This Wednesday brings the second issue of the DC Comics miniseries “World’s Finest,” teaming heroes from the Superman and Batman families.  Tulsa-born writer Sterling Gates writes this miniseries, with a rotating cast of artists.   Issue No. 2, drawn by Ramon…

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More info from BBC America about the air dates of the final David Tennant Doctor Who episodes.  Note, the five-disc set containing all the specials comes out on my birthday, Groundhog Day 2010.

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The finale to the era of David…

Like Pete Sampras in the 1996 U.S. Open against Alex Corretja, I fought off illness and exhaustion to bring you this week’s NewsOK Comics Podcast with Kyle Roberts. We talk about the excellent week DC Comics had, with new issues…

Heavy metal band Anvil, which played at Rocklahoma this year, has undergone something of a revival since appearing in “Anvil: The Story of Anvil,” a film that presents the hard-rocking group as a real-life Spinal Tap. Director Rob Reiner’s parody…

Fandango reports that The Twilight Saga: New Moon is on pace to sell 10 tickets per second throughout today on the movie ticket-selling site.

Summit Entertainment has reported that “New Moon” set a new record for opening midnight shows with an…

Neil Kleid first came to my attention as the writer/artist of the Xeric-winning “Ninety Candles,” an innovative graphic novel in which each panel represented a year.   Here’s what I wrote about the book in early 2005, naming Ninety Candles one…

Award-winning graphic novelist Neil Kleid is taking his Jewish gangster graphic novel, “Brownsville,” to the iPhone.

“The process is definitely exciting,” Kleid said in a recent interview. “Each and every day another smart phone comes to market — be it iPhone,…

The Aquaman Shrine is going all-out in promoting the Aquaman-Demon team up in “Brave and Bold” No. 32, featuring the classic Aquaman teamed up with Etrigan, the Demon.

The issue, written by J. Michael Straczynski and drawn by Jesus Saiz, is set…

Rob Vollmar passed on the following information about a free celebration of Alan Moore’s birthday on Wednesday in Norman.

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Atomik Pop! is hosting a Mooresday event at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, November 18th to celebrate the 56th birthday…

J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the “Star Trek” franchise comes to DVD and Blu-ray today. If you’ve missed what was one of 2009’s best films, now’s a great time to get caught up on it.

As I wrote in my review of…

The Twilight Saga: New Moon is at the top of ticket pre-sales this week, making up 94% of daily sales at Fandango.com and 90% of ticket sales at MovieTickets.com, according to releases from the companies.

According to Fandango, the Thursday night re-release…

At Newsarama, Dan Didio talked about the upcoming “Kid Flash” series to be written by Sterling Gates.   He revealed Gates will be working closely with Geoff Johns to keep continuity among the “Flash” franchise.
He also revealed (SPOILER WARNING) that Max…

TV Guide has a first look at Hawkman from the upcoming “Smallville” two-hour event on Feb. 5.  Online reaction has been mixed, at best, but I’m OK with it.  It looks like the comic-book outfit, pretty much, and I’m ready…

Four days prior to release, “New Moon” is the biggest pre-sales title in the 10-year history of ticket-selling site Fandango.   A release for the company indicates New Moon broke the record as of Saturday night.

The new Top 5 Advance Ticket-Sellers…

Two big Whedon-related announcements have come out today.

First, according to SciFi Wire, Joss Whedon’s “Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” comics could be coming to the Web as motion comics webisodes.  For anyone who hasn’t yet read the comics, they…

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