… or is it The Devil Wears Prada, the Superhero Edition? In The Devil Wears Prada, Anne Hathaway played a smart but awkward gopher/assistant for a wealthy and mean editor-in-chief boss played by Meryl Streep. In CBS’s new series Supergirl, Melissa Benoist appears to be playing a smart but awkward gopher/assistant for a wealthy and mean boss in some […]
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The borg.com selection for best comic book series of 2013, Dynamite’s Miss Fury, continues to be an action-filled series in 2014, full of time travel, parallel histories, and an update to a classic and nostalgic superheroine. Add to that mobsters, Nazis, the Philadelphia Experiment, atomic age scientists, and an interstellar timeship, and the result is just […]
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You wouldn’t be off base thinking of Batman when you see the superhero The Black Bat, as their history and origin is linked in controversy. Both The Black Bat and Bob Kane’s Batman derived the look of their characters from common pulp fiction renderings. Both characters emerged at about the same time and the publishers Thrilling […]
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A borg serial killer is on the loose, making his way from Kansas City to somewhere nearby Lawrence, Kansas, 40 miles away. OSI has video footage of his last rampage, taking out several agents. The results aren’t pretty. OSI has identified a well-established, horrifying M.O. Unlike the OSI-created menace from Phil Hester’s Bionic Man series, […]
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The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher’s popular series of fantasy meets mystery novels about a wizard living in modern day Chicago, has had an incredible run in print, with some 14 books released since 2000, including the November 2012 release Cold Days. It also was turned into a Syfy Channel (then Sci Fi Channel) TV series […]
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It’s only four days until Free Comic Book Day is here again, and comic book publishers have several interesting issues planned for this year. Free Comic Book Day is always about getting new people into the local stores to check out all that comics have to offer. So plan to grab someone and take them in to […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Put aside the hurricane that was 2012’s New 52 reboot from DC Comics, and one year ago if someone would have said that Barbara Gordon would have her own solo title again as Batgirl, and a successful title at that, most DC fans would have had doubts. Then with the announcement […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Three years ago Barbara Gordon was shot and sustained spinal damage by the Joker. The crime was detailed in Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s controversial Batman: The Killing Joke, the first slick prestige-formatted comic book and one of the best looking comic books of all time. Since then Barbara Gordon has […]
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DC Comics announced this past week plans to re-launch its entire comics line—52 comic book series to begin again at issue #1 this September. Never before has a comics publisher taken such a big risk all at one time. And DC promises major changes, releasing a few hints so far along with the creative line-ups for the […]
