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FOX’s ‘Gotham’ Effectively Explores Origin Story Elements

Episode two of Gotham, broadcast last night on FOX-TV, established an interesting theme ...

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FOX’s ‘Gotham’ Takes Promising New Angle on Batman Story

The many manifestations of the Batman character over the decades all have one thing in c...

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Prose Fiction Update With A Bit of Poetry

Another week, another passel of links into the wide, wide world of wondrous word-smith...

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Prose Fiction Update

For your reading pleasure, as the work week comes to a close. Spend some time this weeke...

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‘Hellboy’ to Don Purple Robe

The new Hellboy graphic novel arc hits the newsstands August 4, and the story takes an amu...

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Fiction Friday: Stories, News, Reviews & Opinion From the Publishing World

News of publishing's demise is greatly exaggerated. Wander into any bookstore, be it a ...

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A Great American Artist Tested the Limits of Liberal Tolerance

2009 was the centenary year of the birth of a great American artist and writer. At his pea...

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Frank Frazetta, 1928-2010

He was an artist, not an author, but I suspect he was responsible for more fantasy book...

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Homosexuality Comes to Riverdale High and the Archie Gang

Archie Comics is welcoming a gay character. It isn’t Archie, Jughead, Veronica, or Betty...

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‘Human Target’ Hits Action-Adventure Mark

As the recent passing of Mission: Impossible star Peter Graves reminds us, the mid-'60s ...

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Stephen King of the Massaged Cliché

Stephen King brings vampires to America's Old West in a newly published comic book. Unfort...

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Thousands Gather at Comic Con

Between eight and ten thousand sequential art, science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts gat...

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A Horror Comic About an Aborted Child Deftly Avoids Propaganda

A work about abortion easily lends itself to propaganda, either for or against this contro...

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Marvel Comics Change

Marvel Comics will move away from "darker" story lines and characterizations, and  "heroe...

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Audiences Watching ‘Watchmen’, but Fewer Than Expected

      Watchmen opened at number 1 in U.S. movie ticket sales...

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‘Watchmen’ Graphic Novel Is As Good As They Say

        The Watchmen graphic novel is indeed a fin...

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Obama Featured in Superhero Comic

Now that he has raised the Dead, it only makes sense that President-elect Barack Obama has...

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Barbie Wears Fishnet Stockings, Civilization Totters on Brink of Catastrophe

A British organization's crusade against a new Barbie doll is an embarrassment to Christia...

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Downey to Lead Genre-Bender

Robert Downey Jr., star of the megahit movie Iron Man, has signed on for a new film that c...

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‘Iron Man’ Is Super Box-Office Hit–And More

Marvel Studios' Iron Man dominated the movie box office during its first weekend, at a nea...

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“Rembrandt of the Comic Strip”

I'm not a comic-book/graphic-novel lover nor a hater. The form just doesn't grab me the wa...

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The Admirable Conciseness of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer topped the U.S. box office during the past...

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Batman Begins . . . Again

[I ran across a DVD of the movie Batman Begins recently and was reminded of how representa...

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Conan the Influential Barbarian

John J. Miller of National Review has put together a nice overview of Robert E. Howard's &...

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The Art of “The Batman”

I've been out of town at a conference for the past few days, and haven't had much of a cha...

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Psych Finale—Finally Satisfying

Finally, the USA Network comedy-mystery Psych came up with a fully satisfying episode, las...

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Audiences, Critics Disagree on Summer’s Superhero Movies

The Hollywood Reporter observes that audiences and critics differed greatly on the merits ...