Reviews for books shipping Jan. 4, 2017, including:
• THE FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM #1
• JUSTICE LEAGUE #12
• JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: THE ATOM REBIRTH #1
• JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD #3
• LIFE & ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS ILLUSTRATED BY E
Read more…This has always been one of my favorite FF covers and I recently found a library with an overhead scanner so I could scan the oversized treasury editions. Anyone know who drew this?
I was watching the classic tear jerker "An Affair to Remember" with my wife during the recent Holiday Season! The one with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Anyway I noticed at least two Superman referrences in this movie! One of the side characters is
Read more…Over the past couple weeks, while on break from school, I've thought multiple times as I've looked on the stack of unread books on the shelf in office, the piles on my nightstand and next to my bed, and the digital downloads that have been on my iPad
Read more…This is the last Comics Guide for now.
I like doing the Comics Guide, as I feel as if I'm keeping a Comics Buyer's Guide tradition alive, plus it keeps me up to date on comics I don't read. And it's fun! But I feel that lately the cost/benefit ratio
Read more…From the looks of todays strip at least some of the characters from the Lil' Abner strip are showing up in Dick Tracy. I am curious to see how Daisy Mae would look drawn in this style.
Read more…OK, so having read #0, I see several plot threads:
1)Jennifer is in court, defending the Jester. I wonder what the legal complications would be of a lawyer acting as an amateur law enforcer.
2)Rhodey is keeping the peace in Latveria. I don't know
Read more…Saw this episode last night. It was a pretty funny pastiche of American super-heroes. I liked Justin Chatwin and Charity Wakefield playing the "Clark Kent/superman" and "Lois Lane" roles, and their interaction with Peter Capaldi's Doctor, who was al
Read more…With the coming of another Silver Surfer title this week, I have to ask the question: Why? Do we consider the Sentinel of the Starways a relevant character or the product of a by gone age? Can he be a believable protagonist or simply Marvel's most ha
Read more…Carrie Frances Fisher - October 21, 1956 - December 27, 2016
Princess Leia is now one with the Force.
Read more…Nailbiter Volume 2: Bloody Hands
Joshua Williamson (Writer), Mike Henderson (Artist), Adam Guzowski (Colourist), John J. Hill (Letterer)
Image Comics, 2015
Slightly unexpected second installment in the series. There are definitely some significant
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
They’re super! They’re weird! They’re heroes!
They’re Super Weird Heroes, which is the title of the latest collection from comics archivist/historian Craig Yoe ($39.99, Yoe Books/IDW). Yoe, who has written a
Read more…The Fuse Vol. 2: Gridlock
Antony Johnston (Goodreads Author), Justin Greenwood (Illustrator)
Image Comics, 2015
The collection title refers to "Gridlocking:" maglev-bike races across the Fuse’s vast solar arrays, an illegal activity which has nonet
Read more…AFTER LAND VOL 1 (of 3, GN)
Publisher: ALTERNATIVE COMICS
Writer/Art/Cover: CHRIS TAYLOR
SRP: $19.99
A science-fiction soap opera featuring the exploits of a no-nonsense detective named Nono, who is the composite of two females named Jo and Do. Jo ha
Read more…I've been scanning these into my computer as a Christmas gift for Luke. Roy Thomas, Len Wien and Marv Wolfman were the writers and I've often thought it one of the best break up stories. There was a slow and deliberate build up with the loss of R
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The main cast members of Suicide Squad include (from left) Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Killer Croc), Karen Fukuhara (Kitana), Joel Kinnaman (Rick Flag), Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang) and Will Smith (Deadshot). Photo
DC Comics created an official logo for the 75th anniversary of Wonder Woman. Copyright DC Entertainment Inc.
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
It’s Wonder Woman’s 75th anniversary, and lots of people are celebrating. The United Nations, on t
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