The Baby-Sitters Club: The Truth About Stacey (Full Color Edition)

The color reissues of the Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels continue with book two in the series, The Truth About Stacey. These volumes are based on the original novels by Ann M. Martin as adapted and drawn by Raina Telgemeier (Smile), now colored by Braden Lamb. Originally published in 2006, only the...

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Justice League: Gods & Monsters (Review)

Justice League: Gods & Monsters is the best of the DC original animated movies in a long while. That’s because it’s fresh. It’s based on an original story by Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, two creators who know what they’re doing, and the result is that you don’t know every plot beat before it happens....

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Batman Unlimited Sequel Monster Mayhem Coming in August

Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts came out direct-to-home-video in May, and it apparently did well enough that there will be a sequel in the series. Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem will be available on DVD and Blu-ray Combo Pack on August 18, or on digital August 4. It’s set on Halloween, when the...

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Batman v Superman Surprises

You’ve probably seen the trailer, which debuted at Comic-Con, for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (coming to theaters March 2016), but just in case, here it is: What immediately stood out to me were the things I didn’t like: Fearing Superman because he’s different and can do amazing things. Ma...

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Pixels

Pixels is exactly what it promises: a movie where video games have come to life, and Adam Sandler and friends, former arcade champions, are the only ones who can save the Earth. In other words, it’s dumb summer fun, something to goggle at while sitting in a dark, air-conditioned theater. I’ve put the...

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DC Bombshells Digital Comic Launches Tomorrow

The DC Bombshells comic will be available as of tomorrow digitally. MTV News posted preview pages, which these images are taken from. It’s written by Marguerite Bennett, designed and drawn by Marguerite Sauvage. Looks fun and attractive (even if that is a terrible pun), although I’ll be waiting for...

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Mastering Manga 3 Announced; Input Sought

Mark Crilley has posted the below YouTube video announcing that Mastering Manga 3, a followup to Mastering Manga With Mark Crilley and Mastering Manga 2: Level Up With Mark Crilley, will be published next year (2016). He says in the video that he has plans for what he wants to cover, but he also wants...

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Black Lightning Collection Marks End of Decades-Long Conflict

Amazon has a listing for a collection of Black Lightning comics due next April that’s listed as authored by Tony Isabella. This surprised a number of observers, since Isabella has been vocal for decades about his poor treatment by publisher DC, claiming that they promised him rights and compensation...

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Love Stage!! Volume 1

It takes something special for me to enjoy a yaoi title, since I’m not a natural fan of the boy/boy sex genre. In the case of Love Stage!!, that extra element is humor in a celebrity context. The title’s story is by Eiki Eiki, it’s drawn by Taishi Zaou, and it’s published by SuBLime Manga. The premise...

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Automan on DVD From Shout!

Probably the announcement out of the recent San Diego Con that most excited me is a very silly one: Shout! Factory will be bringing Automan to DVD! I have a huge fondness for that goofy show, as you can read in the link. TVShowsonDVD briefly referenced a tweet from the company that mentions “Manimal/Automan”,...

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Raina Telgemeier Announces Next Book

Raina Telgemeier is arguably the most important comic author of the modern era, with her books Smile, Sisters, and Drama placing on the graphic novels bestseller list for three years running. She’s created classics for entire generations of young readers and demonstrated that comics for girls can be...

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Bloom County Has Returned!

The most significant comic strip of the 1980s, Bloom County, has returned! (It was funnier and cuter than Doonesbury and not as weird as The Far Side.) I’ve no idea how often we’ll see new strips, but Berkeley Breathed posted this to Facebook today. While the characters look the same as before, the...

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DC Redesigns Show End Logos for TV Slate

DC has released this compilation of the end logos they’ll be using for their TV shows next season. In order, it’s Arrow, Gotham, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (the hardest one to figure out, imo), Supergirl, The Flash, iZombie, and Lucifer. I’m planning on watching all of them except Gotham. This executes...

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Paramount Works With AMC to Bring Movies to Home Video Faster

Traditionally, there’s at least 90 days between the time a movie plays in theaters and it’s available for DVD/Blu-ray/digital purchase. That’s because theater owners get very angry if they feel they’re being competed with as a viewing option. However, Paramount is trying something different. They’ve...

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Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostrils Chronicle

When a friend recommended the Phoebe and Her Unicorn comic strip (formerly known as Heavenly Nostrils) to me, she described it as a more modern, girl-centered Calvin and Hobbes. She was right. Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson is the first collection of the strips. Phoebe is playing near a pond...

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Archie Riverdale Series Coming to CW

Greg Berlanti, the TV producer behind such successful comic adaptations as Arrow, The Flash, and the upcoming Supergirl, is working with Archie Comics on Riverdale, a live-action one-hour TV drama. Originally developed for Fox, the show has now been announced for the CW (which makes sense, since Warner...

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Atari Force Returns!

As I’ve said before, I really liked Atari Force. Yes, it was originally a home-video-game tie-in, but the 20-issue series by (as Mike Sterling reminds us), Gerry Conway and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez was good science fiction with a motley crew of characters beautifully drawn. Dart, the tough, tattooed bounty...

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