Classic DC Comics characters are focus of two recommended traditional-format...
“Adult coloring books” are a fairly recent phenomenon. Over the past few years the adult coloring book has even taken on its own form, like the BBC’s Sherlock coloring book, which is published at...
View ArticleHarley Quinn creator returns to character’s origin story in new novel Mad Love
Review by C.J. Bunce It’s not every day the creator of a character has the opportunity to return to re-write that character’s origin story. Paul Dini has done that in a new novel co-written by Pat...
View Articleborg’s Best of 2018–The Best in Print
Our borg Best of 2018 list continues today with the Best in Print. If you missed them, check out our review of the Best Movies of 2018 here, the Kick-Ass Heroines of 2018 here, and the Best in...
View ArticleNew books reprint complete cover collection from hundreds of issues of Wonder...
Review by C.J. Bunce A new hardcover mini book joins Insight Editions‘ palm-sized book series (check out our review of the Harry Potter book here), this time reprinting 300 covers of the Wonder...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon to celebrate 20 years with comic book legends Claremont,...
In less than four weeks pop culture convention Planet Comicon Kansas City returns, this time to celebrate its 20th year. Even more than before the event is hosting a pantheon of nationally recognized...
View ArticleShattered Visage–Classic 1980s graphic novel that revealed the fate of The...
Review by C.J. Bunce The Prisoner: Shattered Visage was one of the first prestige format comics from DC Comics. Having the publication style of the recently released Batman: The Dark Knight Returns...
View ArticleNew “Secret Files” books chronicle the worlds of TV’s Supergirl and The Flash
Review by C.J. Bunce Primarily in-universe looks at the first three seasons of ABC/CW’s series Supergirl and the first four seasons of CW’s The Flash, two new books offer up a complete look at the...
View ArticleShazam! movie advance review–The magic, wonder, and heart of DC Comics...
Review by C.J. Bunce Make no mistake, Billy Batson aka Fawcett Comics’ Captain Marvel (aka Shazam since 2012) has always been the most difficult to fold into the DC pantheon of superheroes. With...
View ArticleDetective Comics reaches landmark 1,000th issue this week–A complete checklist
Detective Comics, the title DC Comics took its name from, first hit the shelves of newsstands just before March 1937, 26 months before Batman would first appear in the famous Issue #27 in May 1939....
View ArticleDetective Comics #1000–Sizing up the big Batman 80th anniversary issue
We’ve had a great response here at borg to our complete checklist of the variant covers for the 80th anniversary of Batman and benchmark 1000th issue of his long-standing comic book series, Detective...
View ArticleComic book writers and artists featured this weekend at Planet Comicon Kansas...
As expected Saturday at Planet Comicon Kansas City 2019 meant a great turnout for the annual convention, with tens of thousands of fans from the Midwest converging on the Kansas City Convention Center...
View ArticleFirst look–Warner Brothers releases trailer for Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker
In marked contrast to the fun, fantastic, and surprising Warner Brothers release Shazam!, finally arriving in theaters in general release today and reviewed previously here at borg, film fans now have...
View ArticleBatman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Crisis in a Half Shell is coming
Crisis in a Half Shell is coming. Nobody draws a tougher, more badass Batman than Freddie Williams II, and nothing shows that more than a trove of character images released this week from DC Comics and...
View ArticleCasting Batman? CW’s Batwoman is the bat-story we’ve been waiting for
Warner Brothers continues to struggle with how next to turn the DC universe of films into a cash cow like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. First a report that Ben Affleck′s replacement will be Robert...
View ArticlePreview–New book looks back to Star Trek’s animated voyages
We’ve been speculating about a new animated Star Trek for years (like back here at borg), and it’s sort of like the folks at CBS and Paramount listened to us. Ideas of an animated Star Trek have...
View ArticleSupergirl takes on a master illusionist in new CW series tie-in novel
Review by C.J. Bunce Is there a more likeable superhero in all of the DC Comics and Marvel Comics extended universe than Melissa Benoist’s Kara Danvers on CW’s Supergirl? New this year from...
View ArticlePreview–Summer Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover event gets...
If you enjoy Batman and especially if you read Batman comics, there’s one series you should be reading right now. And if you’re a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan, there’s one event you can’t miss...
View ArticleStriking Bill Sienkiewicz unpublished Batman book released to fans online
Initially used as a way to get people to sign up for his email distribution list over the Fourth of July weekend, David Lapham, the Eisner Award-winning writer of the comic book series Stray Bullets,...
View ArticleShazam! arrives on home video with trove of special features
Review by C.J. Bunce DC Entertainment and Warner Brothers began to take a shift in their superhero movie franchise with last year’s more adventurous Aquaman. With Shazam! the studios proved that a...
View ArticleCW’s Batwoman–Lead actresses highlight pilot for latest DC Comics adaptation
Review by C.J. Bunce For all the hype, CW Network’s latest series adapting DC Comics had an uneventful start this week. After Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Black Lightning,...
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