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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...

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...

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...

The Earth One story has been mostly cleared up as J. Michael Straczynski has responded to Robot 6 with a clarification: This was the actual...

Wow, in a few short hours, SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD finally opens and Edgar Wright and Bryan Lee O'Malley can stop their incessant promotional wanderings over the face of the earth. In future years, this will always be known as "Scott Pilgrim Week," a mystical, magical time of love and exploration and kung fu training. So much has happened, is happening. Some linkie winkins. ABOVE -- a super-amazing remake of the live-action SPvsTW trailer using the comics -- wow, it really is just like the book.

Late last year, DC announced a new line of graphic novels called Earth One. The idea was a line of standalone graphic novels...

Via Sam Henderson, a gallery of art by fabulist Basil Wolverton, from PLOP! In case you are wondering what PLOP! was, it was a humor/satire...

WHAT DOES THE PROTAGONIST WANT? Bruce Wayne, orphaned at eight, wants to overcome his fears and honor his father. This turns out to be rather more complicated than he suspects it will be. Batman Begins presents a radically new vision (for the movies, anyway — this stuff had been around the comics and the animated series for many years beforehand) of the Batman story, grounds it in a startling new sense of reality, presents not just a caped crusader and a wacky new villain but a whole wealth of good guys and bad guys, all following their stars in increasingly complex and interconnected ways, all of it bound together with the one fantastic conceit of a young billionaire who dresses up like a bat. It strongly reminds me of the Casino Royale re-boot, which brought the James Bond character to a new level of immediacy while retaining enough of the series’ fantastic hallmarks to still qualify as escapism. There is still enough silliness in Batman Begins to make it a recognizable "superhero movie" (grand, outsized villains with colorful personalities and an ambitious scheme to destroy an entire city, spectacular action sequences that teeter at the brink of believability, production design that borders upon science-fiction) but it’s presented with a sober, straightfaced earnestness that’s nothing less than shocking after the garish camp of Batman & Robin. The Dark Knight would successfully develop all of Begins‘s good ideas into an even more complex, startling vision of modern urban justice.

You could learn a lot from Mark Millar. Seriously. Not content to let his movie option deal announcement go live and get covered everywhere, he got a full three days of publicity out of it! And made such a big deal of it that Bleeding Cool literally wouldn't sleep until they scooped Deadline on the news -- which everyone we talked to seems to have known for days. So a big deal becomes a Bigger Deal. That is how you market it, Mark Millar, and we salute you.

We won't slap a "Tolja!!!" over this, but a memo this afternoon confirms what many had been predicting since DC's new regime took over...

While folks like Mark Millar, Mike Mignola, and Robert Kirkman have been deservedly marked by the success of their creations in Hollywood, one hard-working...