HeroesCon: The wrap
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Just a quickie from the lobby — great show, great people, and also a fantastic mix of comics and genres, from comic strips to superheroes to indies to webcomics. Above, Rice Boy — read it!
Continue ReadingIndustry reacts to Marvel’s day and date experiment
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The internet and the floor at HeroesCon were both abuzz with the announcement of Marvel’s first simultaneous print and digital release with INVINCIBLE IRON MAN ANNUAL #1. People on the floor generally reacted with a shrug at the inevitability of the move. Online, Brigid Alverson has an excellent roundup of the [...]
Continue ReadingPerry Bible Fellowship is arisen
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet There was a scary time when the URL seemed to have lapsed, but Nick Gurewitch’s iconic The Perry Bible Fellowship website is back up and running and even has a new strip! And there was great rejoicing. [Via Comics Alliance]
Continue ReadingScott #6 DONE, new clip debuts
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Bryan Lee O’Malley tweets that SCOTT PILGRIM AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS is finished, and debuting July 20th, with a midnight signing in Toronto to kick it off. And director Edgar Wright intro’d a NEW CLIP from SCOTT PILGRIM during last night’s MTV movie awards — important placement for the great summer [...]
Continue ReadingHeroesCon mid-con
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Using the lobby Wi-Fi, while everyone else is at the con, but everyone is having a great time. As Johanna Draper Carlson put it: This convention has been about taking it as it comes, stopping and enjoying the moment, with great conversations, paying attention to where I am instead of chasing the next [...]
Continue ReadingHeroesCon stays relaxed and fun
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs usual, southern hospitality is keeping HeroesCon at the Charlotte Convention center a laid-back relax-a-con as opposed to some of the more frantic offerings on the con schedule. Heroes organizer Shelton Drum gave us the literal bird-eye view of the show last night — pre-reg was high, and the show floor [...]
Continue ReadingBriefs & Boxers! 06/04/10
o "Form Can Determine Content More Than Even the People Making the Content Generally Realize" Douglas Wolk and the Techland crew discuss the hardcover edition of Wednesday Comics (so does the Comics Alliance crew, by the way). I'm in the liked-it-in-theory camp on Wednesday Comics. I bought all the issues, but found most of the strips so mind-numbingly dull and nostalgia-driven that I lost interest after the first one. Wednesday Comics has some great art by Paul Pope, Karl Kerschl, Ryan Sook, Kyle Baker and many others. But with few exceptions, it reads like a bunch of people paying homage to the kinds of comics strips they liked as kids, rather than some of the most promising storytellers in the field making a serious attempt at exploring an off-beat format.
Continue ReadingMarvel takes the day and date plunge with IRON MAN
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s coming fast, kids. IDW recently announced a four-week window for digital comics releases, and Marvel today announced their first day-and-date release of a comic, the INVINCIBLE IRON MAN ANNUAL #1 by Matt Fraction and Carmine Di Giandomenico. While the story concerns the origin of the Mandarin, in future days, this [...]
Continue ReadingCap and Thor leaks
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As we alluded to the other day, concept art for Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Captain America have been leaked….or “leaked,” as they often say. Collider points out: Collider reader “Dan” has sent us some concept art of Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Earlier today, we ran a story about [...]
Continue ReadingRenner signs as Hawkeye for AVENGERS
Well, well, it looks like things are shaping up for Joss Whedon's AVENGERS movie , as Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) ahs joined the cast as Hawkeye. So far we have RDJ as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Cap, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, ScarJo as The Black Widow, and Don Cheadle as War Machine. That's a hefty and costly lineup of stars, but thrifty Marvel is asking the actors to take pay cuts and otherwise watching the budget very, very closely, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Continue ReadingRDJ buys comics one issue at a time, just like the rest of us
x17 has photos and video of Robert Downey Jr. stopping in at Meltdown to buy some comics, probably as research for an upcoming role, one would expect. Given that Downey's Iron Man won't be appearing in either CAPTAIN AMERICA or THOR, but is being saved for the all-star Avengers team-up, it's a pretty good bet that the comics he's picking up are Avengers related. As Jim McCann noted via Twitter, that included a Hawkeye-Mockingbird miniseries.
Continue ReadingStar Wars Kid is grown up and a lawyer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This has a distinct revenge of the nerds feel to it. Ghyslain Raza known to the world as “The Star Wars Kid” following an infamous video of the youngster practicing with a lightsaber, is graduated from school with a law degree and a position running a local historical conservation [...]
Continue ReadingStudio coffee house: Zombies, scripts, hobbitses, black Spidey, etc.
All the news we missed in the last week from Captain America's new zipper to Matt Kindt's movie news to the first look at brain eating walking dead zombies to the Black Spidey to who will take over the Hobbit movies.
Continue ReadingHelp the CBLDF at HeroesCon and beyond
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund needs volunteers for HeroesCon You get free lunch so it's a good deal. They also need some volunteers in their New York headquarters as they recently moved and need help getting things sorted. YOU can contact them for either matter via Facebook.
Continue ReadingHeroesCon: Stuff People are Doing and Groovy Art They are Selling
Things to do. People to see. Cool art by Scott Morse and Tom Fowler. In case you haven't figured it out yet...ALL the cool people are going to HeroesCon, and it's gonna be a good time. You know the drill.
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