"Snowpiercer" the series arrived May 17 on TNT, a weekly show set after the end of the world.

While not as depressing as it sounds, it's still pretty bleak. The premise is a new ice age, and what survivors there are live on a train eternally circling the Earth, its engine a perpetual motion machine that, as long as it's running at or above a ...Read more

New comic books are back in the pipeline to comic shops, after the pandemic halted distribution back in March. Here's the A-list:

"2020 Ironheart" #1 (of 2, Marvel Comics, May 20, $3.99, digital only): Ironheart is Riri Williams, a teenage genius who built her own Iron Man armor and took Tony Stark's place when he was thought dead. One suspects...Read more

Nothing stops the Dark Knight, not even a pandemic. Here are some Bat and Bat-adjacent graphic novels, all from DC Comics, all $29.99 (for the hardbacks), all available from bookstores and online retailers:

-- "Batman: White Knight" is actually a 2017 miniseries that was collected in trade, hardback and "deluxe" in 2018 and 2019. The reason it'...Read more

The long drought is broken. Diamond Comic Distributors, which delivers most comics to retailers in North America, announced April 28 on Twitter that it would resume full services on May 20.

Diamond had previously announced in late March that it was halting all deliveries, which left comic shops with no new product, and no way for publishers to ...Read more

Not only is it "safer at home," but it's also an opportunity to do some recreational reading. Here are some of the more offbeat graphic novels that have recently crossed my desk:

"The Runaway Princess" by Johan Troianowski (Random House, $12.99)

Technically this is considered a YA graphic novel, but it skews much younger than that -- ...Read more

Fans of Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's daughter, know the strengths of the character. Her determination, tough-mindedness and eidetic memory led her to be effervescent Batgirl in 1967, and then, after being shot by The Joker and confined to a wheelchair, the omniscient Oracle in 1989. She's back to being Batgirl in current DC comics, but ...Read more

The year 1940 was, in general, a pretty lousy one, what with World War II and all. But it was a great one in comics, with roughly a jillion new superheroes debuting from roughly a jillion publishers, thanks to the popularity of a certain Man of Steel.

Foremost among those 1940 publishers was today's DC Comics, which has had some success ...Read more

The comics-based movie "Bloodshot" began screening at theaters nationwide March 13, and it's remarkable. Not the movie, necessarily, though it might be. What's surprising is the fact that local theaters are screening anything at all.

Yes, I'm talking about COVID-19 and "social distancing." With virtually all sports canceled, lots of restaurants...Read more

Avast, me hearties! Pull up a barrel and I'll spin ye a tale of freebooters, sea-soaked adventure and more blarney than ye can swing a sabre at! Aye, I be talking pirate comics, ye scurvy sea dogs!

There are many, no doubt, who will be surprised to find out that there ever were pirate comics. But "Treasure Island," the novel that is credited ...Read more