So, are we ready to talk about this?
My first comment is that it didn't feel like a three-hour movie -- it felt like they packed four hours of story into it. I felt sometimes like I was drinking out of a firehose. Maybe it was because I loved just ab
Read more…What the actual frak?!?!?
I'm trying to parse the Preview copy for the third Dark Knight mini series and it just sound like a spectacular orgy of overkill.
First, the creator credits:
DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #1
Written by FRANK MILLER and
Infinite Dark Vol. 1
Ryan Cady, writer; Andrea Mutti, artist; K. Michael Russell, colorist
Image Comics, 2019
Quite a high concept here: it is set on a space station named the Orpheus located at the end of the universe. Our universe has been consumed b
Read more…They were aimed at roughly the same age group, though some DC titles skewed younger than others.
Yet Marvel in the 60s only occasionally indulged in really oddball villains or cover concepts. For every Paste-Pot Pete type at Marvel, DC must have tu
Read more…The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 9: "Okay"
Kieron Gillen, writer; Jamie McKelvie, artist; Matthew Wilson, colorist; Clayton Cowles, letterer
Image Comics, 2019
Another long-term series finally concludes here. The narrative flow was a bit interrupted by Vol
Read more…Cap suggested twice that I lead this discussion, so here it is. I decided at the last minute to put these series in a thread of their own rather than to fold them into “What Comic Books Have You Read Today?” (The “plus” is the various series leading
Read more…Kevin Feige takes over the world
Deadline has a story about Kevin Feige taking over Marvel Comics.
The tl;dr is that Feige is become Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Comics, with president Dan Buckley answering to him, and EIC C.B. Cebulski answering
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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Aug. 22, 2019 -- We’ve enjoyed a flood of news about the The CW’s upcoming “Crisis on Infinite Earths” epic lately. Now that the waters seem to have crested, it’s time to assess – and ponder the maybes and th
Read more…Something’s happening; https://www.cnet.com/news/mad-magazine-is-shutting-down-say-reports/
Read more…Are there certain things you notice in movie after movie, TV show after TV show, that nip at your suspension of disbelief, because they keep happening as if they're the most normal thing in the world, but they aren't normal at all?
Yes, of course the
Read more…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
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