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It’s amazing how alike Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch’s The Batman’s Grave is to their modern classic, The Authority. Ellis and Hitch are two of the most important comics creators in the history of the medium – their work on The Authority is one of the brightest dividers between comic book eras there is, like Showcase #4* — the introduction of Barry

Jonathan Hickman and the rest of the Dawn of X crew have done great work with villains since the post-House of X/Powers of X status quo emerged. Orchis somehow got better in X-Men than they were in House of X/Powers of X, while Morgan Le Fay and the Marauders in Excalibur and X-Force are great

The Disney era of Star Wars is full of fantastic new droids, including BB-8, Rogue One‘s K-2SO, and L3-37 from Solo: A Star Wars Story. And these are just a few of the many droids that have made the galaxy far, far away such a fun place to visit over and over again. So here’s to the

BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams begins with a forward by Neil Gaiman called “If We Can Sparkle He May Land Tonight.” It recounts the author’s first contact with the third kind. David Bowie‘s songs were stories, he remembers, like the Gilbert and Sullivan ditties Gaiman preferred over rock and roll in his youth. He

Season 2 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers featured the hand-off of powers between Jason, Zack, and Trini to Rocky, Adam, and Aisha. The two groups never truly met in person (and no, Jason having a guitar over his face doesn’t count) during MMPR since the actors for the original trio had left the show. Rocky and Adam

There is an ongoing argument in my household about who the best dog in comics is. And before you ask, yes the debate predates the arrival of our toddler. This is an important question. Anyway, we have at various times taken several positions. Sometimes it was Pizza Dog from Hawkeye. One time it was Ace the Bat-hound

Doctor Strange and Pink Floyd both got their start during the 1960s, a decade known for mind-expansion, psychedelic experimentation, and the pushing of cultural and artistic boundaries. Neither were exactly in step with the rest of their genre. Doctor Strange, unlike his spandex clad and heavily muscled contemporaries, used occult practices like black magic and

“A fairy tale has a way of getting into your head,” promises the new Gretel & Hansel trailer. “Even before you hear it.” Directed by Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House), the upcoming adaptation of the classic cautionary story from the Brothers Grimm looks like it

Gene Luen Yang made our Best Comics of 2019 list for Superman Smashes the Klan, and it is an incredible Superman comic. It’s already one of my all-time favorites. I can’t wait for it to wrap and come out in a digest I can pass on to newer readers in my life. But if you factor

To cover and consume popular culture in this era of #PeakContent is to constantly be making choices. This means it is more important now than ever to reflect on the ways in which “best of” lists, just like pop culture itself, are subjective—shaped by a group of people with specific identities, interests, and storytelling sensibilities.

What a century this last decade has been. Seriously, the pace of change over the last 10 years has been steadily rising, and has been somewhere between “dangerous” and “murderous” for the last 3, and that isn’t just about geopolitics: the comics world of today is certainly recognizable to a time traveller from 2010, but

It’s tricky to pinpoint what would be considered the best Stan Lee stories, because he was a consummate collaborator. Lee was a writer, an idea man, and scripter who worked with some of the greatest storytellers in the business to bring characters to life in tales that were greater than the sum of their parts.

e stand at the end of a decade of massive change, and the comics industry is not immune to those shifts. There are more ways to read more comics about more things than ever before. That’s why the best comics of 2019 contains not one, but three Superman books. I’m joking. There are only two

This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers. His Dark Materials Episode 8 Before anything else, the feet have to be right. Whether you’re performing a dance move or throwing a jab, everything springs from the feet. In this finale, His Dark Materials was able to pull off balletic pirouettes and land every punch, all because, months ago,

What if a serum could change humanity, giving some super-human magical powers while turning others into monsters? What if it were locked away so keep everyone safe, but someone opened the box, changing and distorting humanity for their own reasons? A protector would rise to stop them: and in the newest installment of the Hidden

