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'Sandman' likely at Netflix
It looks like Neil Gaiman's Sandman may get the prestige TV treatment at Netflix. While the report is yet to be confirmed, it's been reported breathlessly all over the Internet because it seems very likely to happen.
Here's the Hollywood Reporter sto
Read more…News Ticker: DCUniverse.com, Mysteriio, 'Orville' and more!
By Andrew A. Smith
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The Comics Ticker is rattling away with news – good, bad and uncertain:
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The DC Comics-oriented streaming service DCUniverse.com will showcase its content at Comic-Con International:
Read more…Axe falls on some comics-related shows, but plenty more are on air, in pipeline
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
June 20, 2019 -- A lot of comics-related TV shows have been canceled lately, and some folks will call it a backlash, a correction, or the end of a fad. Don’t believe them.
Yes, it has been something of a bloo
Read more…'Dark Phoenix' didn't have emotional power of the comics -- nor could it
Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox.
Dark Phoenix includes younger characters with less weight than their comics counterparts, including (from left) Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Storm (Alexa
Read more…American Comic Book Chronicles
Has anybody read any of the "American Comic Book Chronicles" by TwoMorrows?
If you're unfamiliar, it's billed as a historical look at the history of American comic books by decade -- although some decades are split in two. So far they've published 19
Read more…Latest 'Swamp Thing' adaptation appears to be its own animal
By Andrew A. Smith
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June 6, 2019 -- The new Swamp Thing TV show isn’t your daddy’s swamp monster. It isn’t even Alan Moore’s.
Moore is the English writer famous for From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta Wa
Read more…'Swamp Thing' leads rash of cancellations
Swamp Thing has been canceled at DC Universe, after only one episode has aired!
Obviously, the problem isn't ratings. io9 says it's due to budget concerns, after certain monies promised from North Carolina (where it's filmed) failed to materialize. O
Read more…'DC's Year of the Villain' is both deja vu and something new
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
In comics, history not only repeats, but it usually raises the stakes.
Case in point: “The Year of the Villain.” This massive crossover at DC Comics features a major villain making offers to a wide array of s
Read more…'S.H.I.E.L.D.,' 'Lucifer' enjoy reprieves, but 'iZombie' still shuffling off to cemetery
By Andrew A. Smith
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iZombie, Lucifer and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – three shows whose obits had already been written – returned this month. Oddly, it’s only the zombie show whose death will stick.
I can understand if the
Read more…The Book!
Friends and neighbors:
As most of you know, I am writing a book about journalists in comic books. It's a riff on my Master's thesis. It's kinda fun, and I want to share that, since it's consuming all my time. I think maybe you guys would like to be i
Read more…Wide variety, full stories at Free Comic Book Day show why it's a great time to be a comics fan
By Andrew A. Smith
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Publishers have gotten much better at Free Comic Book Day. Rather than a collection of teases to books we may never see, most of the 51 titles that were given away May 6 had full stories – and then some teas
Read more…'Endgame' nodded at a lot of comic book stories you should read
By Andrew A. Smith
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Avengers: Endgame had a lot of great callbacks to the comics, not all of which were obvious. With a huge, honkin’ SPOILERS AHEAD warning, let’s look at a few:
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Read more…Hulu adds live-action Marvel shows
After the Fox deal, Disney enjoys majority ownership of Hulu, which is weird, because that's sorta-kinda competition for its own Disney+ streaming service, ABC network and various cable outlets. According to this annoumcement at the upfronts, Hulu is
Read more…'Avengers: Endgame' discussion thread (with spoilers)
So, are we ready to talk about this?
My first comment is that it didn't feel like a three-hour movie -- it felt like they packed four hours of story into it. I felt sometimes like I was drinking out of a firehose. Maybe it was because I loved just ab
Read more…'Endgame,' 'Gotham,' 'Game of Thrones': Genre writers have discovered the power of endings
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Genre fiction seems to have rediscovered a powerful piece of storytelling: The ending.
The most obvious example of that is Avengers: Endgame, which has been described all over the media by Marvel Cinematic Un
Read more…Where did 'Endgame' come from, anyway? Captain Comics picks the Best of Thanos
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
If you’re inspired by the Avengers movies to read more about Thanos, you’ve probably found a bewildering array of hardbacks, trade paperbacks, comics and miniseries, whose online or back-cover descriptions do
Read more…10 Takeaways from 'Shazam!'
By Andrew A. Smith
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Shazam!” has arrived, and Holy Moley, there’s a lot to talk about! With SPOILERS AHOY, Here are 10 takeaways:
1. O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
Shazam! is a Christmas movie. It takes place during the holiday season,
Read more…Yoe Books unearth surprising 'Unknown Anti-War Comics' from Eisenhower years
By Andrew A. Smith
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With the recent release of The Unknown Anti-War Comics, Yoe Books publisher Craig Yoe has once again proven that comics can and do attempt every topic under the sun – and that he is going to bring them to us
Read more…20 Fun Facts to Know and Tell About Shazam!
By Andrew A. Smith
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Are you worried that when “Shazam!” comes out April 5 that you won’t be conversational about him? Take heart! Here are 20 Fun Facts to Know and Tell About Shazam:
1. As the Internet keeps reminding us, Shaza
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