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Wednesday Runaround – "Patches Covering Her Breasts And Bottom And Action Scenes…"
Rems said he hoped the deal would bring some new business in the door. WinnerWatch: MTV/Stan Lee Seekers winners, Heather Kenealy and Stephen Green get examined by the Examiner. Kenealy specified that she wasn't going to depict Jennifer Hart in as objectified a way as many female characters are in comics, without making it a "feminist" book[...]
Tuesday Trending Topics: One Shot To Rule Them All
It was one of those comics, along with Miller's original Dark Knight books and seminal Alan Moore works such as Watchmen, which really kicked the idea of superhero stories for adults into the mainstream. Want More Avengers? How About A Great New Agent Coulson Short? That Avengers trailer is only going to sate your desire for a[...]
Fifty Things I Discovered At New York Comic Con
This was the show for Image comics announcements While many companies had many new books and projects to show or announce, Image ruled the roost here, with new, different, diverse and frankly rather exciting books from a whole bunch of comic book creators And they're not even based in New York and so were without[...]
Tuesday Runaround – Previewing Tomorrow
Download your PopMatters exclusive preview here. Exclusive 1st look at DC Comics' new Captain Atom #2 and Blue Beetle #2 | Blastr Now those two characters have been rebooted as part of DC's New 52, and we've got the first look at the second issues of these two revamped sci-fi characters. Exclusive Preview: Superman Gets a Beatdown in[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 17th December 2011
Dan DiDio's Spinning Plates Of DC Comics 8 VIDEO: Phoenix Jones, Real Life Super Hero In Action 9 Desolation Jones Makes Appearance In Batwoman #2 10 The Cosplay Gallery Of New York Comic Con 11 Seven Points Abour Marvel's Point One 12 Pron: Tron XXX A Porn Parody 13 Did The DC Relaunch Boost Marvel's Sales? 14 DC Answer: Captain Marvel 15 The[...]
Frank Miller's Holy Terror Hit An Amazon Speedbump
And enough complaints came in to force them to do something about it. Looks like the book has returned now though… But for launch month, it's the kind of thing Legendary Comics could have done without. Amazon.com recently withdrew Frank Miller's Holy Terror from sale. Was it over criticism of Miller's politics in the book? Was it[...]
Monday Runaround
This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I
Redesigning The New 52 DC Universe With Jim Lee And Friends
Here are a few design sheets from the New 52 DC Comics relaunch that Jim Lee shared at the New York Comic Con today. There are lots of Animal Man ones, but the page designs also indicates how Animal Man will be combining text and images, with controlled and specilly placed captions, which also matches the[...]
Recovering From A Hangover With The Women Of Marvel
Previously, DeConnick had asked women in the crowd to stand up if they wanted to write superhero comics, with around thirty doing so, to prove both an audience and a creator base that could be taken advantage of And from their reaction, they rather seemed to like superhero comics not far from where they are[...]
DC Comics Create The DC Workshop – Internal Program For New Writers
At the DC Meet The Publishers panel at New York Comic Con, Jim Lee and Dan DiDio were asked a question asking if they had any plans to recruit and develop new writers, as well as inviting familiar names back to the company. Jim and Dan took the opportunity to announce DC Workshop, an internal program[...]
Dragon Age Comics From Dark Horse, Now With Reduced Outrage
Dragon Age has been famed as being a fantasy gaming series that embraces the diversity of human sexuality more than usual, featuring gay and bisexual characters. So it was a surprise a couple of years ago when IDW published Dragon Age comics and recruited famed writer Orson Scott Card, also famed for rather stringent views on[...]
Marvel To Publish Dexter Comics Actually Written By Jeff Lindsay
Well, I suppose the TV version has had this… And in a split from the norm, the writer of the books is actually writing the comics themselves I know, who'd have thought? From the end of the Cup Of Joe New York Comic Con panel yesterday, the news that Jeff Lindsay, creator of the Dexter novels[...]
Sunday Runaround – The Disappearance Of Thor… And Amy Reeder?
The fools. Multiversity Comics: The Incredible Disappearing Thor in the "Avengers Assemble" Teasers But the real news to us is the difference between Bagley's full color finished work and his pencils The colors, as you can see above, seem to have a gaping whole in the top part of the article And in the pencils below you[...]
NYCC Debut: Healed 4
Title: Healed #4 Writer: George O'Connor Artist: Griffen Publisher: Homeless Comics Concept: In a moment, all life-threatening disease and illness are "healed" And everyone, from large corporations to small families, are trying to navigate through this new reality and asking the bigger question, "Will we be healed forever?" "This book will change your mind about indie books[...]
Jack Kirby Space Busters Concept Art Surfaces
His estate is putting the piece up for sale in a ComicLink auction that begins November 4. The creation of Kirby and writer Dave Wood, Space Busters was a newspaper strip concept developed during the science fiction boom in pulps, comics, books, and films of the mid-1950s  While they were unable to sell that strip to[...]