By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
June 17, 2021 — Loki has launched, and once again we are presented with a Disney+ show that could go in many different directions. Let’s consult the tea leaves — and the comics and myths on which the show is
Read more…I asked this question on FB a while ago, and got some interesting answers, so I thought I'd try here with a mostly different group of people.
1)Do you think of Harley as a hero?
2)Do you think that DC intends us to think of her as a hero?
3)Do yo
Read more…Longtime character actor Ned Beatty, who made his mark right out of the gate with his first film Deliverance, dies at 83.
From CNN: "Actor Ned Beatty of 'Deliverance' and 'Superman' dies at 83"
We here at the Comics Cave also know him as Otis from th
Read more…The Fall Vol. 1
Written and drawn by Jared Muralt
Image Comics, 2021
Swiss writer/artist Jared Muralt began this apocalyptic story years before the Covid pandemic hit, but the deadly pandemic that drives the story creates an eerie echo of current even
Read more…The Flash returned last night after a long hiatus because, y'know, COVID. In fact, last season, they didn't get to film all of the episodes, so several plot threads were dangling that might have been wrapped up, and they didn't get to all of them in
Read more…THE BIG STUFF
Writers/art: Various | Cover: Jim Lee, Scott Williams, Tamra Bonvillain
The Captain's comments: Pride Month continues with DC's My Big Gay Italian Wedding. No, wait, that's a movie. This is DC's Big Gay Anth
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
June 10, 2021 — It’s summertime, and the comics are busy.
It's not new. Back in the Long-Before Time, comics publishers would increase the frequency of some titles in the summer, and issue oversize “annuals”
Read more…Nailbiter Vol. 8: Nailbiter Returns
Joshua Williamson, story; Mike Henderson, art; Adam Guzowski, colors; John J. Hill, letters & book design
Image Comic, 2021
The conclusion of the latest chapter in the Nailbiter saga begins with the titular return.
Read more…Colonel Weird: Cosmagog
Jeff Lemire, writer; Tyler Crook, art & letters
Dark Horse Books, 2021
This collects a four-issue miniseries starring Colonel Weird, arguably the strangest and most interesting character in the Black Hammer universe. The Colone
Read more…Like many old-schoolers, I lost my connection to the Marvel Universe soon after Joe Quesada and Bill Jemas took over. So I decided to create a new comic book company that gives talented folks like Roger Stern, Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema a superhero
Read more…That really is a comically large head. (Courtesy Marvel.com)
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. is so preposterous, one might assume that most of the silliness is invented for the show. Amazingly, most of the nonsense ha
Read more…Home Sick Pilots Vol. 1: Teenage Haunts
Dan Watters, writer; Caspar Wijngaard, artist; Aditya Bidikar, letterer; Tom Muller, designer
Image Comics, 2021
We first see the titular Home Sick Pilots--a high school punk band--attending a show by their riva
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
April 3, 2021 — It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned that we are in the Golden Age of Reprints. But we still are, and it’s worthwhile to check in now and again on the latest, greatest collections:
The Co
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
April 8, 2021 — Welcome to Who Are These Guys, Falcon and Winter Soldier edition!
The third episode, “Power Broker,” introduced some people and concepts that are a little farther off the beaten path than usu
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
May 20, 2021 — It’s time for the Graphic Novel Review Roundup!
THE BATMAN’S GRAVE
By Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Kevin Nowlan and Alex Sinclair
DC Comics, $39.99
Alfred has a nice plot all picked out for Br
THE BIG STUFF
The Conjuring: The Lover #1 (of 5)
DC Comics | 17+ | $3.99
Writers: David L. Johnson-McGoldrick, Rex Ogle, Scott Snyder | Art: Garry Brown, Dave Johnson, Denys Cowan | Cover: Bill Sienkiewicz | Variant: Ryan Brown | 1:25 variant: Garry
Read more…Paul Soles has passed away. The Canadian broadcaster and the voice of several 1960s cartoons, including Hermey the Elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Bruce Banner and Rick Jones in the ultra-low-budget Marvel Superheroes Hulk cartoon, and Peter P
Read more…I bought MMW Hulk v15 just today and decided to make a discussion of it going forward. To get us started, here is what I posted about v14 to the "What Comics Have you read today?" discussion back in September of last year.
My first issue of Incredib
Read more…In today's Stargirl comic, Oliver tells Emiko that he and Roy were the Golden Age Green Arrow and Speedy that were in the original Seven Soldiers of Victory.
Apparently, early in their careers, one of the Clock King's time traps blew up and Ollie and
Every year on this date, no matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing, I always find a way to pause in my hectic schedule to pay tribute to the man who put the Silver in Silver Age. Yes, once again it's time to wish a very Happy Birthday to Mr. Age
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