I've had the Superman and Shazam! companion volumes since childhood, but this one didn't come my way. But I picked up a Taiwanese copy at a sale on Saturday and I thought I'd blog the stories.
Although I only learned to read in the 70s, most of my e
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
The season premiere of The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow on Oct. 13 introduced the Justice Society of America. If you said, “Who?” – well, you’re in for a treat.
Superhero teams are a commonplace today, with Aveng
Read more…With no Doctor Who on television from Christmas day last year until Christmas day this year, 2016 was going to be my “Year of the Eighth Doctor.” But I finished The Eighth Doctor Adventures quite some time ago, and after that I took a nearly six mont
Read more…I’d had a hard day at work and my divorce was pending. It was raining cows and elephants as I trudged down the street to my new home.
When I got inside at last I slumped in my recliner and poured myself a drink. But before I even got to it I noticed
Read more…The below is a timeline I made up to try to reconcile all of the movies in the various Universal "classic horror" collections that I own. I ended up folidng in a bunch of Abbott and Costello movies, plus Young Frankenstein, just for fun. Enjoy!
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Read more…Paper Girls Vol. 1
Brian K. Vaughan, writer; Cliff Chiang, artist; Matt Wilson, colorist
Image Comics, 2016
It's 1988, so newspapers and neighborhood delivery are still a thing. Delivery in this particular neighborhood is handled by paper girls in
Read more…Due to recent health issues, I'm going to be offline for a little while. I hope to be back in a couple of weeks.
Read more…Low Vol. 2: Before the Dawn Burns Us
Rick Remender, writer; Greg Tocchini, artist; Dave McCaig, colorist
Image Comics, 2015
Only four issues in this second collection, but they still cover a lot of ground. No doubt it helps that the major world
Read more…I am a fan of both franchises, but I wasn’t really looking forward to this series because I didn’t see how they could make the timelines work. I bought issue #1 primarily to find out how they did, and was quite pleased to discover the clever way they
Read more…FIVE BOOKS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #1
Publisher: DC COMICS
Writers: GERARD WAY, JON RIVERA
Art/Cover: MICHAEL AVON OEMING
Variant cover: MATT WAGNER
Variant cover: BILL SIENKIEWIC
40 pg • FC • $3.99 U.S. • MATURE READER
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
There are going to be a lot of new faces on the second season of Supergirl, which premiered Oct. 10 on its new network, The CW. One of those faces could lead to a whole “Legion” of more.
That face belongs to
Read more…Watched the first couple of episodes of Luke Cage last night and really enjoyed it. Some initial observations:
This week's Guide will be a bit truncated. It's been a rough week.
FIVE BOOKS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT
THE CLONE CONSPIRACY #1 (OF 5)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
Written by DAN SLOTT
Art by JIM CHEUNG & RON FRENZ
Cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO
Variant Cov
Read more…Awhile back I brought up this question in another thread, to no reaction. I remembered being puzzled by this when the comics were new. In the indicia of all the Marvel books up until 1968 various publishing companies were listed instead of a single o
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Arrow and Flash have returned at The CW for seasons 5 and 3, respectively. Both are covering familiar ground, but cleverly enough that it feels new.
(Spoilers ahoy, so back out now if you must.)
The season p
Read more…MIND MGMT Volume Six: The Immortals
Created, written, & illustrated by Matt Kindt
Dark Horse Books, 2016
The final chapter of MIND MGMT: good triumphs over evil. Love conquers hate. Friendship beats enmity. Remembering eclipses forgetfulness. All t
Read more…COMICS GUIDE FOR OCT 5, 2016 (cont'd)
MORE PRESS RELEASES
A&A: THE ADVENTURES OF ARCHER AND ARMSTRONG #8
Written by RAFER ROBERTS
Art by MIKE NORTON with DAVID LAFUENTE
Cover A by KANO
Cover B by DAVID LAFUENTE
Variant Cover by BRIAN LEVEL
Variant C
Read more…One based on a famous Spider-Man and the other on the Avengers cover when the Vision showed up.
http://www.kenzerco.com/newsdesk_info.php?newsdesk_id=295
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