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DC Entertainment has posted two short promotional clips for the upcoming The Flash TV show, hosted by Tom Cavanagh as Dr. Harrison Wells. The first looks briefly at Barry Allen’s abilities, as played by Grant Gustin. The show will air this fall on the CW. This second clip features the supporting characters, Danielle Panabaker as Dr. Caitlin Snow and Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon.
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I’d been looking forward to seeing The Lego Movie, since I expected it to be fun and funny, based on this trailer. Plus, it has silly Batman! I got the humor I was looking for, but I was surprised to find that the movie is aimed more directly at kids than I expected. It’s available on home video this coming Tuesday. In the film, Lord Business, later President Business (Will Ferrell) defeats a prophet (Morgan Freeman) to steal the magic […]
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The latest in the series of Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, an impressively funny and educational history comic series, covers an immense topic: World War I and its Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood. Nathan Hale sets out to tell the story of “the war to end all wars”, but the earthy Hangman gets bored early and demands “cute little animals” to make it more interesting. Thus, the book symbolizes each country of Europe in 1914 with some kind of beast wearing […]
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Out next week in the US is a dystopian science fiction novel by M.R. Carey (who is better known to comic readers as Mike, author of Lucifer, Hellblazer, The Unwritten, and X-Men). The Girl With All the Gifts set after the human race has almost been destroyed by a plague that takes over the nervous system, turning people into cannibalistic “hungries” that exist only to infect others. (So, zombie apocalypse, kind of, as is so popular now.) Ten-year-old Melanie is […]
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The Big Feminist BUT: Comics about Women, Men, and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism is an anthology edited by Shannon O’Leary and Joan Reilly that was funded through a successful Kickstarter a year and a half ago. The title comes from how many people feel the need to say “I’m not a feminist, but…” Now, Alternative Comics has done a second edition for the purpose of “wide release to the book store and comic book shop markets.” Oddly, […]
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Matt Faulkner turned the story of his great-aunt and her daughter’s time in a Japanese internment camp in 1942 into Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, a fictionalized tale of a teen boy’s experiences during World War II. Koji is thirteen at the time of Pearl Harbor, and his adolescence is complicated by the war. His Japanese father is missing, and neighbors, shocked by recent events, react with bigotry and racism. Although his mother is Caucasian, that makes things worse, since […]
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Hope Larson, author of such outstanding graphic novels as Mercury and Chiggers, has quietly launched a new webcomic, Solo. (Not for kids — strong language appears in the first few pages.) It’s single-color, with a calming teal green highlighting and shading her firm lines. She’ll be updating, according to the site, “whenever I damn well feel like it”, and there are no plans for an RSS feed. She explains on Twitter: Maybe I want people to forget about my comic […]
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The new Tom Cruise / Emily Blunt movie Edge of Tomorrow opens today. It’s a science fiction take on future soldiers in which Cruise’s character keeps dying and coming back to refight battles with what he’s learned previously. Although the title sounds like an old soap opera, the concept is intriguing. It’s Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day. The movie is based on a novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka translated and published by Haikasoru, Viz Media’s prose imprint, in 2009 originally under […]
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