Andrew A. Smith
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As it hits the mid-point of its run, Marvel’s Inhumans is obviously not as bad as critics made it out to be. But it does have a conceptual problem going back to its comic book roots, and it remains to be seen wh
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When Marvel’s The Punisher drops at Netflix Nov. 17, rest assured that what’s on screen will be the best of the many versions of Frank Castle that have appeared in the comics.
Frank (né Francis Castiglione) at h
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Justice League premieres Nov. 17! Here are 20 Fun Facts to Know and Tell about DC Comics’ premier super-team:
1. The Justice League of America was created in 1960, but was based on the Justice Society of Am
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Marvel Legacy #1 features a wraparound cover with most of Marvel’s major characters. Variants have a lenticular cover, the sort of expensive gimmick that some say is part of Marvel’s sales problem.
Andrew A. Smi
Read more…Hollywood Reporter says he's been replaced by C.B. Cebulski. You know, that guy that did that thing.
Read more…This year I thought I'd celebrate Halloween by posting a daily comics story. Please feel free to make any contribution to the thread that fits. Reviews of comics, books, movies are all fine.
Any story posted must be in the public domain. If you post
Read more…So, DC has found itself in a controversy thanks to the situation with Eddie Berganza and the controversy flaring up in the wake of Shelly Bond being let go.
What does this board think?
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Archie Comics for February
PREVIEWS
Medisin Vol. 2: In the Grip of Malady
Mighty Crusaders #1
Bloodshot: Salvation #4
Dollface Vol. 3: Welcome to New Orleans!
Death of Love Vol. 1
PRESS RELEASES
Brutal Sci-Fi series 'Vs' arrives in Fe
Read more…Earlier this week, Tracy and I started watching Mad About You… for the third time. This is Tracy’s choice for me having made her watch 325 episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. We first started watching it early in the 2Ks. I had never even heard o
Read more…Wow. From Page Six:
Read more…“Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot is continuing to battle accused Hollywood sexual harasser Brett Ratner by refusing to sign for a superhero sequel unless the movie-maker is completely killed from the franchise.
A Hollywood source t
At the request of my pal, Jeff of Earth-J, who is hosting a thread on the Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the mid-1960's, I'm re-running my 2008 seven-part series on Saturday-morning super-hero cartoons from that era. That gives me a chance to polish it an
They can’t all be gems.
Between the vast imagination of Hanna-Barbera and the twin super-hero mines of DC and Marvel, there were hit shows enough to go around. CBS, thanks to Fred Silverman’s instincts and ambition, had most of them, but a few nug
Read more…Given that Peter Capaldi's Doctor is about to give way to that of Jodie Whittaker, I thought it might be interesting and useful to go over the Doctor's regenerations over the years, at least as I understand them.
1)The Doctor (William Hartnell)
In the
Read more…Picked this book up at the Barnes & Noble over on the Sunrise yesterday. It's got what purports to be all of our Howard's fiction in the order that he wrote it. Anyhow, we shall see.
Read more…In television, as in all other fields of endeavour, relative status is seldom above dispute. However, one of those rare exceptions has to be the studio created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who became the dominant producers of television anim
Apparently, Brian Michael Bendis has signed with DC Comics. So, which DC characters would you like to see him getting their "voices" wrong working on?
The original Ghost Busters were a team of paranormal detectives, which operated for a few years beginning in 1975. The agency was comprised of Jacob "Jake" Kong Sr, Edward "Eddie" Spencer Sr., and a sentient gorilla who went by the name "Tracy".
Read more…This is not a review but a discussion. I hosted a Kamandi discussion once before, but enough time has passed that another one is in order. The Kamandi Omnibus reprints issues #1-20 (the first of two reprinting Kirby’s entire run) and is a great value
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Paul Cornell, script; Tony Parker, art; Lovern Kindzierski, colors
Dark Horse Books, 2016
Compiles Cornell and Parker's six issue miniseries about the rock band Motherfather that uses Satanism as a marketing ploy...or so they think.
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