December 1, 2015 KC Warner Archive 2 comments

Justice League Unlimited: The Complete Series

Review by KC Carlson Now available from Warner Archive is Justice League Unlimited: The Complete Series in a new three-disc Blu-ray set. All 39 episodes of all three seasons of Justice League Unlimited are included in this set. It also includes the episode commentaries (for “This Little Piggy” and “The Return”) and all of the special documentaries created for the original DVD collections, which include “And Justice For All” (9:11), “Cadmus Exposed” (23:24), and “Justice League Chronicles” (33:46). Not included […]

November 29, 2015 Johanna Books About Comics Leave a comment

Twelve-Cent Archie

Bart Beaty’s Twelve-Cent Archie resembles a grab bag of blog posts put under book covers. There are 100 capsule pieces, in no immediately obvious order, each lasting 2-4 pages and covering some aspect of Archie comics cover-dated from December 1961 through July 1969, when Archie publications sold for 12 cents. He’s read all the works the company put out in that time period, 17 different titles. In particular, he’s focusing on the work of artists Harry Lucey (Archie), Dan DeCarlo […]

November 29, 2015 Johanna DCU Original Animation 2 comments

Batman: Bad Blood Next DCU Animated Movie

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that the next DCU original animated movie will be Batman: Bad Blood. It’s coming out on Blu-ray and DVD on February 2, 2016, with the digital HD version available a month earlier, on January 19. This was the film previewed on Justice League: Gods & Monsters this past summer. The story involves Batman going missing, so it will require “the entire Bat ‘family’ — including new additions Batwoman and Batwing — to keep the […]

November 29, 2015 Johanna Manga News 2 comments

Will Tokyopop Return? We’ll Find Out Next Year

This summer, news went around that former manga publisher Tokyopop, which stopped printing books in the US in 2011, was returning. Again. For the third time. Tokyopop had a panel at this year’s Anime Expo where they announced that they are “planning to begin publishing manga again in 2016” by “seeking to license ‘hidden gems that are not yet noticed’ from small or independent publishers.” That may be because big publishers no longer want to get involved with a company […]

November 29, 2015 Johanna Manga News One comment

Princess Jellyfish Comes to Print in US

Princess Jellyfish has long been enjoyed by US fans as an anime series. They’re drawn to the story, about a girl geek living in a house full of women devoted to their hobbies, including a manga artist and a history buff. The shy young lady loves watching jellyfish, and one night she meets a beautiful woman at the pet shop who’s a lot more than she seems. The growing friendship between the geek girls and the woman who chooses to […]

November 28, 2015 Johanna TV News Leave a comment

ABC Cancels First Show of Season; Why Did It Take So Long?

Two weeks ago, news broke that ABC canceled Wicked City after three episodes of the 1980s-set show about a pair of serial killers. In it, Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) and Erika Christensen murder while LAPD detectives (Jeremy Sisto and Gabriel Luna) hunt them down. The premise and period setting sounded intriguing, but reviews were bad. And ratings were worse, setting what “is believed to be a Big 4 low for a scripted original.” (They shouldn’t have canceled Forever, which wasn’t […]

November 28, 2015 Johanna Books About Comics Leave a comment

Modern Masters: Paolo Rivera

I really like the guys behind TwoMorrows. They made a go of publishing historical magazines and books about comics at a time when few others were. However, their publications are aimed at a core, comic shop-based, male audience that is so clearly irrelevant to what I enjoy about the medium. Take, for instance, this latest volume, the 29th. (It’s labeled 30 because number 23 never came out.) As the series has progressed, the subjects have gone from well-known, acclaimed creators […]

November 28, 2015 Johanna Movie News One comment

Is the Good Dinosaur a Bad Pixar Movie?

Pixar’s been on a roll for a long time, making some of the best ever animated films about meaningful subjects. Inside Out, newly out on home video, even managed to dramatize pre-adolescent emotions in an entertaining way. However, their latest, The Good Dinosaur, in theaters now, may break their streak. Cars 2 was previously poorly reviewed, but The Good Dinosaur is the only one that sounds boring. It was delayed a year and a half from the original release date, […]

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