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Supreme Comic Book Trademark Registration From Nuben Azar
He has also filed to register "Shazzar" as well… But, as has been pointed out to me, Supreme is still published and in print in collected form through Image Comics And I understand this registration is about to be rather strongly challenged… The comic book Supreme Some will think of the nineties Rob Liefeld comic, with[...]
Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic Gets An Italian Job
It has been noted that if you meet Alan Moore in Northampton, he is more than likely to take you to an Italian restaurant of his favour. Well, maybe they might be interested in stocking this publication. The Best Of Dodgem Logic collects a number of articles, features and comics from the much loved Alan Moore-created magazine,[...]
Unsung Masterpieces – Enigma With Peter Milligan, Duncan Fegredo, And Art Young
Introducing a new Comics Column, Unsung Masterpieces, in its first installment: Milligan & Fegredo's Enigma By David Dissanayake Warren Ellis once wrote that, "American comics are hugely eager to put the future behind them Last week's books are done and dusted, no matter what.  Got to clear the shelves, got to clear space for this week's books,[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 8th December 2013 – All About DC Lifestyle Choices
Producer Tells Us To Expect Wonder Woman And Doomsday In Superman/Batman Movie Subscription Sadness For Detective Comics #27 Cryptozoic Man #1 Goes Insane On eBay After Last Night's Comic Book Men X-Men: Apocalypse To Be Direct Sequel To Days Of Future A Very Close Look At The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer Does Original Killing Joke Artwork Reveal Greater Sexual[...]
VIDEO: Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld And Marc Silvestri On Leaving Marvel Comics
As part of the upcoming Image Revolution documentary from Sequart, a clip of the Image founders on leaving Marvel Comics for their new upstart Image Comics over at Malibu. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQ70jQYurU[/youtube] As part of the upcoming Image Revolution documentary from Sequart, a clip of the Image founders on leaving Marvel Comics for their new upstart Image Comics[...]
Monday Morning Runaround – A Rood Awakening (UPDATE)
Anyone care to translate the flag? COMICS LIBRARIAN Paul Gravett writes; First announcements and first image (Dave Gibbons' cover to The Trials of Nasty Tales from 1973, below) are out this week from The British Library in London about their exciting forthcoming exhibition on British comics John Dunning and I are co-curating Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in[...]
Swipe File: Nothing Is Beyond Hydra's Reach
It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website. Comics Marvel DC Image Dark Horse IDW Valiant Dynamite Boom Avatar Digital Cosplay Charts Star Trek Star Wars Marvel SHIELD GotG Doctor Who Pacific Rim Man of Steel The Wolverine Avengers Skip to content Home About Contact Contributors Magazine Retailers BC Events/Live Blog Swipe File: Stan Lee's Comikaze And The Third Reich Posted on September 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston Share on Tumblr Comments Stan Lee is[...]
The Man Who Claimed To Be the First Real Live Superhero – Fact or Fiction?
Avatar Press, of course, also founded Bleeding Cool, to discuss, well, the craziness in comics culture and deliver the goods on the industry itself You might say that grinding.be is about possible futures whereas Bleeding Cool is about the bizarre excesses, and equally strange virtues, of the here and now. Recently, grinding.be uncovered a very odd[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List: Superior Spider-Man Gets A Little Additional Venom
A collation of the top ten charts of a number of disparate stores, measuring sales on Wednesdays and Thursday, measuring the buying patterns of those who can't wait till the weekend to buy their comics A indication of unstoppable desire… And a little addition of Venom seems to have goosed those Superior Spider-Man sales well… and[...]
We Prayed At The Altar Of Die Hard, Commando, Rambo And Lethal Weapon
I write about comics over at IGN.com and I have a monthly(ish) comic book called Captain Ultimate that comes out from the fine folks at MonkeyBrain Since I was eight-years-old, comic books have been an intense passion of mine. This brings us to UNCAGED, the Kickstarter campaign  I'm running right now Artist Taylor Stauft and I[...]
How Can We Get Kieron Gillen To Write Transformers?
Gillen has brought back Death's Head, the freelance peacekeeping agent (don't call him a bounty hunter) that debuted in Transformers UK in 1987. Listen to the man talk fan: "If Impactor was our Jean Grey, Death's Head was our Wolverine," Gillen has said, referring to Simon Furman's seminal, world-breaking run on the original Marvel comics He[...]
Dark Cybertron Is, Thus Far, Dull Cybertron
Spencer Ellsworth writes: The thing about reading Transformers comics: it's one of those nerd habits that one has to defend in the presence of other nerds So: If you can get good stories from a rubber bat suit, you can get good stories about shape-changing robots Damn good stories, at times That's the law of averages[...]
If You Can Read A Comic, You Can Write A Song. If You Can Speak Italian.
It took me five years to write and draw Herr Kompositor – Write a song! At the age of 5 years old, I already read comics To tell the truth, I looked at only the pictures without understanding what were written in the balloons With the help of the comics, I learned to read Similarly, I[...]
Al-Qaeda's Super Secret Gay Weapon Blocked By Apple iBooks
"Not to put down porn—there are great publishers and artists putting our great gay porn comics—but this just isn't that type of book It's a clever satire that sends up hypermasculinity, fear of gays in the military, religious and cultural stereotypes… while it's got some explicit content, there's relatively little considering the length of the[...]
M.O.D.O.K. Comes To Lego In 2014
MODOK comes to Lego in 2014 folks, one of many new figures and sets from Lego and Marvel next year. Including a certain Mechanized Organism Designed Only
Home Bound, Sweet Home Bound
I finally self-published my fourth project last year, a collection of short comics entitled "Before Colour TV, Everything was in Black and White." I only printed 100 copies and I'm almost out And now I'm on this, which stemmed entirely from a story written by Sam It's a very different narrative from my other work,[...]
Two Tin Beans F*cking A Comic
writes: "This is so dumb that I would rather watch two tin bean cans fucking."  That statement led to numerous conversations about long titties, Edward Snowden, eight cocks, and cartoons in comics. Johnny Segura is an artist born and raised in Louisiana He travels the Southern US convention circuit pimping out his American Manga art style[...]
Booze Geek: Supa Hero IPA
Grab something from your stack of comics or throw on your favorite super-hero flick. Dylan Gonzalez writes: Beer: Supa Hero IPA Brewery: Clown Shoes Clown Shoes Brewery, based out of Ipswich, Massachusetts, has produced a number of beers based on super-hero imagery, alongside other geeky concepts (kung-fu, vampires, medieval monsters, etc.) The three notable ones are Supa Hero,[...]