Well actually the 800th post was yesterday, but now I’ve passed that impressive number. Now it may not sound like a lot but it brings me joy to say it. Here’s some other numbers now that I’m in the mood for patting myself on the back. 9, 599 – total number the 3 issues of [...]
David Tischman Interview
Up at Broken Frontier now is my interview with writer David Tischman. He’s responsible for series such as Bite Club, and the current Red Herring from Wildstorm. Also released this week is his new series from 12 Gauge Comics, called Luke McBain,with artists Kody Chamberlain and Brian Stelfreeze. It’s a 4 ish mini based on [...]
Last Week’s Winners
Star Wars: Invasion #5 by writer Tom Taylor and artist Colin Wilson. You’d think Dark Horse would be running out of steam with the Star Wars franchise by now, with series detailing all manner of eras and characters. Taylor and Wilson proved with this series that there’s still life left in it yet. By focusing [...]
Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths Trailer
Oh yeah, this is what I’m talking about! Whereas Marvel’s direct to DVD animated films have been fairly bland affairs treated with kid gloves, Warner Bros. are giving DC diehards film after film to get excited about. It’s a smart approach that they’ve employed with every recent film, such as Superman/Doomsday, Green Lantern: First Flight [...]
Kick-Ass Trailer
Kick-Ass, based on the guilt pleasure comic of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. debuts on cinemas on April 16. It stars Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage and Superbad’s McLovin and is directed by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust).It’s all about the titular teen who, inspired by his love of superheroes, decides [...]
TV Show Comics On iPhone
We have a feature in the first issue of Arcana on comiXology and the work they’re doing bringing comics to the wonders of the iPhone. The number of TV shows comic adaptations on the handy device seems to be increasing too, with The Middle Man and Spartacus: Blood and Sand comics giving fans of the [...]
Casper And The Spectrals #1
Ardden Entertainment made a good impression with their new Flash Gordon series and look set to use the same contemporary approach to another classic character – Casper. I know when the cover of the first issue was released a while back a few jaded fanboys rolled their eyes with this apparently desperate attempt to make [...]
Bryan Talbot Interview
Over at the always insightful Sci Fi Pulse (they cover not just comics, but films, TV, etc too) is a rather interesting interview with British creator Bryan Talbot. Talbot is the man behind the classic Luther Arkwright and recently released Grandville. The full interview can be heard, yes heard, next month at Blog Talk Radio, [...]
Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #4 Covers
Hitting stores on November 18 is the penultimate part of the pretty, and action packed Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer series. Details from Top Cow below. TWO OPPOSING TEAMS MUST TRUST EACH OTHER TO SURVIVE CYBERFORCE/HUNTER-KILLER #4 Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today the upcoming release of the penultimate installment of Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #4 the first crossover between Top [...]
Siege: What Price Victory?
Marvel’s newest epic is called Siege and revolves around Norman Osborn and his nefarious plans for Thor’s home of Asgard. They’ve been releasing teaser images for the last 2 weeks, and below is the latest, by Simone Bianchi with the relevant info (including the Final Order Cutoff and release dates for the mini-series). You can [...]
Behind The Scenes
Thanks to the always informative Superman Homepage for sharing this fantastic new YouTube resource. FX guy Steve Johnson has worked on many major Hollywood films over the last 30 years and now that he’s no longer in the biz, he wants to get all his archival footage out there. Steve’s introductory video shows some of [...]
Work In Comics Site
I meant to mention this a while ago, but here it is now. Below is the press release for the new Work In Comics website. It’s a great idea to get similarly minded comics fans together on creative collaborations. The people behind the wonderful Septagon Studios are behind it, who we featured in Extra Sequential. [...]
Digested From Gestalt
Now available from Gestalt Publishing are the first two issues of creator Bobby N’s Digested series. Bobby’s work was the highlight for me (and many others) in Gestalt’s recent Flinch anthology, so to see the writer/artist be the focus of these slice of life pages is sure to be a treat. More details and preview [...]
Modern Masters For $10
Those delightful folks at TwoMorrows give the gerky portion of the world some pretty good products, with their books and magazines mainly focused on comics of the 1970s and 80s. They currently have a sale on (until the end of November) where you can get their entire back catalogue of Modern Master books for only [...]
