Dark Horse Editorial changes: Gibbons promoted, Edidin goes freelance
A couple of changes at Dark Horse as Jim Gibbons has been promoted to assistant editor. Gibbons, one of about 12 trillion former Wizard...
Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman – Introduction
The comic character Marvelman has a fascinating - and probably unique - history in the field of comics. His extended origin goes all the way back to the very beginnings of the American superhero comics industry, and it seems likely that his ongoing story will stretch on well into the future. It involves some of the biggest names in comics. It’s a story of good versus evil, of heroes and villains, and of any number of acts of plagiarism and casual breaches of copyright.
The Dark Knight Rises: Batman’s Third Act
The “titles” of Batman Begins showed the symbol of a bat formed in a swarm of bats, the titles of The Dark Knightshowed it in fire, now The Dark Knight Rises shows it in ice. The bats in Begins were a symbol of fear, the titles a metaphor for an identity forming out of shadows. The fire of The Dark Knight was like a wall of fire for that bat, that symbol, pushing through the chaos inflicted by the Joker. Now, the bat is, literally, the cracks in the ice formed by the isolation of Gotham City at the hands of Bane.
REVIEW: On the Road with Paul Pope’s THE ONE TRICK RIP-OFF +DEEP CUTS
For those savvy enough to have read Paul Pope’s (BATMAN: YEAR 100, HEAVY LIQUID, BATTLING BOY in 2013) ONE TRICK RIP-OFF when it first...
Art Wall: Cubist Thing, them Mighty Morphin’ kids and Batman- lots of Batman
Hello and welcome! We are starting a weekly art thingy and have -rather thoughtfully- set it for Friday, that interminable day where the weekend...
Marvel Month to Month Sales: December 2012
The second month of Marvel Now titles arguably makes for more interesting sales data than the first. We're starting to get a sense of where some of the books that had huge launch numbers in November are actually going to settle down. And we're also seeing how the second-tier Marvel Now books are going to fare, with this month seeing the launches of CABLE & X-FORCE, THUNDERBOLTS and AVENGERS ARENA, as well as the relaunch of AVENGERS itself.
The Bigger Picture Behind DC’s Latest Moves
DC announced a few more cancellations and creator switches yesterday. That's not unusual in the days leading up to releasing the next batch of...
DC Creator Switches Roundup – OR – This Month’s Musical Chairs
Another month, another set of creative changes at DC. This time they're announcing them via their column at CBR. Here's the rundown of...
Justice League movie reportedly beset by usual WB woes
It was not a very good day for DC comics yesterday. Not only did their editor in chief and executive editor engage in a humiliating display of Kool-Aid fueled happy talk with enough papering over to remodel Versailles, but a whole new round of enthusiasm-sapping rumors about the Justice League movie made the rounds The word this time: Will Beall's script sucks and has to be scraped before a decent director can be hired. Juicy rumors abound:
DC announces two new books: The Movement and Green Team
Somehow lost in all the hoopla over DC's new 52 pretty much imploding all over the place yesterday, was the announcement of two new books that aren't what you expected.
The Safe Haven of Batman
Some early morning ramble to go with your coffee. While all around us creators are struggling with editors, artists are flying from one series...
Sales Postmortem on DC’s Cancelled Titles
January sales stats will be out soon, but let's take a look at where books in DC's latest (and relatively large - 11.5% of...
