Blue Beetle Gets A Director
DC Films moves forward with Angel Manuel Soto to bring Jaime Reyes to the big screen.
Steve Ditko
Paramount Shoulders A New/Old Comics Universe
Do you remember thrilling to the adventures of The Grim Ghost? Paramount Studios hopes that might ring a bell, as they just went in with producers […]
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 […]
Absolutely Leap Into The Spider-Verse
Anybody could be Spider-Man. Maybe Phil Lord’s screenplay overplays the line, but Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse proves the point — joyfully. In the process, Sony Pictures […]
In Search Of Steve Ditko With Jonathan Ross
I buried this in my encomium to Ditko’s passing last night, but realized this morning that I should highlight it — if you want to […]
What You Owe Steve Ditko
Maybe you owe Steve Ditko nothing, because he wouldn’t have accepted your money, unless it was a fair trade for his work. But pop culture […]
Review: Avengers: Infinity War
This is the movie we’ve anticipated and feared. Avengers: Infinity War pulses with excitement, the cinematic equivalent of reading a Marvel Comics company-wide crossover. It’s got […]
The Fantastic Michael Fleisher
The comics world lost a key talent last month, but only found out this week. Though he had not written comics for a few decades, […]
First Look: Hawk and Dove on ‘Titans’
While everybody’s excited about Marvel movie news this week, we must remember that at least as far as television goes, DC keeps on getting well-represented. […]
Marvel Unveils T-Shirt Variant Covers
Marvel promised they were changing the way you read comics. Maybe they meant you could change shirts. Bringing out old-school licensed images from t-shirts using […]
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
The Spider-Man movie we have waited for.
Review: ‘Doctor Strange’
Strange? Perhaps a bit. Yet Doctor Strange could have afforded to be a bit stranger. To tell the story of the Master of the Mystic Arts, […]
Casting Captain Marvel:
Make Her Asian
Like most of America, I saw Captain America: Civil War this week. I loved it. This, however, is not an article about the differences between […]