Comic News Insider on A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Yet more podcasting from The Beat! Along with Jimmy and Joe of Comic News Insider, Ben McCool and Lenae McKee, we dissect the various versions of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE as part of CNI's...
A great week to be in comics
Sometimes it's design, sometimes it's fate, sometimes you just have a week that makes you realize you are one lucky duck indeed. Despite sometimes yucky weather, and bad train schedules, we managed to hit...
WARLORD OF IO: a symbol for our times
Everyone is justifiably linking to this post at The Comics Reporter as a passionate response to the ongoing winnowing at Diamond that is removing books like James Turner's WARLORD OF IO from its catalog...
WOLVIE success assures us there will be more superhero movies — UPDATE
No worries! WOLVERINE topped the box office, and set records, and that was just for the number of copywriters who used the words "claws" in their headlines:
Scoring an important win for the franchise, 20th...
Breaking! WOLVERINE cast includes female
This is seriously the most hottie guy-packed movie since 300. We don't even KNOW who to obsess over. And given the recent stringent enforcement of the "There can be only one" rule re...
Morrison romps through the Multiverse
Wizard has the scoop on Grant Morrison's new dimension-spanning head trip, and The Weekly Crisis has laid it all out on the web for you. It's a seven-issue miniseries for DC, each issue taking...
G. Willow Wilson May Day AIRlift
Via G. Willow Wilson, buy AIR and benefit a good CAUSE:
Whacky as it is, AIR is a book with a message. So, for every copy of AIR bought this May Day (Friday, May...
EXCLUSIVE preview: FROM THE ASHES #1
Is there anyone who doesn't like post-apocalyptic fiction?
Looking back at the past decade in comics, there haven't been a surplus of successful ongoing comics series. In fact we can think of only a...
PictureBox Gallery launches
Dan Nadel writes to tell us of a new art site, the PictureBox Gallery, that should repay more than a few visits. We are pleased to announce our new online venture, PictureBox Gallery (www.pictureboxgallery.org)....
Comics ad second life as viral poster? Or just a booboo?
A bunch of movie sites are posting today that a viral teaser poster for THE SURROGATES has been released (more, see Splash Page.) While the fellow in the ad does look a bit like...
Pope’s Adam Strange
Do we link to just about every piece of art Paul Pope posts? Well, maybe, but when it looks as good as this page of STRANGE ADVENTURES art for WEDNESDAY COMICS, how can anyone...
Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me by Peter Bagge
The Flog Blog at Fantagraphics previews one of this summer's must-haves: Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me by Peter Bagge, which reprints his various comics for Reason and other places. The site has...
