We've never discussed this show? It seems up our alley.
It ends Sunday (9/17/17), so it's a little late to get into it. But it's based on books written by Guillermo del Toro, the guy who directed Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth and is well thought of in
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THE HEROIC AGE, PART ONE (A.D. 1913 - A.D. 1940)
A.D. 1913:
Character Debuts:
Events:
Secret Empire 0 pulls together threads from several different books which constitute the prologue. They are conveniently laid out here:
I only read the Steve Rogers issue and didn’t really feel like I needed to read the rest to
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DC Entertainment released a logo reflecting Harley Quinn’s takeover of Batman Day.
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Can it really be 25 years since Harley Quinn first entered the pop culture lexicon? Well, it’s
Read more…The "How Did You Get Into Comics?" thread made me think of a question I heard on a podcast earlier.
Who was the artist that you first recognized without having to look at the credits? You could recognize them by looking at their work; it was that vis
Read more…Thor and Wonder Woman are the greatest of comics' mythological heroes, but they were a surprisingly common type in the Golden Age. I thought it might be interesting to put together a list. I'll add characters as they're suggested.
I'm including Brot
Read more…Stanton was always one of my favorites. From Kelly's Heroes to Alien, he always elevated the material.
Read more…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.
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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).
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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
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