Dynamite acquires Chaos Comics library
It's the 90s and the "Bad Girl" era of comics all over again, as Dynamite announces they have acquired the Chaos Comics library which in cluded such titles as Evil Ernie, Chastity, Purgatory, and so on. Lady Death, the best known character from Chaos, was not included in the deal. Chaos flourished in the 90s under publisher/chief creator Brian Pulido. Various characters from their library have been controlled in recent years by Tales of Wonder, Crossgen, Devil's Due and Avatar.
Continue ReadingMore fall superheroes: No Ordinary Family
With Lost sailing off to TV Valhalla, ABC is left the task of filling the hole on their schedule, and their choice is a live action remake of The Incredibles called No Ordinary Family, about a family that has their superpowers thrust upon them.
Continue ReadingNews and notes: Annie, Forney, Marvel-Disney
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet • Today’s must read: Michael Cavna interviews Steve Tippie, Tribune Media’s VP of licensing on the end of Little Orphan Annie, the comic strip: MICHAEL CAVNA: “Little Orphan Annie” was said to be down to about 20 newspapers. Was 20 clients too few to make the strip cost-effective to syndicate? STEVE [...]
Continue ReadingLost — And then there was one
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet One episode to go. Let’s discuss “What They Died For” after the jump. spoilers ahoy.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits: 5/19/10
A fleeting trip around the blogosphere with Dash Shaw, Paul Pope, Evan Dorkin, Noah Berlatsky and Tom Spurgeon.
Continue ReadingCMX shuts down
Share this link on Facebook!TweetManga’s very bad month continues as it was revealed today that DC is shutting down its manga line, CMX. Rather than make any official announcement, DC released a statement to people who asked about the closure: Over the course of the last six years, CMX has brought a diverse list of titles [...]
Continue ReadingEndangered otaku in Queens
By the time the New York Times gets around to spotting a trend, that usually means it's something your grandma loves. IN this case, the recent manga implosion gives this New York Times spotlight on manga something of a more urgent undertone. The story focuses on budget cuts in the Queens library system, where the kids -- of widely diverse ethnicities -- have embraced the manga:
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NBC wants you to wear The Cape
While Heroes is floating into that great TVLand in the broadcast spectrum -- and become the target of a lawsuit by Jazan Wild over who thought of a carnival first -- NBC is not abandoning the world of superheroes, as we reported yesterday. In keeping up with the times, they are swapping out a complicated, sci-fi tinged multi-character soap opera in the Lost manner, with a single character drama about a dad who wants to make things right. The synopsis sounds pretty lame:
Continue ReadingCon wars: Shamus retreats, moves Big Apple
Are the Con Wars East over, or at least moving into a new, less militarized phase? The Beatand his Wizard army has announced a MAJOR pullback from hostilities, moving the 2010 Big Apple Con, which has been scheduled directly opposite and 20 blocks north of the New York Comic-con on October 7-10, to October 1-3, a week earlier.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 5/18/10
Malware, cancellation, giant comics, Stu Schwartzberg, and the answer to the long-running mystery of what Warren Ellis does at the pub in today's news roundup.
Continue ReadingThe merry month of meta
We're back from our little working vacation, but sadly, we're more tired than ever! How does that happen? The Beat feels relaxed for about five seconds upon returning home, but then. the stress of catching up on everything we missed erases all progress. Plus, there is so much to see. Within five minutes of alighting at Penn Station we had already seen TWO men wearing eye bandages!
Continue ReadingIt came from Twitter: Scott Morse’s THEM!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMorse’s cover for THEM! in progress. And because you can never get enough Scott Morse, here is his cover for Strange Science Fantasy from IDW. More in link!!!
Continue ReadingBig picture news stuff
Heroes is cancelled, a surprise twist in the Siegel vs Warners legal battle and video from the Doug Wright Awards.
Continue ReadingNon-white people in refrigerators?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We haven’t quite been following this story but some other folks have. It seems that a bunch of “legacy” characters at DC who were mostly whiter men, have, over the years, been replaced with new folks who were more multiracial and even female. But now they are all getting killed off, [...]
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