Who is this ominous villain?
Is it Sarge?
No.
Is it Rosemary, the telephone operator?
No.
Is it Penry, the mild-mannered janitor?
Could be....
But it isn't!
It's... Jor-El?
Seriously? I have to say that my initial reaction is to be
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Three weeks from today, on the 28th of August, Jack Kirby would have been 100 years old.
I feel terribly presumptuous being so new here, but there does not as yet seem to be a thread acknowledging this rather momentous occasion. So...
Nearly 80 years a
It is being reported that Len Wein has died. Another great one gone.
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The cover to The Death of Stalin graphic novel. Art by Thierry Robin.
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
You wouldn’t think that a graphic novel named The Death of Stalin would be funny, but it is.
In fact, this black
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The Defenders on Netflix teams (from left) Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Danny “Iron Fist” Rand (Finn Jones), Matt “Daredevil” Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Luke Cage (Mike Colter).
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
The Def
Read more…I thought from now to Halloween I'd do brief reviews of horror comics at random. Please feel free to join me.
I'll avoid giving away big twists and endings. This being horror that means I won't always be able to say what the stories' key ideas are.
Read more…Flew in an airplane for the first time last Tuesday morning, and the second time last night. (There are flights between Earth-44 and Earth-J now!). The take-offs and landings were exhilarating (the landings, especially), but the actual flying part wa
Read more…I watched Halloween last night for the first time in probably 30 years. I remembered the basic plot, but some of the details had faded from my memory over the course of the last three decades. (spoilers follow) A lot of horror movie clichés (or what
Read more…As a bit of a departure, I'll be covering a character I doubt many of you have heard of. He called himself the Bat-Man and three were a few comics about him back iin period of the late 1930's-early 1940's. I wonder whatever happened to him, as I thou
Read more…Once again I'm faced with a column topic where I need Legionnaire guidance: The Inhumans.
Sure, I've got all the Silver Age stuff from Fantastic Four and Thor. Sure, I read the series in Amazing Adventures. Sure, I got that 12-issue Inhumans series b
Read more…As part of their celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack "King" Kirby, DC has been publishing a bunch of specials featuring characters he worked on or created for the company. My favorite so far has been the Sandman Overdrive Specia
Read more…From Slate: "How Does a Batman Comic Book Writer Work?"
This is one of a series of podcasts on Slate that focuses on the making of Batman comics. This installment interviews writer Tom King. I haven't listened to it yet myself, but the introduction s
Read more…I was looking at the new costume promos, the Flash in particular:
I'm having real difficulty with the incredible stupidity of this costume design.
We're talking a super speedster with a ton of little crap all over the suit that will cause massive dr
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The Royal Family as they appeared in the comics in the 1960s: From left, Gorgon, Crystal, Black Bolt, Medusa, Karnak and Triton.
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The arrival of The Inhumans on the nation
Read more…Tonight the CW is showing the animated CW Seed series "Vixen" as one two-hour special, starting at 8PM. It also features the Flash and Arrow with those shows' leads providing the voices!
A "Golden Age" Vixen had appeared on "DC's Legends of Tomorro
Read more…Black Hammer Volume 1: Secret Origins
Jeff Lemire: script; Dean Ormston: art; Dave Stewart: colors
Dark Horse Books, 2017
Canadian cartoonist/writer Jeff Lemire first made his name as an indie creator, notably with the Essex County trilogy for Top S
Read more…An old thought surfaced as I was commenting on the "super-telepathy" thread, one i've never written about. To wit: The super-powers that we, as human beings, have imagined for millennia that are preposterous but somehow seem plausible to the point th
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