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GENRE TV
Next, season 1 premiere, "FILE #1" (Fox, Oct. 6)
Swamp Thing, broadcast premiere (CW, Oct. 6)
Archer, "Best Friends" (FX, Oct. 7)
Doctor Who, special, "Faceless Ones" (BBC America, Oct. 8)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, s
Read more…Over in the thread "From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 90 Death in the Silver Age---Mark Merlin, R. I. P.," Commander Benson wrote:
Commander Benson said:
Read more…Fifteen years ago, on the Leave It to Beaver forum, at the SitcomsonLine.com site, I posted
If you lived in the DC universe in the 1950’s and were a greedy relative or unscrupulous lawyer trying to swindle someone out of his fortune by posing as a ghost or a space alien or a time-traveller, you didn’t stand a chance. Not with all the DC sl
I was doing a Google search to find some point I made in a thread many moons ago so I could link to it in a thread today (as I often tend to do), and came across this review of our humble corner of cyberspace:
Read more…Captain Comics
Van Halen was a big part of the soundtrack to my college years.
Read more…Available July 1, Monthly Anthology Titles Combine All-New Stories by Top DC Writers with Classic Tales from DC’s Deep History
Original Stories Featuring Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Dan Jurgens and Tim Seeley
12-Part Superman Story by Tom King an
Read more…...Has anyone here seen comic books, standard-sized, on sale at ANY non-comics shop in 2020. The last 6 month's obviously everything has been upturned, but in the first 3 months of 2020 and since them, has ANYONE, other than Walmart and whatever othe
Read more…Oh, what a difference a week makes. Fear the Walking Dead is (temporarily) over, replaced by the far superior The Walking Dead.
Not only was the show better, but my wife joined me. She refuses to watch FTWD and is actively angry at it. "How they coul
Read more…I know we don't usually get into politics here, but I felt this story was sufficiently comics-related.
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
May 28, 2020 — Stargirl has arrived on DC Universe and The CW, bringing with it the return of the justly legendary Justice Society of America.
The Justice Society is the oldest superhero team in comics, arriv
Read more…Oh , the irony . Let's continue something that was discussed at the MSA Old Home , namely , remaining print comic fanzines - And , for diversity , pro/semi-pro/" pro-zine " comics publications as well .
CBG remains in business . The Comics Journal
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GENRE TV
Archer, “Robot Factory” (FX, Sept. 30)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, “Crisis Point” (CBS All Access, Oct. 1)
Raised by Wolves, season 1 finale, “The Beginning” (HBO Max, Oct. 1)
The Boys, “Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Ma
Read more…The cover to Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974 uses both a photo and an illustration, which is a taste of what’s inside. (Photo by Abbas, art by Rafael Ortiz, Courtesy Titan Comics)
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Sept. 24, 2020 — He’s still th
Read more…From TV Line: "Supergirl Ending With Season 6"
I read somewhere -- can't find it -- that the call to bring the show to an end was a mutual decision because of declining ratings, the production holdup because of coronavirus, and the production adjustm
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Sept. 17, 2020 — The DC Comics/Warner Bros. online convention has completed its second and final day — and just like FanDome I on Aug. 22, FanDome II on Sept. 12 was an impressive enterprise with lots of anno
Read more…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,
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