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But this is a Superman of an America that takes what it wants invades other's territory without due process, that believes in its own exceptionalism As an American as   Is this a more subtle version of the politicisation of recent superhero comic books? Okay, getting less subtle by the second But why is he so cross? Is[...]

Super: Issue 3. Creators: Joshua Crowther (Writer), Bruno Chiroleu (Artist), Josh Burcham (Colorist), Chas! Pangburn (Letterer), Steven Forbes

Bleeding Cool's Gavin Lees is at ECCC. He writes One of the most unassuming panels in this year’s ECCC program was Comics and Healthcare — with a title

Of late, American TV has found much inspiration in the British TV market Not so much for shows that succeed like The Office, or fail like Skins, Inbetweeners, etc, but the TV talent, quiz and reality shows Often pionoeered in other markets, it was the UK versions in English that took the fancy of US[...]

From Berk Senturk... the Justice League Of The Ottoman Empire... I think these are fairly identifiable...   Of course, every JLOE needs a bad guy.  And...

So how does Captain America get to do it by accident in today's Ultimates? Without campaigning, without debates, without, it seems, an Electoral College? Here's how. An emergency election then, A limited two week campaign Multiple candidates rather than two party mandated choices Increasing the odds that anything could happen, in a country where everything has just[...]

Well that was some fun speculation back in May. DC Comics have announced at Fan Expo Canada that next year Geoff Johns and David Finch will launch a new Justice League Of America comic, made up of Green Arrow, Katana, Martian Manhunter, Baz the Green Lantern, Stargirl, Vibe, Hawkman and Catwoman. The team is likely to be[...]

The artwork for the front cover of Tintin In America, from the nineteen thirties, will go on sale in Paris next month, with a price expected to fetch around a million dollars. Feel free to pose with your little finger crooked to the edge of the mouth. And we're back in the room Drawn by Hergé was[...]

The epic moment of River killing the Doctor, as it turns out, is little more than a battle of the exoskeletons (enacted on hideously obvious single-camera-angle green screen as presumably this scene wasn't written early enough that they could have filmed it during their American excursion at the start of the series) Well, okay, maybe[...]

When the USA Today article about the upcoming Image comic The Big Lie by Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine hit, I'm not sure that they were expecting the

From the NY Post, the cover to Action Comics #1 by Rags Morales, shipping from DC in September. Grant Morrison is quoted as saying "We felt it was time for the big adventures of a 21st-century Paul Bunyan who fights for the weak and downtrodden against bullies of all kinds, from robot invaders and crime lords[...]

Comic writer/artist/messiah Mike Netzer has responded to the David Goyer story that enraged a nation in Action Comics #900 in his own special way.

Superman loving America after all! That (thankfully) doesn't spoil the story having on its own right here. And to quote; "That's what America is about, really That's the American way Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and second chances None of us are forced to be anything we don't want to be[...]

It's a funny old world isn't it? Mike Huckabee, potential Presidential candidate in 2012 on Fox News show Fox & Friends, discussing what Action Comics #900 means for America. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPfOAHoLrMI[/youtube] The Associated Press videos feeding newsrooms around the world. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoId5Z4J-4Y[/youtube] The Alonya Show; [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVGNaG1ouo8[/youtube] And even  British ITN News [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3NKaLqRQA&[/youtube] [...]

And they're going back to print. The fuss around the nine-page story by David Goyer in which Superman tells the American government that he's going to renounce his citizenship so that his actions arent mistaken as an extension of US government foreign policy has rather gripped the press This comic was solicited as being about Lex[...]

But this summer's Captain America: The First Avenger will drop Captain America from the title in Russia, Ukraine, and South Korea And it's no accident that both Superman's renunciation episode in Action #900 and the forthcoming film Man of Steel, set to shoot this summer, are written by David S Goyer "They[...]

Maybe something on Lost co-creator Damon Lindelhof's back up story or the Richard Donner Superman script in storyboard form. But no, it's all about Batman Begins screenwriter David Goyer and his Anti-American Superman story Despite it being anything but. My line was that this was not a top down decision but a story by a guest [...]

And in doing so causes an international incident for America, which leads to a confrontation with US government officials. At which point Superman decides to renounce his American citizenship And states that truth, justice and the American way just aren't enough anymore. This is the Authority-isation of mainstream comics Ten years ago, the international aspects of Warren[...]

Little Bleeder Ed pops up again with a follow up to his original to take us through the US Doctor Who trailer, frame by frame. I missed this in the first

And now we know definitively what it stands for. Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination. Senator Joseph Lieberman (patch pictured)

From the trailer to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, airing on BBC1 and BBC America on Christmas Day, starring Michael Gambon. From the trailer to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, airing on BBC1 and BBC America on Christmas Day, starring Michael Gambon. From the trailer to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, airing on BBC1 and[...]