LOST SQUAD finds Rogue
Against all odds, the rights to a comic book have been acquired by a movie company and they might just make a movie out of it! It's true!
Variety reports that Rogue Pictures has...
The 9/11 Report sales soar on Amazon
There's been a lot of kvetching in various venues over THE 9/11 REPORT: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION by Sid Jacobsen and Ernie Colon -- it's simplistic, it's inappropriate, blah blah. This review at TomPaine.com sums...
Turner censors smoking toons
In today's depressing news, Turner Broadcasting is tinkering with its old toons again, after a complaint about an appearance of smoking in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. As far as we can tell --...
9/11 in the news!
Slate Magazine is excerpting Sid Jacobsen and Ernie Colón's The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. Meanwhile, USATODAY.com profiles the creators:
Last week, its writer, Sid Jacobson, and illustrator, Ernie Colo´n, both veterans of the comic...
ZOOM is for ZERO
Tim Allen's film ZOOM is challenging ELEKTRA and CATWOMAN as the worst comic book movie in history, and those are some big spandex tights to fill.
Cinematical reveals that ZOOM has achieved the extremely...
Where is your messiah now, Internets?
As you all know by now, SNAKES ON A PLANE, the internet driven movie phenomenon which saw Samuel L. Jackson intoning "M-----f---in' snakes on a m-----f---in' plane!" everywhere nerd hipsters congregate, was a first...
Must Reading: 2005’s Graphic Novel Bestsellers
In what could very well be the Rosetta Stone for graphic novel sales analysis, The Book Standard takes a look at their Comics & Graphic Novel Chart which is taken from the Bookscan...
Who really won, X-MEN or SUPERMAN?
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER's Anne Thompson looks at the summer's superhero bockbusters and concludes that although X-MEN: THE LAST STAND may look like more of a box office hit that SUPERMAN RETURNS, Warners scored the...
300 — lookin’ good!
A sneak peek at a rough cut of 300, Zack Snyder's new film based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, was held the other night, and everyone signed a non disclosure then went out and...
COVENANT update
We've received information that indicates that THE COVENANT, the upcoming horror film, is not so much based on THE COVENANT, last year's graphic novel, as they were developed concurrently. A story from last...
HALO GN selling like hotcakes
The HALO graphic novel, based on the best-selling videogame, has proven to be a rare hit for the videogame-to-comics genre. The book has debuted at #2 on BOTH the Bookscan and Diamond charts, and...
