PHILADELPHIA It’s not a reboot or relaunch. Instead, Marvel Comics’ new “NOW” initiative aims to recharge the publisher’s heroes and villains, the publisher’s editor-in-chief Axel Alonso said of the new effort that starts this week. “This ain’t a reboot, we’re simply hitting the refresh button. ‘Marvel NOW!’ simply offers a line-wide entry-point into the Marvel […]

PHILADELPHIA Valiant Comics is promising an explosive new story in the pages of its flagship book, “X-O Manowar.” It’s not hyperbole, said writer Robert Venditti, who outlined details this week of a major story arc in the Valiant universe that will see Aric of Dacia, a 5th-century Visigoth now sporting sentient superpowered armor, have his […]

PHILADELPHIA For a year the Joker’s been out of sight, out of mind and out of trouble. That changed Wednesday in the pages of “Batman” No. 13, when the clown prince of crime returned to Gotham with a mission to help Batman become a better man, even if it means going after everyone and everything […]

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FREEPORT — The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, Just Born PEEPSTER Car and Lindt Chocolate Gold Bunny Car will join the L.L. Bean Bootmobile for the first-ever Art Car Campout, to be held Saturday at L.L. Bean’s Discovery Park, 95 Main St., from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A cookout is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 […]

BRUNSWICK — Curtis Friends, Sisters in Crime, and Maine Crime Writers are announcing an evening with mystery author Roberta Isleib at Curtis Memorial Library on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. to discuss her work and autograph books. Isleib is the last in a series of four mystery authors to visit the library this fall. […]

BRUNSWICK — On Monday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m., the Bowdoin College Department of Music will present Hector Morales and the Afro-Peruvian Ensemble at the Studzinski Recital Hall. The concert/workshop will be offered free of charge to students and the general public, and will follow the methodology presented in the instructional book and DVD “The […]

GARDINER — On Saturday, Water Street in Historic Gardiner will be transformed as Gardiner Main Street produces its version of a traditional Oktoberfest. The third annual event promises an oompah band as well as farm-to-table pork, Maine craft beers and live music from Maine bands. The festivities begin at 11:30 a.m. and run through 6:30 […]

PORTLAND — The Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine will perform “Sleeping Beauty” for two consecutive weekends, beginning Friday, Oct. 19, at 4 p.m. The play features actors ages 8 to 13 from all over Maine and audiences of all ages are welcome. A news release describes the show as follows: An entire kingdom celebrates […]

BRUNSWICK — October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and The Theater Project Young People’s Theater, 14 School St., takes to the stage this weekend with “The Bully Plays,” a collection of short plays that are, according to a news release, “heartfelt, imaginative, powerful, uplifting and sometimes even funny.” “The Bully Plays” were commissioned in response […]