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
Read more…I loved the first issue of this book, as I have stated elsewhere.
Just when a smile came to my face as I realized that Oberon was Danny DeVito, they pulled the rug out from under me.
The reaction of Barda when she found Scott was spot-on.
Orion showi
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Stan Lee appeared with Frank Miller at the 30th anniversary of Dark Knight Returns in 2016.
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Nov. 13, 2018 -- Words of praise for the legendary Stan Lee, who died Nov. 11 at the a
Read more…My wife and I finally broke down and bought a new TV, replacing the big tube thing we'd had for more than 15 years. We got a Samsung NU1701D, a 58" flast screen that plays nice with the internet.
But to our dismay, we could not watch Titans on the bi
Read more…It's that time of year again!
We've done this before (here, here, here, here, here, here and here) but now it's time for this year! This is a place for comments about any and all shows, but especially for shows that don't generate their own threads.
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Read more…Courtesy Netflix
From left, Elden Henson (as Franklin “Foggy” Nelson), Deborah Ann Woll (as Karen Page) and Charlie Cox (as Matt Murdock) star in Netflix’s Daredevil.
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Daredevil Season 3, which dropped on Netfl
Read more…My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
Image Comics, 2018
Didn't realize until I started reading this that it is subtitled "A Criminal novella." None of the recurring Criminal characters appear, but it does indeed feature lots o
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Tired of politics? Here are some news and notes from the world of pop culture that offer relief from the real world:
Photo credit: Diyah Pera/Netflix
The Spellman family – from left, Cousin Ambrose (Chance Perd
Read more…Over on Comics Beat, Heidi MacDonald is writing that the whole flap over Batman: Damned #1 and Batman's Batawang might have sabotaged the Black Label line: "Todger Turmoil: Batman’s Junk May Have Sunk Black Label Line"
Heidi MacDonald wrote:
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Scott Wilson, who played Hershel Greene in The Walking Dead, dies at 76.
Story here.
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