His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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PornWatch: Soft core “lads mags” stacked too near to comics, report The Guardian. UK magazines such as Loaded, Nuts, Zoo and Maxim are placed too close to children’s comics in some newsagents and this is causing conern to young men who reach down tp pick up a copy of Bizarre and get a Beano instead… no, of course not, it’s the drip drip dripping sexualisation of childhood apparently and it seems that magazines with a nipple count must go back up to the top shelf to sit alongside the likes of Playboy, Razzle and… well… Viz Comic, I’ve often found. However, for some reason The Sun and The Star newspapers remain unaffected.
PriestListen: The Dollar Bin interview Priest about… everything.
GamesWatch: LA Times give Spider-Man 2 the tag of the best superhero video game. What, no mention of Batman by Ocean for the ZX Spectrum? I call foul.
ButtWatch: A Comicbook Orange cosplays to review Ignition City, with in-context glutaneous gratutituousness…
BenWatch: Midtown Comics in New York have Amber Benson signing at their Times Square store, Ben Templesmith and Ben McCool signing at their Grand Central store this Saturday. Oh and Benson’s co-creator Anton Strout will be around as well but his name doesn’t have “Ben” in it so I wouldn’t bother if i were you.
BatSlangWatch: I’m not doing a whole glossary for the new issue of Batman And Robin #9, but you can find out what a chav is here.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
