Blog Profile / Blog@Newsarama
| URL : | http://blog.newsarama.com/ | |
|---|---|---|
| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Comic Books | |
| Posts on Regator: | 9318 | |
| Posts / Week: | 35.1 | |
| Archived Since: | April 21, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
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 [...]
The Layers and The Texture
This is the cover art for this week’s prog of 2000AD, by the wonderful D’Israeli: Look at the linework! The texture! The composition! And then, look at how the cover went from editorial brief to completion in this detailed blog post (with video) from the always-worth-reading 2000AD Covers Uncovered blog. And speaking of excellent comics [...]
Is Quality Boring After Awhile?
Over at the Beat, Steve Morris asks an unexpected question: Are people bored by the consistently excellent quality of Waid and Samnee’s Daredevil? Daredevil hasn’t had as much attention this year as it did during it’s first, but that’s for a fairly clear reason – it’s utterly rock-solid. Reviewers get bored of saying “yep, still [...]
The Crossover You Didn’t See Coming
I’m unsure quite what to make of the news that Dark Horse has added Dynamite’s line to its proprietary digital comics service. On Dynamite’s side, the deal makes a lot of sense, sure – It’s another outlet for their books, akin to ComiXology, iVerse, Nook and so on – but there’s something about Dark Horse [...]
Fighting For Our Rights/And The Old Red White and Blue…!
Laura Sneddon considers Wonder Woman, her current title and her place in the DC Universe: The real holy grail is still to be found – a Wonder Woman comic that really hits the high spots of character development, plot, superheroism, mythology and dramatic tension, in the same way that old pros Batman and Spider-Octopus (until recently) manage. Wonder [...]
Less Tie-Ins and Less Impact = A Good Thing, Now?
Is Age of Ultron the ultimate Marvel comics event? Jim Mroczowski makes the case for a yes: And what about those tie-ins? So far, there have been what, three a month? Almost all of them are one-shots; maybe one title is doing two crossover issues in a row. So far, all of them have essentially [...]
The Rollercoaster That Is DC Sales Analysis
Marc-Oliver Frisch looks at the DC sales for March in his inimitable fashion: Since issue #1, Talon has been promoted with a 1:25 variant-cover edition. For issue #1, there was also a 1:200 variant, and for issues #2 through #5 there were 1:100 variants. Issue #6 was the first issue with just the 1:25 variant-cover [...]
Whatever Happened to Heroes Like Us?
Michael Moran wonders what’s behind the trend for today’s superheroes to be anything but common men: In part, the recasting of billionaires as supermen is down to the current trend for realism. Money Supermarket threw together some figures on how much it might cost to become a superhero. Batman came out at around $690,000,000. The [...]
Is It A Mistake to Expect Superhero Comics to Be The Best Comics Can Be?
Corey Blake steps into the ongoing debate over a lack of superheroic material in this year’s Eisner nominations: So what happened? Did Marvel and DC, and the superhero genre in general, just have an off year? Are Marvel and DC getting lazy after years upon years of ruling the roost? Are superhero comics not keeping [...]
Who Else Is Waiting For A Man of Marvels Revival?
Padraig O Mealoid continues his trawl through the history of Marvelman/Miracleman’s ownership and publishing history, in the process potentially throwing up questions that I can only hope future chapters answer: How Eclipse came to own rights that were once owned by Garry Leach, Alan Davis, and Dez Skinn is comparatively simple. Alan Davis no longer [...]
“This is A Huge Number for a First Issue”
Paul O’Brien on Guardians of The Galaxy #1?s amazing sales: Who would have believed that we would live to see the day when the words “GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is a real priority for Marvel right now” could be uttered with a straight face? But this is that day, for GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is [...]
One Man and His Dog
Sonia Harris considers the importance of Superman’s Best Friend: It is no accident that Superman, the original boy scout, the mildest-mannered, the most humane of all superheroes, always has a dog. Obviously, the concept of a super-powered dog is probably the silliest one yet to come from comic books, but whether it was with Krypto [...]
B&B No More. So… What?
I’m still mulling over DC’s pulling out of the monthly Q&A column with Bob Harras and Bobbie Chase over at CBR. On the one hand, it’s pretty much the definition of a PR own goal to open yourself up to fan questions and then, four months later, quit because some of those questions were things [...]
Happy Birthday, Superman (and Lois)
As a quick look around the Internet will tell you, today is the 75th anniversary of the release of Action Comics #1, the comic that introduced Superman, Lois Lane and the basic concept of the superhero to the world. Although the poor guy remains much derided by some fans – I think everyone agrees that [...]
Patton Oswalt Pitches STAR WARS/MARVEL Crossover
Comedian (and sometimes comic book writer) Patton Oswalt is guest-starring on NBC’s Parks and Recreation this Thursday, playing a concerned citizen invoking a filibuster rule to stop a city council vote. His filibuster, detailing his character’s take on 2015?s Star Wars: Episode VII, takes an interesting turn — like, X-23 versus Robot Chewbacca interesting — [...]
Obviously, I’m A Big Fan of The Earlier Work…
Jim Starlin immediately wins over the fans of Stormwatch before he stepped on to revamp the title: [Dan Didio] sent me the first 12 issues of “Stormwatch.” Once I read them, we talked on the phone and we both agreed that “Stormwatch” hadn’t really worked out too well at the conversion to the New 52 [...]
You Want It All, But You Can’t Have It
Marvel’s latest attempt to find a use for its Epic brand name – Remember the short-lived revival as a creator-outreach imprint? That went well – is a truly unusual one: A line of what is essentially color versions of the Essentials volumes, released entirely out of order and seemingly randomly, according to David Gabriel: This [...]
It’s All The AVENGERS’ Fault, Of Course
When in doubt, there’s always Alan Moore to entertain with his theories about pop culture’s decline: I would say, that if you’re talking about a line of progress, if it can be called progress, that runs from Berthold Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, to Donald Cammell’s Performance, to Harry Potter, I don’t think you can really see [...]