By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Aug. 13, 2020 — There’s a lot of sorrow in Batman’s Gotham City. This week it may be worse in the real-life city of Burbank, California, home of DC Comics.
On Monday, Aug. 10, WarnerMedia announced layoffs of
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Tribune Content Agency
Aug. 6, 2020 — Call it the Summer of the C-List.
Despite the pandemic, TV still has a lot of original content — much of which is based on comic books. But with so many shows lifting concepts, ideas and entire
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Tribune Content Agency
July 30, 2020 — Comic-Con@Home, the attempt by the San Diego Comic-Con to replicate the show’s experience online, had at least one major similarity to its live-action predecessors: Tons of big announcement
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GENRE TV
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Temporal Edict" (CBS All Access, Aug. 20)
Lucifer, Season 5 (Netflix, Aug. 21)
Wynonna Earp, "Holy War Part One" (Syfy, Aug. 23)
NOS4A2, "Bats" (AMC, Aug. 23)
Lovecraft Country, "Whitey's
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Stargirl, "Stars and Stripe Part Two" (DCUniverse, Aug. 10)
Stargirl, "Stars and Stripe Part Two" (The CW, Aug. 11)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "The End Is at Hand" (ABC, Aug. 12)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "What We're Fighting For" (ABC, Aug. 12)
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Stargirl, "Stars and Stripe Part One" (DCUniverse, Aug. 3)
Stargirl, "Stars and Stripe Part One" (The CW, Aug. 4)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Brand New Day" (ABC, Aug. 5)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Second Contact" (CBS All Access, Aug. 6)
Doom Pa
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Stargirl, “Shining Knight” (DCUniverse, July 27)
Stargirl, "Shining Knight" (The CW, July 28)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Stolen" (ABC, July 29)
Doom Patrol, “Dad Patrol” (DCUniverse, July 30)
The Umbrella Academy, Season 2 (Netflix, July 31)
W
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Tribune Content Agency
July 23, 2020 — What do you do if the pandemic has canceled your comic convention? If you’re the big dog, Comic-Con International: San Diego, you take it online.
And it’s already started.
Comic-Con@Home runs
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Tribune Content Agency
July 16, 2020 — Watching Doom Patrol it might be hard to believe the bizarre characters on the screen actually first appeared in comic books. But it’s true, as we shall see with this stroll down Memory Lane.
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Tribune Content Agency
July 9, 2020 — The popularity of Young Adult graphic novels has exploded, along with their shelf space in bookstores and comic shops. Here are some of the latest:
Bluebeard cover: This Papercutz graphic nov
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Tribune Content Agency
July 2, 2020 — The pandemic delayed the usual summer comics crossovers, but the first shots have finally been fired.
In Burbank, in the red Superman trunks, is DC Comics and “Death Metal.” In New York, in the
Read more…GENRE TV
Stargirl, "Brainwave Jr." (DCUniverse, July 20)
Stargirl, "Brainwave Jr." (The CW, July 20)
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, "As I Have Always Been" (ABC, July 22)
Doom Patrol, "Dumb Patrol" (DCUniverse, July 23)
NOS4A2, "The Hourglass" (AMC, July
Read more…Notes
Posting this late because of a zombie pandemic. No, it was Darkseid. Sorry, none of that's true. I just forgot.
GENRE TV
Stargirl, “Brainwave” (July 13, DC Universe)
Stargirl, “Brainwave” (July 14, DC Universe)
Brave New World, season 1 (July
Read more…Howdy! This post should properly be on my thread about writing my book, but I've spent 20 minutes looking and I can't find it. I spend a LOT of time looking for things these days, and I am (&(*$## tired of it.
Case in point: Captain Triumph.
Accordin
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Tribune Content Agency
July 2, 2020 — The pandemic delayed the usual summer comics crossovers, but the first shots have finally been fired.
In Burbank, in the red Superman trunks, is DC Comics and “Death Metal.” In New York, in t
Read more…Marvel announced this week that it's picked up the Aliens and Predator franchises this week from Dark Horse.
That was after previously getting Star Wars and Conan from Dark Horse. And DH has also lost the Buffy, Firefly and Angel franchises to Boom S
Read more…GENRE TV
Stargirl, “Shiv Part Two” (July 6, DC Universe)
Stargirl, “Shiv Part Two” (July 7, The CW)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., “The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D” (July 8, ABC)
Doom Patrol, “Finger Patrol” (July 9, DC Universe)
The Old
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Tribune Content Agency
June 25, 2020 — The comics industry has barely begun shipping again, and already the Comics Teletype is overheating. Here are the top stories:
ITEM: The Dark Mr. Mom Returns? A lot of comics sites have had a
Read more…How many characters at work-for-hire publishers have been taken to other publishers, usually by their creators, re-named and used again?
The other day I was reading about Marvel's Helstrom TV series (or what little we know about it), and the reporter
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