The Legion of "Hey, It's That Guy!" Character Actors loses another one: Joseph Sirola, age 89. He was an actor on Broadway, television, movies, and soap operas, and also was a Tony Award-winning producer and the voice of hundreds of TV commercials a
Read more…Marvel has announced some interesting new series, including M.O.D.O.K., Howard the Duck, Hit Monkey, and The Tigra and Dazzler Show.
The stars of the adult animated series will eventually meet on The Offenders.
Read more…This is my line started for all titles/companies-lines published by Archie Comics , including MLJ Comics , Radio Comics , Red Circle Comics , Stan Lee Comics...Including , most of all , <<"THOSE">> Riverdale teenagers...But since I did this with " Co
Read more…From Deadline Hollywood Daily: "Marvel Female Superheroes Drama Not Going to Pilot at ABC"
Deadline Hollywood Daily wrote:
EXCLUSIVE: ABC has opted not to proceed with a pilot order to its Marvel drama from Wonder Woman writer Allan Heinberg. The pRead more…
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Polar and Alita: Battle Angel are two movies based on comics whose trailers are making the rounds. But that’s about the only thing these two very different projects have in common.
Polar has already arrived o
Read more…After years in Development Hell, and a failed attempt to make it into a movie franchise, Y, The Last Man is greenlit as a TV series.
From The Hollywood Reporter: "'Y: The Last Man' Ordered to Series at FX"
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TITANS follows young heroes from across the DC Universe as they come of age and find belonging in a gritty take on the classic Teen Titans franchise. Pre-order now at DCUniverse.com. #DCUniverse
Read more…Note: The disks I have are in Japanese, without dubbing or subtitles. I only know about twenty or so words of Japanese, although many of those are words that are likely to occur in tokusatsu. The challenge I am setting myself is to see whether I ca
Read more…Invisible Republic Vol. 01
Gabriel Hardman & Corinna Bechko, writers; Gabriel Hardman, artist; Jordan Boyd, colors
Image Comics, 2015
I'm a big fan of Hardman's Image series Kinski, but I somehow missed this one, so I'm catching up. Very different sett
Read more…Bodies
Si Spencer, writer; Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick, Tula Lotay, artists; Lee Loughridge, colorist
Vertigo, 2015
An ambitious eight-part miniseries which spans four time periods, each illustrated by a different artist, united by the
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Things are about to get weird on the DC Universe streaming service.
Doom Patrol premieres Feb. 15, featuring a superhero team that’s one of the oddest in DC Comics’ enormous stable of characters. And it’s on
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Deadly Class, which arrived as an ongoing series on Syfy Jan. 15, is that rare critter: a comics-based TV show that improves on its source material.
These changes were evident in the pilot, which aired online
Read more…Men of Wrath
Jason Aaron, writer; Ron Garney, artist
Image Comics, 2018
Aaron and Garney present a short, brutal picture of a Southern family with a history of violence. Originally published by Marvel's Icon imprint in 2015, this Image edition is bill
Read more…Ice Cream Man Vol. 1: Rainbow Sprinkles
W. Maxwell Prince, writer; Matthew Morazzo, artist; Chris O'Halloran, colorist
Image Comics, 2018
In some ways this series hearkens back to vintage EC and DC comics horror series: an anthology unified by a centr
Read more…I haven't binged the entire thing yet -- we're only at ep 8 - but my wife and I are really enjoying it.
It's not at all what you'd expect. That is to say, there is mayhem, but its relatively restrained and very focused. Instead of Frank going after
Read more…(Continued from Pre-Modern History)
THE MODERN AGE (A.D. 1601 - A.D. 1912)
A.D. 1605:
Character Debuts:
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Batton Lash, of Supernatural Law, previously known as Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, died Saturday, after a bout with brain cancer.
From Bleeding Cool: "Batton Lash, Creator of Supernatural Law, Dies"
From Mark Evanier's News from ME blog:
Read more…EPISODE 79: “Home”
The first warp-five starship, Enterprise (NX-01), was launched in 2151 under the command of Jonathan Archer. This was long before the time of the standard “five-year missions,” but it stayed out for three years before returning to
Read more…This is a discussion of the " Aquaman " movie.Out " SPOILERS at the top of posts that include thhem. I just saw the movie, on this night.
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