Snotgirl Vol.1 - Green Hair Don't Care
Bryan Lee O'Malley, writer; Leslie Hung, artist
Image Comics, 2017
Snotgirl is Lottie Person, a glamorous fashion blogger--except for the extreme allergies she keeps secret (which explains the snot). So it's
Read more…Just wondering, these comics I can afford, but no comic shop around me carries them and the response when I asked about them at Newburry was sort of lukewarm.
Read more…Story. IMO, a dumb thing for him to do. Even setting aside the politics of it, these kinds of things are always spotted by someone.
Read more…I love to draw. Specifically I love to draw my favourite silver-age covers. I recreate them, drawing them at approximately double the size of the originals (that's A3, or 16.5" by 11.7" for those are interested in that sort of detail). I have no pa
Read more…We begin in 1895, when May Reilly, herself an ancestor of Peter Parker, used her advanced inventing skills to become the "science hero" Lady Spider. There were other spider-themed crimefighters during the early Twentieth Century, including the Spider
Read more…Doom Coalition is, as of this writing, the most recent of the Eighth Doctor’s adventures yet revealed. It immediately follows Dark Eyes and, like Dark Eyes, is a sweeping 16-episode saga told in four parts. I’m always so eager to listen to these that
Read more…Good lord, it's Thursday already! Time to pop out the Captain's Comments for March 22, 2017, while they're still timely! This week's offerings:
• ACTION COMICS #976
• ANNO DRACULA #1
• ARCLIGHT
• BLACK HAMMER #7
• BLOODSHOT REBORN #0
• BRUTAL NATUR
Read more…A thread in the Mr. Silver Age thread (RIGHT HERE) about Lana Lang's occasional little brother reminded me once of something I read about adventure heroes, by necessity, not having much in the way of family. You can't go running off to fight evil in
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
From Batista’s Cuba to modern Florida. From street gangs to dirty cops. From Miami’s upscale neighborhoods to its dirtiest back alleys. From seedy bars to AA meetings.
All those spans describe Dangerous Ends,
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
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
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?
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
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"
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