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While Showrunner Eric Kripke's The Boys has taken some nice jabs at how Marvel and DC have impacted the cinematic landscape with ever-growing respective superhero franchises, most of the show's attention focuses on deconstructing and getting to the sometimes dark truths behind the capes and spandex. Director/EP Sam Mendes, EP Armando Iannucci, and Showrunner/EP Jon Brown's[...]

Back in March, Bleeding Cool ran the news that The Thick Of It/Veep/Alan Partridge co-creator Armando Iannucci was writing a Daredevil comic book for Marvel Comics for an upcoming Anniversary Special It was published today, in Marvel Age #1000. Armando Iannucci at Comica, Century Club /Rich Johnston Armando Iannucci had already written a short story for Amazing[...]

I do think that it was under-ordered, though, so if you've got any interest in seeing Mark Waid and Alessandro Cappuccio reveal how the original Human Torch learned about justice…" "…discover how Spider-Man's family and friends help him to be a hero as depicted by Ryan Stegman…" "… learn what Marvel Girl sees in Cyclops courtesy of Rainbow Rowell and Marguerite Sauvage…" "…[...]

And so he started to pop up in places. That included the recent Armando Iannucci sci-fi TV show for HBO Avenue 5, which he also wrote for the second season as well as appearing in And working on Armando Iannucci's new unnamed film project. Then there were the Neil Gaiman appearances, and it was a love-in[...]

We mentioned Armando Iannucci working on Daredevil for Marvel Comics, it looks as if this is where it will end up. On August 31, Marvel celebrates 84 years of stories and characters that have shaped pop culture as we know it To mark the occasion, Marvel will be releasing MARVEL AGE #1000, a massive commemorative issue[...]

Last night, as part of the Century Club's Comica events, on London's Shaftesbury Avenue, The Thick Of It/Veep/Alan Partridge co-creator Armando Iannucci talked about the process of turning a comic book, The Death Of Stalin, into a film During which he also mentioned he was writing a Daredevil comic book for Marvel Comics for an[...]

And now in March, it will host the long-awaited return of Comica, The London Comics Festival in association with VIP Brands Ltd and The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, a series of panels running in the evening through the month, with everyone from Armando Iannucci to Posy Simmonds, from Brian Bolland to Iain Sinclair, Dave[...]

Rejoice, misanthropes, for Armando Iannucci's merciless comedy about awful people trapped on a spaceship, Avenue 5, is returning for a second season! The eight-episode second season premieres on October 10th on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max The comedy series is set 40 years in the future when traveling the solar[...]

Her bloody journey to freedom starts in this breathtaking, groundbreaking FIRST ISSUE." Amazing Fantasy #1000 hits FOC from Marvel Comics by Armando Iannucci, Anthony Falcone, Dan Slott, Ho Che Anderson, Jonathan Hickman, Kurt Busiek, Michael Cho, Neil Gaiman, Rainbow Rowell, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Jim Cheung, Marco Checchetto, Olivier Coipel, Ryan Stegman, Steve McNiven, Terry Dodson, Todd Nauck,[...]

Neil Gaiman, co-creator of Sandman, Neverwhere, Mirror Mask, Stardust and Good Omens, author of American Gods, Coraline and Norse Mythology, writer on Babylon 5, Doctor Who, and so, so so much more, is joining Armando Iannucci, co-creator of On The Hour, The Day Today, Alan Partridge, Friday Night Armistice, Gash, Time Trumpet, The Thick Of[...]

This was Armando Iannucci's first live audience experience for over two years He wasn't sure how it worked But, with Shaun Keaveny on stage for An Audience With Armando Iannucci at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London, interrupting the Andrew Lloyd Webber Cinderella musical for a night, alongside the release of his new book of[...]

by Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman, concentrating on the BBC's political comedy The Thick Of It, which also was translated into the movie In The Loop and the HBO show Veep, by the creator of all three, Armando Iannucci The show had Iannucci on, alongside Rebecca Front who placed Nicola Murray MP, a minister placed[...]

When a gravity mishap causes the 5,000 people onboard to crash against one side of the ship, it tips if off its course and a planned 8-week trip around Saturn will now take 3 years to return to Earth! This is Armando Iannucci's follow-up to Veep, a Science Fiction comedy where the worst possible people are[...]

There's a sizable body count mentioned, which makes the Game of Thrones comparison make a little more sense (still… did they see how many people Daenerys took out with that dragon?). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRuU-_dOtk0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Welcome to Avenue 5: Explore the Ship | HBO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRuU-_dOtk0) Show creator Armando Iannucci says the series' aim[...]

Which means that it has the potential to get self-referential fast, If either Armando Iannucci or John Finnemore do it again, the whole thing could collapse upon itself in a singularity, forming a black hole of a social media event horizon, something from which none of us will escape Still, in for a penny. Four days[...]

A new sci-fi sitcom created by On The Hour, The Day Today, Friday Night Armastice, I'm Alan Partridge, The Thick Of It and Veep's Armando Iannucci, it stars Hugh Laurie as Ryan Clark, the captain of space station, Avenue 5 Other familiar names from previous Armando Iannucci projects include Rebecca Front as Karen Kelly, a[...]

Including Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker… … and The Thick Of It and Veep creator Armando Iannucci… …and a few other people, principally journalists, who haven't created generation-defining television The Conservative Party have now changed their name and branding back But screencaps last forever…     Great Britain has just had our first national TV debate between the two[...]

After spending seven seasons in Washington D.C., it's no surprise that Veep creator Armando Iannucci would want to get as far away from the nation's capital as possible… but this might be a little ridiculous With HBO's Emmy-award dominating political comedy heading into its final season, the cable giant has greenlighted a pilot and back-up[...]

Veep, the popular HBO comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is set to end after its seventh season, according to Variety.

How close is the Death Of Stalin movie, directed by one of Britain's greatest comedy figures Armando Iannucci? He answers – and for some reason needs subtitles because of his outrageous Scottish accent Or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAIfbtAIDSUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: How Close Is The Death Of Stalin Movie To The Graphic Novel? Armando Iannucci[...]

Titan Comics announced at ComicsPRO today they will be publishing Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin's graphic novel, The Death Of Stalin in English, which was filmed last year by The Thick Of It's Armando Iannucci to be released in cinemas later this year. The movie stars Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin and Jeffrey Tambor[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool pointed out that the cast of The Thick Of It were appearing on the cover of December's Amazing Spider-Man comic, drawn by Alex Ross. The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci noticed and enquired as to what was going on? When it was mentioned that writer Dan Slott was a keen viewer of the[...]

When John Major, Prime Minister, did exactly the same thing in BBC2. With Veep showrunner Armando Iannucci, when he still had hair, on hand to mock the staginess of the whole thing on, in his radio show On The Hour. Clearly he's kept it in his pocket eer since. Although the attempted suicide of "FLOTUS" in the[...]