By Andrew A. Smith
Scripps Howard News Service
If you thought Hollywood strip-mined comic books for movie ideas in 2011, you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.
Which is not to say that all you’re going to see is superhero movies. Actually, so many genres, media and themes repeat this year that it makes me wonder if Hollywood screenwriters all get drunk in the same bar. I mean, do we really need two movies about riots on an orbiting space…
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Andrew A. Smith
Scripps Howard News Service
The Golden Age of radio is a nearly forgotten era, which makes it all the cooler that writer/artist Ernie Colón has brought it back in graphic novel form.
Inner Sanctum: Tales of Mystery, Horror and Suspense (NBM, $16.99) is a collection of stories adapted…
Added by Captain Comics on January 20, 2012 at 11:09pm — 1 Comment
By Andrew A. Smith
Scripps Howard News Service
My introduction to Lee Falk’s “The Phantom” was in comic books, not the syndicated comic strip. Thanks to Hermes Press, you can experience both at the same time.
“The Phantom” is the great grand-daddy of costumed heroes, first appearing as a newspaper comic strip in…
Added by Captain Comics on January 13, 2012 at 6:10pm — 30 Comments
By Andrew A. Smith
Scripps Howard News Service
Ever since Neil Gaiman’s astonishingly literate Sandman series ran from 1989 to 1996, I’ve wanted someone to point out the cool stuff I missed. And now, with DC/Vertigo’s lavish The Annotated Sandman Volume One ($49.99), that project has begun.
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Added by Captain Comics on January 7, 2012 at 11:44pm — 2 Comments
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