Reviewed: Uniqlo Superman by Yan Cong, POTA: Visionaries by Dana Gould & Chad Lewis, The Scar by Andrea Ferraris & Reno Chiocca
31 Days of Halloween: Should the bogeyman have his own comic?
Is it time for Michael Myers to make another return: to the comics page?
Donny Cates’ and Geoff Shaw’s GOD COUNTRY Optioned for Film
Cates will also write the screenplay for this generational epic about aging relatives and inter-dimensional swordplay.
WonderCon ’17: Spotlight: Mark Waid
By Pamela Auditore WonderCon ’17 returned to the Anaheim Convention Center from Los Angeles Friday, bringing larger crowds and consummate raconteur and Eisner award winning writer, Mark Waid. As a writer and editor, Waid, has done just about everything in and out of the Marvel and DC Universes. He swept into the room, delighting an audience of comic […]
New Teenage Mutant Turtles 2 film is yet another underwhelming sequel
Could it be that Hollywood’s junkie-like reliance on sequels could be coming to an end? A series of so-so-sequels, many based on comics, tallied another disappointing chit with this weekend’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadowstook. Produced by Michael Bay, the film was #1 at the box office but with a moribund $35.25 million, on a production cost of $135 million. X-Men Apocalyse was #2 with $22.3 million, a 66% drop that’s typical for sequels but further evidence of a softening market:
The Sin City Doctrine: Are movie//TV tie-in comics the way forward for the industry?
Yesterday Alex Zalben had a modest proposal on CBR called For Comics to Survive, They Must Align with Movies & TV and drew a lot of fire on comics twitter. The piece starts out pointing out how DC dropped the ball by not having a Supergirl comic to come out with the Supergirl TV show but unfolds it as a tarp to cover much of the Big Two publishing strategy:
Lionsgate bringing Double Take’s Z-men to the screen
A lot of newish comics companies have launched of late—Double Take, Aftershock, Z2—and I’m guessing they would all like to have films made from their comics. Well, Double Take, the branch of gaming company Take Two that is run by former Marvel to exec Bill James, has hit that brass ring. Lions gate has signed […]
What Can the THOR: PRELUDE Comic Tell Us about the DARK WORLD Film?
Firstly, there’s such a thing as a comic called THOR: THE DARK WORLD, “Prelude”, a two-part “limited series” introduced this month which is apparently designed as a movie tie-in meant to bridge the gap for readers between the first THOR film and the new DARK WORLD film set for release in the US on November […]
Pacific Rim: The Graphic Novel fleshes out every kid’s fantasy
Monsters vs robots in bone crushing Guillermo del Toro-vision? I’m there! Get in the mood as we talk to screenwriter Travis Beacham about his prequel graphic novel.
Studio Coffee Run: Thor, Flash Point, Guardians and Ninja Turtles
I’m not going to lie, but my “mjolnir” dropped when I saw the brand-spanking-new Thor: The Dark World movie poster. Henry BarajasHenry Barajas is the co-creator, writer and letterer for El Loco and Captain Unikorn. He has also written and lettered short stories for two successful Kickstarter SpazDog Press projects: Unite and Take Over: Stories […]
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