This Thursday evening, $#*! My Dad Says premieres on CBS. That’s the one based on the Twitter thing with Captain Kirk in it (though, really, the original Morris Buttermaker was the ideal casting, RIP). Maybe you just thought “Oh, good! I love that on Twitter!” and rushed to your Tivo to set it to record….
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Recently Dark Horse’s Mike Richardson put on an exhibition of his original comic book artwork – and made a bit of a show of it. Here he is in conversation with an audience, as well as glimpses of his mighty collection…
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So Wildstorm is finally ceased to be, the studios in La Jolla ceased to be, staff and projects absorbed into DC Digital in Burbank. Wildstorm was the Jim Lee side of Homage Studios, the Image studio that split along creator lines with Mike Silvestri’ half forming Top Cow, as the separate founders created their own…
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As of today, there will be thousands of copies of Skullkickers# 1 on sale in comics shops. Well, two of them have just sold on eBay for $14.99 each. This is probably unprecedented for any non-variant, openly-orderable book. Basically, according to all evidence, you should be able to simply flip this on eBay and, even…
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Earlier today, the LA Times ran a piece about the current changes at DC Comics. And the line that so many people, including myself, took a double take over was the following; About 20% of DC’s roughly 250 staffers will lose their jobs as part of the shift, while some others will move to the…
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Hookjaw was a shark-based strip that appeared in the eventually-banned British boys comics Action, a precursor to 2000AD. Now the Bosnian-now-UK-based publisher of the upcoming Strip Magazine has grabbed the rights to use the character in the title. The strip by Pat Mills, Ken Armstrong, Romon Sola, Felix Carrion and Eric Bradbury will be reprinted…
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KickWatch: Aaron Johnson says; “Mark Millar’s very enthusiastic about it, yeah, definitely. I mean, I think he’s sort of set it up for a second one, but it kind of goes through Matthew Vaughn, and what have you, and they’re not going to make one any time soon…. The way I heard was that we…
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Welcome to another week with Aaron and Tri-Force Mike from Orlando, Florida – where Marvel isn’t moving – hyping their new open-till-midnight comic shop. Not to mention Nemesis, Avengers, Fantastic Four, Thor, Hit Monkey, Green Lantern Corps, Walking Dead and… Skullkickers! Weekly TOP PICKS: 9.22.2010 NEMESIS 3 (OF 4) MARK MILLAR! NEMESIS may not be…
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So, there’s now an actual trailer for The Witches of Oz, featuring Christopher Lloyd, Lance Henrikson, Mia Sara, former Hobbits Sean Astin and Billy Boyd, Jeffrey Combs… all kinds of folk that we hold dear. I’ve purchased DVDs for less incentive. But be warned: Witches is the newest piece from the director of the legendary Transmorphers….
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Okay, by the time this publishes I’ll be living in Wednesday, but it’s a US site (no, really) so I’m calling this Tuesday’s Rushes. What you gonna do about it? Ryan Reynolds doesn’t think he can be in both Deadpool and R.I.P.D. io9 are among the many folks to have attended an interview in which…
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Clint Eastwood’s biopic of J. Edgar Hoover is gearing up to go and the casting process is in full swing. At the moment, it seems as though Leonardo Di Caprio is poised, pen in hand, ready to ink a deal to play Hoover himself. Vulture report that should his signature appear – and frankly, they’re…
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Oh it’s good to be an English-speaking country in region 2 and/or 4… Because that’s where, according to an impeccable source (more of a Big Bleeder than a Little Bleeder) you’ll be able to buy a Scott Pilgrim Vs The World double disc DVD set featuring all of the content features of the American’s DVD/Blu…
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