We’ve just had Manhattan Projects from Image, the latest in a run of fantasy science comics (and yes, I have my own somewhere in the pipeline). In August we get the next one, from Top Cow’s Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal, Think Tank. And it’s hard not get the original Manhattan Project fear from this…
Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details. To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot…
It may have been Free Comic Book Day a weekend ago. But that doesn’t mean everything was left to undulate in the breeze. Take this scene from the Marvel FCBD Ultron War #0.1. An exact reprint of Avengers #12.1 yes? Well, not exactly. Here’s the original. Looks like there was a little creative colouring going…
In September, DC Comics publishes zero issues of the New 52, to celebrate the year anniversary of the revamp. Some books however, it seems, may not make it that far. Justice League International #12 will be the last issue of the series. An interesting decision as it outsells the like of Suicide Squad, Superboy, Birds…
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GainesWatch: John Landis is setting up a biopic based on EC Comics and Mad Magazine founder and comics legend William Gaines. And that Joel Eisenberg has written the screenplay entitled Ghoulishly Yours, William M Gaines. Casting suggestions anyone?
FinanceWatch: Founded by William Brooks Close in 1878, providing farm mortgages in Iowa then financing Alaska’s first railway, this long standing British group of corporate financers recently changed its name after a Japanese buyout by Daiwa Capital Markets from Close Brothers to DC Advisory Partners. Nothing wrong with that, people do it all the time.
In this case however, rivals of the company have been spending hour clogging the company’s switchboard asking for financial advise from Superman, about Batman’s new portfolios and details on the Green Lantern hedge fund. They are not amused.
ScribeWatch: So, no Sam Raimi for Spider-Man 4 but his series writer of choice, Alvin Sargent, has come on board to do a rewrite? Well, possibly being married to the producer may have helped keep that relationship alive.
DanishWatch: Komiks.dk, the largest comic book festival in Denmark is bringing in Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, Ed Piskor, Dave Gibbons, Frank Quitely and Kevin O’Neill to play with. More here.
StripWatch: British newspaper The Sun launches two new strips tomorrow, one a comedy, based on the Wallace & Gromit characters from Aardman, the other a supernatural romance in the Twilight vein called Shadows by Chris Nelson and Kevin Richter. The dropped strip, the long-lasting jet-set couple lingerie George & Lynn continues online for now. While The Grand Rapids Press drops Mutts.
NeilWatch: Remembering remembers L’il Neil seventeen years ago.
How The Other HalfOfProfessionalComicBloggersLiveWatch:
@laurahudson Beautiful day! Heading to the nude beach with a bunch of trades.
RaceWatch: Last night’s post by Ryan Mullenix has certainly caused a little comment across the net. It might be worth pointing out the examples he used do indeed stretch across a period of time, stretch the idea of racial identity to breaking point (I still have difficultly understanding that some people have a different idea of Caucasian than I do – it’s not a synonym for White – and especially when people start to throw Spanish/Irish/Italian heritage into the pot). And you know, John Stewart. And most definitely there doesn’t seem to be any racial motivation in the return of character identities to their previous occupants in the DC universe.
But what there has been is a practical effect. One that should have been considered and possibly countered by the powers-that-be when taking such line-wide actions. And considering that they’ve got Milestone integrated into the DC Universe right now, it’s not as if DC haven’t got a plethora of diversely genetic superhero comic book characters just waiting to be used. Far more than Marvel in fact – yet Marvel seem to have a great frontline diversity that DC do right now.
Even if that includes skateboarders, African princes and people saying “Sweet Christmas”.
In my Avengefuls comic for Boom!, I had President Obama shooting Osama Bin Hulk in the head with the line “guns don’t kill terrorists, Presidents kill terrorists.” It felt right. We know President Obama used to read comics. Even when he was all grown up. Appearing on The View, he was asked about Kardashians, Fifty…
Heritage Auctions is selling the original art to the cover of Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane, on behalf of its owner Martin Shamus, father of Wizard Magazine‘s Gareb and Steven Shamus. The cover of Wizard #1 was famously based on this cover. It’s iconic and probably bsums up nineties comics better than any other….
Can’t quite work out the motivation here. But a customer of the Regal Cinema in Abingdon, Baltimore, was rather annoyed to discover that the showing of The Avengers that he’d paid to see had captions. He remonstrated with cinema staff who offered him a refund or replacement tickets. He refused both and returned to his…
Larry Young writes for Bleeding Cool; THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE AVENGERS MOVIE. I’m not a person who puts much truck into “spoilers,” because I’m an old-school entertainment consumer. Back in 1980, I bought the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back and found out Yoda was a little blue yard gnome. The experience…
Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details. To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot…
This morning, Bleeding Cool reported the news that Neal Adams was to draw and co-write a First X-Men book with Christos Gage, following sources and stories over two years old. We presumed it was his much-promised and signed-off Wolverine series. Well, it looks like we were half right. (UPDATE: Oh look, Wolverine is in it.)…
