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We're inching ever closer towards a new Peter Parker

SKMBT_C55413062109020 I was at HeroesCon a few years back and ran into Jill Thompson. "Whatcha working on, Jill?" I asked. She said it was secret, but showed me a page of art with an island on it. So I guess that Jill Thompson's Wonder Woman project has been a badly kept "Secret" for a while. However on FB yesterday she cleared up what the project is and even gave it a name:

I've been raving about all the great comics art that was up at the Society of Illustrators during April for the MoCCA fest, but they're not stopping with Alt.Comix, Little Nemo and Craig Yoe. The new exhibit is a show of Hugo Pratt art. The creator of Corto Maltese is one of the all time great comics illustrators and this sounds like a must see. The show runs until June 13th, so get on down!

You know what I was thinking the other day? I wish there were more movies about superheroes. It would be nice to go to...

Movie #2 in a series is often bigger than #1—Aliens, Catching Fire, Despicable Me 2, Spider-Man 2, Terminator 2 etc etc etc. Avengers was...

Avengers: Age of Ultron launches the Summer movie season on May 1st, but before that the Marvel synergy machine rolls out across every facet...

The intergalactic monkey-knife-fight known as Convergence continues with issue three.

The Oscar winner joins in an undisclosed role

Little girls like superheroes! At least that's what WB's hopes with a while new universe created just for girls aged 6-12. As announced in a news blast the new line will come with heavy hitting partners, including Mattel, which will launch its first ever action figures for girls, Random House and Lego. Dolls for girls! Inconceivable! While the news is a stunner for the long boy-focused DC Entertainment line, with the swift evolution of comics to a co-ed undertaking, it's only good business. Plus, if you hang around Disney long enough you'll notice two things: #1 girl-based licensing programs like Disney Princesses make billions of dollars. #2 people like superheroes. Put em both together and you MIGHT have a winner.

After yesterday's Valiant and Daredevil news items and today's Eisner nominations, you'd think we could shut the door down on news for a while....

What is Dynamite's announcement for today? A Red Sonja one shot reuniting talents from her run since her 1973 debut, including Roy Thomas, Gail Simone, Luke Lieberman, and Eric Trautmann, along with writer Cullen Bunn and artists Dave Acosta and Rich Buckler. Because when it's a character's 42nd birthday, it's time to celebrate with classic brokeback. Here's a startling fact: Although most often associated with the Conan the Barbarian oeuvre, Red Sonja, as "The She-Devil with a Sword" was actually created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith in an issue of Conan. The character was based on a short story by Conan creator Robert E. Howard called "The Shadow of the Vulture" that featured a character called red Sonya of Rogatine. It was Thomas who figured out how to add her to the Conan mythos.

The 2015 Eisner Award nominations are out, and let the debate begin. It was the Year of the Woman but also the year of the...