Here's a story from ICv2.com about IDW taking some steps to deal with their downward-spiraling situation. (They lost $36 MILLION last year.)
It's likely it's for sale, although it's possible they're looking for a deep-pocket partner.
I haven't been
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The cover to Detective Comics #1000.
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Happy Birthday, Batman!
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Dark Knight’s first appearance, on March 30, 1939, in Detec
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March 14, 2019 -- The pointy-eared, green-skinned Skrulls have finally appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Who are they? Without spoiling Captain Marvel, let’s take a look at the shapeshifting aliens’
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March 7, 2019 -- Captain Marvel is heading “higher, further, faster” with a record-setting opening weekend. Audiences will be rewarded with a lot of really cool stuff from Carol Danvers’ long history, includi
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Feb. 28, 2019 -- It’s time to discuss Captains Marvel.
Yes, Captain Marvel in the plural – because there have been a lot of them. Ironically, the character starring in Shazam, premiering April 5, started out
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Once again, a great comic book has become an even better TV show – without slavishly following the source material. The Umbrella Academy, currently streaming on Netflix, tells the same story as the comics in
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Here’s Dazzler’s first appearance, from Uncanny X-Men #130 (1980). She was obviously meant to be a major character, but it just didn’t turn out that way.
Art by Jack Kirby. Copyright Marvel En
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Things aren’t going so well for our super friends in the pages of DC Comics. And, to paraphrase Ralph Dibny on The Flash TV show: It’s not even summer!
Summer has long had a special place in comics. Back whe
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Polar and Alita: Battle Angel are two movies based on comics whose trailers are making the rounds. But that’s about the only thing these two very different projects have in common.
Polar has already arrived o
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Things are about to get weird on the DC Universe streaming service.
Doom Patrol premieres Feb. 15, featuring a superhero team that’s one of the oddest in DC Comics’ enormous stable of characters. And it’s on
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Deadly Class, which arrived as an ongoing series on Syfy Jan. 15, is that rare critter: a comics-based TV show that improves on its source material.
These changes were evident in the pilot, which aired online
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The geek have inherited the earth. Or at least television.
Once we were the red-haired step-children of American audiences, subsisting on a thin gruel of giant-insect movies, Famous Monsters of Filmlandmagazi
Read more…Justice League has been hinting at something for several issues. Mainly, a being named Perpetua who created the multiverse before the one we're reading. The next-issue blurb promises "The Other History of the Universe"!
So that raises a lot of questi
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It’s going to rain genre movies in 2019. That’s bad for movie critics who only like talky dramas, but great for we popcorn-loving plebes who apparently don’t know any better. There are too many to even list,
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Young Justice, an animated show that ran on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2013, is returning for a third season on the DC Universe streaming service Jan. 4. The series is modeled on the Teen Titans, but it’s a Te
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Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) swapped lives in the first two episodes of “Elseworlds,” which aired Dec. 9-11 on The CW.
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Taken on its own merits, this year’s annua
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The Marine Marvel’s time-honored superhero outfit will make an appearance in Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa.
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Newly minted movie star Aquaman swims fast and talks to fish. W
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Where did all these spiders come from?
In most cases, that’s a question you don’t want to hear. But it has a great answer when it comes to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the animated movie premiering Dec
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The superhero crossover on The CW this year is titled “Elseworlds” – an old DC Comics term with an illustrious history.
We already know a lot about TV’s “Elseworlds,” which begins on The Flash Dec. 9, continues
Read more…As most of you know, I was laid off by The Commercial Appeal (after 27 years) last year, and laid off again by the Riverfront Development Corporation six months ago. I have been doing the job-search thing since.
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