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Here are some of this week's books worth special mention:
Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays 1934-36: Dark Horse has begun reprinting the adventures of the time-traveling caveman with the name derived from a French phrase favored
Read more…Al Feldstein, the writer/editor who helmed EC's famous horror titles and took MAD magazines to its greatest circulation, has died at age 88. A titan has passed.
HERE'S a brief obit from ICv2.com.
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McClatchy Newspapers
Free Comic Book Day is back, bigger and better than ever. So big, in fact, that the following guide is necessary
First, the details: On Saturday, May 3, participating comic shops will give away free comics. (To
One of three S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarriers engages in combat in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. All photos © 2014 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
April 15, 2014 -- Captain America: The Winter Soldier has blo
Read more…EDITOR'S NOTE: After assembling the Comics Guide throughout the week, and spending six hours writing and editing it today (Sunday, April 27), I have accidentally deleted it.
Yes, the whole damn thing. Twelve takes, an untold number of man hours, a c
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
April 1, 2014 -- Last week, the box office charts domestically and internationally were topped by different American movies – and both have comic-book roots.
The big hit was Captain America: The Winter Soldier,
Read more…ACTION LAB
Writers: JEREMY DALE, RAY-ANTHONY HEIGHT, DEWAYNE FEENSTRA
Art: JEREMY DALE, RAY-ANTHONY HEIGHT, NOTE LOVETT
Cover: JEREMY DALE, RAY-ANTHONY HEIGHT
32 pgs./ All Ages/ FC Free
Action Lab Entertainment, The most exciting new comic book publi
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Here are some of this week's books worth special mention:
START ME UP
Two big summer stories launch this week with single issues.
The biggest is Original Sin #0 (Marvel, $3.99), which is numbered accurately -- it isn't the firs
Read more…Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
Comics can be many things, from quiet dramas to flights of fancy to superheroic clashes of good and evil. But some times – maybe the best times – they’re just fun.
Case in point: Steve Mannion’s Fearless Dawn, bro
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It's a week chock-full of first issues, and for a change they're not all Marvels!
Dyamite has an exceptional week, with the first issues of Solar: Man of the Atom and Captain Action Cat: The Timestream Catastrophe, and the 100t
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy Newspapers
When DC Comics rebooted all of its superhero titles in 2011, some of them got better. But some didn’t, like Green Arrow – which just got a lot better.
First, what they did wrong: In Green Arrow #1 in September
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Every week Marvel hogs the Comments section with a flood of number ones, and this week is no different. But at least we get to start with a number one from another publisher: Dynamite. Because Flash Gordon #1 comes out this wee
Read more…Magneto, the long-time X-Men foe, is getting his own ongoing title. And, thankfully, he’s going to be a villain – again.
That last bit might not make sense to folks who have only watched the X-Men movies, or older fans who drifted away a couple of de
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In a press release touting four second printings this week, Marvel said "These red-hot titles join over 30 titles from the massively popular All-New Marvel NOW! initiative to return for second printings!"
Now, honestly, does an
Read more…If you’ve got a favorite adventure character you haven’t seen lately, chances are you can find she, he or it at Dynamic Forces.
While most publishers tend to avoid licensing characters – paying for the license cuts into profits – Dynamic Forces, publ
Read more…I was thinking about writing a column about the five Captain America stories you should read after seeing "Winter Soldier," like I did for Superman after "Man of Steel." But with Superman it was really easy to think of five great stories; in fact, I
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While the big publishers offer their usual avalanche of a books, t's a light week for some publishers. There are no books at all from from Action Lab or Archie,and only one from Valiant. Even "Other Publishers" feels a bit ligh
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Marvel keeps canceling and rebooting its titles in a seemingly meaningless fashion. That's pretty irritating for long-time fans, completists and serious collectors. But don't let that stop you from enjoying two first issues thi
Read more…No one seems to know if or when the movie Snowpiercer will open in the U.S. Having read the graphic novel, I hope it will – and soon.
Snowpiercer’s road to American pop culture has been a long, strange journey. It began as a French graphic novel that
Welcome to another Comics Guide! I am your humble narrator and tour guide, Captain Comics. After my "Captain's Comments" and you're into the Guide proper, my comments will be in blue. Meanwhile, The Baron has dropped by the Cave again, and in an unre
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