A thread in the Mr. Silver Age thread (RIGHT HERE) about Lana Lang's occasional little brother reminded me once of something I read about adventure heroes, by necessity, not having much in the way of family. You can't go running off to fight evil in
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If you don’t like Future Quest, you just don’t like comics.
I’ve said that a dozen times in various online venues, because it’s true. This series combines a wide variety of former Saturday morning cartoon sta
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Trailers for Ghost in the Shell, which premieres March 31, have been out for a while – and while Scarlett Johansson looks awesome, they’re a bit hard to decipher. Let’s demystify Ghost with a quick Q&A:
Q: Si
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WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT HONORS THE ICONIC CHARACTER WITH THE RE-RELEASE OF ONE OF THE BEST REVIEWED ANIMATED FILMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE ORIGINAL MOVIES
WONDER WOMAN: COMMEMORATIVE EDITION ON DIGITAL HD MAY 2, 2017 AND BLU-RAY
Good lord, it's Thursday already! Time to pop out the Captain's Comments for March 22, 2017, while they're still timely! This week's offerings:
• ACTION COMICS #976
• ANNO DRACULA #1
• ARCLIGHT
• BLACK HAMMER #7
• BLOODSHOT REBORN #0
• BRUTAL NATUR
Read more…So the boss had me work another six-day week. It's getting to be a habit! So bear with me if I'm more confused than usual. Here what I had time for this week:
• ALL-STAR BATMAN #8
• AMERICAN GODS: SHADOWS #1
• ARCHIE #18
• THE ASSIGNMENT VOLUME 1
•
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American Gods is already here.
No, not the TV adaptation of the award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman, which begins April 30 on Starz. What’s arrived is the comics adaptation from Dark Horse; the first issue hit
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Iron Fist stars (from left) Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing, Finn Jones as Danny Rand and Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple.
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Some comic book characters, like Superman and Spider-Man, seemed f
Read more…Comments on these books shipping March 8, 2017:
• ACTION #975
• ASSASSIN'S CREED: REFLECTIONS #1
• BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #8
• THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI #1
• CANNIBAL VOL 1
• CHARMED #1
• EARTH 2: SOCIETY #22
• THE FLASH #18
• HAL JORDAN AND
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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got off to a rocky start in its first season, for which some viewers have never forgiven it. But if they’re not watching this season, they’re missing some of the most compelli
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Photo Credit: Ben Rothstein
Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) tries to protect the young mutant Laura (Dafne Keen ) in Logan.
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Logan, premiering March 3, is already getting positive reviews and word of mouth.
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Once again, my overlords have determined that I only need nine hours for a weekend, which took place Monday. I clipped my nails, and, uh, took a shower and, uh, watched a TV show. I might have eaten a couple
Read more…He reportedly died from complications for an undescribed surgery. Here's the story from the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/arts/bill-paxton-dead.html?_r=0
My wife came to know him from Big Love, but I knew him from all kinds of
Read more…ACTION COMICS #974
Written by DAN JURGENS
Art by PATRICK ZIRCHER, STEPHEN SEGOVIA and ART THIBERT
Cover by CLAY MANN
Variant cover by GARY FRANK
32 pg • FC • $2.99 U.S. • RATED T
This issue will ship with two covers.
“MILD MANNERED” part two! The mys
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An unreliable narrator is an interesting storytelling device. But Fox’s Legion, which premiered Feb. 8, takes that idea to an extreme – with an unreliable reality.
Legion is the story of twentysomething Davi
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Sadly, I was assigned much overtime this week, so I don't have time for capital-R reviews -- I didn't even have time to read very much. But we can still be friends, right? We can talk. It's not like I'm just
Read more…INTRIGUE, ADVENTURE AND DECEPTION TEST THE BONDS OF DC SUPER HEROES AS WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASES TEEN TITANS: THE JUDAS CONTRACT ON BLU-RAY TM DELUXE GIFT SET, BLU-RAY TM COMBO PACK, DVD AND DIGITAL HD APRIL 18, 2017
Highly-Anticipated
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NBC’s Powerless premiered Feb. 2, and it’s based on the same DC Comics universe as TV shows like Arrow and movies like Batman v Superman. It’s just not connected.
Just as the DC superhero movies and DC superh
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