Hulu put a steak in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series adaptation after almost a year of development, according to Variety. But, like  Lestat de Lioncourt himself, the project may not be going to ground for too long. What’s an Anne Rice project without controversy? Fans of the series bared fangs when Tom Cruise was cast

The end of the year marks the end of the decade. Even the usual idiots at Mad Magazine know that. They are such experts in the art of idiocy with deep understanding of its complexities they’ve been redubbed the usual gang of geniuses. As smart as that may make them seem, MAD entrusted Den of Geek

Superman: Red Son is the next iconic DC Comics story to get the animated feature treatment, and it’s coming soon! Indeed, the 2003 comic miniseries from Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, and Killian Plunkett, which might just be the best known Elseworlds tale ever, is set land its animated movie in 2020. The original story imagines

Shazam is turning in one of my favorite villain team ups of all time. I can think of other rogues galleries that might make me lose my mind harder, but pound for pound, putting the Seven Deadly Sins, Dr. Sivana, Mr. Mind, and Black Adam on the same page is almost guaranteed to make me

Comic book icons and heroes have been appearing on toy shelves since the days of Captain Action and Mego. But sometimes, toys that win the hearts and minds of kids of all ages are given their own comics, allowing toy fans to see their favorite bits of plastic in action by some of the best

This Batman article contains spoilers.  Tom King did the impossible. In a comics industry founded on the bedrock principle that only the appearance of growth should ever be shown, he’s told a massive, three-year, 85-issue story that has Bruce Wayne actually develop as a character. With Alfred’s death earlier in the final story arc, “City

This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers. His Dark Materials Episode 7 “We thought book one could not be adapted in fewer than eight episodes,” said His Dark Materials producer Jane Tranter at October’s launch event, “and I didn’t want to push my luck asking for more than eight.” Absolutely, quite right. No complaints here.   Except, if Tranter

Star Wars: The Force Awakens ushered in an entirely new generation of fans looking for more adventures in the galaxy far, far away, but with the whole issue of Legends canon vs. the new canon and a whole slate of new books, comics, and movies arriving in the next few years, it can be hard

This Batman article contains spoilers. We talked to Tom King about his epic Batman run last week, and one of the things that came up was how strong the quiet moments of the run were. Batman, Catwoman, Superman, and Lois Lane on a date at a fair. Bruce Wayne locked in a jury room. The Robins giving Bruce

This article contains nothing but spoilers for Watchmen, both the book and the HBO series. HBO’s Watchmen timeline is non-linear and occasionally confusing (or “infuriating” as Dr. Manhattan puts it) in its use of time. The book from which it draws inspiration is similarly non-linear and occasionally confusing in its use of time. To make matters

Starting in January, a new creative team is moving into the Batcave. Detective Comics veteran James Tynion IV and artists Tony S. Daniel, Guillem March, and Jorge Jimenez are taking over Batman from Tom King and Mikel Janin, who are wrapping up their 85-issue run later this month. Batman #86 will be Tynion and Daniel’s

Every Tom King comic is about something more than what it says on the cover. Heroes in Crisis is about processing trauma, even when you’re a superhero. The Vision was about how difficult it is to build and maintain a family. And whenever he teams up with Mitch Gerads, it’s a pretty safe bet that something special is coming.

NetherRealm Studios’ Injustice: Gods Among Us was born out of the idea of the Joker dying a gruesome death. What better brand synergy than tossing him into the Mortal Kombat universe? We’ve known for a while that Joker would be part of the first Kombat Pack as the last of Mortal Kombat 11’s initial wave of

Much of what happened at Luke Skywalker’s Jedi academy the night Ben Solo turned to the dark side remains a mystery. Star Wars: The Last Jedi fleshed out a bit of that story, showing us the moment that drove Ben to turn against the Jedi, but how the young Solo was corrupted and how he took

No matter what they’re into – be it horror, sci-fi and Bond or Marvel, cartoons and comic books – geeks of the world are united by their unquenchable thirst to know absolutely everything about the objects of their affection – and then prove it! Vintage Geek by longtime Den of Geek friend Marshall Julius is