Boom! Studios’ silly, soapy ode to the real desperate housewives of superheroes is back this week as “Supurbia” becomes an ongoing. The story picks up shortly after the end of Grace Randolph’s miniseries as the spouses and heroes settle in to life after the death of Meta Legion leader Marine Omega. The new Marine Omega … Continue Reading →
Boy, take a few days off and all sorts of cool stuff happens. First, congrats to Team Metro Detroit at the Big Buck World Championship this past weekend. Three local brothers and three women went to New York for the games, which still went on despite the aftereffects of Superstorm Sandy. Christina Ronyecz of Madison … Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Vibe’s Detroit origin confirmed. MTV Geek! got an interesting exclusive: DC is taking the annoying trend of variant covers to a whole new level with the launch of “Justice League of America.” There will be 52 variant covers, one for each state, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to the site. Also announced … Continue Reading →
The Metro Detroit convention season is winding down with three final big shows to take us into winter. This weekend sees two of them: Detroit FanFare and U-Con. Next weekend, Youmacon takes geeks out in anime style. (More on that next week.) Detroit FanFare is in its third year and this year will be moving … Continue Reading →
First it got the movie treatment, and now “The City of Ember” is the latest in YA fiction to make the leap to graphic novel with a new release from Random House. In Jeanne DuPrau’s book (adapted by Dallas Middaugh and illustrated by Niklas Asker) Doon and Lina are two children in Ember, an underground … Continue Reading →
Like Laurell K. Hamilton (and others) before here, Patricia Briggs has made the jump to comics with “Alpha and Omega — Cry Wolf: Volume One,” an adaptation of the first half of her book “Cry Wolf.” Briggs has made quite a name for herself in the urban fantasy genre, with several bestsellers in her “Alpha … Continue Reading →
After my rant this summer about Batman overload, I felt a little funny popping “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — Part 1″ into the Blu-ray player. But it’s a comic book video, and I’m a geek writer, so I figured I should do it. And I’m actually glad I did. Would I have preferred an … Continue Reading →
“This guy’s been hunting this tomato for years.” Not the first thing you expect to hear in a comic book story session, but it was one of the best lines I heard from DC creative chief and Metro Detroit native Geoff Johns when he was at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn Saturday for … Continue Reading →
It took less than a day for Green Brain Comics in Dearborn to go through its 125 tickets for Friday’s signing by Metro Detroit native and DC bigwig Geoff Johns. The 5-7 p.m. signing was a perk for interested people who picked up “Green Lantern” No. 0 from the store. Tickets were limited because of … Continue Reading →
It’s only September, but I’m going to call Raina Telgemeier’s “Drama” from Scholastic the best stand-alone all-ages book of the year. I can’t remember the last time I put a book down and felt so thoroughly satisfied. But I’ve read a lot of great all-ages stuff this year, so I’m not quite ready to declare … Continue Reading →