Comics Archives

Marvel Dominate Advance Reorders – And It's A Monster Month Coming
Marvel's retailer promotions push a number of books to the top with Amazing Spider-Man dominance, but some seem to be doing well on their own based on previous sales, or expected sales, such as Moon Knight, Magneto and Ghost Rider… indeed, Marvel dominates advance reorders this week, with the full top ten and twenty of[...]
Marvel Comics Met With LucasFilm Last Week
I hear gossip that that Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso, and executives CB Cebulski and Jordan D White visited LucasFilm last week for discussions about Star Wars comics. I'm told that we're looking at a couple of monthly series but creative teams are not yet settled I'm told that we're looking at a couple of monthly series[...]
Comic Book Babylon Launches Today, Ten Years After Dave Cockrum Settlement
Ten years ago, Marvel Comics settled all rights arguments with X-Men artist Dave Cockrum and his characters Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus and more, in a deal negotiated by Clifford Meth and Neal Adams, while Cockrum was in a hospital bed. Today, Meth's publisher Aardwolf Publishing is putting out Comic Book Babylon about that legal battle and many others[...]
Graham Humphreys Paints The Covers To Video Nasty, Launching This Saturday
"Video nasty" is a peculiarly British term, coined in the eighties for films available on VHS and BetaMAX tapes believed to corrupt their audience through extreme violence and sexualised violence. It's also the name for a new comic launching this Saturday in London, not at the London Super Comic Con (thoigh they will be there), but[...]
From Game To Film – Are We Losing Our Adventures?
The game characters, actions and voices are also ingrained on the players and, as with watching film adaptations of your favorite comics, unless they hire those self same actors nothing will feel quite right. Minecraft, in all its beauty, is a game which allows creation and where the limitations are set by the person playing and[...]
Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – Triumphal Returns From Stray Bullets To Beasts Of Burden
It's quite a full line-up, so dig into this week's comic releases. Books featured in this episode include: DC Comics: Justice League Of America #13 Marvel Comics: All-New X-Men #24 IDW Publishing: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #32 Image Comics: Stray Bullets: Killers #1 Vertigo: Royals: Masters Of War #2 Image Comics: Mercenary Sea #2 Image Comics: Manifest Destiny #5 Marvel Comics: Captain Marvel #1 DC[...]
Dave Cockrum's Personal Uncanny X-Men Collection For Sale
Comics from the Estate of Dave Cockrum are being put up for sale by his widow Paty Cockrum These are Uncanny X-Men comics from the artists file copies and each will be bagged and boarded with a note saying where they came from. Dave Cockrum worked for Marvel, DC and Warren over the years with two[...]
Steve Ditko Is On Kickstarter Again With Something New
Just a single image shown below and a note saying the following: ROBIN SNYDER AND STEVE DITKO Celebrate 26 years of publishing with a brand-new title #9 Teen is complete, finished and ready to go. There is only the editorial page to complete and we will release our new book. This new comic book contains another story in the[...]
Exclusive – First Look At The Covers For Valiant's Rai #2
Here we see the covers by Raul Allen, Mico Suayan and the mask variant by Rian Hughes. RAI #2 Written by Matt Kindt Art by Clayton Crain Covers by Raul Allen and Mico Suayan Mask Cover by Rian Hughes Variant Covers by BART Sears and Paolo Rivera Discover the astonishing world of the 41st century! This summer, Matt Kindt and Clayton Crain's one-of-a-kind[...]
Getting Hit By Two Stray Bullets At Once
Over an hour? We've had to wait well over a decade! And today we get two new Stray Bullets comics at once from David Lapham. The comic specialised in telling hard, human, crime dramas with bad people doing bad things, and occasionally good things just to put you on the wrong footing, good people being corrupted[...]
DC Comics Cancels Green Team Teen Trillionaires Collection Permanently.
Still, that is not enough in this market, even when it left on a massive cliffhanger which, I understand, will be followed up in Teen Titans. But it looks like readers won't even be able to get to read the collection in print, as it has been cancelled by DC Comics Presumably for low orders. It was[...]
Angela And Gamora Shipping Will Commence… Now
Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Who will be setting up stall at London Super Comic Con this weekend, with Garry Leach, Pete Hogan and Yanick Paquette in tow!   From today's All-New X-Men Spoilers if you don't want to see anything at all coming, but this is an early panel from an early page. Where Angela[...]