Alter Ego #199 May 2026 (magazine review).
This edition of Alter Ego, as you can tell from the cover, focuses on Shazam! or, rather, the original Captain
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Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines Of Golden Age Comics compiled & annotated by Mike Madrid (graphic novel review).
This second volume, Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines Of Golden Age Comics, compiled by Mike Madrid, showcases 28 heroines
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Secret Six Volume 4: Caution To The Wind by Gail Simone and J. Calafiore (graphic novel review).
Of the four volumes, Secret Six Volume 4: Caution To The Wind by Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore was the
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Alter Ego #35 April 2004 (magazine review).
Editor Roy Thomas admits in his editorial that two major articles in this issue of Alter Ego squeezed out much
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Back Issue #166 April 2026 (magazine review).
The subtitle of this 166th edition of Back Issue is ‘Partner Up!’, focusing on various comic book partnerships, although not
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Vought Rising trailer arrives to remind us superheroes were awful long before social media (video).
There are few things more comforting in modern television than discovering that humanity has always been dreadful. Not just ordinary
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Lanterns: second trailer, True Detective, but with space cops and mood lighting (HBO TV series).
The second trailer for HBO’s Lanterns has arrived, and yes, before the internet is forced to form another emergency committee,
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Alter Ego #198 March 2026 (magazine review).
As you can probably tell from the cover of this issue of Alter Ego, the main feature is a detailed
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Secret Six volume 3: Cat’s Cradle by Gail Simone, John Ostrander and J. Calafiore (comic-book review).
Rather uniquely, the third volume of Secret Six is also one of the smallest. Quite how the distribution of pages
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Batman Year 3: The Deluxe Edition by Marv Wolfman, Pat Broderick, John Beatty and Adrienne Roy (graphic novel review).
In many respects, Batman: Year 3 should really be called ‘Batman: Year 13’. Yes, it goes back to the time
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