Story Another talented creator gone. Seems like a lot this year.
Read more…Philip Baker Hall, a man with a perpetual hangdog countenance, dies June 12 at 90.
From the New York Post: "Philip Baker Hall, ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Seinfeld’ star, dead at 90"
Read more…Stray Dogs
Tony Fleecs, writer; Trish Forstner, artist; Brad Simpson, colorist; Tone Rodriguez, layouts
Image Comics, 2021
At the outset, this is a story about a group of talking stray dogs. They are Disney-cute, completely devoted to their master, a
Read more…Busy character actor Bo Hopkins, who played a tough-guy Southern dude in numerous TV shows and movies over a career that spanned five decades, dies of a heart attack.
From The Hollywood Reporter: "Bo Hopkins, ‘Wild Bunch’ and ‘American Graffiti’ Acto
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ALICE EVER AFTER #3
ANGEL #6
FAITHLESS III #5
GRIM #2
HOUSE OF SLAUGHTER VOL 1 TPB
POWER RANGERS #20
DARK HORSE COMICS
BLACK HAMMER VOL 6: REBORN PART II
Read more…Over on the Back Issue Facebook group, there is some contention that Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's groundbreaking and influential Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) was originally intended to be an early Elseworlds story with no consequences in the reg
Read more…The fan speculation has already begun, based on the image in the article. I've heard speculation so far that he'll be a new version of the Celestial Toymaker or "Doctor Who" from the movies,
I'd lay a shade of odds on it being the Toymaker
Read more…Story Another one of those actors that was never a headliner, but was always in all sorts of stuff.
Read more…In another thread, Jeff of Earth-J expressed interest in Gwandanaland's extensive collections of Golden Age Blue Beetle. Naturally, my first thought was, "is it comprehensive?" Because I am a very damaged person.
So I decided to investigate. I had do
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BOOM! STUDIOS
DUNE THE WATERS OF KANLY #2
FIREFLY: RETURN TO EARTH THAT WAS VOL 3 HC
MIGHTY MORPHIN #20
ORCS: THE CURSE #1 (OF 4)
DARK
Read more…Snow Angels
Jeff Lemire, writer; Jock, artist & cover
Comixology Originals, 2021
Lemire and Jock told this story in the form of two Seasons, totaling almost 250 pages. It takes place in a stark, frozen dystopia, opening with a family skating down an
Read more…Superman robots seemed to be common knowledge during the Silver Age, or at least enough people knew about them for their existence not to be a secret.
However, what about his other robots? I know he had a Clark Kent robot or two, and I'm guessing h
Read more…ELVIRA IN HORRORLAND #1 (Dynamite)
Story: David Avallone | Art: Silvia Califano | Cover: Dave Acosta | $3.99
In Elvira Meets Vincent Price, the Mistress of the Dark discovered that all movies create their own individual pocket dimension where, presum
Read more…When Superman is exposed to green kryptonite, I know he's incapacitated. Would that prevent him from signaling for help by utilizing his heat vision, superbreath, super ventriloquism, etc.?
Just something I was thinking about recently.
Additional q
Read more…Was it ever confirmed that Brainiac 5 inherited his force field from Brainiac? As I recall, that force field was pretty strong. IIRC, in Brainiac's first appearance, Superman punched it as hard as he could and did zero damage.
Brainiac 5's primary s
Read more…the CW drops a trailer for Gotham Knights, which by my count is its third Batman show that doesn't actually feature Batman (and the fourth overall, if one counts Birds of Prey from 20 years ago*). The premise? Bruce Wayne has been murdered and Gotham
Read more…May 18
COUNT CROWLEY, AMATEUR MONSTER HUNTER #2
Story: David Dastmalchian | Art/Cover: Lukas Ketner | Dark Horse | $3.99
Dark Horse not only offered this issue for review, but the previous issue and the previous miniseries! So I’m no fool; I read the
Read more…In Action Comics #900, there's a story in which Superman meets the national security advisor outdoors at Camp David. Superman takes note of the fact that there are snipers trained on him, and one of them has a rifle loaded with a kryptonite bullet.
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BOOM! STUDIOS
JIM HENSON’S STORYTELLER: SHAPESHIFTERS #4
MAGIC THE GATHERING #15
ONCE & FUTURE #26
DARK HORSE COMICS
AVATAR: ADAPT OR DIE #2
CYBERPUNK 2077 BLACKOUT #1
Story: Bartosz Sztybor | Art/Cover: Roberto Ricci| Mature | $3.99
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Read more…My recent re-reading of Martin Pasko's Swamp Thing (plus the comment below) put me in the mood to re-read the first few issues of one of the few examples of his other work I am familiar with.
ClarkKent_DC said:
Read more…That series was my introduction to E-M
