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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‘Tis the season to wait eagerly for the Doctor Who Christmas Special. For me, truth be told, it’s the first year I’ve been anything like as keen, but this time around, it’s just about the most imaginary exciting box under my metaphorical tree.
In order to support his TARDIS-twist on A Christmas Carol, Steven Moffat has been giving a good fist full of interviews. At The NY Times, they even got on to the matter of Sherlock series two:
We’re gearing up [on Sherlock] – we’re doing another three films, so the other two writers have started. I won’t be able to start for a while, so I’ll come skidding in at the last minute and do my bit. The two of them [Doctor Who and Sherlock] run into each other quite a bit. There’s a pretty nightmarish portion of the year where I’m doing both. What can you do?
So, we can surmise that Moffat is writing one episode, Mark Gatiss is almost certainly writing another… and there’ll be a third one. Last year’s third leg, just hanging inert there in the middle, was written by Steve Thompson. I wasn’t too convinced by his episode at all.
I wasn’t wanting this pattern to be reprised. I was naively hoping for a more consistent series with more Moffat input. I might yet get the former, but it looks like the latter is out of the question.
At the moment, Thompson is working on the feature Another Brick in the Wall, a based-on-a-true-story account of the comprehensive school kids you can hear singing on Pink Floyd’s famous tune. No idea if that means he won’t be writing Sherlock, but, to be honest, I’d expect there will be a new writer for series two.
As to what the episodes will entail, the only real info is a teasing statement Moffat provided for a BBC press release:
We’ve been overwhelmed by the warmth of response to our new Sherlock Holmes and John Watson and can’t wait to take them on three new adventures next year. There’ll be baffling new puzzles, old friends and new enemies – whether on two, or four legs. And we might well be seeing the cold master of logic and reason unexpectedly falling. But in love? Or over a precipice? Who can tell?
Hmmm. I won’t holding my breath to see all of that play out.
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…
