WonderCon 2019: NOW Is The Time To Join DC Universe
Maybe you thought there weren’t enough comics on DC Universe. Maybe you were waiting for the can’t miss TV series. The wait is over. The […]
Comics
UT! The Flaming Carrot Returns!
Fortune favors the bold as the Flaming Carrot returns! His war cry taught a generation of comics readers a very useful word for Scrabble.
IDW Opens The Door To The Haunted Mansion
Welcome, Foolish Mortals. With enough time having passed from Marvel’s Disney Kingdom comics line to have faded into memory, it looks like IDW is picking […]
Will Reptilian Rage Add To Consumer Rage?
“Just in time for Spider-Man: Far From Home,” promises Marvel in their press release. Does that mean that Dr. Curt Connors, aka The Lizard, is […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 537: Every Time We Cinequest
It’s Cinequest season – named Best Film Festival by the readers of USA Today! Derek interviews the team behind the existential thriller Every Time I Die. Also, some top stories of the week!
Valiant Resets Bloodshot At Diesel Strength!
Blood coursing with nanites that have changed him utterly, a super-powered soldier struggles to regain his identity, his independence, and his sense of right. He’s […]
Matt Wagner’s Grendel Returns To Dark Horse
A comic that helped define the 80s independent boom, Matt Wagner’s Grendel started with criminal Hunter Rose. After Wagner brought that initial series to a close, […]
What If Disney+ Does Marvel’s What If?
You love the Fantastic Five, don’t you? Or the time that Loki found Thor’s hammer first? If the report from Slashfilm.com is true (they claim […]
DC Expands 100-Page Giants’ Reach
Last week, comics journalism kerfuffled and clucked over an alleged announcement from DC Comics at the ComicsPRO meeting. In front of a gathering of the […]
Journey To Japan’s Past With Chronin
“In 1864, Japan was on the cusp of revolution.” So begins Alison Wilgus’ Chronin, getting readers up to speed on the necessary historical background. The basics […]
Titan Comics’ Blade Runner Gets A Title And An Artist
Still in my top 5 movies of all time, Blade Runner is one of those franchises that I didn’t think I wanted to be a franchise. […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 536: Discovering Discovery!
Star Trek, Batman, Doctor Who… it is the 60’s in the 21st century as a listener’s letter guides us through most of this weeks’ podcast!
Ms. Tree Returns To Hard Case Crime
Trenchcoat. Check. Handy with a .45. Check. Subverting tropes of hard-boiled crime fiction. Check. That’s maybe too recursive a description of one of the best […]
Sneak Preview Of Spencer & Locke 2!
A suspended cop and his imaginary friend, a trenchcoated panther, have finally put the pieces of their fractured psyches together — sort of. Now they […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 534: Spencer and Locke and Derek and Ric
We have a conversation with Spencer and Locke creators David Pepose and Jorge Santiago, Jr. and then dive into comics, movie, and TV news!
Galaxy’s Edge Becomes Star Wars Canon
Does this mean we all can become characters in Star Wars? Possibly, if you’re planning a trip to Black Spire Outpost on the Outer Rim world […]
Naomi Brightens The DC Universe
Stuff like that. Never. Happens. Here. That’s what Naomi and her friends say, after Superman and Mongul crash in and out of Port Oswego. The […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 533: You Can’t Have Too Many Omnibuses
We sit down for a conversation with Rust Creek director Jen McGowan, and celebrate comics master George Perez! All this and the week’s comic, movie and TV news!
Banner! Banner! Burning Bright
In the past year, a comic book has sparked conversations between my 14-year-old son and myself about the poetry of William Blake, Paradise Lost, and […]
Marvel Celebrates Heroes Of The Empire
With the multimedia resurgence of Star Wars, I’ve been waiting for this kind of crossover between Marvel and Del Rey Books. Not merely an adaptation of […]
