I'm planning this one (plus upcoming projects for Detective and Sensation Comics) to be fairly brief. In this project, I'll be covering the Superman stories from Action Comics #1-12. If someone would care to pick it up from then, please feel free.
Read more…I was sorting through my books and came across this one. James Blish did all the original adaptations of the episodes and wrote this one. Seems it would be good for a comic and I don't know all of the ones they did adapt.
Read more…This month's Previews has The Falcon #1 solicited for October in Marvel's post-Secret Empire books. I am saddened but not surprised. I knew that Sam Wilson's run as "THE" Captain America was limited, Marvel knew it was limited and if Sam was real, he
Read more…With the Netflix series scheduled to drop Aug. 18, I'll be writing about its comics counterparts. What are your favorite issues, themes, stories, characters or memories of Defenders? I may use 'em in a column!
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Charlize Theron stars in Atomic Blonde, loosely based on the graphic novel The Coldest City.
By Andrew A. Smith
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All the big news from Comic-Con International: San Diego in the last few weeks has drowned o
Read more…It seems to me that Commissioner Gordon and Perry White ought to have figured out that Bruce Wayne is Batman (Gordon) and Clark Kent is Superman (White).
Why?
Because they're both intelligent people with a great deal of experience in professions
Read more…It’s summertime, and a half-century ago, if you were a DC fan, it meant the arrival of the annual team-up between the Justice League and the Justice Society. In the spirit of those fondly remembered sagas, I’ve dedicated this year’s quiz to Earth-Tw
I thought it might be interesting to put together a list of features that started in the back pages of a title, and graduated to the lead slot, or the lead slot in another title. I'll add to the list any suggestions.
I'm counting features as eligibl
Read more…From Mashable: "Zack Snyder's future at Warner Bros.' DC movies: Limited at best, dunzo at worst"
Read more…While the Snyders' phasing out may not come entirely as a surprise, it's sure to send a shockwave through DC fandom, which fiercely supported Snyders'
We lost a legend today: June Foray, the voice of Rocky and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle, Granny and Witch Hazel from Looney Tunes, Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and many, many more films and TV shows. Sept. 18 would have be
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Catching the Comic-Con crowd by surprise, producers of FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY unveiled the first look at footage from CW Seed’s newest, animated DC Super Hero series, the first Super Hero show to feature a gay character in a title role. The reel
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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Do you want to know the top five reveals from the San Diego Comic-Con? How about the top 10? How about AS MANY AS I CAN FIT IN THIS COLUMN? That’s what I thought. (Note: Release dates subject to change.)
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Read more…Dark Night: A True Batman Story
Paul Dini, writer; Eduardo Risso, artist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Writer Paul Dini had a dream job during the 1990s: scripting the hugely popular Batman: The Animated Series and Tiny Toon Adventures. There was sufficient
Read more…Dark Days: The Forge came out this week, and considering it's the Next Big DC Thing, I assume some of us are reading it. It brings a lot of older DC concepts back, an starts exploring some new ones, as well. And it seems wholly differentiated from th
Read more…Day 2: Friday, 7/21: Day 3: Saturday, 7/22: Day 4: Sunday, 7/23:
I don't know if I need to say this -- y'all probably know -- but I'm putting the information officially released from San Diego on the Facebook page. Go there to comment, or c
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Most movie, TV and comics companies are keeping their powder dry for Nerd Christmas, otherwise known as Comic-Con International: San Diego (July 20-23). But Archie Comics has anticipated the show with a numbe
Read more…On another thread, my pal Dave Blanchard wrote:
>Although I've been around here for a good long while, I'm one of those who were "imported" into this Forum following the implosion of Mr. Age's old CBGxtra Forum.
Personally, the threads I read more o
Read more…We just finished watching the original Twin Peaks, for the first time, last night.
This is how it ends?
And people say Lost had a screwy finale.
This was more like The Prisoner.
Good luck figuring it out!
I enjoyed the ride, but I’m unsure of the des
Read more…War comics legend Sam Glanzman, best known for the "U.S.S. Stevens," died today. His passing was announced on Facebook.
Read more…It is my sad duty to inform you all that on Wednesday, July 12th, at 2:30am, Sam Glanzman passed away. No other information is ava
