Neal Adams left a great cliffhanger for Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner to resolve. Both of them stepped up, Conner with a great splash of Kamandi falling to his death on the splash, and Palmiotti (I assume) providing the scenario by which he survi
Read more…We Stand On Guard
Brian K. Vaughan, writer; Steve Skroce, artist; Matt Hollingsworth, colorist; Fonografiks, lettering & design.
Image Comics, 2016
We Stand On Guard is set 100 years in our future, and imagines a time when water is such a precious r
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If you don’t like Future Quest, you just don’t like comics.
I’ve said that a dozen times in various online venues, because it’s true. This series combines a wide variety of former Saturday morning cartoon sta
Read more…While I was sick a couple weeks ago, I binged seasons 3 and 4 of The Americans. Season 5 begins tonight. I love this show!
Does anyone else watch this?
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Trailers for Ghost in the Shell, which premieres March 31, have been out for a while – and while Scarlett Johansson looks awesome, they’re a bit hard to decipher. Let’s demystify Ghost with a quick Q&A:
Q: Si
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WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT HONORS THE ICONIC CHARACTER WITH THE RE-RELEASE OF ONE OF THE BEST REVIEWED ANIMATED FILMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE ORIGINAL MOVIES
WONDER WOMAN: COMMEMORATIVE EDITION ON DIGITAL HD MAY 2, 2017 AND BLU-RAY
Just a heads up that on Thursday March 23, TCM is showing Gojira at 8PM EST. I'm assuming that this is the original Japanese cut (subtitled hopefully) as there was no mention of Raymond Burr in the credits!
Read more…Anyone remember this show? I recently completed a two-year TV viewing project (Prisoner: Cell Block H) which put me in the mood for a contemporaneous show. Whereas I was somewhat familiar with P:CBH, having watched many episodes with no volume (my de
Read more…Great news -- the San Diego Comic-Con is opening a permanent comics museum.
Details here, from the San Diego Union-Tribune: "Comic-Con Museum to open in Balboa Park"
Read more…Surprised no one has started a thread on this, since I know there are Hellblazer fans around here. Of course this version of John Constantine is probably intended to be based on the New 52 version: I didn't see a Vertigo logo in the credits, just a D
This isn't real -- Time hasn't yet announced its Person of the Year -- but it might as well be:
I came across this OGN , combining comics pages with pages of handwritten text , in a thrift shop .
It is Brown's discussion of " Prostitution and Religious Obedience in the Bible " , dramatizing various Torah and New Testament passages and - citin
Read more…By the start of the Silver Age, Mort Weisinger had complete control of the Superman family of magazines, and he was stuck with a nigh-invincible hero who could juggle planets, outrace comets, and shrug off atomic blasts. Fortunately, he had also inh
Thought I'd put this up just in case anyone wants to talk about the movie. The spoiler flag is there, so feel free to talk openly!
Read more…The Twilight Children
Gilbert Hernandez, writer; Darwyn Cooke, artist & letterer; Dave Stewart, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Gilbert Hernandez and Darwyn Cooke: an unlikely pairing, or a dream team, depending on your perspective. I vote for "drea
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Iron Fist stars (from left) Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing, Finn Jones as Danny Rand and Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple.
By Andrew A. Smith
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Some comic book characters, like Superman and Spider-Man, seemed f
Read more…Another great one has died. Particular favorites of mine were his illustrations for The Stand:
and for one of the Simpsons Halloween comics:
I have three hardcover volumes of Adam Strange Archives (Gardner Fox, Carmine Infantino, Mike Sekowsky, Murphy Anderson, et al) for sale. (Volumes 2 & 3 are still in their original shrink-wrap.) These volumes reprint Showcase #17-19, Mystery in Space
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