It's on!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In our inbox: The second annual Hero Initiative Marvel vs. DC softball game will take place Thursday, July 26 at San Diego. The teams will be vying for the coveted Stan Lee Cup, the (second) most famous trophy in sports! BTW, if you were wondering why we haven’t mentioned Stan teaming up with [...]
Continue ReadingTHE BOYS sell out!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFor anyone who was wondering if the scabrous THE BOYS by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson would continue to do well when they moved to Dynamite the answer is, you bet your ass: DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT announced today that a second printing alternate cover of The Boys #7 will soon be on the [...]
Continue ReadingIDW snares BEOWULF
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Adding to its library of licenses, IDW has announced they’ll be publishing a four-issue adaptation of the Robert Zemeckis BEOWULF film, which was in turn written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary. Beowulf, the ancient epic poem, has been studied in schools for decades and adapted and translated into numerous forms over [...]
Continue ReadingMiller, Owen team for TROUBLE
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSo just what has Frank Miller been up to out in Hollywood? Signing up for the screenplays: An adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS with Clive Owen set to star. “Sin City” was Miller’s first collaboration with Owen. “Trouble Is My Business” was chosen partly because it provides the actor [...]
Continue ReadingVery important things you need to know about
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Neil Gaiman with an ultimate “Nobody knows anything” story § Listen to Bob Sikoryak talk about Tintin on NPR (Link via Peggy) § Tony Millionaire, Michael Kupperman, Coop, Bill Wray, Jenny Gonzalez etc. discussing the SOPRANOS finale. Comedy. § Warren Ellis reviews Paul Pope. PULPHOPE, a monograph by Paul Pope, is officially released on June [...]
Continue ReadingNew Thursday activity
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet With TUF off the air what ever will we do on Thursdays at 10? Well luckily for everyone, USA is premiering a show NEXT Thursday called BURN NOTICE starring Jeffrey Donovan as a Miami-based spook who has had his identity wrecked by the CIA, so he has to turn to being [...]
Continue Reading38 new titles from Tokyopop
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia Anime News Network via ComiPress, a list of 38 new titles coming next year from Tokyopop: January 8th, 2008 - Aria by Kozue Amano - Deja vu – Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter by Byung-Jun Byun / In-Wan Youn - Gakuen Alice by Tachibana Higuchi - Harukaze Bitter Bop by Court Betten - King City by Brandon [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel's movie slate examined
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The NYT takes an in-depth look at Marvel’s new role as a movie studio, profiles top dog David Maisel (above), and even offers some pretty interesting scuttlebutt over Avi Arad’s departure: Mr. Arad left Marvel last year after a power struggle with his former deputy in which he tried to have Mr. [...]
Continue ReadingThunderbirds are STILL GO!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A few days ago we were fretting that THUNDERBIRD fandom might be dying out/. The evidence? An excessive number of Geocities pages and dead links in out quest for some vintage stills. Predictably, we got many emails of “We’re going strong!” and managed to flush out quite a few fans. It [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel's in your underpants!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYoung boys will soon be able to leave skidmarks in their favorite Hulk briefs, just as their forefathers once did before them, while they clump around the house in their Spidey Crocs.. Marvel has signed licensing deals with Fruit of the Loom and Crocs: Fruit of the Loom will initially create products [...]
Continue ReadingZak Sally on SAMMY THE MOUSE
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re quite anxious to read SAMMY THE MOUSE, the new Ignatz title by Zak Sally; if we don’t find a copy in our mailbox this week, we’ll just have to buy one at MoCCA! Sally’s THE RECIDIVIST was one of our favorite indie comics of the last couple of years, and [...]
Continue ReadingMoyocco Anno's HATARAKI MAN
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Moyoco Anno is one of our favorite cartoonists. Her work deals with gender issues in a bleak, take no prisoners way that leaves everyone lying bleeding on the kitchen floor. (She’s also part of what we gather is a fairly rare cartooning couple in Japan: she’s married to Neon Genesis Evangelion [...]
Continue ReadingRobot Chicken Star Wars
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The entirety of the ROBOT CHICKEN all-STAR WARS episode is up at Super Deluxe, and it has a few funny bits…but is it just us, but has every version of humor based on the actual original trilogy been strip mined? And no we’re SKIPPING the Family Guy version.
Continue ReadingA few more con reports
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet [Art above "The Spartan" by Craig Hamilton, in a painting that was auctioned off at Heroes Con for $1700.] Heroes Con: • Tania del Rio • Johanna Draper Calrson • Ben Towle, Day One, Day Two, Day Three who wraps it up nicely: As for the convention itself, folks in the small press “Indie Island” area [...]
Continue ReadingUnderstanding Pirates
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Jim Hill the insider’s Disney blog has some suggestions for those who were confused by the plot in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END. One is this book, The Pirates Guidelines, supposedly penned by first mate Joshamee Gibbs, which includes all kinds of info on the movie and its [...]
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