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Just saw this with The Lad today, and it's as fun as the trailers suggested it would be. I'll need to buy this one, because I know that I missed way too many jokes.
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Read more…The Sheriff of Babylon, Volume 1: Bang. Bang. Bang.
Tom King (Writer); Mitch Gerads (Artist)
Vertigo Comics, 2016
The setting is Baghdad, 2004; the story begins ten months after the fall of Baghdad. Saddam Hussein is gone, and American occupying fo
Read more…Reviews for books shipping Feb. 15, 2017.
Sadly, I was assigned much overtime this week, so I don't have time for capital-R reviews -- I didn't even have time to read very much. But we can still be friends, right? We can talk. It's not like I'm just
Read more…Just something that popped into my head this morning: how did MOgo patrol his sector of space? Presumably he was locked in orbit around a star so he couldn't just move around willy-nilly. Did he create constructs to do it for him? Was this question e
Read more…Clean Room Vol 1: Immaculate Conception
Gail Simone (Writer), John Davis-Hunt (Artist), Quinton Winter (Colourist)
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Clean Room is centered around a self-help movement/cult run by a horror fiction writer named Astrid Mueller. The
Read more…Reviews for books shipping Feb. 8, 2017, including:
• ALL STAR BATMAN #7
• BLACK HISTORY IN ITS OWN WORDS
• DIVINITY III: SHADOWMAN & THE BATTLE OF NEW STALINGRAD #1
• EARTH 2: SOCIETY #21
• EMPOWERED AND THE SOLDIER OF LOVE #1
• HAL JORDAN AND THE
Read more…Today's issue of New Super-Man, in addition to featuring exciting adventures with the Super-Man, Bat-Man and Wonder-Woman of China, ends with the return of a character first seen about eighty years ago on the cover of Detective Comics #1 (March 1937
Read more…The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Vivek J. Tiwary, writer; Andrew C. Robinson, illustrations; Kyle Baker, illustrations.
M Press, 2013
Captain Comics Review gave extensive coverage of this book in November, 2016. I finally got around to rea
Read more…I haven’t thrown any crackpot interpretations of comic book continuity out there in a while, so I guess it’s time to rectify that state of affairs.
I’m enjoying Nick Spencer’s Captain America, but I’m having a hard time wrapping my mind around the ch
Read more…A friend invited me to the NY premiere of the new DC animated movie, Justice League Dark, last night. I haven’t seen many of the new DC direct-to-video movies -- just Batman vs Robin and I think the first one in the series, Justice League: War -- but
Read more…Unfollow Vol. 1: 140 Characters
Rob Williams, writer; Mike Dowling, R.M. Guéra, artists; Quinton Winter, Giulia Brusco, colorists
Vertigo Comics, 2016
Unfollow is based on a brilliant topical premise: a social media mogul named Larry Ferrell who ha
Read more…Ben Affleck is out as director of the Batman movie: "Ben Affleck pulls out of directing solo 'Batman' movie"
It's described as a mutual decision, but the bad reviews and box office for his gangster movie Live by Night couldn't have helped his standin
Read more…They just started it and are giving it a trial run. The first episodes was nice.
http://majorspoilers.com/2017/02/02/legion-clubhouse-001-darn-kids/
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
The m
Read more…Discuss all things music here! If you're stuck in 1997 like me, the new Third Eye Blind cd came out today. It's available for download on Amazon.com for $3.99. http://www.amazon.com/Ursa-Major/dp/B002LFRXFC/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk?ie=UTF8&qid=1250637570
Read more…Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
by Tom Hart
St. Martin's Press, 2016
Tom Hart's daughter Rosalie died suddenly of Sudden Unexplained Death In Childhood (SUDC) just before her second birthday. This memoir is his attempt to honestly chronicle the
Read more…Reviews for books shipping Feb. 1, 2017, including:
• A&A: THE ADVENTURES OF ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #12
• AQUAMAN #16
• ASSASSIN'S CREED: UPRISING #1
• BATMAN #16
• FAITH #8
• THE FLINTSTONES #8
• GREEN LANTERN #16
• JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS #4
• JUDGE DR
Read more…I'm taking a class and we have to come up with designs. I think comic book covers would be too complicated for a beginner class, but it might be a fun challenge just to come up with some design tries.
Read more…Roche Limit: Vol. 1
Michael Moreci (Writer), Vic Malhotra (Illustrations)
Image Comics, 2015
Well, it was bound to happen eventually: an Image series that is almost a complete dud. It's built on an intriguing sci-fi concept. Roche Limit is a colony
Read more…Comics artist Dan Spiegle, whose works include Crossfire, Blackhawk, and a raft of titles for Dell and Gold Key, passed away Saturday. Here's an overview of his career at Wikipedia: Dan Spiegle
Here's a tribute from longtime collaborator and friend M
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