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Monday, Jan 18
DVD review: Super Friends: Season One, Vol. 1
The very first episodes of “Super Friends” finally come to DVD. These 45-minute episodes featured Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, along with their non-superpowered teen sidekicks, Wendy and Marvin, and their caped mutt, Wonder Dog. Vol. 1 contains the first eight epi...
Friday, Jan 8
Best comic-book series of the decade
3. All-Star Superman 4. Action Comics Geoff Johns and co-writer Richard Donner (director of “Superman: The Movie”) wrote an epic tale featuring the Kryptonian villains Zod, Ursa, and Non — and introduced a new supporting character to the Superman mythos.
Wednesday, Dec 23
‘Kid Flash’ series put on hold
Gates still has several DC projects in the works for the coming year – he’s involved with in a four-issue arc on “Adventure Comics” and he’s writing “Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton” with James Robinson. And Gates is still the regular writer on “Supergirl” with artist Jamal Igle.
Friday, Dec 18
Matt Price’s best comic-book series of 2009
5.“Supergirl”: Writer Sterling Gates, a Tulsa native, and artist Jamal Igle kept the mystery cooking of who the seemingly super-powered Superwoman was for much of 2009 in the pages of “Supergirl.” Supergirl dealt with the death of her father and the seeming villainy of her mother. This, an...
Friday, Oct 30
DVD review: Ruby-Spears Superman
The 1988 “Superman” animated series was the first version of the character to come to television since comic-book writer/artist John Byrne’s noted revamp of the character in the 1986 “Man of Steel” miniseries. In the new “Superman” comic-book line, Byrne and writer Marv Wolfman introd...
Wednesday, Oct 28
Oklahoma writer Sterling Gates creates World’s Finest team-ups
“The Batman universe is so full of change right now. So is the Superman universe,” Gates tells Newsarama. “Bruce Wayne is dead and Superman has left the planet Earth to be with his own people on New Krypton. The world is suddenly without its two greatest heroes. To me, that makes it a very excitin...
Friday, Sep 25
Smallville’s 9th season promises to be ’spicy’
“Smallville” kicks off its ninth season tonight, as the young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) comes ever closer to his eventual destiny as Superman. Zod appeared earlier in “Smallville” when he possessed Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), but now Zod appears in Smallville in the flesh. Mercer rep...
Thursday, Aug 27
DVD review: Smallville Season 8
Young Clark Kent moved closer to his eventual fate as Superman in the eighth season of “Smallville.” Clark Kent (Tom Welling) becomes a regular reporter for “The Daily Planet” and begins to have feelings for Lois Lane (Erica Durance).
Thursday, Aug 20
Quick comic book reviews, for the week of 8/19/09
Blackest Night Superman #1: I’ve heard mixed reviews on this one, and I can see why. Overall, I thought James Robinson’s Superman tie-in to Blackest Night worked, but the hickery of Smallville was a little over the top. Also, the Supergirl/New Krypton pages seemed very crammed, whereas...
Friday, Aug 14
DVD review - Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and friends are back in “Super Friends: The Lost Episodes,” a group of episodes produced by Hanna-Barbera when the “Super Friends” show was temporarily canceled by ABC in the early 1980s. Most of the episodes weren’t aired in the U.S. until a decade later.
Tuesday, Jun 16
George Reeves remembered on 50th anniversary of death
Review: Supergirl 34DVD review: Smallville, The Complete Seventh Season“Smallville” renewed; Lex Luthor leaving? Wired has a writeup on the life and career of George Reeves, who was Superman to a generation of kids. While much has been made of the mystery of Reeves’ demise — includin...
Wednesday, Jun 3
Review: Batman and Robin 1
Writer Grant Morrison teams up with his “All-Star Superman” and “New X-Men” collaborator, artist Frank Quitely, for “Batman and Robin” No. 1, and the result is the best comic-book launch of 2009 to date. Batman and Robin have a new, flying Batmobile, a new Batcave, and new, very creepy vill...
Friday, Apr 17
DVD review: “Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941-1942”
Extras include “The Man, the Myth,” which talks about superhero archetypes in mythology, and “First Flight,” which examines animation and the rotoscoping technique used in the “Superman” cartoons. Bruce Timm talks about these cartoons’ influence on “Batman: The Animated Series” in...
Wednesday, Apr 8
Opinion: Thoughts on Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1942
I’m watching “Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1942,” the official release of the war-era “Superman” cartoons that were a giant leap forward in animation. You can get a sense of what the official releases look like in the YouTube embeds above from Warner Bros. I’ll have a full review in The Ok...
Tuesday, Mar 24
Actor’s voice has heroic quality
After his first audition, Lowenthal was called back to read for two members of the Legion of Superheroes: Lightning Lad and Brainiac 5. He also was called back to read for the Man of Steel himself. “You’re Superman,” she told Lowenthal.
Wednesday, Jan 14
Retro Thursday: 2004’s top comics
Diamond is the exclusive distributor to the comic-book specialty market of the four largest publishers: DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics. The remainder of the top 10 include “Superman” No. 206, “Superman/Batman” No. 10, “Identity Crisis” No. 2, “Superman” No. 2...
