Slugfest is a documentary series on Quibi that explores the eight-decade rivalry between the Big Two comic book publishers, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. The NYCC panel included luminaries like Kevin Smith (top left) and Brandon Routh (center bottom
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Oct 8, 2020 — The pandemic has curtailed a lot of TV filming, and Netflix has begun canceling even successful shows over delayed production. But, amazingly, there’s still an awesome amount of TV on the air wo
Read more…Teen Titans: Beast Boy is a new take on the DC Comics character, showing his teen years in Georgia in a new YA graphic novel. (Art by Gabriel Picolo, copyright DC Comics)
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Oct. 1, 2020 — If you’ve read the Yo
Read more…OCT 19-25
Genre TV
Next, "File #3" (Fox, Oct. 20)
Archer, "Caught Napping" (FX, Oct. 21)
Star Trek: Discovery, "Far from Home," "That Hope Is You Part 2" (CBS All Access, Oct. 22)
Pandora, "Beyond Here Lies Nothing'" (CW, Oct. 25)
Fargo (FX, Oct. 25)
Read more…OCT 12-18
Genre TV
Next, "File #2" (Fox, Oct. 13)
Archer, "The Double Date" (FX, Oct. 14)
Star Trek: Discovery, season 3 premiere (CBS All Access, Oct. 15)
Helstrom, season 1 (Hulu, Oct. 16)
Lovecraft Country, season 1 finale, "Full Circle" (HBO, Oct
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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
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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)
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Sept. 24, 2020 — He’s still th
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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…We've all been waiting for the other shoe to drop on DC Universe after the launch of HBO Max, and the evisceration of the DCU staff. That shoe just dropped, and it's not as bad as I feared. Here's the press release:
DC UNIVERSE TRANSFORMS INTO DC
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GENRE TV
Archer, "Helping Hands" (FX, Sept. 23)
Enola Holmes, movie (Netflix, Sept. 23)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Veritas" (CBS All Access, Sept. 24)
Raised by Wolves (HBO Max, Sept. 24)
Star Trek: Discovery, broadcast prem
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Sept. 10, 2020 — It’s been raining graphic novels here in the Comics Cave. Let’s look at a few:
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
Art/writing: John “Derf” Backderf
Abrams ComicArts, $24.99
Backderf made a na
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Sept. 4, 2020 — The New Mutants, the final, no-kidding X-Men movie by Twentieth Century Fox, finally made it to the theaters after three years of delays. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
That trip really
Read more…Genre TV
Archer, season 11 premiere, "The Orpheus Gambit" (FX, Sept. 16)
Archer, "Bloodsmoosh" (FX, Sept. 16)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Much Ado About Boimer" (CBS All Access, Sept. 17)
Raised by Wolves, "Lost Paradise" (HBO Max, Sept. 17)
Raised by W
Read more…GENRE TV
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Terminal Provocations" (CBS All Access, Sept. 10)
Raised by Wolves, "Nature's Course" (HBO Max, Sept. 10)
Raised by Wolves, "Infected Memory" (HBO Max, Sept. 10)
The Boys, “Nothing Like It In the World” (Amazon Prime
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DC Comics skipped the online San Diego Comic-Con this year, and launched one of its own, “DC FanDome.” Part One ran Aug. 22, and boy howdy, they didn’t skimp on the big announcements. Here are the ones that g
Read more…Genre TV
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Cupid's Errant Arrow" (CBS All Access, Sept. 3)
Raised by Wolves, "Raised by Wolves" (HBO Max, Sep. 3)
Raised by Wolves, "Pentagram" (HBO Max, Sep. 3)
Raised by Wolves, "Virtual Faith" (HBO Max, Sep. 3)
The Boys, "Th
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AUG. 20, 2020 — This is a month of endings.
No less than five of the Captain’s favorite genre TV shows have reached a season finale. Maybe it’s only noticeable because the pandemic has delayed the beginning
Read more…Recently I filled out a survey for Ning. Not something I normally do, but I kept getting the prompt every time I went to the site, and it was so annoying I filled the darn thing out.
This coincided with some problems on the site. Some of you noticed
Read more…GENRE TV
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Moist Vessel" (CBS All Access, Aug. 27)
Wynonna Earp, "Holy War Part Two" (Syfy, Aug. 30)
Lovecraft Country, "Holy Ghost" (HBO, Aug. 30)
MOVIES
The New Mutants (Aug. 28)
ONLINE
Marvel Storyboards, Episode 6 featuri
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