HEROES IN CRISIS EXPANDS TO NINE ISSUES
Artists Lee Weeks and Mitch Gerads Join Tom King and Clay Mann in Revealing More Secrets of Sanctuary
Beginning September 26, Eisner Award-winner Tom King’s new limited series, HEROES IN CRISIS, introduces a n
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The Marine Marvel’s time-honored superhero outfit will make an appearance in Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa.
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Newly minted movie star Aquaman swims fast and talks to fish. W
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Lights: story, art & lettering
Dynamite Entertainment, 2018
Singer/songwriter Lights created this debut graphic novel as part of a multimedia project to accompany a concept album of music portraying the same themes. Probably not m
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Where did all these spiders come from?
In most cases, that’s a question you don’t want to hear. But it has a great answer when it comes to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the animated movie premiering Dec
Read more…To-day, I read my first ever " real " comic book (i. e., from the Big Two) with only 18 pages of story!!!!!!!!! VENOM #8. I'd had it for a bit, didn't read it til' to-day, with #9 wsaiting in my bag...It's a 24-page comic book, 6 pages of " other " (
Read more…Oh, guys, I'm so sorry.
I was answering questions on my tablet tonight instead of my laptop, and as I thought I was posting the answers, I hit something that said I wanted to delete the whole thread. And since it was waiting on me to post, and I wasn
Read more…With the Thirteenth Doctor in DOCTOR WHO, "the Doctor She", if I might be forgiven, ____ ____, to be introduced in her first episode of a regular season (series) oo-morrow -- let's chatter Gallifreyian!
Read more…The Royals: Masters of War
Rob Williams, writer; Simon Coleby, pencils & inks (Chapters 1-3); Gary Erskine, inks (Chapters 4-6); J.D. Mettler, colors
Vertigo Comics, 2014
As a longtime Vertigo fan, I've always had a special fondness for their miniser
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The superhero crossover on The CW this year is titled “Elseworlds” – an old DC Comics term with an illustrious history.
We already know a lot about TV’s “Elseworlds,” which begins on The Flash Dec. 9, continues
Read more…Over on the BEAT I wrote the following:
"RM Rhoades said the new Cap Marvel was “a really popular female character among women.”
I can’t claim it’s not true, since I don’t keep close tabs on sales these days. But have the three or four features star
Read more…On sale today: Entertainment Weekly's special tribute issue to Stan Lee. With comics-history information and a sidebar on Iron Man supplied by me (written originally for Life Magazine's Rise of the Super-Hero special issue last year, but still
As most of you know, I was laid off by The Commercial Appeal (after 27 years) last year, and laid off again by the Riverfront Development Corporation six months ago. I have been doing the job-search thing since.
But what's happening now is my inbox i
Read more…I read the third chapter (and only the third chapter) of this story in 1968 and I was hooked! Every once in a while DC drops a hint that they might be reprinting it, but nothing ever comes of those rumors. A couple of years ago I got tired of waiting
Read more…1)The "big" casting in this is Jason "Son of Sean" Connery as Jondar. Haven't seen him in anything else, hopefully he improved after this. To be fair, he's not given much to do in this.
2)It's interesting how many elements of so-called "reality TV'
Read more…1)Another one of my favorites. I remember a fanboy at the time greeting this with "So JNT can produce decent Doctor Who when he wants to!" It is a bit continuity-heavy, though. I wonder if someone seieng it for the first time would get as much out
Read more…It was Thanksgiving Day, 1942, and the dinner table at Norman’s house was set for the holiday feast. The good china. Polished silverware. White tablecloth. The fancy salt and pepper shakers. The silver serving dish. Mrs. Wheaton, the family coo
Apparently this happened over the weekend and was announced on Monday.
A story here
Man, that is just too bad. I remember the great work he did on Batman in the 90s, and 58 is just way too young.
Read more…Cullen Bunn and Laura Braga join the Archie Horror squad as two new mini-series launch!
BLOSSOMS 666 #1 cover art by Laura Braga
Comics horror-meister Cullen Bunn and artist Laura Braga are bringing the trouble-making Blossom twins into the Archie
Read more…The Kitchen
Ollie Masters, writer; Ming Doyle, artist; Jordie Bellaire, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2015
Set in the 1970s in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, this eight-issue miniseries tells the story of three women married to Irish mobsters, and what th
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It’s the fifth birthday of UK publisher Titan Comics, but readers are getting the presents.
Not a lot of British comics make their way to the U.S., and Titan doesn’t publish the ones most people know. You won’t
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