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It is Suicide Squad co-creator John Ostrander who appears in The Suicide Squad, the third speaking role of the movie as Doctor Fitzgibbon But the James Gunn film has many DC Comics creators to thank, especially given just how many comic book characters, concepts, and ideas feature through the movie Given a massive forty-seven "Special[...]

There may be some additional intel on exactly what we'll be seeing in James Gunn's upcoming The Suicide Squad film for Warner Bros. Pictures, at least

This includes when they took on a super villain team called Jihad, the time Harley Quinn had to fight off an army to save her team mates and the twelve minutes to stop a riot in Belle Reve. The Suicide Squad has been one of the most interesting and unique comics from DC since it debuted[...]

Kros: Hallowed Ground is a 128 page horror graphic novel by veteran comic book creators John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake. Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. The blood soaked battlefields of the Civil War draw Vampires who descend to feed on the wounded and dying as Blood calls to Blood One man, a Vampire Hunter named Kros, stands against them, waging[...]

Marvel Comics are to republish Dark Horse Star Wars comics in a new format, Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol 1, those comics created to follow on from Episode III, Revenge Of The Sith. It will contain the Dark Horse titles, Star Wars: Republic #78-80, Star Wars: Purge #1, Star Wars: Purge — Seconds To[...]

Heck, mainstream women creators/writers/editors Kim Yale (Batman, STNG) and Christie Marx (Sisterhood of Steel, Jem), writer Joellyn Auklandus, and artist Lorraine Reyes worked for us right alongside the likes of John Byrne and John Ostrander. My point is, if you're a woman artist and/or writer and you're good, fast, and can stay on schedule, IMHO you[...]

Nothing was better for this than Purge, by Haden Blackman, Alexander Freed, John Ostrander and numerous others. You know all the horrible stuff you wanted to see in Episode III? Yeah, I'm not just talking about Hayden Christensen killing kids and then getting hacked into a doorstop I'm talking about Darth Vader torturing Jedi to death[...]

We ran the news that John Ostrander has a new Aquaman Annual lined up for October. And now we have the rumour That DC will see how the Annual sells, and if it does well, they are considering a series starring Aquaman team The Others, written by John Ostrander. Apparently The Others was intended to have been[...]

Legendary comic book writer John Ostrander helped out on Aquaman, writing issue 20 but somehow not getting his name on the cover. We hope he'll have better luck returning to the character in October for Aquaman Annual #1… AQUAMAN ANNUAL #1 Written by JOHN OSTRANDER Art by GERALDO BORGES and RUY JOSE Cover by PAUL PELLETIER and DANNY MIKI On sale OCTOBER[...]

[audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/1850/0/PCHPodcastEpisode39.mp3] by Chris Thompson In a very special episode of the Pop Culture Hound podcast, I'm joined by the legendary John Ostrander and upcoming writer Ales Kot to discuss their work on Suicide Squad We look at the pressure on writers today, age-ism in comics, what it takes to make a good story, and how to expand[...]