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Convention News: Smurfs Take over FACTs ComicCon

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor Birthday Smurfs take over FACTS The Smurfs will be taking over FACTS on October 21st and 22nd. These iconic cartoon characters, who are celebrating their 65th anniversary, will be joined by two specially designed cosplay…

Guest list complete for Heroes Comic Con (Belgium)

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor Spot seven famous actors in Brussels Expo This was a great time last year. If you’re anywhere near Brussels this weekend, this would be a great plan! BRUSSELS – If you want to escape the…

Interview: Matty Lubchansky (Boys Weekend)

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor I picked up a copy of Boys Weekend, by Mattie Lubchansky back in June, not knowing what to expect. I’d not been familiar with their work before, but I just browsed the first chapter and…

Comic Book Review: The Incredible Hulk #1

If you like true horror, The Incredible Hulk #1 is a must read. Even with a plethora of monthly comic choices, Johnson and Klein make this book appointment reading.

Event News: Geoff Johns to Appear at Baltimore Comic-Con 2023

Press Release: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – June 13, 2023 – Come to the Baltimore Comic-Con this September 8-10 at the Baltimore Convention Center in the Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The Baltimore Comic-Con is happy to announce the return of one of comics’…

Comic Review: Time Before Time #23

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor Official Synopsis: Nadia and Kevin race against time to save Arcola from destruction in the explosive conclusion to Time Before Time‘s latest arc. Previously on Time Before Time: Billions of years in the past, Nadia…

Interview: David Lloyd (V For Vendetta, Aces Weekly)

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor When I went to Heroes Con here in Brussels, I knew that David Lloyd would be in attendance, but I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to get a hold of him. …

Event News: Wheatley, Hempel, Insight Team Head to Baltimore 2022

Redfield, Rouse, Gold, Hauman, and Thomases make for impressive line-up BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – September 19, 2022 Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel, the creative dynamos who engineered the Vertigo hit Breathaker, created the pioneering Blood of the Innocent mini- series, and…

Event News: Heroes Comic Con (Brussels) Welcomes The Editors-in-Chief of Marvel Comics and DC Comics

  by Mike Favila, Editor I hadn’t gotten around to checking out the events here in Europe since we moved, but this caught my eye when I was biking around yesterday.  What a great lineup! I dig the mix of…

BD Review: The Batman: The Complete Series

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor I know this is sacrosanct in our business, but I have a confession to make: I’ve NEVER seen any of the Batman animated shows before. I’ve run into a snarky Teen Titan episode here and…

Books Comics Interviews

Interview: Cameron Chittock and Amanda Castillo (Mapmakers and the Lost Magic)

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor ComicsOnline: How did you two meet? What had you both been working on before? Cameron: Our editor Whitney Leopard introduced us. She thought Amanda and I would work well together and as is often the…

Interview: Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, Boya Sun (The Entire 5 Worlds Creative Team!)

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor If you’ve never heard of the 5 Worlds book series, you must be living under a rock. The story of Oona and her friends trying to save their multicolored world recalls a number of sci…

Comic News: Spark #1 Released by Bad Idea (Ryan Bodenheim)

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor Ryan Bodenheim passed away last month at the youthful age of 44.  We here at ComicsOnline loved his work at Valiant and Marvel and were really saddened by this news.  Today, I got this little…

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Video Game Review: Sam & Max Save The World

  by Mike Favila, Senior Editor When I first heard about this remake of Sam & Max Save The World, I couldn’t quite place my finger on where I remembered it from.   Had I played it at a friend’s house…

Movie Review: A Writer’s Odyssey

by Mike Favila, Senior Editor At first, A Writer’s Odyssey doesn’t seem like it’s going to be anything like its trailer. One minute, it’s a gritty noir, with faint callbacks to crime movies of the past. But then the giants…