May God bless those killed, and those injured, and the other survivors, and the families of the victims.
Read more…In the 1966 season of Satuday-morning kid-vid, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera had accomplished a remarkable feat. In Space Ghost, they had created an original super-hero whose cartoon was running neck-and-neck in the ratings with Filmation’s powerhouse,
Ever since Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, the showrunners have continued to introduce interesting and unique alien races (or “monsters” in the parlance of the show’s fans). Quite often, though, species new to the audience will be introduc
Read more…"Did Someone Say 'Team'-Up?"
Written by Sholly Fisch
Art by Dario Brizuela
Scooby and the gang team up with the Challs to battle the villainous Multi-Man, with help from the Sea Devils, Cave Carson and his pals, the Secret Six and Rip Hunter and hi
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Sure, a lot of movies and TV are based on comics these days. But as a lot of the current genre material demonstrates, that leaves a lot of wiggle room for directors and showrunners.
Michele K. Short/AMC/Sony Pi
Showcase #66, featuring B’wana Beast (DC, Feb. 1967)
“The Birth of B’wana Beast”
Written by Bob Haney? Pencils by Mike Sekowsky. Inks by George Roussos. Cover by Sekowsky and Joe Giella. Edited by George Kashdan.
The setting is a new country in Ea
Read more…I've started a thread on Golden Age comics before. My idea was to review runs or portions of runs, but that turned out to be difficult to do; Golden Age features sometimes changed direction in significant ways, so to get a full overview of a long-run
Read more…It's confirmed: Wolverine is coming back from the dead. So are Jean Grey And Prof. X (although I haven't heard much about the latter lately). I guess Cyclops is the only one who'll stay dead. Figures.
Read more…A secret agent resigns, then wakes up to find himself imprisoned in ‘The Village’ — a bizarre community with a cheery veneer, but an underbelly of mystery and threat. All occupants of The Village have numbers instead of names, with our secret agent f
Read more…If credit for the upheaval about to hit Saturday-morning children’s programming had to be given to any one man, then it would have to go to television executive Fred Silverman.
Fred Silverman would become more well known as the executive who, in th
Read more…BATMAN LEADS AN UNLIKELY TRIO TO SAVE HUMANITY AS WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT AND DC ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE THE ALL-NEW ANIMATED DC UNIVERSE ORIGINAL MOVIE
BATMAN AND HARLEY QUINN ARRIVES ON ULTRA HD BLU-RAY™, BLU-RAY™ DELUXE GIFTSET, BLU-RAY™ AND
This is going to be a timeline of characters who, although fictional, could exist in the real world, at least in theory. there are a few in here that are stretching things a bit. I'm open to arguments against their inclusion if anyone really objects
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Andrew A. Smith
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The Gifted, premiering
Read more…I interviewed cartoonist Mimi Pond about her new book, a coming-of-age story and fictionalized memoir, The Customer Is Always Wrong. It's up at The Beat.
This book and its predecessor, Over Easy, are really terrific -- I highly recommend them.
Read more…Whilst hunting thru the internet looking for comic covers to post relating to the letter "K", I came across this extremely interesting posting about the actual date of Superman's birthday. I'd always assumed (foolishly, it now seems) that Superman wa
Read more…Warner Bros has released the first image of Adrianne Palicki in her WW costume for the TV show:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/129048-first-look-at-adrianne-palicki-as-wonder-woman
I actually think she looks pretty good, except for two th
Read more…I must turn to you once again, Legionnaires, to help me with research. McFarland wants me to update my book on "Journalism in Comics" to the present. It currently leaves off around 2005, when I finished my master's thesis.
A number of things have hap
Read more…(Continued from The Heroic Age, Part Four)
THE HEROIC AGE, PART FIVE (A.D. 1981 - A.D. 1990)
A.D. 1981:
Character Debuts:
(Continued from The Heroic Age, Part Two)
THE HEROIC AGE, PART THREE (A.D. 1961 - A.D. 1970)
A.D. 1961:
Character Debuts:
(Continued from The Heroic Age, Part One)
THE HEROIC AGE, PART TWO (A.D. 1941 - A.D. 1960)
A.D. 1941:
Character Debuts:
