Yes, I'm going to spoil the ending to 'Batman' #24. I have a question to ask about it. Ready?
Not enough? Here's a Baron Break(TM) Spoiler picture:
No? Not enough: OK, more Spoiler warnings:
Whew! That's enough. OK, here's the deal. In the
Read more…Avengers #8 - After Avenger X takes down all of the Avengers save the Wasp, Doom shows up to help out. Story by Mark Waid, art by Jeremy Whitley.
The art's better. However, this story just screamed "let's make the heroes act like idiots to further the
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Wonder Woman, the movie, is shattering box office records like, I dunno, glass ceilings. Which means a lot of new Wonderfans are going to be looking for some supplemental reading.
But where to start? Like
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I figure someone's gotta know.
In Green Lantern/Green Arrow #83, Carol is paralyzed by a Richard-Nixon-looking mutant little girl, Sybil. She remains paralyzed throughout the rest of the O'Neil/Adams run, last appearing in issue #89, the final issue
Read more…Constantine: The Hellblazer Volume 1: Going Down
Ming Doyle, James Tynion IV, writers; Riley Rossmo & others, artists; Ivan Plascencia, colors
DC Comics, 2016
Rogue mage John Constantine gets another DC series, this time with "the Hellblazer" back
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
With the release of The Mummy on June 9, Universal launches its “Dark Universe” – a series of inter-connected movies featuring classic monsters. That’s reason enough to look at these Important Dates in Mummy
Read more…By the end of World War II, it became apparent with the advances in Western technology and the arrival of the Atomic Age that Africa was no longer "the Dark Continent". Its lost cities and hidden realms were now in constant danger of exposure, corrup
Read more…We get the wrap-up to the "Monks Trilogy", with Bill helping the Doctor escape from captivity. The Doctor's manipulation of Bill was somewhat reminiscent of the way the Seventh Doctor would sometimes manipulate Ace.
The Monks were defeated awfully ea
Read more…I've started this thread for issue reviews of comics from the Silver and Bronze Ages that were by published companies other than Marvel and DC. Comics I currently have in mind to write about include issues of Charlton's Blue Beetle (pre-Ditko) and So
Read more…I am a fan of Marvel’s “cosmic” characters but I haven’t been following them for some years now (not since 2004, I reckon). I’ve tried to keep my mind in over the years [including Thunderbolts #100 (2006), the Civil War: The Return one-shot (2007) an
Read more…If you lived in the Marvel Universe during the Silver Age and you wanted to join the Avengers, you had to be a super-hero, or a super-villain who promised, cross your heart, to reform---the Assemblers were take-your-word-for-it sort of guys---then pa
I've never heard of the strip, but the sudden change to an Archie-sort of style after the Spirit adventure wrapped up yesterday is a bit jarring and intriguing.
http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
The proudly quirky Guardians of the Galaxy return for Vol. 2 May 5, doing what they do best: Taking second-tier Marvel Comics characters and making them awesome.
Yes, Star-Lord and the rest will also save the
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Angel Catbird Volume 1
Margaret Atwood, story; Johnnie Christmas, illustrations; Tamra Bonvillain, colors
Dark Horse Books, 2016
Renowned author Margaret Atwood has come to comic books late in her career--but in her Introduction she says she's a lon
Read more…Cable #1 - Cable tracks bad men throughout ancient times. Story by James Robinson, art by Carlos Pacheco.
I doubt I shall ever warm up to Cable. After all, his power has always seemed to be big guns, and that's not something I'm really into. The setu
I've never been to Comic-con and likely never will, but if there was one I would go to, it would be this one, just to get this 2017 convention yearbook!
Bruce Timm cover stolen from Mark Evanier's Newsfromme.com website.
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