Part One:
1) Poor Nyssa - if they had to get rid of a companion for a story, she's the last one I would've picked.
2)"Three Blind Mice..."
3)The TSS is sufficiently goofy.
4)I gather there's all sorts of Buddhist subtext to this, but I don't know enou
Read more…A special package by Vulture honors those actors whose faces we know, even if we don't know their names.
"The 32 Greatest Character Actors Working Today"
also:
"Judy Reyes Answers Every Question We Have About Jane the Virgin"
Read more…The Legion of "Hey, It's That Guy!" Character Actors loses another one.
From The Hollywood Reporter: "Richard Gilliland, 'Designing Women' Actor and Husband of Jean Smart, Dies at 71"
Gilliland guested in numerous shows over a 40-plus-year career, bu
Read more…Legionnaires:
Marvel is offering a Doctor Aphra Omnibus. I didn't know there was that much material available for the character. Perhaps a lot of it is Dark Horse. Anyway, I've never read anything with Doctor Aphra in it, and I'm wondering if I'd be
Read more…Movies
The Seventh Day (VOD/digital, March 26)
A supernatural horror movie about exorcists. It stars Stephen Lang, which is the name an X-Men villain. What's an X-Men villain doing in an exorcist movie? Maybe a Mark III Sentinel gets possessed.
The T
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"In my younger and more vulnerable years," when I was actively seeking to build my comic book collection (as opposed to merely maintain it), I used to say that I collected in two directions at once. By that I meant that I not only collected from the
Read more…It got worse (and there's still eight weeks to go.)
From TVLine: "Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek Dead at 80"
Read more…Over the years, a fair number of actors have either voiced or portrayed the Joker in movies, television and video games. In fact, here's a list:
Joaquin Phoenix
Zach Galifianakis (Lego Movie)
Jared Leto
Troy Baker (Arkham Origins)
Michael Emerson (Th
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Oct. 29, 2020 — The small screen is trying to make us forget the big one.
Last week in this space I discussed Helstrom. The week before I focused on Star Trek: Prodigy, M.O.D.O.K., Invincible and several othe
Read more…Dracula, Motherf**ker!
Alex de Campi, writer; Erica Henderson, illustrator
Image Comics, 2020
Campi and Henderson begin their idiosyncratic Dracula story in 1889 Vienna, as Dracula's wives nail him to the bottom of his coffin. Jump to 1974 Los Angeles
Read more…This timeline was inspired by reading Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1. As you know, the original post-CoIE Earth was essentially Earth-One with bits of Earths Two, Four, S and X added in.
In this book, the premise is t
Read more…1)They're all Japanese-Indians?
2)"You'll consider yourself..." "Part of the furniture?"
3"Sleep dust?"
4)"You don't get to name things!"
Overall: Another one that I wasn't all that overwhelmed by. So, what, the bad guys win in the end? It felt too
Read more…Welcome, everyone, to This Week in Comics, or as I call it, Captain Comics' Random Thoughts About Comics and Stuff. I hope someone brought snacks.
GENRE MOVIES & TV
It's a quiet week on screens. There are no new fantasy/sci-fi movies and no genre TV
Read more…GENRE TV
The biggest news on the small screen this week is the debut of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Friday, March 19. I never thought I'd say this, but can it keep up the level of quality we enjoyed in WandaVision? It doesn't seem at all the
Read more…Whenever a volume in this series is released, whatever else I'm reading at the time is put on hold and Dick Tracy goes to the top of the stack. This volume is special to me not only because it reprints Chester Gould's last year and a half on the stri
Read more…Dept. H Omnibus Volume 2
Created, written & illustrated by Matt Kindt; Colors by Sharlene Kindt
Dark Horse Books, 2019
After reading the first two TPB collections of this series it completely dropped off my radar, so I was happy to be able to get the
Read more…Once & Future Vol. 1: The King is Undead
Kieron Gillen, writer; Dan Mora, illustrator; Tamra Bonvillain, colorist
Boom! Studios, 2020
A group of Nationalists intent on bringing back the Britain of Arthurian myth steals an ancient artifact and attempts
Read more…"A secret agent resigns, then wakes up to find himself imprisoned in "The Village"... a bizarre community with a cheery veneer, but an underbelly of mystery and threat. All occupants of the Village have numbers instead of names, with our secret agent
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