This timeline was inspired by reading Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1. As you know, the original post-CoIE Earth was essentially Earth-One with bits of Earths Two, Four, S and X added in.
In this book, the premise is t
Read more…1)They're all Japanese-Indians?
2)"You'll consider yourself..." "Part of the furniture?"
3"Sleep dust?"
4)"You don't get to name things!"
Overall: Another one that I wasn't all that overwhelmed by. So, what, the bad guys win in the end? It felt too
Read more…Welcome, everyone, to This Week in Comics, or as I call it, Captain Comics' Random Thoughts About Comics and Stuff. I hope someone brought snacks.
GENRE MOVIES & TV
It's a quiet week on screens. There are no new fantasy/sci-fi movies and no genre TV
Read more…GENRE TV
The biggest news on the small screen this week is the debut of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Friday, March 19. I never thought I'd say this, but can it keep up the level of quality we enjoyed in WandaVision? It doesn't seem at all the
Read more…Whenever a volume in this series is released, whatever else I'm reading at the time is put on hold and Dick Tracy goes to the top of the stack. This volume is special to me not only because it reprints Chester Gould's last year and a half on the stri
Read more…Dept. H Omnibus Volume 2
Created, written & illustrated by Matt Kindt; Colors by Sharlene Kindt
Dark Horse Books, 2019
After reading the first two TPB collections of this series it completely dropped off my radar, so I was happy to be able to get the
Read more…Once & Future Vol. 1: The King is Undead
Kieron Gillen, writer; Dan Mora, illustrator; Tamra Bonvillain, colorist
Boom! Studios, 2020
A group of Nationalists intent on bringing back the Britain of Arthurian myth steals an ancient artifact and attempts
Read more…Elizabeth Olsen (left) stars as Wanda Maximoff, and Paul Bettany plays the mysteriously not dead Vision in WandaVision. (Courtesy Disney+)
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Jan. 21, 2121 — WandaVision is delightfully strange, isn’t it? But,
Read more…We have a wonderful thread, started by Richard Mantle, that examines the Amazing Spider-Man starting with issue #51. I don't know why it took me so long to realize we don't have a thread that covers Spidey's beginning to the point where Richard star
Read more…Black Magick Vol. 3: Ascension I
Greg Rucka, writer; Nicola Scott, artist
Image Comics, 2021
Despite a three-year publication gap the story picks right up where it left off. Rowan is still out of sorts after her falling out with her detective partner,
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
March 4, 2021 — So, DC Comics has rebooted its superhero line again. Except not really.
Through much of last year, the DC superheroes battled through something called “Dark Nights: Death Metal,” in which pre
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Feb. 25, 2021 — Graphic novels have become an essential part of our entertainment consumption, especially in the kids and young adult categories. In addition to be entertainment, though, they can also be imp
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Feb. 18, 2021 — We are lucky to live in the era of Peak TV. But, as with every explosion of light, there are shadows. A dark side. And in the case of Peak TV, it’s the ending.
The TV landscape is littered
Read more…From Cracked: "4 Reasons Anyone Who Says 'Superman Is a Boring Superhero' Is Full of It"
It begins:
Cracked wrote:
Read more…A common complaint about Superman is that he's just too damn powerful, which is kind of like saying that the Grand Canyon is too damn g
"The New Superman"
Editor: Mort Weisinger Writer: Edmond Hamilton Art: Curt Swan (pencils), George Klein and Sheldon Moldoff (inks)
By 1964, the Superman mythos constructed by Mort Weisinger was complete.
The very idea had been novel. Before
Read more…Good afternoon, culture vultures! Here's an overview of the week to come in comics and related pop culture. It's a little late — I usually post on Sunday — but as you can see, we're trying something new.
For the record, in the outside world the Johns
Read more…THE BLACKHAWK FILES
Blackhawk is a favourite character of mine, as I see him as US comics' great fighter against totalitarianism. My interest is partly due to Dick Dillin's long run on the feature, but he didn't begin to pencil for the series until
Read more…Books of Magic Vol. 3: Dwelling in Possibility
Kat Howard, David Barnett, writers; Tom Fowler, Craig Taillefer, artists; Jordan Boyd, Marissa Louise, colorists
DC Vertigo, 2021
The third collection opens with the same issue that appeared in the first
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