News X-Men Days of Future Past Official Trailer Sentinels! 70s Fashion! Mystique! Xavier and Magneto glaring intensely at each other! Is it May yet? G. Willow Wilson, the Muslim Woman Revolutionizing Comics Vulture talks to Wilson about the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan. Commentary How BOOM! Studios is Utilizing Today’s Top Webcomics Talent Deadshirt on…
News & Things: BOOM! Black Widow!
News Hot Toys Unveils New Black Widow Figure The new 1/6 scale Black Widow figure features the likeness of Scarlet Johansson as she appears in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. BOOM! Studios Signs First-Look Deal with Cartoon Network The deal allows BOOM!, the publishers of the official Adventure Time and Regular Show comics, to option…
Short & Sweet: Wolf Spider Bikini Bingo
Wolves, spiders, wolf-spiders, and more! This week we review Batwoman, Red Sonja, Adventure Time, Loki: Ragnarok and Roll and SPOOKS.
Shop visit: Proud Lion, Cheltenham
Proud Lion in Cheltenham is easy to see, because the sign is bloody massive. That’s good. I’ve had my fill, to be honest, of shops that hide. I liked them in the past. This picture is from google street view, and it looks kind of… ehhh… but stay with me. Google doesn’t know everything.
News & Things: Agent Coulson Is Disappointed In You
News “Game of Thrones” director Neil Marshall tapped for “Constantine” Known for directing one of the best episodes of Game of Thrones, “Blackwater” (season two, episode nine), horror movie director Neil Marshall has been chosen to direct the pilot episode of NBC’s in-the-works “Constantine” TV series. Could this possibly be…dare I say it…good?!
News & Things: Vampire Adventure Academy Time
Kickstarter of the Week Maple Key Comics, a new, independent, bi-monthly anthology, is looking for your help! The 300 page!) anthologies will be available in print or digital, on a subscription basis. Stories will be serialized, Shonen Jump style, and a year of stories will complete each arc. To anchor each issue, an established indie…
Buying Last Minute? Buy Local!
It’s less than a week before Christmas and you may have a few (or like me, several) gifts left to purchase. The gift certificates and pre-paid credit cards hanging on the wrack at the grocery store check out lane are looking more tempting with each passing day. “Who doesn’t like scratch-offs and chocolate?” you ask…
News & Things: Wet Hot Ant-Man Summer
News Paul Rudd in Talks for Ant-Man We may have our Hank Pym! Paul Rudd is in early negotiations for Edgar Wright’s long-gestating Ant-Man film. Lauren Faust on Super Best Friends Forever DC Collectibles talks to Faust about her SBFF (“SssBOOFs!”) character designs. 27 Pieces of Denys Cowan Art Missing Original concept art and comic…
Last Minute Gift Guide: Books and Comics
Still shopping, huh? Don’t worry, we’ve got some ideas for you. We’ve held back on prices—availability, shipping, and prices vary so much—but rest assured, a wide variety of price points is represented. Today we’ve got book and comic book recommendations. Come back Friday for recommendations on geeky stuff and things.
News & Things: New comics, banned comics, gift comics
Kickstarter of the Week Periscope Studio wants to sell you artbooks from a bunch of their creators! The Oregonian comics collective is making its first foray into publishing with a series of artbooks from their… shall we say robust list of creators. The Kickstarter aims to fund printing of an initial run of six, limited…
News & Things: Mad Science Throwdown
Welcome back to News & Things! Tonight we have the Young Avengers season finale, Rachel Maddow on March, Princess Bubblegum vs. Frankenstein, and more! Read of the Week The Dissolve talks about what Marvel’s shared universe means for movies: “But the longer the MCU continues, the more I’m struck by the sameness of all the…
Steven Universe
The first female solo-created series in Cartoon Network’s 21-year history, Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe premieres with a lot of fanfare. Series openers “Gem Glow” and “Laser Light Cannon” drop us headfirst into Steven’s, um, universe, where the enthusiastic young boy protects Beach City alongside the mystical warriors known as the Crystal Gems—AKA Garnet, Amethyst, and…