By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
May 13, 2014 -- If you’ve seen the trailers for X-Men: Days of Future Past, the Twentieth Century Fox movie that premieres May 23, your reaction has probably been “What the heck is going on here?”
Tha
By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
May 6, 2014 -- SKREE-ONNNK!
If you recognize that sound effect, then it’s clear you are reading or have read IDW’s line of Godzilla comic books. Because that’s how The Big G expresses himself in those
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy-Tribune
April 29, 2014 -- You know Gwen Stacy is dead, right?
I’m not talking about her fate in the movie Amazing Spider-Man 2, premiering May 3. I don’t know that myself, and wouldn’t tell you if I knew.
No, I’m talking
Read more…Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released May 20 another straight-to-video animated movie, called JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, in which Lex Luthor (and friends) goes back in time to prevent Superman from coming to be, while Superman (and the JLA)
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THE ADVENTURES OF APOCALYPSE AL VOL 1 (TPB, Image Comics, $9.99): Collects the four-issue miniseries introducing Allison Carter (the Apocalypse Al of the title), who is a paranormal investigator from a long line of paranormal investigators.
Read more…Usually publishers have to jump through a number of hoops to get signed to Diamond. That these guys did it so fast tells me Diamond is bending over backwards. That's just speculation, though.
Anyway, I post this as a public service, in case any Legio
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24 #5
ED BRISSON (W)
MICHAEL GAYDOS (A)
PAUL SHIPPER (C)
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“Underground” comes to a fiery conclusion! With both the CIA and the Russian mafia hot on his heels, Jack Bauer must find a way to escape them and res
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ARTIFACTS #38
story: DEVON WONG
art : ISAAC GOODHART
cover: STJEPAN SEJIC
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2013 Talent Hunt winners DEVON WONG and ISAAC GOODHART bring you the most shocking Darkness and Magdalena story ever told. Se
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ALL-NEW DOOP #5 (of 5)
PETER MILLIGAN (W)
DAVID LAFUENTE (A)
Cover by MICHAEL ALLRED
• A senior X-Man must find Doop and make him stop the craziness corrupting the real world. But is the little green guy too far gone to listen?
• Someon
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With blood and rage of crimson red, ripped from a corpse so freshly dead, together with our hellish hate, we'll burn you all—that is your fate! Spread rage across the galaxy with this replic
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Forever Evil #7: DC Comics finally brings their epic Trinity War/Forever Evil storyline to its climax with three books this week: Justice League #30, Justice League of America #14 (the final issue) and Forever Evil #7 (of 7). I
Read more…Got this press release from DC today, which is just a glorified link. But the stuff they've posted is pretty interesting -- from an old fan's POV:
Today we posted new, exciting details on DC Comics’ September publishing event on DCComics.com, includ
Read more…ABE SAPIEN #15
Writers: MIKE MIGNOLA, SCOTT ALLIE
Art: JUAN FERREYRA
Cover: SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
On sale Aug 13
FC, 32 pages, $3.50
Ongoing
Roger returns!
Before the Black Flame, Hell on Earth, and the death of Roger, Abe faces a creature that threatens
Read more…BO, PLUSHY GANGSTA: KINGDOM OF BO (TPB)
Writer/Art/Cover: PAVEL BALABANOV
128 Pgs./ Mature Readers/FC/$14.99
Are the legends of Bo, the “teddy bear” gangsta, true? And, did we just say teddy bear gangsta?! You’re about to find out-- when the soul of
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Here are some of this week's noteworthy books:
Archie 1000 Page Comics Bonanza (Archie, $14.99): One of the greatest innovations in recent years at Archie Comics -- and there have been plenty -- has been for the publisher to ac
Read more…Marvel keeps adding to this, and it's adding up to quite a lot. So I thought I'd post it for you guys to comment.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. welcomes you to The Art of Level 7
Top Artists Deliver Unique Vision of Marvel’s First Live-Action TV S
Read more…I thought you guys would want to know about this. Frankly, I'm not sure what I'd pick after the obvious origin stories, first Galactus story, etc. What would you guys pick?
Here's the press release:
Choose the Contents of Marvel’s Massive 75th Annive
Read more…Here's the press release. How can this be? Do these books have a different distributor than Diamond? Why is this the only place I'm seeing these numbers?
PAPERCUTZ'S STILTON SALES PASS THE 1,000,000 MARK
TIME-TRAVELING MOUSE AND HIS SISTER ARE “BRIN
"Son of Batman," the landmark 20th film in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies, arrives TODAY -- May 6, 2014 -- on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The film is also available via Digital HD.
Read more…Dick Ayers, a legendary Silver Age artist and inker, especially on Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, died at age 90. HERE'S a short bio from ICv2.com.
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