Here’s come cool Caped Crusader-centric fan art. Filip Acovic’s Dark Knight Returns piece. A nice, quotable piece from Pawel Durczok and finally, some cool superhero silhouettes.
Batman and Star Wars Fan Films
Batman seems to get more fan films than any other comics character. Here’s the latest one. It’s called Death Wish (no, Charles Bronson isn’t in it) and is just over 12 minutes long. It’s not too bad and stars Batman and Robin (both in their Batman Forever costumes), Nightwing (the adult former Robin), Oracle (the [...]
Batman and Superman: Earth One Pics
In 2010 the OGN, Superman: Earth One was a huge, if controversial, success. Of course a sequel was always going to happen and we’ll get it this year and here are two just released pics from the same creators – J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis, and here’s what the pair say about their new [...]
All of Batman’s Many Costumes
Well, pretty much all of them courtesy of artist Benjamin Moore, and thanks to Comics Alliance for bringing this to my attention. It’s a great rundown of the Dark Knight’s various looks since 1939 in comics, cartoons, TV series and films, with snappy quotes of the era.
99 Cent Batman Comics Sale
At DC Comics’ digital store you can get a bunch of Batman issues, including the futuristic Batman Beyond and the gritty Gotham Central for only 99 cents each. The sale is on now for 10 days.
DKR, German Avengers, Mario and Wrath
Time for some more trailers of some of next year’s most anticipated films. First up is The Dark Knight Rises, which as we know features back breaker Bane and is set 8 years after the last film. Here’s the German version of The Avengers trailer, with some new footage. The German dubbing makes it seem [...]
Batman: The Brave and the Bold #13 Preview
When I first saw this cover and the solicitation text that promised a team-up of all the Robins to save Batman’s life, I knew that I must have it. Chris Sims at Comics Alliance has now shown that I was right. Check out a preview and rundown of the charming all-ages ish right here.
Extra Sequential Podcast #65-Chuck Dixon
62 mins. In short, Chuck Dixon is an underrated writer who writes a lot, and writes very well.We dissect the prolific output of this mercenary comic book writer, and delve into the controversial issues and personal politics which led to his blacklisting at both Marvel & DC. Also, Whoopi Goldberg’s love life and Billy Connolly [...]
Arkham City Gets Better
I’ve only played a few minutes of Batman: Arkham City and in short, it’s awesome. It’s about to get awesomer though on November 1 when the Nightwing (the grown up original Robin) DLC gets released. His inclusion has been teased for a while, but this is the first in-game video to be shown. XworkZ Studios [...]
Extra Sequential Podcast #62-Arkham Asylum
72 mins. In honour of next week’s highly anticipated release of the Batman: Arkham City videogame, we discuss the best Arkham Asylum comics, the dark history of Gotham City and a few of its cruel and unusual inhabitants. Also, predictable superhero posing, Woody Allen as Batman and the ice-cold woman known as Frostbite McDonough. LISTEN TO [...]
Extra Sequential Podcast #61-’30s & ’40s Heroes
64 mins. We wind back the clock to those halcyon days of the 1930s and 40s when comic books and superheroes were brand new. And they were stranger and wilder than you could imagine. Also, Orson Welles. Drunk. LISTEN TO IT BELOW, DOWNLOAD IT HERE OR ON iTUNES You can email us at kris (at)extrasequential(dot)com [...]
Super ’70s and ’80s
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while now, but essentially, author Marc Tyler Nobleman’s latest project is a great one, which focusus on some forgotten players in pop culture in the 1970s and 1980s. Here’w how he describes it. To bridge the gap between my book Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman [...]
Batman: Year One’s Catwoman
Here’s the first look at how Catwoman will look in her short film on next month’s Batman: Year One animated film. Cool. She resembles her comic counterpart closley. Hopefully Anne Hathaway in next year’s The Dark Knight Rises will too. Official details below. Warner Home Video to unveil Catwoman animated short, first Justice League: [...]
Ulises Farinas’ Batman
Wow. Batman means business, as usual. Artist Ulises Farinas draws a great imaginary cover that would fit right in to an Elseworlds story, or even the also-awesoem covers of the DC Fifty Too! project. With Geof Darrow-like detail, and an angry Bruce reminscent of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, Bats prepares himself in a [...]
