By Andrew A. Smith
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April 2, 2020 — Fans of Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon’s daughter, know the strengths of the character. Her determination, tough-mindedness and eidetic memory led her to be effervescent Batgirl in 1967,
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March 26, 2020 — The year 1940 was, in general, a pretty lousy one, what with World War II and all. But it was a great one in comics, with roughly a jillion new superheroes debuting from roughly a jillion pu
Read more…(EDITOR'S NOTE: This column was filed on March 16 for a March 18 release. By the time of release, more comics-related TV and movies had been delayed or canceled due to the coronvirus pandemic. Marvel's Black Widow has been indefinitely postponed, a
Read more…Pirates comes out this month from Clover Press. (Cover art by Sol Brodsky, courtesy Clover Press)
By Andrew A. Smith
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March 12, 2020 — Avast, me hearties! Pull up a barrel and I’ll spin ye a tale of freebooters, sea-soaked adve
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March 5, 2020 — In these days of digital everything, it’s rare when we ink-stained wretches receive physical, analog review copies. And when there are nine of them – well, we tend to take notice.
The nine boo
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Feb. 27, 2020 — The Walking Dead returned for the second half of its 10th season Feb. 23, outliving most genre shows (and the majority of its major characters). While I enjoy the series, I have long couch-cr
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Feb. 20, 2020 — Two TV shows launched from the comics last week, one horror and one humor. Those are the official genres, but both shows are much more of a blend than that.
Locke and Key began life as a hor
Read more…From left, Rosie Perez (as Renee Montoya), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Huntress), Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Ella Jay Basco (Cassandra Cain) and Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Black Canary) star in Birds of Prey, but only three of ever actually called that. H
In my columns over the years, I've sometimes referred to the "Nerd Canon" (which has amused my editors no end). These are the books that the fanboys and fangirls in my generation sought out as the seminal works we needed to have read to have nerd cre
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Feb. 6, 2020 — Have you begun watching Star Trek: Picard? Maybe binge-watched the third season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina? Have you sampled October Faction?
Well, if you haven’t read the comics that in
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Jan. 30, 2020 — So now Quentin Tarantino has jumped on the anti-Marvel bandwagon.
“When you say, despite the sequels and the Avengers: Endgame and all of that, I actually think a war for movies got played
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Jan. 30, 2020 — With Wonder Woman 1984 arriving June 5, the Amazing Amazon should have a good year. Heck, she’s already having a really impressive month!
January saw the release of three important books starr
Read more…According to various news reports, IDW lost $800,000 in Q4, and $5.2M for 2019. Worse, they're not expecting to be profitable for 2020, either. They promise a return to profitability in 2021.
From the story above it appear
Read more…We haven't done this in a while. We should. Here's the list from Diamond, as of Jan. 16:
ABLAZE
GUNG HO #2 (MR) $3.99
KIDZ #1 $3.99
MIRKA ANDOLFO'S UNSACRED #3 (MR) $3.99
VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING #4 (MR) $3.99
ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
MIRACULOUS TALE
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Jan. 16, 2020 — So “Crisis on Infinite Earths” has wrapped up. How’s everyone doing? Jazzed about that ending? Tired of all the whinging over Oliver Queen’s death? Wondering why The CW scheduled a five-week
Read more…Did anyone read Incoming #1? My LCS was sold out. What did it have to say about this?
By Andrew A. Smith
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Jan. 9, 2020 — Last year ended with a bang — a big bang, really — of Geek TV.
The clutch of shows released in the last month or so is just a prologue for the avalanche of genre television announced for 2020;
Read more…If so, how have you fared? Is there one system over another you prefer? Do over-the-air antennae work? How do you get local shows? What have you given up to settle on one provider over another?
I'm looking at going with Sling and an OTA antenna for l
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It’s easy for great shows to get overlooked during this era of Peak TV, especially with the content spread over a variety of providers. Here are three that are must-sees, just in time to binge with your visi
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