Comics

We've been talking about the Woodgod revival for years, and finally, courtesy of Dean Haspiel and STRANGE TALES II, it is happening! Yes! Woodgod...

STARSTRUCK, the eccentric space opera comedy by Elaine Lee and Wm. Michael Kaluta has led a varied multimedia history -- while it's now coming...

So when the tale was written, SCOTT PILGRIM Vs THE WORLD ended up #5 at the box office with a disappointing $10.5 mil. This...

If the long, long battle over the rights to Superman were a DC "event" comic, we would be into the colon-bedecked spin-offs by...

A story in The Hollywood Reporter suggests that China is looking to get bigger in the international animation/comics field: Leading the charge is the city...

Two summers later, I am still quite taken with The Dark Knight. I have not encountered an American movie — much less an American movie, designed to be a gigantic blockbuster and based on a hugely popular comic book — that is structured as ingeniously and compellingly as this one. I’ve simply never seen anything like it, and after several viewings it still continues to flabbergast.

I’ve worked on a handful of these types of movies as a screenwriter, and let me tell you: they’re hard. They’re really hard. There are so many issues for the writer to address: the protagonist must be active, the villain’s plot must make sense, there must be a romantic interest, there must be due attention paid to the history of the character and the rules of the genre, they must be both fantastic and grounded at the same time. All these balls must be kept in the air and these concerns must mesh in a straightforward, compelling, swift, action-packed cinematic narrative, consistent in tone and true to its source material. I haven’t seen one — not one — that has managed to get everything in and do everything right. None of the Superman movies do it, none of the previous WB Batman movies do it, none of the Spider-Man movies do it, neither of the Fantastic Four movies do it, and, even after 22 tries, none of the Bond movies do it either. (The Iron Man movies come close — really close.) But The Dark Knight not only does a better job than any other movie based on its source material — and by that I mean "superhero comics" — it does it with a radically ambitious screenplay that challenges any number of conventions and brings a new, added weight to its subject.

It's looking like SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD will come in at a disappointing #4 at this weekend's box office, according to Nikki Finke,...

It looked like a dark day for kids comics at the Big Two when it was announced last month that DC was ending most...

This pastiche by Jim Rugg of Neal Adams' Batman meeting Evan Dorkin's Milk and Cheese has been widely seen...but it just can't be seen...

Universal UClick has announced that Cathy, the long running strip of single female frustration, will end on October 3. Creator Cathy Guisewite is quitting...

Daily Cross Hatch's Brian Heater and Sarah Morean have launched a new day for comics pride via their Read Comics in Public program, which...

No idea what the original home of this is, but we know it's a Curt Swan convention program piece. Original provenance here. Found via...