Irish teen starts social media campaign to get Comic-Con badge
I'm surprised we don't see more of these stories in the media, but perhaps this is just the start. It seems a 13-year-old lad...
Six new What The Duck covers for April with Aragones, Stokoe, etc.
April is Howard the Duck variant cover month for Marvel and here are six more -- these covers could function as a mini-FAQ for "famous images to parody" : American Gothic, check, Washington Crossing the Delaware, check, Iwo Jima, check and so on. I don't think there's been a Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover parody yet, but give them time.
Faith No More is back, and their first single is ‘Superhero’
90s nostalgia, baby! Faith No More, a seminal MTV band that had great success with the whole hip hop/metal thing before hip hop won, is back with their first album in 17 years, since 1997's Album of the Year. But a new studio album, Sol Invictus drops on May 19th, and the first single has just debuted on Marvel.com, because a) bassist Bill Gould is a big Kirby/Silver Surfer fan (chatted with in link by Ryan Penagos) and b) the debut single is called "Superhero" and Marvel publishes Superhero comics.
Saturday sells out at WonderCon Anaheim
Remember when we were urging you to consider going to WonderCon Anaheim if you got shut out of Comic-Con badges? Well, I guess a lot of people did, because Saturday is now sold out! You can still get single day badges for Friday and Sunday, and a FEW 3-day badges. WonderCon Anaheim is held April 3-5 in Monongahela Anaheim. If you want to go...well, maybe you''d better get a badge now.
Nilah Magruder wins the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award for M.F.K.
As announced this weekend, the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award was given out, and the winner was Nilah Magruder for her webcomic M.F.K.
Disclosure: I was one of the judges for this award. And I couldn't be happier that Magruder won.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/2/2015: Only five more months of winter!
§ First off, in the Massive Achievements Dept., Kelly Thompson has put together a massive, massive list of women who makes comics. Everyone...
Orphan Black #1 Review: Preserve Your Deoxyribonucleic Acid!
Writers: Graeme Manson, John Fawcett, and Jody Houser
Artist: Szymon Kudranski
Colors: Mat Lopes
Letters: Neil Uyetake
Orphan Black #1 is one of the strangest comics to hit...
Books A Million Selling Variants Online and Getting DC from Diamond
This may well spoil things for people trying to flip variants on eBay, but it looks like Books A Million will let you order...
Entertainment Round-up: Supergirl pulls a Smallville and casts Dean Cain and Helen Slater, Lucifer...
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Archie taps Obscure Video Game Licenses from Sega and Capcom for Worlds Unite
Archie previously revealed that the Worlds Unite crossover is going to feature two huge video game characters (Mega Man and Sonic) teaming up together. The publisher confirmed several...
Matt Wayne on What Dwayne McDuffie Meant To Comics
Although it's in Playboy, it's SFW and a must read: former Milestone managing editor Matt Wayne on his friend, the late great Dwayne McDuffie:
