Here’s the first, good look at the costume on actor Henry Cavill from the currently filming Superman reboot. Yep, no red undies, some annoying texturing and some kinda interesting black edges. See more right here.
Cool Cities and Cars
Here’s a funky gallery of posters celebrating cities of a few superheroes, and ads from some of pop culture’s best cars. Go here to check out artist Justin Van Genderden’s site.
PowerCon Cereal Geek Mag Cover
What a mouthful that title is. Cereal Geek is a digital mag devoted to the wonderful ‘toons of the ’80s. Power-Con/ThunderCon is a new convention devoted to He-Man and ThunderCats. Below is the cover by comics artist Ed McGuiness as a special Con cover for the mag. Great stuff.
Jack Kirby Gallery
Jack “King” Kirby would’ve been 94 on Sunday. The legendary artist/writer/many other things contribution to comics can’t be summed up, so I’ll point you here to see an AWESOME gallery of some of his great work.
Batgirl #1 and Season One Previews
Confirming the presence of the events of The Killing Joke upon Barbara Gordon is this new 6 page preview from next month’s Batgirl #1, by Gail Simone and Adrian Syaf. At FanExpo Canada Marvel showed the first interior (though unlettered) pages from their 4 Season One OGNs designed to retell origins for a new [...]
Super Powers Print
Honouring the great Super Powers cartoon and toy line from the ’80s is this new screen print from Mondo Tees and Sideshow Collectibles. It’s $100 and is limited to only 250 copies. More info here.
Guest Buffy Blogs
Over at the Dark Horse Blog they’ve just started a series of guest posts from Buffy sites to celebrate next month’s release of Buffy Season 9 #1. Read the first post from Buffyfest here. Starting today we will be featuring Guest Blog posts by fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer here on our site. We [...]
Some Recent Recommended Reads
Star Wars Invasion: Revelations #2. The latest issue of the third arc in Tom Taylor and Colin Wilson’s Invasion series packs a whollop. Most surprises in comics these days are to do with which superhero is now (temporarily) dead, but I gotta say Taylor pulls two linked shocks in the latter half of this issue [...]
Gene Luen Yang on Christianity and Comics
Magazine/site Sojourners has a well researched and well written article on the relationship between Christianity and comics, two of my fave topics, by comics creator Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Level Up). Read it here.
Nate Powell Interview
Broken Frontier’s digital magazine, The Frontiersman has returned. In its latest issue you’ll find, along with many other good features, my interview with writer/artist Nate Powell. Powell’s last OGN, Swallow Me Whole won the 2009 Eisner Award, and his latest, Any Empire is just as powerful and entertaining. You can grab The Frontiersman #26 for [...]
Extra Sequential Podcast #55-Read Comics in Public
53 mins. It’s International Read Comics in Public Day so we discuss the hows and whys of doing so. Also, the definition of geeks, Dan Brown, and cheering superheroes. LISTEN TO IT BELOW, DOWNLOAD IT HERE OR ON iTUNES You can email us at kris (at)extrasequential(dot)com and befriend us on the NEW ES Facebook page. 1:22 [...]
Read Comics in Public Day on August 28
This Sunday, August 28 is International Read Comics in Public Day. The title says it all, but check out their site to see what it’s all about, plus events in cities all over the world where you can let passres by knwo of your unabashed devotion to sequential art, and meet fellow fans too. Awesome. Most [...]
Incredible Hulk #1
This is a good time to be comic-curious, with a slew of #1s coming in the next few weeks. Here’s another one. SMASH! This October, Incredible Hulk #1 smashes into stores courtesy of Marvel Architect Jason Aaron & legendary artist Marc Silvestri, featuring all-new variant by acclaimed artist Ladronn (Planet Hulk)! Prepare for an Earth-shaking brawl for [...]
MASScanvas, My Chemical Romance & Make-A-Wish
The lead singer of my Chemical Romance Gerard Way wrote the excellent The Umbrella Academy series from Dark Horse. That’s excuse enough to share this here video featuring the band and a competition they recently run in conjunction with MASScanvas. The band chose 5 shirts (and they’re all great), which are now available to buy [...]
