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JUNE 22-28
GENRE TV
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June 18, 2020 — In case you love the new DC Universe/CW show Stargirl as much as I do, here are two dozen Fun Facts to Know and Tell about the star-spangled superhero show:
1. Geoff Johns (with artist Lee Mod
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June 11, 2020 — So, here’s some news: DC Comics has cut ties with Diamond Comic Distributors Inc.
Yes, I hear the yawns. Most people don’t know how comic books and graphic novels get to where they buy them,
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JUNE 8-14
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DC Cuts Ties with Diamond Comic Distributors
The publisher will no longer distribute through the industry leader in comics distribution
In a seismic shift for the comic book industry, DC has cut ties with Diamond Comic Distributors. The announcement
Read more…Key art for the seventh season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. shows the main characters for the season premiere, as well as the milieu: 1931 New York City. (Courtesy ABC)
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June 4, 2020 — Marvel’s Agents of
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May 28, 2020 — Stargirl has arrived on DC Universe and The CW, bringing with it the return of the justly legendary Justice Society of America.
The Justice Society is the oldest superhero team in comics, arriv
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The first print Marvels arrive since late April, on May 27.
Bleeding Cool posted a press release from Yen Press alerting me to the fact that the publisher was releasing a great many manga on May 26. The list on Bleeding Cool didn’t match the on
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May 21, 2020 — Snowpiercer the series arrived May 17 on TNT, a weekly show set after the end of the world.
While not as depressing as it sounds, it’s still pretty bleak. The premise is a new ice age, and what
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May 14, 2020 — New comic books are back in the pipeline to comic shops, after the pandemic halted distribution back in March. Here’s the A-list:
'2020 Ironheart' #1
of 2, Marvel Comics, May 20, $3.99, digita
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May 7, 2020 — Nothing stops the Dark Knight, not even a pandemic. Here are some Bat and Bat-adjacent graphic novels, all from DC Comics, all $29.99 (for the hardbacks), all available from bookstores and onli
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With new comics coming back to shops this month, but schedules still in flux, I'm trying to keep up with what's available each week -- not just new comics, but TV/movies/online comics-related events as well. I see no reason that I should keep my rese
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April 30, 2020 — The long drought is broken. Diamond Comic Distributors, which delivers most comics to retailers in North America, announced April 28 on Twitter that it would resume full service on May 20.
Di
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April 23, 2020 — Not only is it “safer at home,” but it’s also an opportunity to do some recreational reading. Here are some of the more offbeat graphic novels that have recently crossed my desk:
The Runaw
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April 16, 2020 — Roughly every 20 years, Zombie Chicken Little rises from his grave and predicts the end of the comic book industry. The last time was in the late ‘90s, sooo … yep, here he comes, shambling a
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April 9, 2020 — The pandemic burning through the world right now is terrifying, lethal and virtually unstoppable. But one thing it isn’t, is unexpected. We’ve been through this before — the 1918 flu, the B
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