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| Archived Since: | April 21, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
A World Without Pym
If you’re wondering what effects Wolverine’s actions in the past at the end of Age of Ultron #6 may have had on the Marvel Universe, Brian Michael Bendis has an internal Marvel document for you that might just blow your mind – A list of stories and events that would/might have gone very differently without [...]
“Thanks to Stumptown, I Now Have a Better Understanding of the Joy that Creating Original Work can Bring
CBR’s Brett White ponders what this past weekend’s Stumptown Comicsfest taught him: Comics really aren’t just about superheroes, and there is plenty of joy to be found outside of the narrow scope of the Big Two. Yes, I knew this already. And yes, I read plenty of non-superhero comics on a monthly basis. But being [...]
Is HAWKEYE Marvel’s Big Bookstore Hope?
The winner of the bookstore market in April is unsurprisingly clear from this chart of the Top 20 graphic novels: It’s obviously The Walking Dead, which takes nine of the twenty slots (with three different volume ones, interestingly enough; the hardcover, the omnibus and the compendium), as has pretty much been the case for some [...]
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER’s Falcon in Uniform
Next year’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier adds Steve Rogers’ long-time partner The Falcon to the mix, as played by Anthony Mackie. On-set photos of Mackie in uniform surfaced today courtesy of Lainey Gossip via WENN, showing a much more basic military look for Sam Wilson than his usual superhero attire. While it seems unlikely [...]
(Mostly) New Minute of Footage From THE WOLVERINE
Iron Man 3 has been getting all the Marvel movie attention lately, but Fox’s The Wolverine is less than three months away, with a release date of July 26. On Wednesday, a minute-long sizzle reel of footage (some new, some seen in previous trailers) surfaced online, first seen at last month’s CinemaCon. Here it is:
SAUCERs Returning Next Year?
Ridiculously good news from Paul Cornell, via a Suicide Girls interview by Alex Dueben: We haven’t signed contracts yet but I have every reason to believe we will be starting season two [of Saucer Country] in comic form next year. In February, even. We’ve been talking to some lovely people about this and I think [...]
What Caleb Did Next (Spoilers: It’s RAD).
I smiled, I admit, when I saw this on Twitter from former Comics Alliance editor Caleb Goellner: Here’s the thing: Task Force Rad Squad, a comic that pretty much does for Power Rangers what Jeffrey Brown’s Incredible Change-Bots does for Transformers, is kind of amazing. I’ve maybe seen two episodes of Power Rangers at most [...]
The Earliest Days of Mark Millar Shamelessly Revisited
Along with Padraig O Mealoid’s Poisoned Chalice series about the history of Marvelman at the Beat, one of my favorite long-running series of critical re-appraisals running on the comics internet currently is Colin Smith’s Shameless, a look at the career of Mark Millar that’s been quietly running at Sequart for the last couple of months. [...]
A Year In, How Does Valiant Rate?
One of the casualties of the sudden closure of Comics Alliance has made its way online – Dylan Todd and Ziah Grace taking a look at the first year of the new Valiant Entertainment: Yeah, there’s a lot I like about Valiant. They tend to have solid creators working on their books and, for the [...]
The Viral Video You Didn’t Even Know You Were Waiting For
Zack Smith of this very parish creates the first funny “Angry Hitler” video in some time in response to yesterday’s news about the closure of Comics Alliance (Warning: NSFW language in the subtitles). Of particular amusement to me: The DC/AOL joke. That people were seriously suggesting that could’ve been a thing yesterday blew my mind.
Drokk, Loathing and Social Disintegration in Las Vegas
Lost amongst the various C2E2 announcements this weekend was this IDW series announced at Stumptown: That’ll be Judge Dredd: Mega City 2 – City of Courts by noted comic book critic, creator of the spectacular Dredd Reckoning blog and all-around wonderful human being Douglas Wolk and the amazing Ulises Farinas, then. Firstly, look at that [...]
Is MAN OF STEEL’s PG-13 Rating A Bad Sign?
The Hollywood Reporter has Greg Rucka considering the rating given to June’s Man of Steel: Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best. I haven’t seen Man of Steel, haven’t read the script, and I’ve assiduously avoided spoilers. I genuinely don’t know if this “reality” will be [...]
AOL Shuts Down ComicsAlliance
CBR’s Robot 6 has confirmed Twitter rumblings that ComicsAlliance, one of the most prominent North American comic book blogs, has been shut down by parent company AOL. The news comes after Friday reports that the company closed down news site AOL Music, and long-running music blog Spinner, which had been owned by AOL since 1999. [...]
Might ANGELA Signal an ULTRAVERSE Revival?
The dual teases of the mysterious Age of Ultron #10UC and Infinity at Marvel have put me in mind of the Malibu Ultraverse, of all things. It’s not just that “Ultraverse Comics” would fit the U.C. acronym – It won’t be, of course, it’s far more likely to be Avengers‘ “Universal Construct” name for Galactus, [...]
Girl, You’ll Be A Time-Traveling Woman Soon
Considering the X-Men: Battle of The Atom announcement made this weekend, it’s always good to see another character from Brian K. Vaughan’s Runaways return to comics after Niko and Chase’s appearance in Avengers Arena and Victor Mancha’s return in Age of Ultron: Ultron, and who didn’t like Molly Hayes? Cute, adorable Molly… Hayes… On one [...]
“Every Year, Every Month, Every Week – Image Comics is New Comics”
ICV2 has Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson’s keynote speech from yesterday’s Diamond summit in Chicago, in which he positions the publisher as “the revolution” that the comics industry needs: If you’re one of the stores that has helped The Walking Dead become a worldwide phenomenon with trade paperback sales in the millions, give yourself a [...]
STAR WARS to Stay at DARK HORSE Through 2014 At Least
Good news for those of us enjoying the current Star Wars output from Dark Horse: First, they assured retailers that even with the Disney buyout of LucasArts, Star Wars will remain at Dark Horse for at least the entirety of 2014. They will continue to make Darth Vader miniseries, Star Wars Legacy will remain an [...]
IDW + CBLDF = Good News (and CIBDLWDF, I guess)
Amid all the retailer announcements at the Diamond summit ahead of today’s C2E2, there was this bit of good news: At yesterday’s Diamond Retailer Summit, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund announced that IDW Publishing has joined the organization as their newest Corporate Member! IDW is recognized as one of the industry’s leading publishers, widely [...]
“Why Isn’t This Movie Like The Comic?”
Brett White suggests some things comic fans may want to keep in mind while enjoying this summer’s comic book-based movies, including this nugget of solid truth: Not only is Electro going to be blue, he’s going to be Jamie Foxx. And Perry White will be played by Laurence Fishburne. Jimmy Olsen is possibly going to [...]
Musicians Union Picketing Marvel Again Over IRON MAN 3
Given the initial positive reviews, it looks like the only people not looking forward to the release of Iron Man 3 are American musicians: [American Federation of Musicians] members were outside the midtown Manhattan offices of Marvel on Tuesday handing out leaflets angry with the studio not using their members for Iron Man 3. The union [...]