Midtown and Marvel cancel Riri Williams Invincible Iron Man variant
In a shocking display of good taste, and stunning acknowledgement that it isn't the 90s anymore and girls read comics now, Midtown Comics and Marvel jointly decided to pull the J. Scott Campbell cover that presented an overly sexualized version of 15 year old Riri Williams.
Rromani representation: Peter David apologizes and Roma Pop responds with a statement and goals
One of the biggest stories at New York Comic Con involved a confrontation between Rromani activist Vicente Rodriguez and comics writer Peter David at an LGBTQ X-men panel. You can read Beat reporter Elana...
#SDCC ’16 Interview: Legendary Original Composers for DC’s “Batman: The Animated Series” Speak about...
Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter: Courtesy of Tech Times.
Yesterday, the highly anticipated animated movie Batman: The Killing Joke became available for HD digital download, having just premiered in movie theatres around the...
Frank Cho quits over his right to draw Wonder Woman’s panties
As reported at Bleeding Cool, Frank Cho has stepped down as variant cover artist on Wonder Woman only 6 issues in to a 24 issue run. The reason? WW writer Greg Rucka didn't want...
A 13 foot high bronze statue of Captain America will soon be erected in...
Well, to be more precise, it's probably going to be a 13-foot high statue of Chris Evans -- not that there's anything wrong with that. As USA Today reports, the 1-ton statue will debut...
Gruesome Hollywood murder was foreshadowed in a graphic novel
Look for this one to be on the Oxygen channel before long: the suspect in a gruesome Hollywood murder with ties to everything from Mel Brooks to the Olympics is being called by some...
When Jack Kirby drew Captain America saluting Adolf Hitler
Hate and outrage have defeated love and optimism yet again.
On Monday it was suggested that Marvel had a story trick up their sleeve that would steal the spotlight from DC's ramming-speed publicity blitz for its revamped universe and Rebirth #1.
A shocking!!! plot twist in Captain America Steve Rogers #1 that revealed Steve was really a Hydra agent all along seemed unlikely to unseat a wholesale rewriting of ten years of DC history, along with a shocking Alan Moore related plot twist.
But, today we have a genuine tweet storm and think piece blitz, all wrapped in a bow
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less stressed in the headlines was that the court also found...
French publishers threaten to start their own festival as Minister of Culture agrees to...
L'Affaire de Angoulême continues and will not stop. As we reported yesterday, 40 French publishers — basically all the important players in France— have said they will boycott the 2017 festival if changes are...
Sattouf, Clowes, Burns, Davodeau and Sfar and even MIlo Manara withdraw from Grand Prix...
As reported yesterday, there has been international consternation over the 016 list of nominees for the Grand Prix, the lifetime achievement awards for cartoonists presented each year at the FIBD in Angoulême. While it...
Opinion: Why The Force Awakens is a retread of The Phantom Menace
by John Patrick Green
So the movie basically begins with a planet that some bad guys are going to attack. The bad guys are after this planet, or something, or someone on the planet because...
FIght! Ted Cruz vs Ann Telnaes
This presidential campaign seems to be all about optics so here's a good one. Although there is a loose prohibition against involving the kids of presidential aspirants in campaign mudslinging, it sometimes slips when...