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Madchester, Diana, chromium covers, New Labour, flares, bagged comics and Our Friends In The North Does anyone understand what the noughties were yet? Okay, if they are going to censor something like this, in Aliens Vs Parker... Shouldn't there also be a black bar here or something in Baltimore? The object seems to be fulfilling the same[...]
Loki Writes Slash Fiction In The Marvel Universe
Take today's Adventure Time FlipSide #2, as an example. Oh dear. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, of London, with an evening with Savage Pencil at 7pm on Friday.   There is plenty of slash fiction written and drawn about Loki online Seriously, you don't have to look far   A simple google search reveals stacks. And much of it about[...]
A Comic Show – All New Charles Soule Now And 2.8.14 is Lantern Day!
At first I was wary of new characters that seem positioned to get media coverage, and the history of heroes from non-white cultures in comics is spotty at best, but this was both authentic and engaging Wolverine #1 was just weird, I mean I love Superior Spider-man, I'm a fan of change I'm gonna need[...]
Mark Waid Talks With Brandon Jerwa About Vampirella
Vampirella is an amazing woman who is constantly forced to put aside her own struggles to take up the fight for a race of people (us) that she doesn't actually owe a damn thing to, and that's remarkable to me. I also love the fact that we now have an era of Vampirella comics that featured[...]
Why You Shouldn't Just Read Numbercruncher, You Should Read It All At Once
Or at least in a single day. That may seem heretical, since a major selling point of the comics format is that the reader controls the pace and can make those decisions with luxuriously arbitrary abandon You theoretically could read one panel of a comic a day and that would be your chosen reading experience (just[...]
Tomorrow Appears To Be Dynamite Wednesday
Rich writes, Tomorrow, Dynamite Entertainment will be publishing twelve new comics, two collections and two archival volumes re-presenting classic titles. In comparison, Premier publishers Dark Horse has  twelve monthly titles, IDW has fourteen, Image has ten, DC has nineteen and Marvel has sixteen. I wonder how long it will be before Dynamite starts barging its way to the[...]
New DC Film Justice League War Out Today: Critiquing The Characters And Costumes – VIDEO
Senior Cosplay Correspondent and Bleeding Cosplay columnist Ian Mageto reviews the New DC animated film Justice League War, out today! And as bonus–he reviews the costume changes for characters featured in the movie. [youtube]http://youtu.be/ihbSFnujbjE[/youtube]   You can follow Ian's 'Comics and Cosplay' videos here: TWITTER › https://twitter.com/ComixNCosplay TUMBLR › http://satmorncosplay.tumblr.com/ FACEBOOK › https://www.facebook.com/satmorningco… INSTAGRAM › http://instagram.com/satmorncosplay DEVIANTART › http://satmorncosplay.deviantart.com/ And you can subscribe to[...]
Tuesday Morning Runaround – From Stan Lee To Al Jazeera Zombies
And they noticed too.. @McKelvie yours and any of the the other comic books listed there… #comicsdrawbythemselves Regardless, congratulations! :) — FrancescoFrancavilla (@f_francavilla) January 30, 2014 SPIRITED ARTIST Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki, while drawing, analyses the problem he sees with the anime industry. You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind[...]
Meltdown – The First Comic Shop To Take Bitcoin
Los Angeles' Meltdown Comics became the first bricks'n'mortar comic shop to officially accept the digital currency Bitcoin as a method of payment. The lucky purchaser was Bleeding Cool photographer (and so much more) Pinguino Kolb She writes, I used Blockchain on my iphone to buy Daniel Clowes's Death Ray book Francisco rang up the order on a[...]
Mark Waid Chats With Codename: Action And The Shadow's Chris Roberson
And he's got a fantastic look. MW: What do you find yourself drawing from more when you write the character–the pulps? The radio incarnation? Kaluta and Chaykin? Alec Baldwin? The 1960's Archie comics? CR: You joke, but I've got an issue of the Archie version on my shelf! But I think my approach is equal parts radio[...]
Jumps For Price Points On Nightcrawler And Original Sin
A number of titles such as X-Factor and Captain Marvel, previously $2.99 comics, have relaunched at $3.99 So it was a nice surprise for X-Men Legacy, renamed Nightcrawler, to return at a $2.99 price point. Which lasted all of a week. Now retailers have been told that it will actually be $3.99. Original Sin #0, originally solicited at[...]