Looks like a bit more comic book stuff on the panels for Friday nights this year. http://www.arisia.org/sites/default/files/A15_PP_grid.pdf
Read more…Adam West's Batman TV show is FINALLY going to be released on DVD later this year!
http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/01/15/batman-adam-west-dvd-2014/4496717/
-- MSA
Read more…It seems like everybody's warming up by posting suggestions on the Memory Box thread so we might as well launch the real thing- (in my best Kermit the Frog voice) It's the official Cappies Nomination Thread for 2014!
The list of categories will be
Read more…What I will be attempting is to present a possible timeline for the various Doctor Who stories. Where there is a discrepancy, I will give my rationalization for how I would resolve it. This will occasionally involve arbitrarily ignoring portions of o
Read more…Can a comic book character be ruined for all time? Can a character stray so far from their essential nature or commit so heinous a crime, that they can never be used again?
For some fans, the answer is “Yes.” They bitterly complain abo
Read more…PRE-CODE CLASSICS: THE THING VOLUME TWO
PS Artbooks, $59.99
Reprinting Charlton’s The Thing #10-17 (Sep 52-Nov 54)
This book languished in my to-read pile for too long a time; I wish I had gotten to it sooner!
Not that the stories are anything to wri
Read more…THE BORGIAS
Dark Horse Books, $59.99
Writer: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Art: Milo Manara
I love me some Milo Manara artwork.
Not just for the nekkid chicks, either! No sir, I admire his fine line work, his exceptional shading and texture techniques, his pa
Read more…ZORRO: THE COMPLETE DELL PRE-CODE COMICS ADVENTURES
Hermes Press, $60.00
Reprinted from Dell’s Four Color #228, 425, 497, 538, 574, 617, 732
I already have Alex Toth’s Zorro: The Complete Dell Comics Adventures, and if you do too, we may be done here
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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Dec. 11, 2014 -- Comics characters are filling the airwaves, and they’re bringing more than costumes.
Take, for example, the concept of the crossover. That’s comic book terminology for a story that starts in
Read more…COMICS GUIDE FOR DEC. 31, 2014
Titles listed in the Comics Guide come from the weekly list at the Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. website, and are subject to change. The information in the Comics Guide comes not only from Diamond but from solicitatio
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Nov. 27, 2014 -- Archie Comics is experimenting with new books. It’s also experimenting with extra Archies – and extra Veronicas, Bettys, Jugheads and Sabrinas.
Recently, several different Archies have hit pr
Read more…Hey folks! Some of you may have (or soon will) receive an invite from me to "like" the page for the Thundercast - The Thunder Agents Podcast. This is a new podcast where Bill Zanowitz (one of the Comic Book Bears) and I will be going issue by issue t
Read more…I don't know if the readers demanded it but they got it anyway. In the 1970s, Marvel and DC put out a lot of titles, trying to see what would sell. Many weren't around for long like Man-Bat (two issues) and a few lasted out of the decade like The War
In the episode “What They Become,” Cal (Kyle MacLachlan, left) tells his daughter Skye (Chloe Bennet) that her real name is Daisy. (ABC/Kelsey McNeal)
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Bobby “Mockingbird” Morse (Adrianne Palicki, left) is keeping a big secret fro
COMICS GUIDE FOR DEC. 24, 2014
Titles listed in the Comics Guide come from the weekly list at the Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. website, and are subject to change. The information in the Comics Guide comes not only from Diamond but from solicitatio
Read more…ARCHIE COMICS
BLACK HOOD #2
NEW SERIES FROM DARK CIRCLE! “The Bullet’s Kiss, Part 2” The acclaimed crime series continues with another dose of deadly noir by two masters of the genre. When you steal from the underworld, the underworld will come look
I bought Image's C.O.W.L. , first issue #6 , a Done In One palate-cleanser origin story , now I have bought the first TPB , to-day .
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Read more…I recently bought the complete edition of Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday by Jim Lee and Scott Williams. This almost brings my collection of Wildstorm matter (all the matter that matters to me, anyway) to completion.
I've read virtually n
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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Dec. 4, 2014 -- Need a gift for the Nerd or Nerdette in your family, but every store clerk tell you these aren’t the droids you’re looking for? Then shop like Captain Comics, using his handy-dandy Holiday Gif
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
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Nov. 13, 2014 -- If you saw Big Hero 6 and are looking for the Marvel Comics it’s based on, well … you won’t find any. Why not? It’s complicated.
Yes, the movie credits say “Based on the characters published
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