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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Okay, so “if you want a job doing properly, then do it yourself”, but what if you don’t want the job to get done at all?
According to Heat Vision, original creator Joss Whedon was offered the driver’s seat when Fran Rubel and Kaz Kazui decided to press ahead with a Buffy reboot. He declined, and has since engaged with writing and directing The Avengers, but I would imagine his decision to pass on Buffy was not simply because he had a “better offer”.
Whedon has already reinvented and restarted the franchise once, when moving on from the rather dented and bruised first vampire slayer movie to bringing Buffy on to the box. This was when he liberated himself and his vampire slayer from the influence of the Kazuis and I can’t imagine he’d want to reboot himself right back into their grasp again. But I think the Kazuis did the right thing by approaching Whedon, and I hope they had made him a respectable offer, both in terms of control and financial compensation.
For some fans, the dream of seeing Whedon’s Buffyverse 2.0 back on screen again has not died out entirely. There has been much talk of some spin-off series or another, from a toon, to vehicles for supporting characters Faith, Giles and Spike. Perhaps this dream played some part in discouraging Whedon from engaging with another reboot? Surely a new Buffy rolling in to town, succeed or fail, would close the book on the Buffy we knew best and loved most.
So, Whedon is out but Whit Anderson is currently scripting the new Buffy, derived from the elements of the character that the Kazuis have the rights to. This would be, essentially, anything from the initial movie.
Producer Charles Roven at least wants us to believe that he’s impressed by Anderson’s angle. I’ve got my fingers crossed, while many of my peers have crosses burning.
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…
