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
Read more…Frankenstein Alive, Alive!: The Complete Collection
Steve Niles, story & script; Bernie Wrightson, story, layouts & art; Kelley Jones, art
IDW Publishing, 2018
The final horror collaboration between writer Steve Niles and artist Bernie Wrightson bega
Read more…Ice Cream Man Vol. 3: Hopscotch Mélange
W. Maxwell Prince, writer; Martín Morazzo, art; Chris O'Halloran, colors
Image Comics, 2019
The stories in this volume go deeply into the relationship between the Ice Cream Man and his nemesis, the cowboy Caleb.
Read more…The Beauty Vol. 5
Jeremy Haun & Jason Hurley, story; Thomas Nachlik, art; Nayoung Kim, color; Thomas Mauer, lettering & design
Image Comics, 2019
This collection brings together two story lines from earlier volumes. Gang-banger Timo and transgender as
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Sep. 18, 2019 -- Alex Segura, the co-president of Archie Comics, has been telling an entirely non-comics story for many years. Starting with 2013’s Silent City, Segura related the travails of Miami P.I. Pete
Read more…I know we don'y usually get into politics here, but I wanted to make sure that you all knew that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has quoted the Incredible Hulk.
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Sept. 3, 2019 -- A few weeks back, DC Comics promised to bring a long-abandoned, fan-favorite super-team back to its pages, and sure enough, the Legion of Super-Heroes reappeared in all its old (and updated)
Read more…Art by Dan Jurgens. Copyright DC Comics.
Titans: Burning Rage reprints stories heretofore seen only in Walmart-exclusive comics, and the first issue stars (from left) Beast Boy, Starfire, Raven and Robin III.
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Age
You are looking at the meeting room of a unique and exclusive club, the Mystery Analysts of Gotham City, experts at the business of solving bizarre mysteries . . .
Thus began one of the more fondly remembered features of Julius Schwartz's "New Look"
Read more…Black Badge Volume One
Matt Kindt, writer; Tyler Jenkins, illustrator; Hilary Jenkins, colorist
Boom! Studios, 2019
The Grass Kings team of Kindt and Jenkins reunite for this thriller, which basically is a Young Adult version of Kindt's Dark Horse ser
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