Marvel’s Infinity shifts the spotlight to the Inhumans
Marvel is getting all cosmic with the looming threat of Thanos in the second Avengers movie, and in the run up to it, the new Infinity comic will reintroduce the weirder side of the Marvel U, with the Inhumans mixing it up weith Thanos in a saga penned by Jonathan Hickman (Avengers, Avengers VS. X-Men) and illustrated by Jim Cheung (Avengers: Children’s Crusade) Jerome Opena (Avengers, Uncanny X-Force), and Dustin Weaver (Avengers, Uncanny X-Men). Infinity kicks off with a Free Comic Book Day preview and then as a six issue mini-series in August.
On the Scene: WonderCon 2013, Matt Kindt on MIND MGMT and Being Happy
You’d be forgiven if you think of Matt Kindt as a breakaway success, since the “slow and steady” approach that's defined his career so...
That Oblivion “graphic novel” will probably never be published
We've written before about OBLIVION, the SF movie that seemed to be "based' on a graphic novel by director Joseph Kosinski, adapted by Arvid Nelson and Andree Wallin -- although a mock-up of the project was apparently used to lure Tom Cruise into starring in the film (which opens later this month) -- Ksinski now says it will most likely never be published::
On the Scene: WonderCon 2013, Indie Marketing Tips from ComiXology, Dark Horse, IDW, Archaia,...
ComiXology’s Chip Mosher of Marketing and PR moderated a panel with Jeremy Atkins of Dark Horse, Dirk Wood of IDW, Mel Caylo of Archaia,...
On the Scene: WonderCon 2013, ‘What Makes an Icon?” with Nocenti, De Matteis, Mahnke,...
A panel on Friday, March 29th, the first day of programming at WonderCon brought together a rather iconic cast to discuss “iconic characters” and...
On the Scene: WonderCon Hasn’t Lost Its Mojo
The biggest topic of discussion leading up to WonderCon has been the location. Most WonderCon goers have been very disappointed by the move to...
24 Hours of Women’s Cartooning: Sarah Glidden
My first experience with Sarah Glidden's work was via her debut, How To Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (published by, of all...
24 Hours of Women Cartoonists: Julia Gfrorer
About a month ago, Steve asked me who my favourite comic creators were, and horrible as I am at answering on the spot questions,...
24 Hours of Women Cartoonists: Jennifer Hayden
Jennifer Hayden writes and draws her own comics as well as working as an illustrator, and her work appears both in webcomic form and...
REVIEW: TIME WARP #1, Putting the Vertigo in Sci-Fi
Publishers seem increasingly willing to roll the dice on anthology formats recently. Maybe it’s the success of things like Dark Horse Presents, and the...
Uncanny Avengers Introduces ‘The M-Word’
Even allowing for the fact that we're not supposed to like any of the characters in Uncanny Avengers (only this week, Wolverine calls Japanese...
REVIEW: Everyone at The Beat Jumps Onto 2000AD Prog 1824
2000AD, the British anthology comic, announced that their most recent issue - last Wednesday's prog 2814 - would be an easy jump-on point for...
