Category: Comics

Behind The Panels Issue 152 – Avengers: Endgame (Film Special)

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 152, the comic book show that lost at least half of its hosts to the Thanos Snap. Your Hosts: Richard Gray and the (possibly dusted) David McVay & Dave Longo PLUS our Kick-Ass Pick of the Week™: AVENGERS: ENDGAME, the biggest Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie Ever…since 2018. What We’ve …

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Behind The Panels Issue 151 – Avengers: Infinity War (Film Special)

Behind The Panels 151 - Avengers: Infinity War (Film Special)

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 151, the comic book show that has no concept of time. I’m RG etc In this issue, DC sends us streaming, while Marvel leaves us creaming. THEN we remind you of that time we had a dance-off to save the universe in What We’ve Been Reading. ALSO It’s John Dee’s Geek …

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Review: Green Arrow #44 – “Secret of the Wolf”

Green Arrow #44 (DC Comics) - 2015

A new arc takes a turn for the supernnatural in yet another narrative twist for the Emerald Archer.  Benjamin Percy concluded his first arc on GREEN ARROW last month, and while the denoument may have been prematurely reached, it came with a reassuring callback to the tone and setting of Mike Grell’s era of the …

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Review: Green Arrow #43 – “The Night Birds Part 3: The Hood”

Green Arrow #43 (DC Comics) - 2015

Ben Percy’s first arc comes to an end. Does it make a bulls-eye or miss the target? Green Arrow is not a character that is awfully hard to get right, although he has undergone many changes in the last 75 years. Since the relaunch of the New 52, he’s proven to be a character that …

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Graphic 2015: Sydney festival features Kevin Smith, Nicola Scott, George Miller, Sequart and more!

Graphic 2015 (Sydney Opera House)

GRAPHIC is returning to Sydney for another year, following their stellar 2013 season, with  a weekend of graphic storytelling, animation and music at the Sydney Opera House on 10 and 11 October.  This year they are headlining the event  with a special night with filmmaker and comics writer KEVIN SMITH, discussing his superhero multiverse. Smith, whose …

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Behind The Panels Issue 150 – Before, During, and After Watchmen

Behind The Panels 150 - Before, During, and After Watchmen

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 150, the comic book show that knows how to go out on a party. We’re coming to you live from Good Games Hurstville. In this 150th and final issue for Volume 1, Sydney breaks the record for the number of Spider-Men in one place. Great, now I have to …

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Behind The Panels Issue 149 – Howard the Duck (MAX)

Behind The Panels 149 - Howard the Duck (MAX)

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 149, the comic book show that’s only one episode away from retirement. What could possibly go wrong? In this penultimate issue of Volume 1, The Walking Dead gets its own beer. It’s a quick few opening sips, a really long second sip, wildly inconsistent in its later gulps, but …

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Behind The Panels Issue 148 – Ant-Man (Film Special)

Behind The Panels 148 - Ant-Man

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 148, the comic book show that’s tall for its height. In this issue, it’s all the Comic-Con news that we could remember! Some of it is not about Batman! THEN it’s Lando, Death Head, Guardians Of Knowhere #1, Secret Wars, The Divine, and more in What We’ve Been Reading. ALSO we make …

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Behind The Panels Issue 147 – We Stand On Guard #1

Behind The Panels 147 - We Stand on Guard #1

Welcome to issue 147 of BEHIND THE PANELS, the comic book show that is ever vigilant in the fight against motivation. In this issue, Grant Morrison announces he’ll write the origin story of Klaus Kinski. No wait, sorry. That’s “Klaus”. Grant Morrison is writing about Santa Claus. ALSO Marvel announces 45 new #1 issues for after …

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Grant Morrison named new Editor-in-Chief of ‘Heavy Metal’

Heavy Metal - Grant Morrison

Long-running science fiction and fantasy anthology HEAVY METAL has a brand new Editor-in-Chief, reports Entertainment Weekly: and it is none other than superstar writer Grant Morrison. His first issue in the new role will kick off in February, with plans to contribute his own prose, comics and other material in addition to his editorial duties. “We’re …

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DC Comics announces 8 new mini-series for 2016

DC You Mini-Series 2016

USA Today has announced that DC Comics will be expanding their universe by publishing eight new six-issue mini-series in 2016. This announcement comes on the back of the freshly minted New DC Universe, also known as the DC You campaign. Among the titles announced, the mini-series will include SWAMP THING, METAL MEN, RAVEN, FIRESTORM, KATANA: CULT …

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