At the D23 Expo, Disney has outlined the specifics of its Avengers Themed Park, which it announced some time ago. The addition to the California park will open in 2020, and similar operations will open elsewhere in the world. The Avengers will have t
Read more…Am I the only comics fan who's NOT all that worked up over the MCU? I've seen at most a third of the MCU pictures and have no real great desire to see any of the rest of them, (I haven't seen any DC movies either, not since the Batman one that kill
Read more…Once again, friends, it's time for the latest guidance from Marist College, which has inherited the Mindset List from Beloit College.
See the 2022 list here, the 2021 list here, the 2020 list here, and the 2019 list here.
The drill is the same as it
The 2019 World Science Fiction Convention took place in Dublin, Ireland, from 15th to 19th August. Each year, the Worldcon announces the Hugo Awards for the best Science Fiction of the previous year, as chosen by the members of the convention. Thi
Read more…I started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation over the weekend. By the time the show premiered in 1987, I had already been anticipating it for at least 10 years, ever since the rumors of a Star Trek II TV series (which eventually became Star Trek
Read more…45 years ago someone gave me a copy of Cheyenne Kid #72. I discovered comics and amassed a collection that was at one point nearly 3000 books. I still have the Cheyenne Kid other comics I have kept. I sold others to get me more, or lost some in movi
Read more…Each year, the World Science Fiction Convention announces the Hugo Awards for the best Science Fiction of the previous year in various categories. In years when no Hugo Awards were made 25, 50 or 75 years ago, the convention may give Retrospective H
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Marvel Comics made a big announcement about the X-Men at San Diego’s Comic-Con last month, which was – ironically – buried under Marvel Cinematic Universe news. But now that it’s underway, the X-Men re-launc
Read more…Recently, I bought a 70s printing of the very first STAR TTEK book - the first of the Bantam mass-market novelizations by James Blish of all 79 of ST's episodes in short-story form
This was an 18th printing, from the 70s - Obviously, it sold A LOT.
Read more…The Dreaming Vol. 1: Pathways and Emanations
Simon Spurrier, writer; Bilquis Evely, art; Mat Lopes, colors
DC Vertigo, 2019
The first collection of the new titles in The Sandman Universe series. In addition to creating the characters these stories are
Read more…Books of Magic Vol. 1: Moveable Type
Kat Howard, writer; Tom Fowler, illustrator; Jordan Boyd, colors
DC Vertigo, 2019
This one opens with a brief history of Tim Hunter's initiation into the world of magic by the Trenchcoat Brigade in the original The
Read more…I just saw this on Facebook:
I’m posting today with a heavy heart. The extraordinary Ernie Colón passed away yesterday afternoon in his home at the age of 88, surrounded by family, after over a year battling — and I mean
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You might have noticed that it’s hard to find heroes in Amazon Prime’s new series, The Boys, which dropped July 26. A look at the source material shows that this is by design.
The Boys began as a comic book s
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The space adventure returns this winter. Catch an all-new season premiere on SUN, DEC 30th only on FOX!
Read more…Over in the "Movies I Have Seen Lately" thread, we discuss Yesterday. I read a review of the movie by a music critic who didn't like it because he couldn't buy the premise. Not the "world without The Beatles" stuff, but the "struggling musician going
Read more…I just learned that Titan Comics is putting out new collections of Max Allen Collins & Terry Beatty's Ms. Tree comics, with the first volume, One Mean Mother, coming out later this month. It'll be part of their Hard Case Crime line, which makes sense
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The just-ended, comics-based shows iZombie and Swamp Thing have three things in common:
The fourth and final season of Preacher begins Sunday, August 4, 2019. There will be ten episodes wrapping up the series.
We seem to have some fans (and foes) of the Wonder Woman comics currently being put out here. Here's a place where we can discuss them.
I have some questions myself that I'm going to post in here. Ask away yourself!
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