As a general rule, I try to avoid belonging to any group (or Group) with the word "Prancing" in its title.
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Averee TPB
A Wave Blue World Inc | 6x9 | Teen | 136 pages | $16.99
Writers: Stephanie Phillips, Dave Johnson | Art/Cover: Marika Cresta, Andrew Dalhouse
According to the PR, this is a story that takes place in the near future,
Read more…Earlier this year, a brand new multi-platform Doctor Who story told across several media including novels, comics and audios began to be released. It features the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors. So far, Big Finish has released five parts of the over
Read more…November Vol. 4: The Mess We're In
Matt Fraction, writer; Elsa Charratier, artist; Matt Hollingsworth, colorist; Kurt Ankeny, letterer
Image Comics, 2021
Another finale, this time to a series of graphic novellas rather than an ongoing series. When the
Read more…When I watch Doctor Who on television (particularly the longer serials), I prefer to watch one episode each night, but listening to audio recordings of the missing episodes, I have adopted a “more is better” approach. It’s easier to keep track of the
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The first three Harry Vanderspeigle stories are collected in the Resident Alien Omnibus Volume 1. (Cover art by Steve Parkhouse, copyright Dark Horse)
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Feb. 4, 2021 — Now that you’ve watched Harry Vandersp
Read more…GENRE TV
Snowpiercer runs two episodes this week back to back as the season 2 finale. "The Show Must Go On" and "Into the White" run on TNT on March 29. The show skipped last week, which is how we get two episodes this week, but it's been tough on v
Read more…Low Vol. 5: Light Brings Light
Rick Remender, writer; Greg Tocchini, artist; Dave McCaig, colors
Image Comics, 2021
The previous collection came out in 2017: so long ago that I had completely forgotten that the series was not finished! But in fact the
Read more…Re-watched this last night, a few random thoughts:
1)"Romana, the dog's got laryngitis." Setting up the fact that David Brierley would be taking over for John Leeson. No offense to Brierley, but Leeson was too identified with the part for anyone else
Read more…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
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