We all remember the wonderful disaster that was the Judge Dredd movie. Surprisingly watchable now with your tongue firmly in cheek, it is still a shocking
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In 1968, we saw 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Doctor Who adventure Wheel In Space, with Cybermen and stuff. Anyway, some bright sparks have smooshed them
Today in the UK, it's the annual Children In Need telethon. A campaign publicised and promoted extensively by the BBC to help children's charities. And
So Idris Elba (off of Ultraviolet, The Wire and The Losers) will play Heimdall in the Thor adaptation. Cue various internet complaints that Heimdall
(Short 'N Curlies) -- #19 Si Spurrier A historical Twentieth Column (don't be confused by the #19 up there, kids -- you'll recall the wanky Column#0 back
The second episode of Misfits, the new British superfiction series about a bunch of young troublemakers granted superpowers airs in half an hour on E4.
In the good old days of the early twenty-first century, Marvel and DC used to provide First Look books to retailers, sending them a copy of certain comic
Eric Canete posted about his recent issue of Amazing Spider-Man and how some Spidey fans didn't take to his artwork much (idiots of course, it's damn fine
Comic book writer Tony Lee has spend the last week in India, flown out by the British Council as part of a cultural programme. The writer of Doctor Who,
Yesterday morning, Leicester Square (where I'm doing some freelance) looked like this. Children and the occasional mother queuing for the Twilight: New
Denny O'Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He's best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman,
I first met Alan Moore on the occasion of his 40th birthday. He was performing Birth Caul: A Shamanism Of Childhood in Newcastle, he's just decided to
This is Hitman Monkey, a new Marvel character created by Daniel Way. He'll be appearing in Deadpool then his own Marvel Digital comic. And this is Rei
You can't order this through Diamond anymore. But Dave's Sim trawl through his pre-Cerebus career will illustrations, documents and letters to and from
January 1992 Chicago Sun-Times: The comic book, long a purveyor of childhood fantasies, has taken a step closer to the adult world as one prominent
In comics-to-movie adaptation news, Variety promises that Platinum's Nightfall is on the way, and Antonine Fuqua and Spike Lee are adapting the French
Dave Sim's Glamourpuss is one of my favourite regular comics. A grand departure from Cerebus, it's a strange brew of the history of inking and
Last night, after arranging some last minute childcare, I went to the Institute of Contemporary Arts just up the road from Buckingham Palace, to chair a
USA Today has been running oddles of articles on the upcoming Image United crossover title with the current Image partners jamming together... here are a
Don't you hate waiting for solicitations? Marvel has given the X-Men solicitations to ComicBookResources and bunch of others to Newsarama but they're
Not even Volstagg for Brian Blessed? The poor man must be crying into his beard. --- It should be a rule. Don't do Hawkman on the TV. It looks like bad
Joss Whedon has already seen one of his comics, Astonishing X-Men, transformed into a successful motion comic, an animation that uses the elements of a
Martin Eden claims to have the first all-gay superhero team, in a new comic called Spandex. It features the likes of Liberty (glamorous transvestite
The past week DC Comics held a creative retreat for a number of high-profile creators. And as part of it, mobile phones and devices were been told off and
Bleeding Cool ran a piece on the Bloomingdale's DC Comics 75th Anniversary T-shirt range a month ago. But they've recently updated their site with a bunch
You know you're a geek when this Yahoo news headline totally throws you. Thanks to Lee Barnett...
Neil Gaiman has been talking about the origins of his short silent film Statuesque starring Bill Nighy, that he wrote and directed as part of a series for
And as the mega-successful anonymous call-girl blog writer Belle De Jour reveals herself to be one Dr Brooke Magnanti, beating an ex-boyfriend looking for
Tony Lee continues to spin the Indian press as if they are his playthings. Which they are! And they tell us; Lee is currently working on Journal, a comic
This is a special edition of Look! It Moves! by screenplay reader Adi Tantimedh, one day early, as AMC's The Prisoner is airing in the USA tonight.And he