Saga Volume Six
Brian Vaughan (Author), Fiona Staples (Illustrator)
Image Comics, 2016
Dramatic leap forward in time, as the story opens with baby Hazel in kindergarten. She is also narrating, as always, but at this point it almost seems possible s
Read more…COMICS GUIDE FOR OCT 5, 2016
For some reason, I'm buried in PR more than usual this week, and there are lots and lots of comics worthy of comment. The result is that I'm going to have to break up the Comics Guide into more categories and posts than u
Read more…Who were the first black super-heroines at DC and Marvel? My brain says the Vixen for DC and Storm for Marvel, but my brain ain't what it used to be. (Note: I'm talking about in "real" life" here, not in continuity.) Were they the first for their
Read more…Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
If you watched Jessica Jones on Netflix, then you’re familiar with Luke Cage, whose own series drops Sept. 30. But if you look at the character’s old appearances in Marvel Comics, you’ll be in for a few surpris
Read more…The story is adapted from two unproduced teleplays commissioned by Irwin Allen for the third season of the tv show. It’s edited and adapted by Holly Interlandi, but it has more of a first season vibe than a typical third season episode (which may be
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THE ABSOLUTE BEST OF HARVEY HORRORS (HC)
Publisher: PS ARTBOOKS
Art: BOB POWELL, HOWARD NOSTRAND, vari
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ACTION COMICS #964
Written by DAN JURGENS
Art by PATRICK ZIRCHER
Cover by CLAY MANN and SETH MANN
Variant cover by GARY FRANK
32 pg • FC • $2.99 U.S. • RATED T
“WHO IS CLARK KENT?” part 2! Superman comes face to face with Clark Kent, and he w
Read more…Starting with the first volume of Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Disk One:
Baseball Bugs (1945), Directed by I. Freleng.
Bugs plays singlehandedly against the thuggish Gas-House Gorillas. Amusing enough, not an all-time favorite. I always wond
Read more…CIVIL WAR II TIE-INS
There are 11 tie-ins this week, three of them "captains."
CAPTAIN AMERICA SAM WILSON #13
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
Writer: NICK SPENCER
Art/Cover: DANIEL ACUÑA
Captain America B/W Variant: JIM STERANKO
32 PGS. • Rated T • $3.99
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Read more…REVOLUTION
There are four books this week from IDW tied to the "Revolution" crossover:
M.A.S.K.: REVOLUTION #1
Publisher: IDW PUBLISHING
Writer: BRANDON EASTON
Art: TONY VARGAS
Cover: TOMMY LEE EDWARDS
Subscription Variant: DAN SCHOENING
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Read more…Get Jiro! Blood and Sushi
Anthony Bourdain & Joel Rose, writers; Alé Garza, artist; José Villarrubia, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2015
In the first Get Jiro! story Jiro was a sushi chef in a futuristic, dystopian Los Angeles. This prequel tells the s
Read more…VALIANT COMICS FOR SEPT. 28, 2016
The Comics Guide just got too big, so I moved these monsters to their own page.
BLOODSHOT REBORN #17
Publisher: VALIANT COMICS
Written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by MICO SUAYAN
Cover A by TOMAS GIORELLO
Cover B by BUTCH GUIC
Read more…It really is incredible when you think about it, 1500 years, burnt and rolled up and they still find a way to read it.
Read more…ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL (TPB)
Publisher: DC COMICS
Written by STERLING GATES
Art by BENGAL, EMANUELA LUPACCHINO, EMMA VIECELI and others
Cover by CAT STAGGS
144 pg • FC • $16.99 U.S.
In this collection of the six-issue digital-first miniseries bas
Read more…The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Presented by Sonny Liew
Pantheon Books, 2015
Sonny Liew is known as a comics artist, having illustrated The Shadow Hero with Gene Luen Yang, My Faith in Frankie with Mike Carey, and the latest DC Doctor Fate series wit
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
When Daredevil returns to Netflix for its second season March 18, the series will take some liberties with an iconic story. But even comics fans are likely to concede that it’s for the best.
The story in ques
NIGHT OF THE MONSTER MEN
Since almost all of DC's superhero line has been Rebirthed, it seems pointless to single them out every week now. But here's a new crossover that involves three Rebirthed titles. Given that "Monster Men" were what Hugo Strang
Read more…..." I'lll setcha free !!!!!!!!!!! _ Eddie Kendrick , 1970
I intend this as an observations/comments in a humorous manner line , AVOIDING explicit political opinion , regarding the American national elections of this year .
Non-American's' observ
Read more…Lauren German (left) and Tom Ellis star in Lucifer, airing Mondays on Fox. ©2016 Fox Broadcasting Co. Credit: Bettina Strauss/FOX
Lucifer became a major supporting character in the Sandman series in the “Season of Mists” storyline (1991). Copyrigh
REVIEWS: REBIRTH AND BEYOND!
ACTION COMICS #963
Publisher: DC COMICS
Written by DAN JURGENS
Art by PATRICK ZIRCHER
Cover by CLAY MANN and SETH MANN
Variant cover by GARY FRANK
32 pg • FC • $2.99 U.S. • RATED T
“WHO IS CLARK KENT?” part 1!
Look -- dow
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