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Will McPhail
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021
This is New Yorker cartoonist McPhail's first graphic novel. It is evidently semi-autobiographical: young illustrator Nick can't connect with people. The opening scene shows him seeking out a bar: t
Read more…Have you seen the new Suicide Squad movie? What did you think? Here's the place for discussion, with spoilers ahead!
The Old Guard: Tales Through Time Vol. 1
Greg Rucka, writer & creator; Leandro Fernández, art & creator; Daniela Miwa, colors; Jodi Wynne, letters; & others
Image Comics, 2021
A compendium of 12 tales of the immortal Old Guard ranging chronologicall
Read more…It's interesting. I'm sure that most here were like me--aware of Full House, but without it having any sort of major impact on my life. I remember watching a handful of episodes and understanding that it wasn't for me. I'm
Read more…The success of the Iron Man movies, starring Robert Downey Jr., made the Marvel Cinematic Universe possible. (©Marvel Studios 2013)
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Jan. 6, 2022 — As the new year launches, we inherit what is still to me a
Read more…Here are some TV shows I'll probably watch, and some I probably won't. Some will be bumped to 2023, of course. Most are genre, but some aren't. Honestly, it's a hodge-podge of stuff I originally researched for the Tribune column and then abandoned. F
Read more…Here's the press release:
MARVEL’S SECOND ANNUAL X-MEN ELECTION BEGINS ON JANUARY 10
The fate of mutantkind is up to the fans once again!
Vote at marvel.com/xmenvote from January 10 until January 13
Marvel Insiders are eligible to enter the MARVEL I
Read more…I became a fan when she played Sue Ann Nivens, a terrible co-worker, on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Everything she did later was just as good.
Here are 20 great moments covering her entire career.
Read more…Back on the old board we had a discussion about the differences between seasons one and two (the theme music, the actors), what happened to Victor Bergman between seasons, the planet Meta, the paperbacks, the comics, how an explosion powerful enough
Read more…Hickman was best known for his role in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which was a bit before my time. He also made many movies and later became a director and executive.
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Read more…A true legend passes.
From The Independent: "Sidney Poitier Death: First Black Man to Win Best Actor Oscar Dies Aged 94"
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Dec. 30, 2021 — The COVID logjam is finally breaking in movies, so 2022 is going to be a big year at the local multiplex. Here’s a look at some of the big movies I’m excited about, and a few I’m not, in al
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MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT AND SIRIUSXM PREMIERE NEW SCRIPTED PODCAST SERIES ‘MARVEL’S WASTELANDERS: BLACK WIDOW’ ON JANUARY 10
The next chapter of the Marvel’s "Wastelanders" audio epic has arrived! Today, Marvel Entertainment and SiriusXM
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Matt Kindt, story; Willfredo Torres, art; Nayoung Kim & Bill Crabtree, colorists; Nate Piekos, letterer
Dark Horse Books, 2020
Matt Kindt has created a lot of comics with characters based on pulp archetypes, like the spies and secret agents
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Read more…Prisoner: Cell Block H, if you’re unfamiliar with it, was an Australian soap opera set in a women’s prison and ran for 692 episodes between 1979 and 1986. I never watched it myself, not really, but my mom did. She’s deaf, and the show aired before cl
Read more…Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld, left) and Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) are both called Hawkeye on the Disney+ TV show of the same name. (Courtesy Marvel.com)
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Dec. 16, 2021 — Hawkeye may have the title Most
Read more…Super Smash Brother Ultimate is the latest iteration of a game that I first discussed here. To sum up, it's a video game which takes characters from a wide range of other video games and brings them together to fight each other on stages deigned to e
Read more…Didn't have much going on yesterday, so I watched a couple of the original Planet of the Apes movies, and skimmed the others. This prompted me to see if I could work out a coherent timeline for the events of these films. If I make any egregious erro
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