Mark Seifert Archives

As a longtime addict of the smell of old newsprint, it's strange to live in a world where I almost didn't bother to make note of the sale of a single

Marvel's upcoming Television Plans took another interesting turn with Guillermo Del Toro and Battlestar Galactica Producer David Eick teaming up to

Earlier tonight, Geoff Johns posted a promo image from the major GL event for Spring 2011. It is perhaps worth noting that the event would lead right up

UPDATE: The footage has now been found online in a far higher quality, so I've upgraded the video (thanks to Anto Blueberry for the tip). Enjoy. An EW

The 1964 Roy Lichtenstein painting "Ohhh... Alright..." sold at Christie's last night for $42.6 million, a record for a Lichtenstein by a wide margin.

Oh, and a sequel from Straczynski for Superman: Earth One. A big batch of breaking news from DC this afternoon from the DCU blog:: It’s no secret –

DC Entertainment has released details of the live Batman touring show which has been in development since early this year by Nick Grace Management, the

It's been a busy week on the Avatar/BC campus, and this preview might've gotten by me except of course, as Lapham says -- you know it's Crossed Day when

You see a lot of lists like this around Halloween, and most of 'em are fun to glance at, but they largely all cover the same unhallowed ground  every year

Firstly, here's the last chance to keep Bleeding Cool on the Walking Dead board.. please check it out. Okay plug done. And no, I'm not talking about the

Things are looking good for the film version of Randy Queen's 90s-era classic Darkchylde comic. It's been a couple years since WETA entered the picture,

With key congressional elections just days away, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert staged a rally to -- in the Washington Post's words -- "redeclare

In what would appear to be a huge coup for the company, digital comic and eBook publisher Wowio has been issued a Notice of Allowance for a group of 32

The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop tonight that Marvel and ABC are prepping Hulk for a return to television, with Cloak and Dagger also being developed

Even in a comic collecting subculture which has developed an unimaginably complex set of rules about how it attempts to assign value, the original art

News is surfacing from ICV2's Digital Comics panel that Marvel may be dropping prices in January 2011 as well. According to The Beat's Heidi MacDonald,

Well, the NYCC week news is fast and furious today.  Here's a DC bombshell: Beginning January 2011, DC Comics will implement a line-wide pricing

Rich was just mentioning a couple days ago how busy Stan is these days, and this is just the latest example.  30 new superheroes, one for each NHL

Here's next week's new release list courtesy of  Vince at Diamond's PREVIEWSworld site. Hm, looks like a light week for me. I may have preordered Magnus

As reported by BC in August, Grandville is returning for a second installment this year called Grandville Mon Amour. The 108 page hardcover created by

News is breaking tonight that Comic-Con International has chosen to stay in San Diego, at least through 2015. The San Diego Union-Tribune says:

UPDATE from Rich: Last week Bleeding Cool reported that this position was about to be filled - though we didn't know by whom. But choosing Bob Harras as

Half the industry was watching Sharktopus on SyFy last night, it seems, and according to twitter it was somewhere in between that bad and so-bad-it's-good

Rich is off to the Treviso Comics Festival for a few days, and I think the industry may be catching its breath a bit this weekend anyway -- but there's

As Barry Meyer promised last week, Warner Bros continues to roll out structural changes, these coming on the heels of yesterday's DC Comics-focused

Barry M. Meyer, Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, told attendees at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications &

The past few years have been good times for comics historians, particularly for those interested in seeing how comics were bought, sold, and read

BrainFart: I know I've reached middle-age because I've just bought six bottles of wine and don't intend to drink any of them, because they look better in

BrainFart: All-righty-then.  Let's talk POPE. His pointy-headed Holiness descends upon these fair isles (there's got to be an "aisles" pun there, but this

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Okay…  Back to last week's ongoing Super-Heroic Super-Ramble. CATCHUP CORNER: You'll recall we concluded -- using the