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Superegos Collide in the All-Star Avengers. Things Go Boom.

The Master List: The Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, January 13-15

If there's ever a zombie attack or outbreak of some mutated virus that turns most of the population into blood-thirsty cannibals, we hope we don't survive because we're not equipped to kill the undead. Plus we've learned from movies that no one usually lasts too long. Who knows how many people will ... More >>

Captain America Ignores its Roots for Easy Money

And what's with that 3-D?

Captain America's Team: Marvel Comics and Your Dallas Cowboys Join Forces. Again.

Via.​Well, this is certainly odd timing: Only a few hours after flashing back to that Dallas Times Herald gimme featuring Spider-Man and Danny White, Your Dallas Cowboys have announced a partnership with Marvel Entertainment. As in:Through an agreement that enables the Dallas Cowboys to license Ma ... More >>

Hey, Times Herald Readers, Remember When Spider-Man Used to Shop at Sanger-Harris?

​While we wait for some return calls, let's set aside the heavy lifting for this never-before-seen flashback about to go on sale on Heritage Auction Galleries's website: a might-be-unreleased John Romita Sr. drawing done for a Sanger-Harris giveaway comic intended to be stuffed into a Dallas Times ... More >>

Angela Hunt, Friendly Neighborhood Council Member, Was Very Happy to Meet Stan Lee

Photos by Alexander FloresAngela Hunt makes hers Marvel with a Stan Lee signature at Dallas Comic Con Sunday.​By the time we got to Dallas Comic Con Saturday 'round 2:30, there was still a line snaking around the Irving Convention Center. Ben Stevens, the show's co-organizer, guesstimated that som ... More >>

CNN Beams Up Preview of Weekend's Comic Con With Mr. Spock, Princess Leia and Stan Lee

​I knew where I'd be tomorrow back in January, when we first mentioned that, oh, some guys named Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy would be attending the Dallas Comic Con, which makes its move to the newly opened Irving Convention Center after years in Richardson and Plano. Figure we'll get there 'round ... More >>

Superheroes

​I knew where I'd be tomorrow back in January, when we first mentioned that, oh, some guys named Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy would be attending the Dallas Comic Con, which makes its move to the newly opened Irving Convention Center after years in Richardson and Plano. Figure we'll get there 'round ... More >>

He Came to Dallas to Save Superman. Now, Maybe, He's Off to N.Y. to Rescue Spider-Man.

Danny FulgencioRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa, playwright and Big Love staff writer, at the Dallas Theater Center during Superman rehearsals last year​Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark hasn't officially opened yet on Broadway; due date's still a month away. Still, it's considered The Most Amazing, Spectacula ... More >>

Iron Man 2 Will Lead To 3 And Probably 4, But That Doesn't Mean It's Good

Danny FulgencioRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa, playwright and Big Love staff writer, at the Dallas Theater Center during Superman rehearsals last year​Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark hasn't officially opened yet on Broadway; due date's still a month away. Still, it's considered The Most Amazing, Spectacula ... More >>

The Singing Superman: DTC's Kevin Moriarty Talks About Tackling the Man of Steel

Earlier this week, Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty announced the DTC's lineup for its inaugural season in the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, and among the list of familiar titles and newcomers, one in particular leaps off the page in ... More >>

The Unborn

The Unborn raids the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to Auschwitz

Holding Out For A Hero

The Public Trust has Good News

The Not Terrible Hulk

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

We Brake for Brake! Vegas

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

Classic Coke

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

Outta the Pak

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

Deep Thoughts by Redford

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

Comic Relief

It ain't quite Fantastic, but it'll do in a pinch

Bat Cave-In

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Dorkula

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

Paper Trail

Plus: Old Hand; When Fanboys Dream

Run, Do Not Crawl

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Misty Watercolored Memories

The Dallas Observer Music Awards, remembered. Kind of.

Punish This

The latest comic-book movie might just kill you

The Wiz

Gather up your Justice League

Best Sports Talk Show

The Ticket Top 10, KTCK-AM (1310)

Beyond Good and Evil

Rapper MF Doom's new works of hip-hop fiction reinvent the hero principle for the modern age

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

Green Gobblin'

Ang Lee's Hulk will eat up summer cash, but it's still an uneasy mix of brains and brawn

The Bleeding Edge

A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

Bloody Hell

Daredevil is a grown-up adaptation, but still too two-dimensional

Dr. Strange

Grant Morrison's the best writer in comics--and maybe the oddest

Dream Weaver

Spider-Man slings pop mythology for the masses

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Dark Victory

15 years later, Frank Miller once more dons Batman's cape and cowl

Maul of Justice

Only the most dedicated fanboy will find much to like about the Justice League

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Totally Bizarro

Can superheroes and alternative comic authors really get along?

Custody Battle

Marvel Comics isn't going to give up Captain America without a fight

Pain & Ink

Creatively, comic books are healthier than they've ever been. So why is everyone rushing to bury the industry?

Win, lose, or draw

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

Fatal femmes

Why do women in comics become Women in Refrigerators?

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Blood sucker

This vampire killer, despite its pedigree, never comes to life

Guts 'R' us

Trenton Hancock is crossing the color line with his visceral works of art

Dead on Arrival

Big-screen Spawn is as flat as a comic-book page

Events for the week

Big-screen Spawn is as flat as a comic-book page

Saturday hangover

The Toadies, the Daisy, and the Rev join tribute to Cartoons' Greatest Hits

The lost generation

Kevin Smith's Mall Rats is a derivative retread of Clerks