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Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival 2024 has officially ended. Taking place across Yorkshire from November 11th to 17th, and ending with a two-day convention in Harrogate, it was a week of celebration of comics, art and the British community. There was a wide variety of exciting events throughout the festival, and especially during the two-day convention, as explained in a pre-show preview recently published by The Beat. For this event, three of the convention center’s halls were open to the public for the first time: Bubble Boy Hall, DSTLRY Hall, and Traveling Man Hall. The three halls house a variety…
If you’re looking to gift yourself or a loved one a new laptop without breaking the bank, there are plenty of early Black Friday deals worth considering. What’s even better is that we have discounts on products that we consider to be the best laptops for most people, and the best laptops for college students. Apple’s M3 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM has dropped to its lowest price ever. This laptop is available for $899, which is $200 off the list price.This is the basic storage capacity, but other configurations with more storage capacity are also available. A model…
Most comic book fans have a solid idea of what they buy each week when they go to their local comic book store. That said, there’s still a lot of fun to be had in skimming through the week’s new releases and trying out books that look promising, interesting, or scary. That’s where the cover comes in. Great images make a difference. You can either try something new or you can say, “No, I’m not going to do it this week.”In that spirit, we present the covers that caught our attention this week, along with an entry by comics editor…
You’ll have to debate with yourself as to which era is truly “my” legion. I think I’m probably leaning towards the Five Years Later era. Because it was around this time that I really got drawn into the epic visual stories and kind of dark tone of each issue by Keith Giffen, Jason Pearson, and Stuart Immonen. I’ve read some of the Levitz-era books before (actually I think I have quite a few of the volume 3 reprints that hit newsstands as superhero stories). ), I checked in to “Magic”. I understood the story of “Legion Wars” before the reboot,…
Writers Jackson Lansing and Colin Kelly officially return to the world of Thunderbolts with Thunderbolts: Doomstrike, a five-part One World Under Doom tie-in. The series, drawn by artist Tommaso Bianchi (Giant-Sized Silver Surfer), sees the Thunderbolts, led by Bucky Barnes, attempt to overthrow the newly crowned Emperor Doom, and Victor, the original member ( (including Moonstone, Atlas, and Fixer) are urged to reunite. Cover by Reinil Francis Yu Doom has conquered the world. And Bucky Barnes helped me with that. To atone for his unwitting role in Doom’s victory, Bucky assembles a team with one goal: to burn everything down.…
Friend Star. My space. Vine. Google+. Bebo. AOL. Social media platforms come, go, and evolve. Because of the choices of its owners, Twitter/X, always a bubbling sour pit of heated opinions and instant slander, has become increasingly taken over by trolls and antis, with few if any guardrails. The signal-to-noise ratio is always low, making it an increasingly unpleasant place. BlueSky is one of the Twitter alternatives that started when things started to fall apart and has been quietly booming for a while now. And over the past few days, Comics Twitter, a vibrant and adaptable community of creators, readers,…
Black Friday sales are in full swing in the tech world, and one of the best deals right now is our top pick for the best wireless headphones available. Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are down to $298, which equates to a $100 discount. This is one of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen. It briefly dropped to $280 earlier this year, but I haven’t seen that price since. If you’re on a budget, consider the WH-1000XM4 headphones, which are a generation older but have many of the same features. Currently on sale for $200.We’ve been recommending Sony’s 1000X series for a…
Once upon a time, in 2016, Apple removed the headphone jack and completely disrupted our lives. Starting with the iPhone 7, there was no port for wired headphones, only a Lightning charger. But to soften the blow, the phone included a Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter that allows you to use wired headphones with confidence. Well, as all good things must come to an end, so do adapters, reports MacRumors.The $9 adapter is currently sold out in the US and most other countries, and is only available in a few locations in Europe. The same pattern occurred with SuperDrive…
Image credit: Skybound/Image Comic Just when you think you’ll find some sympathy for Starscream, the sniveling, snarky, ambitious Decepticon, he lets it all out once again. Last issue gave us a ton of insight into why Starscream became the vile Decepticon he is now. It was truly heartbreaking to see the fall of the once peaceful Transformers who saw the beauty and wonder of the universe. After being left for dead by fellow Decepticon Soundwave, his “rescue” in issue 14 sees him reluctantly paired with the character of GI Joe. And while it’s dark humor what they do to Starscream…
Welcome, X-Fans, to the uncanny 275th edition of X-Men Monday at AIPT!As is tradition, let’s see what the X-Men were up to when they first reached 275 issues.Courtesy of Marvel ComicsWow! X-Men Monday is in its Jim Lee era! I forgot to ask him to illustrate a special feature image for this anniversary edition. Maybe for 300?Now, we may not have Starjammers, Deathbird, or Zaladane, but we’re still celebrating this mutant milestone in style, as Tom Brevoort, the Conductor of X, is back. This is Tom’s first appearance since our last anniversary edition, X-Men Monday #250. As that interview dropped…