Comic Books

Amazon’s The Tick TV Show Premieres on August 25

Citizens of the world, I say to you: get hype! The new Tick TV show starring Peter Serafinowicz starts airing on Amazon Prime this summer. Originally floated last year as a prospect during Amazon’s Pilot Season, the newest live-action iteration of Ben Edlund’s superhero parody got picked up for a full season last September. This…

‘Daddy, Can You Tell Me More About the Superheroes?’

I’d been waiting years for my daughter to show an organic interest in superheroes, video games, and the other stuff I write about as a professional nerd. It’s happening, at long last… but it’s taking us to some unexpectedly poignant places. It started, unsurprisingly, with Batman. While getting ready for bed more than a month…

Brave Hero Saves His Comics As SUV Plows Through Comic Book Shop

Just picture it: You’re chilling at the comic book shop, picking up some new releases, maybe getting ready to head to the counter to buy them. Then…GIANT SUV RIGHT IN YOUR FACE. Yet, despite the trauma, you don’t drop a single page. That’s the mark of a true hero. DeeP Comics & Games in Huntsville,…

This Marching Band’s Elaborate Halftime Show Will Make You a Comic Book Fan

Do the students at Ohio State University who play in the marching band actually go to class? Or do any studying? Because watching this amazing college football halftime show tribute to comic book heroes makes you assume the band must have to practice 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to achieve this kind…

We Haven’t Seen This Many Comic Books in Stores Since 1996

The comic book industry spent years on the edge of irrelevance, struggling to find an audience after the boom of the 1990s ended. Nowadays, thanks in no small part to the surge in superhero movies, comic book distribution is higher than it’s been in decades. According to comic sales analyst John Jackson Miller of Comichron,…

Please Help CBS by Pitching Superhero Shows It’d Like

Today at the TCA panel, CBS entertainment president Glenn Geller explained that moving Supergirl to the CW was a great move for them and the show. And that “If we heard the right superhero pitch, we would absolutely buy it.” Let’s help him find it. Actually, the perfect CBS superhero pitch already exists, and it’s…

The Evolution of Joker in Film and TV History

The Joker is easily one of the best villains in film and TV (and obviously, comic book) history, but who is the best Joker? Jack Nicholson combined the mischievous campiness of the character with the deranged thirst for violence. Heath Ledger’s The Dark Knight Joker is somehow just as iconic as Nicholson and fit Christopher…

The Lost Boys Is Finally Getting the Sequel it Deserves, Just in Comic Book Form

“I don’t like horror comics,” new kid in town Sam says in The Lost Boys when the weirdos he’s just met, the Frog Brothers, try to give him a book about vampires. The theme has come full circle now that The Lost Boys are getting a sequel in comic book form—featuring Sam and both Frogs—courtesy…

10 Superheroes That Were Based on Real People

Superheroes have superpowers and exist in worlds where reality doesn’t exactly exist and have weird names and are totally not all the way human. But! A lot of them are actually based on real people. Which makes a lot of sense, since it was real people that invented our favorite characters and they took inspiration…

How Many People Has Iron Man Killed in His Movies?

Iron Man is basically a death machine. A slick talking, charismatic death machine but a death machine nonetheless. Once Tony Stark straps on that suit of his, absolutely no one—people, aliens, other robots, whoever is nearby—is safe. Here’s his kill count from all the Marvel movies he’s appeared in. He pretty much owns Captain America’s…

How Many People Has Captain America Killed in the Marvel Movies?

Even the nicest, most decent superheroes are cold blooded murderers. The nice ones just do it less than the psychopaths and make their kills with a much more cheery soundtrack. Take Captain America. Dude is all-American good guy as it gets and he’s racked up quite a kill count in his Marvel movies. How many?…

The Evolution of Spider-Man in Movies

Admittedly, it’s a little weird to do a history of Spider-Man in movies because they just told and re-told the origin story of the superhero within like a span of 10 years. But we all love Spider-Man so much that even though there’s not much history to go over, it’s still always fun to look…

How Many Actors Have Played Your Favorite Superheroes?

Who do you think of as Superman? Christopher Reeves. Iron Man? Robert Downey Jr. Wolverine? Hugh Jackman. Some comic book superheroes will always be associated with one actor. But others? Like who’s your Batman or the Human Torch, and is Ben Affleck even a superhero even though he’s been one twice? Those questions will endure…

You Can Buy a Tiny Comic Book Rack And Fill it With Equally Tiny Comics

Most of your action figures are probably based on superhero characters from comic books, so why shouldn’t they be able to enjoy the same stories that brought you so much joy? Now they can, or can at least be posed to look like they are, with this tiny DC Comics spinner rack from Cryptozoic Entertainment.…

The Tick Live-Action Show Is Returning, But it Will Lack One Important Element

Ben Edlund’s blue-suited hero the Tick, previously seen on TV in both animated and live-action form, is returning to the latter format thanks to Amazon, which just ordered a pilot for a new version. But original star Patrick Warburton, who’s got another full-time TV gig at the moment, won’t be a part of it. Creator…

The Unlikely Origins of Deadpool, The X-Men Character Who Conquered All Media

Deadpool wasn’t always a comics (and movie, and video game) superstar. The Merc with a Mouth started out much smaller, as a supporting character in one of the many X-Men comic books. We talked to the people who created and shaped him, to find out how Deadpool conquered the universe. Deadpool was first introduced in…

In 1973, the National Football League commissioned Jack Kirby to imagine the future of football for Pro! Magazine. Adam Rowe, writing for the Barnes and Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog takes a closer look.

Showtime’s Penny Dreadful Will Become a Comic Book Series

In kind of a flip-flop of how these things usually unfold, Showtime’s Victorian England-set horror drama Penny Dreadful—which will unveil its third season in 2016—will jump from the screen to the page, courtesy of a Titan Comics series penned by the series’ scriptwriters. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the first book is due in spring…

Honest trailer of Avengers: Age of Ultron shows how even good Marvel movies aren’t as fun anymore

Marvel is still pumping out some really good and really fun movies but there’s definitely a little fatigue when it comes to juggling all these superheroes to set up all these storylines to connect all these worlds. A movie like Avengers: Age of Ultron was absolutely, totally good! But it tries to do too much…

How many people has Superman killed in his movies?

Superman used to be really, really careful and considerate about the people he killed. In fact, you could probably count all the kills of Christopher Reeves-era Superman on one hand. He’s not like that anymore. Once you get to Man of Steel, you pretty much need every hand of every citizen in Metropolis to count…