Ed Brubaker’s busy day
At his Myspace Blog, CAPTAIN AMERICA killer The Brub describes what it's like to be in the middle of a media firestorm:
I did about ten interviews today, with more scheduled tomorrow. I was on...
300: book in stock!
It's 300 week here at SBM! In a very serious matter, ICv2checks in on Dark Horse's stock levels. You'll recall that copies of both HELLBOY and SIN CITY trades were in short supply when...
A rising tide kills all Caps
Oh boy, where to begin.
Marvel really lucked out with the Captain America news frenzy -- either that or they were more canny than we ever give them credit for. A nation that still...
STARDUST: giving them what they don’t know they want
Continuing our invesigation into what makes stories click with an audience, Neil Gaiman's blog quotes a rather interesting interview with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who produced the STARDUST film (adapting the illustrated novel by...
Image offers $1.99 Invincible
If you lower the price, they will come -- or so thinks Image Comics, which is offering a bargain-priced edition of its hit INVINCIBLE:
This March, Image Comics is offering readers who still haven't...
CNN BREAKING NEWS! NO CAP #26!
Just kidding, there will be a CAPTAIN AMERICA #26 and many, many more to come by creative team Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting. But, speaking of events and news and cycles and recreational readers...
And now…Mary Worth!
Barry Alfonso at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes an insightful look at eternal busybody Mary Worth which continues even though it came in dead last in the paper's popularity poll. According to Alfonso it's because...
Mini manga crash at Media Blasters
Media Blasters editor FRank Pannone posts on AnimeonDvd that they will be suspending many of their non-yaoi titles:
Apocalypse Zero and Baron Gong are probably dead. They are not being reprinted and the boss has...
Butler: graphic novels “masculine, insane”
It's 300 week here at Stately Beat Manor!
As we close in on the premiere, more evidence that star Butler has learned well to praise comics:
"After I sat down and read '300,' I just...
McG takes on the Losers
According to IESB Charlie's Angels director McG is taking over THE LOSERS movie:
Our industry insider is telling us that McG has replaced Pete Berg as the director of the big screen adaptation for Vertigo/DC...
Silver: Wonder Woman a “struggle”
Sci Fi Wire caught up with Joel Silver at WonderCon and he revealed the status of the Wonder Woman movie. Short version: don't hold your breath.
Later, Silver told SCI FI Wire that the...
300 Premiere!
Did we mention it's 300 week here? IESB has a wide ranging photo gallery of the premiere last night and it seems everyone was there! Rosario Dawson (who we saw running around on 4th...
