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The borg.com Best of 2016–The Best in Print and the Best of the Rest

Our borg.com Best of 2016 list continues today with the Best in Print and a bonus wrap-up of other year’s bests.  If you missed it, check out our review of the Top Picks and Best Movies of 2016 here,...

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Marvel’s Rogue One comic book adaptation begins today, including those...

    For those millions of Star Wars fans that purchased their Blu-ray and DVD copies of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story this week and were disappointed that the special features did not include the many...

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Cosplay at Kansas City Comic Con 2017

Kansas City Comic Con 2017 wrapped after three days yesterday, full of great opportunities to meet comic book and other genre creators, celebrities, and participate in all sorts of activities from...

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The borg.com Best of 2017–The Best in Print

Our borg.com Best of 2017 list continues today with the Best in Print.  If you missed them, check out our review of the Best Movies of 2017 here, the Kick-Ass Heroines of 2017 here, and the Best in...

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Batman 50 Checklist–More than 50 artists and covers, even more variants for...

The wedding of Batman and Catwoman is shaping up in the issues of DC Comics’s Batman bi-weekly series, with the date set at Issue #50, greeting comic book readers next month.  Writer Tom King...

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Fantastic Four–Dozens of artists join in for 60+ variant covers for today’s...

   Today writer Dan Slott and artist Sara Pichelli are bringing back the title Fantastic Four to Marvel Comics with a re-launch beginning with part one of a new Issue #1 story, “Fourever,” arriving at...

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All 84 variant Detective Comics #1000 covers complete checklist &...

Detective Comics, the title DC Comics took its name from, first hit the shelves of newsstands just before March 1937, 26 months before Batman would first appear in the famous Issue #27 in May 1939....

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Original unfilmed Alien screenplay is coming to Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is bringing another unused movie screenplay out of the vaults and adapting it into a five-issue comic book mini-series.  Dark Horse’s biggest success at this approach was adapting...

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borg 10-year celebration–The Not-to-Miss Top Comics of the Decade

We’re continuing our ten-year celebration of borg today with our favorite comic books.  If you missed them, check out our Top 40 movies here and our Top 40 TV series here. We reviewed thousands of...

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Secrets of the Force–Altman and Gross explore the Star Wars franchise in next...

Review by C.J. Bunce If you skip over the commentary from the critics and modern writers, and focus on the quotes from the past from the actual filmmakers and actors, you may find some new details...

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DC Comics showcases art of Cascioli and Mayhew in Green Arrow: Into the Woods

Review by C.J. Bunce (with spoilers!) A slick hardcover version of the 2011 restarted series, Green Arrow, has been published, collecting Issues #1-7.  This is not to be confused with the New 52 reboot...

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Borgs unite against Doctor Who and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in May

One of the key differences I have always appreciated is the differences between Star Wars and Star Trek that make both franchises great.  Star Wars was more rounded in science fantasy and Star Trek in...

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Former queen of The Borg to play Queen mom in Green Arrow series

  As we predicted here last month, the CW Network is trickling out details of the new Green Arrow series Arrow.  The biggest news is that veteran of several Star Trek roles, Susanna Thompson, has been...

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Artist spotlight–Mike Mayhew takes on the Bionic duo

Dynamite Comics released two new comic book covers being released in November 2012, featuring two of our favorite cyborg subjects:  The Bionic Man and The Bionic Woman.  Alex Ross has been painting...

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Review–First Blood mini-series introduces readers to Jennifer Blood

By C.J. Bunce She seems pretty ordinary from afar.  Jennifer Fellows has a husband and a kid.  Driving around town like anyone, completing her shopping errands, she is planning and plotting her next...

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Bionic Man–still no movie reboot, but take some inspiration from Fringe

Last year there were rumors aplenty that the story of the original cyborg himself, Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man, would be remade into a motion picture.  With a new RoboCop movie now pushed...

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First look–Mike Mayhew to bring “The Star Wars” to a galaxy near you

First it was Mike Mayhew and Star Trek and Doctor Who. Then it was Mike Mayhew and Green Arrow. Then it was Mike Mayhew and The Bionic Man and The Bionic Woman. Now it’s Mike Mayhew and Star Wars....

