Mark Seifert Archives

Marvel took back the top spot in the industry's favorite horse race for the first time in the New 52 era, though as many have pointed out, they did so by

  A cold trend to start the new year. How appropriate.  But it looks like one of the earliest villians of the Silver Age (it doesn't get too much

Another holiday, another mysterious Watchmen-related image. At this rate, this mystery could be very interesting by Groundhog Day next month. Most-Read

Rabbit hole, indeed. I find today's top topic pretty amusing, because -- as we've said before -- panic room is a pretty interesting code name for a secret

Rich nails it in his post on what makes New 52 Action Comics #5 so potentially interesting. Action Comics volume 1 number 1 page 1 by Jerry Siegel and Joe

  With Marvel and DC owned by two of the world's largest entertainment companies, the conversation over comics and SOPA has been simmering for quite

Some pretty interesting and creative pieces of work in today's roundup of Watchmen commission art.  Anybody else got some little-seen Watchmen art?

Today we got our first trend-topping New 52 story in some time, and while it's a holiday news week, it does bring to mind what a crazy year 2011 was for

The Grinch hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Watchmen 2

  Not too long after the last present is opened and Christmas dinner is eaten, it's time to start thinking about the New Year and what it will bring.

Today is a day during which we traditionally find out who's been naughty and who's been nice, and that's all well and good.  But in 2012, there's going to

So be good for comics' sake.  And you've all been very good this year, indeed.  Rich wrapped some presents earlier, and has them ready for Christmas.  He

Good job by Brendon in discussing (and debunking, where necessary) the little clues that have come to light in various Dark Knight Rises marketing this

Now here's a movie I'm really looking forward to.  Gotta say that the Hobbit trailer didn't wow me (yeah, I know, I'm the only one on the  internet who

In 1977, comic book dealer Chuck Rozanski unearthed the most important comic book collection that the world will ever know. 18,000 comics from the late

The internet has been thoroughly consumed with discussion of The Hobbit trailer for the past day -- and we're still almost a year out from the movie's

Ah well, it was still fun speculation.  And the original Sand Superman saga from 1971 is still my favorite 70s-era Superman story. I stumbled across a

With the official release of the new trailer, The Dark Knight Rises plot speculation reached a fever pitch today, and spiked a months-old BC post about

Based on the title alone, Stan Lee ought to be annoyed about at least one of these Sharon Moody pieces too, I think. That aside, I've heard it said that

Like just about everybody, I'm a little skeptical that this script snippet is legit. Still, it does make for interesting speculation.  Did you understand

Interesting conspiracy theory from DB Hughes in today's trendingest post. I remember the clues and speculation over this at the time pretty well,  but by

New imagery from a pair of next year's Marvel movies dominated the film side of the page this week -- which insidentally seems to be rather interestingly

In which several months worth of paper and ink begins to unfold on a cold, gloomy day in December. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: SPOILER: The Shot That

Sorry, there was something here. It's not here now.

It's not every day that you see a trailer completely turn sentiment around for a franchise like we've seen with the reaction to the GI Joe: Retalliation

Have to say I'm a lot less convinced of massive disruption in the industry for 2012 than I was just 6-8 months ago -- primarily because Nero has very

The idea that there are over 100 "lost" classic Doctor Who episodes, and that every few years one or two of them are found, has always fascinated me.

This is one of those things that is just begging for more data and better visualization.  Go back a bunch more years, make it more complete, add in graphs

"Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."  Comics are definitely like that.  It won't let you go. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Richard

Men of War is the latest DC book to have a new creator announced for issue 7, and as Rich notes, there have been several other creative changes made in