been going on for quite a while: behind-the-scenes rumors, buyouts, public announcements, cancellations, transplants, some actu
Read more…NUTS. And many other cartoons. Him and MAD, ending monthe sameth - Guess the 20th Century is really over, isn't it?:-(
Read more…Rise of the Black Flame
Mike Mignola & Chris Roberson, story; Christopher Mitten, art; Dave Stewart, colors
Dark Horse Books, 2017
The Black Flame is the biggest villain in the Hellboy universe. So it's surprising that his "origin story" has not been t
Read more…Sex Criminals Vol. 5: Five-Fingered Discount
Matt Fraction, writer; Chip Zdarsky, artist
Image Comics, 2018
It feels like there's a time jump (weeks or months, not years) between this collection and the previous arc. Jon and Suzie are completely estran
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So, what did folks think of this?
By me, it was a game of two halves, the halves being:
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
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