Doctor Who: 'The Visitation'
"Doctor Who is spending more time figuring out how to get more captures and escapes into its format than it is on character-based storytelling. This while simultaneously trying to act more like a soap and have ch
Here is my spoiler-free review:
http://www.rpsteeves.com/2012/07/wrapped-up-like-movie-review-dark.html
What did you think?
Read more…Since it's moved off the home page and, being a blog thread, can't be bumped, I thought I'd add this post to remind everyone about Commander Benson's Silver Age Challenge DC Edition II quiz, which has about a week left to run. The thread is here.
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Read more…I was just thinking... DC has announced their new 52 third wave for the fall, including the return of Amethyst. When they get to the fourth wave, next winter, I think that a new Isis series would be pretty cool. She was a great character in JSA and
Read more…Back in the early 1960s, when Daredevil was introduced, it seemed like a shocking premise... a blind superhero...albet, one with a radar sense.
Initially, DD was garbed in black and yellow... and the costume looked and felt like a fighter's sweats...
From DC Entertainment
July 16, 2012
DC Entertainment Graphic Novel 'Batman: Earth One' Now Available on Apple's iBookstore
BURBANK, Calif., July 18, 2012 – DC Entertainment, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company and home to iconic brands DC Comics,
Read more…From Oni Press
July 19, 2012
Writer/Artist: Ted Naifeh
Format: Standard, Full Color
Page Count: 32
Price: $3.99
Genre: Horror / Fantasy
Age Rating: All Ages
UPC: 649856 00034 7 00411
Diamond Code: MAY121231
Release Date: Ju
From Image Comics
July 19, 2012
THE MASKS COME OFF IN HALLOWEEN EVE
New Amy Reeder one-shot from Image Comics in October
Berkeley, CA - July 19, 2012 — Working late at the Halloween Land super-store can get pretty soul-numbing, so Eve thought she wa
From Valiant Comics
July 19, 2012
MICO SUAYAN and MATTHEW CLARK Escape To HARBINGER #6
This November, the rise of the renegades begins in Harbinger #6 – the FIRST ISSUE of an all-new arc for the most daring series in comics by New York Times best
Read more…Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man
Fantagraphics Books, $28.99
By Carl Barks (w/a)
If you're not buying the Carl Barks library, you should be.
I know everyone reading this has heard all their lives how good Carl Barks was, and so have
Read more…In more ways than was intended. My column in this month's print issue had some production problems, but that doesn't affect you guys, who benefit by being able to read it right away on-line!
And you'll want to do that, so you'll be able to impress yo
Read more…Here's an amusing post on why Marvel has been more successful than DC in the movie department.
Read more…Beyond the whole "secret identity" thing which some members shared while others didn't, what did the Silver Age JLA heroes keep to themselves?
Superman: besides Batman who knew all this stuff, the Man of Steel didn't tell the team about his cousin an
Read more…From The Hollywood Reporter: " 'Encyclopedia Brown' Creator Donald Sobol Dies"
Even before I discovered comic books, the "Encyclopedia Brown" series fed my love of reading. Before I discovered Ed McBain and the 87th Precinct police procedurals, I fou
Read more…I don’t always read solicitations as closely as I should. Sometimes, that practice comes back to bite me in the arse. Other times, I am pleasantly surprised, quite pleasantly surprised, indeed. When I first saw the solicitation for Doug Wildey’s Rio:
Read more…From IDW Publishing
July 13, 2012
San Diego, CA (July 13, 2012) – Before MAD Magazinewas read in nearly every household, there was Mad Comics. Written an
While waiting for “Kinda” and “Snakedance” to be released next month, I’ve decided to kill the time by watching select stories a second time. (I’m still quite new to the world of Doctor Who, you know, and have seen very few of the stories more than o
Read more…From IDW Publishing
July 13, 2012
San Diego, CA (July 13, 2012) – IDW Publishing and Marvel Comics present their fourth
From IDW Publishing
July 14, 2012
San Diego, CA (July 13, 2012) – XENOZOIC TALES byMark Schultz is a modern ma