Preview and Interview: 5 GHOSTS with Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham
5 GHOSTS is a new genre-splicing series premiering with Image Comics on March 20th, 2013 from writer Frank Barbiere (recently of THE WHITE SUITS...
Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Valkyrie
Marvel seem to be making a proper investment in their female characters in 2013, with a number of new books launching and several of...
Archaia and comiXology show off manga remake of CYBORG 009 with “variant digital cover”
Speaking of manga pioneers, Shotaro Ishinomori created GoRenger (the precursor to Power Rangers), Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009, and Kikaider. The Guinness Book of World...
New Justice League of America: “People will ‘wonder what the hell we are doing.'”
Aside from having 52 variant covers for state seal lovers, we haven't talked much about the new JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA book by Geoff Johns and David Finch and how it differs from JUSTICE LEGAUE by Johns and other people. Will it be set in America? Will there be spiders? Is Airwave in the team?
New books from Gfrörer and Catmull announced
Continuing our look at thrills to come in 2013, Fantagraphics announced new books by two exciting indie creators, Julia Gfrörer and Ben Catmull, with some advance looks. The cover art isn't final, as attractive as it may be. Both will be out in September.
“ZED: A Cosmic Tale” – Reviewing A Children’s Comic That’s Not For Children
The collected edition of ZED - A Cosmic Tale will be coming out next week. It may be under your radar, and that's understandable. It certainly...
“Chris Pine is Rob Liefeld in ‘ICONS’ the Image Comics story”
In case you missed yesterday's blockbuster news, the irrepressible Rob Liefeld took three days out of his schedule to write a screenplay called ICONS about the early days of Image. Hitherto shown only to close friends, the screenplay turned up at the website Dreammoviecast where you can read several sample pages up along with Liefeld's own dream casting choices. I don't want to spoil all the surprises but here are two:
The Sixth Gun getting a pilot at NBC
Pilot season is upon us in Hollywood, and Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's acclaimed THE SIXTH GUN has gotten a pilot order at NBC with Carlton Cuse (Lost) on board to produce.
Help Wanted: IDW is hiring an editor
Do you have what it takes to juggle a bunch of monthly comics, dealing with freelancers, Diamond, retailers and the comics press? If you're...
Nice Art: Age of Ultron teasers released
Whooooeeee is it time again for a new mega crossover event ALREADY? Yep, Marvel's AGE OF ULTRON is rolling out in March, and previews are being released -- here's a couple of teaser images by In-Hyuk Lee—it must be said, they are very nice.
Marvel sold original art in 1973
Research for Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story has dug up a lot of long-forgotten dirt, but here's a particularly sad one:Marvel selling art by Romita, Sinott, Kane, Sal Buscema and more to a Winnipeg art gallery for $1000:
Why OBLIVION is the most miraculous “comic book movie” of all time
You may have noticed a few trailers for OBLIVION, a new Tom Cruise SF film that seems to fuse the themes of I am Legend, Mission Impossible, War of the Worlds and Minority Report into one handy epic. (It also destroys New York, just as all futuristic movies must.) The film comes out in April and in addition to Cruise it stars Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Melissa Leo, Zoe Bell and Andrea Riseborough. The director is TRON: UPRISING's Joseph Kosinski, and he's also the source of this film's tenuous but fascinating "graphic novel" connection.























