Friends and neighbors:
As most of you know, I am writing a book about journalists in comic books. It's a riff on my Master's thesis. It's kinda fun, and I want to share that, since it's consuming all my time. I think maybe you guys would like to be i
Read more…Time-travel stories have always been a tempting device for comics writers. They broaden the vistas and allow fresh backdrops for adventures. The lure of putting the hero in a historical incident is intriguing and it provides the opportunities for t
Did you just pick up a new title at the comic shop and want to let people know about it? Here's a thread to tout your new faves.
I picked up two new #1s this week.
The first, Fairlady, was a book I'd been looking forward to for a while. Written b
Read more…Farmhand, Vol. 2: Thorne in the Flesh
Created, written & drawn by Rob Guillory: colors by Taylor Wells
Image Comics, 2019
The second installment opens with a new crisis: former patients of Jedidiah's plant organ replacement treatment have been converg
Read more…Bog Bodies
Declan Shalvey, writer; Gavin Fullerton, artist; Rebecca Nalty, colorist; Clayton Cowles, letterer
Image Comics, 2020
Irish comics creator Declan Shalvey is probably best known as an artist, having illustrated the Marvel titles Moon Knight,
Read more…We've all been waiting for the other shoe to drop on DC Universe after the launch of HBO Max, and the evisceration of the DCU staff. That shoe just dropped, and it's not as bad as I feared. Here's the press release:
DC UNIVERSE TRANSFORMS INTO DC
Read more…This post will be updated.
GENRE TV
Archer, "Helping Hands" (FX, Sept. 23)
Enola Holmes, movie (Netflix, Sept. 23)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Veritas" (CBS All Access, Sept. 24)
Raised by Wolves (HBO Max, Sept. 24)
Star Trek: Discovery, broadcast prem
Read more…From Variety: "ABC Orders Pilots for ‘Stumptown’ Adaptation, Bermuda Triangle Drama"
Variety wrote:
Read more…ABC has given out two more drama pilot orders.
First up, the broadcaster has ordered a pilot for a drama based on the graphic novel “Stumptown” by Gre
Starting with a 2-issue miniseries, DC Millennium, which walks the reader through 1,000 years, ending at the Legion's doorstep. Millennium is by Brian Bendis and a variety of artists (one for each time period), and the Legion proper will by by Bendis
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Sept. 10, 2020 — It’s been raining graphic novels here in the Comics Cave. Let’s look at a few:
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
Art/writing: John “Derf” Backderf
Abrams ComicArts, $24.99
Backderf made a na
Read more…Got my copy of the David Tennant "Hamlet" DVD yesterday, and of course, spent the evening watching it. Here are my thoughts as I wrote them down:
1)Interesting - they don't show the Ghost, at first.
2)Is that Picard as the Ghost, too?
3)That's def
Hey all,
It occurs to me that, since the New York Film Festival is largely online this year -- aside from some outdoor screenings in Brooklyn & Queens -- that some of us might want to attend it "together." There are a number of different film packages
I recently reviewed two graphic biographies of jazz musicians for the website All About Jazz, so I thought I should link to them here for those who aren't following me on social media.
The first is Scott Chantler's biography of an early jazz pioneer
Read more…Infidel
Pornsak Pichetshote, writer; Aaron Campbell, artist; José Villarrubia, colorist & editor; Jeff Powell, letterer & designer
Image Comics, 2018
At its heart this is a modern haunted house story. But its protagonist is an American Muslim woman na
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
DC Comics skipped the online San Diego Comic-Con this year, and launched one of its own, “DC FanDome.” Part One ran Aug. 22, and boy howdy, they didn’t skimp on the big announcements. Here are the ones that g
Read more…1)Ah, it's the Victorian Odd Squad again. While I like the characters, they're a little bit too "public" for believability's sake. Also, Strax the Comedy Sontaran is amusing, but onyl in small doses, please.
3)It takes awhile for the Doctor to even s
Read more…Genre TV
Archer, season 11 premiere, "The Orpheus Gambit" (FX, Sept. 16)
Archer, "Bloodsmoosh" (FX, Sept. 16)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Much Ado About Boimer" (CBS All Access, Sept. 17)
Raised by Wolves, "Lost Paradise" (HBO Max, Sept. 17)
Raised by W
Read more…Back when DS9 and Voyager were on the air simultaneously, I remember reading an article in TV Guide which postulated that, in the future, Deep Space Nine would be remembered as the best of the (then) four Star Trek television series. The writer made
Read more…A post on Facebook from our friend and Legionnaire Rob Staeger:
Marvel is offering over 250 digital Black Panther comics free over Comixology. Go to Comixology.com and search for Black Panther. Click "single issues" and you can see almost everything
Read more…GENRE TV
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Terminal Provocations" (CBS All Access, Sept. 10)
Raised by Wolves, "Nature's Course" (HBO Max, Sept. 10)
Raised by Wolves, "Infected Memory" (HBO Max, Sept. 10)
The Boys, “Nothing Like It In the World” (Amazon Prime
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