Mark Seifert Archives

A continuing continuity caper: In the light of San Diego Comic Con announcements by Scott Lobdell that Tim Drake was never Batman’s Robin, it was pointed

The source of much discussion in the BC Forums today: So how close was Deathstroke’s origin in Deathstroke issue zero, to the original in Tales Of Teen

The long-hoped-for and miraculous return of Marvelman at last? Marvel Comics paid the late Mick Anglo a million dollars for his rights to Marvelman, but

The death of a major Marvel character today, maybe you've heard.  And if you have heard, and whether you think it's good, bad, or neutral, Dr. Manolis V

Um, wow... there were a whole lot of City of Heroes players on BC today. Here's what it's about: This week, the superhero avatars of five thousand players

There was a boatload of people gawking at this one a few hours ago:  For the purposes of this test, Jack is being played by Jeremy Sisto, latterly of May

The subject of quite a bit of discussion back when the solicited version of the cover appeared, now here's the presumably-final version of Guillem March's

There were many things to be learned at Baltimore Comic-Con today... some are here, some are there, and I see some highly interesting tidbits queued up

Will Romine, the fan with one of the most ingenious cosplay costumes ever devised, reports from Baltimore: The DC Panel at Baltimore Comic Con marked the

Rich makes a pretty interesting comparison here as he likens the role of ASM #698 to that of ASM #298.  Not only did #298 set the stage for the #300

I can't wait to see what kind of search phrases are used to find this page with that title. But regarding this page by Rick Remender and John Cassaday

Some of them, anyway. Join the revolution: So, that’s Captain America, Thor and Iron Man, Cannonball, Wolverine, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Falcon, Black

Now is now just a few weeks away, and it looks to kick off a pretty big fall for Marvel in more ways than one: All of Marvel NOW’s launches are being

College football and Doctor Who returned this weekend, and while there's no Bleeding Cool sports blog quite yet, there is an awful lot of Who going on

What's the newest Now news? Well, there's the discussion over what these Midtown variant covers might mean, and then there's this: Bleeding Cool is being

Disney icons rather strangely re-imagined for fashion -- Brendon has the run-down: And we now have the first, fashion world-ified images of Disney

Some intriguing art & tidbits from a comic that could have been: It was a pitch by Chris Ryall of IDW and Phil Jimenez to DC Comics. Sadly it happened

We've all been waiting for this shoe to drop since word came that part of Joss Whedon's long-term Marvel Studios / Avengers 2 deal also included

There is certain to be ample commemoration of the 75th anniversary of comics' greatest icon next year, but this one in particular would be pretty cool:

Rounding out an eventful weekend of news from Fan Expo: DC Comics have announced at Fan Expo Canada that next year Geoff Johns and David Finch will launch

Whew.  It's not too often that the comics internet is this active on a weekend, outside of SDCC.  But not only did we have Rob and more Rob, but also some

The Stephanie Brown mystery continues: But I like even more the leaks from anciliary merchandising. Such as Batman: The World Of The Dark Knight, which

A turn of events we've been anticipating for quite some time: This is no one-issue stunt: “This is the new status quo,” says Johns, adding that the

A classic Iron Man theme returns in October: Armor Wars in the eighties and Armor Wars II in the nineties were two big popular storylines for Iron Man.

It's been just over a year since New 52 Aquaman first trended on BC, in response to a preview of Aquaman #1 pages by Ivan Reis and Geoff Johns.  Good

Rich says NOW: I was blinded by the Asgardianness of at least two thirds of it, that I couldn’t see the wood for the Yggdrasil. Kid Loki, Wiccan, Miss

Vin Diesel as the Vision? One might guess that the as-yet untitled Avengers sequel would be the best fit for the character, though he could be set to turn

What is this new Joker mystery, exactly? We haven't seen enough to know for sure, quite yet, but there's an interesting theory or two in the forum.

I'm a sucker for spoilers, and usually can't resist clicking on that link... and this is one of those times I wish I hadn't. But don't make my mistake, go

Joe Carnahan's most recent tweet on the matter seems even more definitive than his earlier comments were: it doesn't sound good for Daredevil at Fox.