In a sidebar to my December CBG column on good reading for Silver Age fans in 2010, I suggested five collections that I wanted to see in 2011. Amazingly enough, between the time I wrote the column and it was published, TWO of those collections (Sugar
Read more…Archangel
William Gibson & Michael St. John Smith, creators; William Gibson, script; Butch Guice, art
IDW Publishing, 2017
Renowned science fiction writer William Gibson makes his debut in comics with this series. The story revolves around time trave
Read more…Justice League has been hinting at something for several issues. Mainly, a being named Perpetua who created the multiverse before the one we're reading. The next-issue blurb promises "The Other History of the Universe"!
So that raises a lot of questi
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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The geek have inherited the earth. Or at least television.
Once we were the red-haired step-children of American audiences, subsisting on a thin gruel of giant-insect movies, Famous Monsters of Filmlandmagazi
Read more…When I stopped reading comics, towards the end of the 70's, I don't remember anything referred to as a Silver Age and certainly not a Bronze Age. I think there was just Golden Age and modern comics. I may be wrong but that's how I remember it.
Anyw
Read more…Archie #2
Doctor Who: Four Doctors #2
Spider-Verse #4
What'd you buy?
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
It’s going to rain genre movies in 2019. That’s bad for movie critics who only like talky dramas, but great for we popcorn-loving plebes who apparently don’t know any better. There are too many to even list,
Read more…From The Hollywood Reporter: "Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95"
Read more…Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic book lovers e
The Beauty Vol. 1
Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley: story; Jeremy Haun, art; John Rauch, color
Image Comics, 2016
I'm late to the party with this series (fortunately it's available for free download from the library Hoopla service, and is still ongoing).
Read more…For those unfamiliar with My Hero Academia, it's set in a world much like our own, except a couple of generations ago, humans started developing super-powers, or "Quirks". By the present day, about 80% of the human race has a Quirk of one kind, or a
Read more…I wish all of you the a very happy 2018! Best wishes from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada!
Read more…The modern era story of the Marvel Family began in the year 1940, when the wizard Shazam granted great power to young Billy Batson, enabling him to become the super-heroic Captain Marvel.
In imitation of this, Fon-Ti, a rival wizard, granted power
Read more…Releasing in January:
Jan 2
Champions #1 - (yet another) restart; issue #27 of the previous volume came out earlier this month. Same writer (Jim Zub), new artist (Steven Cummings).
Conan the Barbarian #1 - return of one of Marvel's all time success
Read more…Andrew A. Smith
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Young Justice, an animated show that ran on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2013, is returning for a third season on the DC Universe streaming service Jan. 4. The series is modeled on the Teen Titans, but it’s a Te
Read more…Wolf Moon
Cullen Bunn, writer; Jeremy Haun, artist; Lee Loughridge, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2015
At this point writer Cullen Bunn had established himself as a horror story teller with The Damned and The Sixth Gun for Oni Press, and his Dark Horse seri
Read more…I have a particular group in mind for this year’s Christmas entry to my Deck Log. Come to think of it, though, it’s probably a pretty large group. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this one touches, or has touched, all of you.
If you remember the
Read more…I've been away from the keyboard, so I didn't note this eariler, but we lost Penny Marshall of Laverne & Shirley fame.
From CNN: "Penny Marshall, Co-star of 'Laverne & Shirley' and Director of 'A League of Their Own,' Dead at 75"
Earlier this year, I
Read more…I'm a little surprised this thread didn't carry over from the new old board (you can find it here), but the other night I ran across one of my favorites: the episode of Hill Street Blues in which Officer Joe Coffey is killed.
I've been away from the keyboard, so I am remiss in posting this, but The Legion of "Hey, It's That Guy!" Character Actors lost another one: Donald Moffat, who succumbed to complications from a stroke.
From The New York Times: "Donald Moffat, 87, a T
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