Review: there’s life(lives) in the old(young) Doctor yet in Doctor Who: Ninth Doctor Issue...
Writer Cavan Scott told us in an interview that this was a natural point to tell new stories about the Doctor because there is an obvious gap between episodes The Doctor Dances and Boom Town. Presumably, though the timing on the TARDIS often leaves much to be desired, every time the TARDIS takes off with only the Doctor in it could be an alternate timeline. Still, it’s a solid choice to set the story here with the TARDIS ‘dream team’ of Nine, Rose and Jack Harkness.
Secret Wars Has a Full House of M
Marvel announced via Hero Complex, what will hopefully be the final announcement of Secret Wars tie-in books. Secret Wars: House of M will be...
Suicide Squad adds Killer Croc, and possibly a few more familiar names
Killer Croc to throw more rocks at Batman in 2016
Marvel announces Southland producer as Luke Cage showrunner
Marvel's third Netflix series has found its head-honcho
#hotelpocalypse is over…how will your life continue?
Some people are very upset about how this year's San Diego Comic-Con hotel sale went. But should they be?
Harvey Award nomination ballots are out—here’s how you vote
Awards seasons continues to barrel along, with the announcement that Harvey Awards nomination ballet is online and available. Nominations are for work published in...
RIPE kicked off the year in comic arts festivals
While the mainstream comics world was getting reaquainted and dusting off their drinking pants at Emerald City this weekend, the year in CAFS also kicked off in Providence, RI with RIPE, the Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo. Now in it's second year, this is a show in a town with a solid comics history and within driving distance of lots of other scenes. Robyn Chapman, cartoonist, First Second editor, and Tiny Report mastermind, has a report on the show, and she had me w2ith the first photo above. Was this expo held in a Greek temple to the sun god Apollo??? No, just the Providence Public Library.
Exclusive Trailer Reveal: Jack Baxter, Joshua Faudem, and Koren Shadmi’s Mike’s Place weaves a...
An Exclusive first-look at the trailer for Mike's Place, available from First Second in June
Sammy Harkham’s Crickets #4 is coming
After a four year hiatus, a new issue of Sammy Harkham's acclaimed Crickets is coming at the end of April. You can pre order...
What female-domination of the 2015 box office could mean for comic book movies
Are superhero movies the only thing keeping young men going to the movies? Or are they doomed to soon crash and burn out? That and more are covered in this NYT piece on on how female fare is dominating 2015's box office. Insurgent (above), Cinderella and Fifty Shades of Grey have all been hits this year, while male focused films have mostly flopped. (One exception, The Kingsmen based on a you-know-what by Mark Millar, one of Hollywood's most reliable creators.) But other factors are at play including the numbing prevalence of endless special effects and male distraction by video games:
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/31/15: What clicking on these links says about your personality
§ Headline of the Day #1: Comic Con Event Takes Over Nutter Center. Why how DARE you?
RIP: Roger Slifer
Lobo co-creator and Bronze Age comics writer Roger Slifer passed away over the weekend. Slifer was badly injured in a hit and run accident two years ago, suffering traumatic brain injury that left him in a nursing home for the remainder of his life. Although he had been making some recent progress in speaking, he died en route to the emergency room. He was 60.
