The CW officially ordered the long-rumored series today.
The show's going to feature Rip Hunter gathering a team of heroes and villains to sto
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Director Richard Donner has died. He was 91 years old.
Most people here will know Donner for directing Superman (1978), the film that proved a big-budget superhero movie could reach the adults as well as the kids, and for his involvement with t
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BOOM! STUDIOS
BASILISK #2
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #27
FIREFLY: BLUE SUN RISING LIMIMTED EDITION HC
MAGIC THE GATHERING #4
MAMO #1 (of 5)
WWE NEW DAY POWER OF POSITIVITY #1 (of 2)
WYND #8
DARK HORSE COMICS
BANDETTE VOL 4: SIX-FINGER S
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
July 1, 2021 — The party’s over. Now comes the hangover.
(Warning! Many spoilers ahead for recent issues of Marvel’s X-Men titles!)
The party in question is the Hellfire Gala, a high-fashion, elites-only soir
Read more…The Mummy (short, 1908)
The Mummy (short, 1911)
The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
The Mummy (short, 1923)
The Mummy (1932)
The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Mummy's Dummies (short, 1948)
Abbo
Read more…Here's my research on the live-action Godzilla franchise. Suggestions, changes, explanations, commentary welcome. I'll change the list according to your remarks.
Godzilla
Shōwa era
1. Godzilla (1954)*
2. Godzilla Raids Again (aka "Gigantis the Fire
Read more…Here's an interesting one. Universal considered a whole lot of movies to be "horror," not just the classic monsters. Let's take a look at the full list, and just the monsters broken out:
Universal Horror (full)
Here's the list of live-action movies based on DC properties. Let me know what I got wrong!
DC adaptations
Legacy
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Oct 8, 2020 — The pandemic has curtailed a lot of TV filming, and Netflix has begun canceling even successful shows over delayed production. But, amazingly, there’s still an awesome amount of TV on the air wo
Read more…They Called Him Charles
Jerzy Łanuszewski, story; Ewa Ciałowicz, art
Europe Comics, 2020
This is a simple gag extended over an entire comic: somebody named Charles (it's clear that it is not always the same person, despite having the name in common) m
Read more…Who else watched the pilot?
I liked its tributes to the history of the character, particularly in the opening, and I thought it balanced the real-world and TV-soap elements with the superheroics reasonably well. The show's creators understand the cha
Read more…When I was in college, one of my roommates ridiculed me for reading comics by assuming I read Baby Huey, apparently the only comic book with which he was familiar. (Ironically, I hadn't even heard of the character at that time.) I posted about that s
Read more…Tarzan
Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice!
Jeff Lemire, writer; Michael Walsh, artist; Nate Piekos, letters
Dark Horse Books, 2020
Jeff Lemire's Black Hammer superheroes are a modern interpretation of classic superheroes to begin with, and are do
Read more…There were just the first three I thought of. Feel free to suggest others.
The Conjuring (2013)
Though I wrote for the zine somewhat, I'm not fishing for recognition. But I'm curious if the various brouhahas that involved the magazine ever impacted on your comics reading in any way.
Read more…Crossover Vol. 1: Kids Love Chains
Donny Cates, story; Geoff Shaw, art; Dee Cunniffe, colors; John J. Hill, letters & design
Image Comics, 2021
Another comic with a unique core concept: the Crossover of the title refers to an actual event that occurre
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I saw an interesting artlcle in The London Independent the other day, on top movie franchises. Not the ones with most box office, or the best critical reception, but just the ones with the most movies. As a firm believer in completism, my first thoug
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Sean Connery
Dr. No (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Never Say Never Again (1983)*
David Niven
Casino Royale (1967)*
George Lazenby
On Her Majes
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