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borg.com–800,000 views and our second anniversary

We kicked off borg.com as a way to catch up on entertainment news, books and movies back on June 10, 2011.  We’ve posted what’s new each day to provide “your daily science fiction, fantasy, and...

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Preview–Get ready to enter a parallel universe with “The Star Wars”

Imagine General Skywalker not as a whiny farmboy but as a swaggering force to be reckoned with very much like John Wayne in The Searchers.  He’s father of two boys:  Annikin, the tough older brother...

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Long live the Emperor! Death to the Jedi! New retro-Star Wars series begins...

Review by C.J. Bunce It might not be the best thing since sliced bread, but it is the best thing since the original Star Wars trilogy for fans of the original classic, maybe even the best thing since...

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The excitement doesn’t let up in The Star Wars #2

If you picked up the first issue to J.W. Rinzler and Mike Mayhew’s The Star Wars then you already have probably added The Star Wars to your pull list at your local comic book store.  If you think all...

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Catching up with… Aaron Gillespie’s Bionic Man series

If you like action-centric stories then in 2013 you couldn’t get much better than Dynamite Publishing’s Bionic Man series.  Beginning first as co-writer with Phil Hester then continuing the series as...

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Catching up with… Dark Horse Comics’ alternate world The Star Wars

If you really want to see the best of popular comic book publishing titles in 2013, you need look no further than Dark Horse Comics’ series The Star Wars.  You have a great independent publishing house...

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borg.com’s Best of 2013, Part 2

We tried on for size almost every new book that was released from comic book publishers like Dynamite Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Archaia/BOOM!, and Image.  We tried to sample the best...

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The Bionic Man in original cover art

  This year I had my first comic convention experience where I didn’t get in early to be the first in line to commission sketches from some of the great artists attending the show.  That was Planet...

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The Star Wars–The pinnacle of Dark Horse’s long run of Star Wars books

Review by C.J. Bunce Last week Dark Horse Comics released the trade paperback and hardcover of The Star Wars—the eight-issue comic book series adapting George Lucas’s original screenplay for Star Wars...

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Review–Third Bionic Man trade edition a great read packed with extras

Dynamite Comics’ The Bionic Man series, especially Issues #17-26, was among the best comic book reading of 2013.  They are now available in a trade paperback: The Bionic Man Volume Three: End of...

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Be prepared to get bombarded: Star Wars cover variants in January like never...

    It hasn’t been released yet, and it is already the #1 best selling comic of 2015.  Forecasted with advance sale numbers at more than one million copies already, Marvel Comics is re-entering the...

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borg.com’s Best Reads of 2014

The last day of the year is finally here, and with that the last of our reviews of the best content of 2014. We’ve previewed comic books each month thanks to publishers like Dynamite Comics, Dark Horse...

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Mike Mayhew creates iconic covers for Star Wars prequels re-release

    Mike Mayhew, illustrator on The Star Wars series for Dark Horse Comics and an incredible cover and interior artist on many major sci-fi and superhero titles, has created new cover artwork for the...

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Adam Hughes to take on writing and artistic duties in new Betty & Veronica...

    What if every comic book cover artist also created the artwork inside the cover?  It’s a rare thing.  Cover artists tend to get discovered and begin churning out great cover work for a good rate...

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Happy Birthday! borg.com reaches five year anniversary

Hey, looks like we made it! Five years ago today, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Art Schmidt, Jason McClain, and I had already spent a few months talking through the technical details for the launch of borg.com....

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Topps trading card chronicle culminates with artistry in Star Wars Galaxy

Ten years after Return of the Jedi, Topps trading cards editor and writer Gary Gerani was tasked once again to meet fan demand for more Star Wars trading cards.  Many years before he would create photo...

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She-Hulk–Maslany & Co. deliver refreshing opener and seamless adaptation of...

Review by C.J. Bunce Oh, ye of little faith.  Those initial trailers didn’t do justice to the seamless conversion of Tatiana Maslany, the Emmy Award-winning star of Orphan Black, as Jen Walters, Esq....

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