Mark Seifert Archives

We've all been waiting for this new Captain America trailer since Marvel debuted it at the LA Times' Hero Complex Film Festival a couple weeks back.  It

The act of storytelling for profit is increasingly now, and even when you realize that, it's sometimes tough to tell when a move is clever or dumb.

A rather large box shaped like a Transformer in truck form showed up at Bleeding Cool USA headquarters yesterday.  After giving it a day to transform into

Image Comics has just announced that they will use a content rating system beginning with comics shipping in July. The ratings will be consistent with

Presuming the titles on this list are accurate, you have to wonder just a little bit about that title. Another chapter in the long, strange,

Is this the first comic company-wide realignment to take place during the social media era? I think you could probably say that. It's starting to feel a

Today's theme seems to be comics behind the curtain. We've got pencils, solicitation tactics, and even a bit about printing.  As a comics production guy

I like the contrast of today's top two stories: Marvel vs DC in the marketplace, Marvel vs DC in the comics.  And of course,  there's a fair bit of talk

Lots of long-standing comic book institutions are going through major changes right now. I saw a couple people talking to Jason Aaron on twitter today

This was the day we talked about, worried over, and rooted for Green Lantern to be good.  It's gotten several early bad reviews, but when you hear that,

With X-Men: First Class getting good marks for Fox, we were destined to get some fast action again on The Wolverine, and here it is: Deadline reports that

As I post this I'm watching @jimlee00 talk to fans about the costume redesigns of the DC relaunch, and the conversation seems to sum up a lot of today's

DC's hammerlock on the comic book news loosened a bit for the first time in 14 days, as Marvel fans got a taste of the kind of  major breaking news

Licensing Expo 2011 just opened in Las Vegas and attendee @theonlyesq has given us our first look at a promotional Avengers movie poster debuting there.  

It's hard to cast the publisher who has so thoroughly dominated marketshare in recent times as an underdog, but two weeks into the New DC Show they're

According to both Wikipedia and my go-to industry birthday guy Tom Spurgeon, Neal Adams turns 70 today. I can't let that pass without a post. As I told

Sounds like we're at least a year and a half away from knowing for sure, but it's impossible not to be intrigued by the early reports about Neil Gaiman's

Jim Lee and Geoff Johns just took the stage to talk about the DC Comics relaunch as part of the LA Times' Hero Complex Film Festival.  There were lots of

George Perez has just released an update regarding his involvement in Superman: The Man Of Tomorrow via his facebook page. Since I'm not going to be doing

A whirlwind two weeks of rumors, announcements, and speculation. A national tv ad campaign in support of the launch of new DC comics. The world is

Which  is just as well. It just wouldn't be the same without Basil Wolverton covers, among other things. Still, as Jim Lee also reminded us tonite, they

And the whirlwind of information keeps coming.  As he promised last night, here's Jim Lee on the DCU blog discussing the new designs behind the new DC,

Or rather, watch for a symbol. This is just a Green Lantern press release that Warner Bros put out yesterday, but like the X-Men Skywriting promotion I

There's been a lot of tweets and blog posts this week devoted to the issue of the redesigns of  female characters  featuring costumes with pants --

I've seen a couple tweets mentioning that the USA Today story that breaks this news might contain spoilers. I'm not sure I see anything there that won't

52 cards in the deck, not too many left to turn over. As I've been watching the responses to our ever-updating list of DC September title launches, one

If they can pull it off with an adaptation worthy of the original material, this would be a great way to restart the Daredevil franchise: Hollywood

Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli originally appeared in Batman #404-407 in 1987 and subsequently became one of the

Today's DC Relaunch news was largely about Batman and related titles, and there was plenty of controversy along the way.  Bleeding Cool also told you

I've seen a lot of new conspiracy theories spun up in response to Rich's debunking of the original one on Saturday, but the truth is we might never get