After hinting on social media months ago that she was getting the opportunity to write fan favorite Donna Troy, we now know that the original Wonder Girl is leading an unlikely team of heroes and villains to take on an old threat from DC's past.
Always three there are...for many months rumors have been swirling about Frank Miller penning, at least, a third volume in his Dark Knight series, and it's now been confirmed via the above tweet. It's the 30th anniversary of the original Dark Knight in 1986 so how better the celebrate than with a NEW DARK KNIGHT!
While Miller's health has been in question in recent years, we're told he remains sharp as a tack and eager to take on this project. Given the controversy over his recent Holy Terror, the title—referencing The Master Race—could presage even more controversy.
Brian Azzarello will be the co-writer on the projects, which will come out twice monthly, run for eight issues and start in late fall 2015. The art team has yet to be announced.
On the questionably damp morning of the last day of ECCC '15, I caught up with Image creator Nate Simpson in a small breakfast place called The Crumpet Shop in Downtown Seattle's world famous Pike Place market to talk about the second issue of Nonplayer, close enough to taste. The conversation spans his interest in narrative art, AI, and a discussion on creating comics in an rapidly gestating environment. Simpson is known for his work on Nonplayer, the first issue of which came out a few years ago. He lives in Seattle with his wife and young child and while he's not working on game art, he wakes up at 3AM daily to turn out comics pages.
Quick, which publishers are the pioneers of digital comics? You might think IDW or Marvel, but the UK's Rebellion, publisher of 2000 AD, has been selling digital editions of its book since all the way back in 2005 with great success—it's the fastest and cheapest way to get Judge Dredd if you don't live in the UK after all. Now they are making their downloads DRM free. All comics purchased—past and present—via any method—web, Android, iOS—will now be available in DRM-free PDF and CBZ files.
At NYCC Retailer Day, Marvel's new Editor in Chief Steve Wacker spent more than half an hour telling store owners what they can expect from the new Marvel
Michael Gray, a teen idol who walked away from Hollywood after playing Billy Batson on the 1974-76 Shazam! series, died of natural causes on Friday, October 16.
Tangles, an animated film based on Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir about her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, features the voices of Abbi Jacobson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Seth Rogen, Samira Wiley, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, and Pamela Adlon.
