Ok it was crude, pretty basic storytelling but its ramifications can still be felt and there are if you look closely nods to the book all over the Marvel Universe even in 2014 (both in comics and indeed the film)
As far as stories in the comics were concerned the book introduced us to the 'Alien'[...]
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Yesterday, I ran the story that DC Comics were asking creators to bring their story lines to an end before what we have dubbed the Band-Aid event in April 2015.
This was similar to instructions given to comic book creators before the New 52 reboot back in 2011 Will there be another reboot in May or[...]
A comic that the late comic creator/editor/translator/publisher Kim Thompson really wanted to publish, but was tied up in rights disputes, is going to be re-released in France.
While he was working on translations on the Sybil-Anne books, Kim Thompson wrote copious editor's notes on something entirely different, Chaminou by the comic creator Macherot, a book he really wanted[...]
The Ant Man Shrinking variant covers could be a collector's nightmare… Or dream!
Here are the full listings for single comics… What intrigues you?
UNCANNY AVENGERS #1
RICK REMENDER (w) • DANIEL ACUñA (a/C)
VARIANT COVER BY GABRIELE DELL'OTTO
INHUMANS 50th ANNIVERSARY VARIANT COVER BY LADRÖNN
Teaser Variant by Daniel Acuña
WELCOME HOME VARIANT COVER BY TBA
YOUNG VARIANT BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
COUNTER-EVOLUTIONARY PART[...]
I am told by DC Comics insiders that the big move from New York to Burbank in April next year may not be quite as clear cut as it has been presented.
Because I'm told that two to three editors currently working at DC, may get to stay in New York for a further six months[...]
Yesterday Bleeding Cool talked about the new iVerse Comics + App launching in November that will let you download new comics but also import your own comics files – wherever you may have acquired them And talked about how this was a strong method from turning pirates into paying customers.
Well, yesterday, unbeknownst to most, the[...]
8: Dead End Kids (Premiere HC)
Marvel Masterworks: The Sub-Mariner – Volume 4
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol 2
Ultimate Comics Captain America
Ultimate Comics Thor
Halo: Helljumper
Halo: Blood Line
Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis
Cable Vol 4: Homecoming
Vengeance
X-Factor: Second Coming
Castle: Richard Castle's Storm Season
Omega: The Unknown
Stephen King's The Stand Vol 2: American Nightmares
The Trojan War
Moby Dick
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The Laughing Corpse Book 2[...]
Have you noticed a nip in the air? In London, it's cold, wet and foggy. Tonight I will be done up to the nines going to the Guido Fawkes tenth birthday
This multi-layered story delivers a new brand of horror to Crossed fans at the hands of the scribe that redefined the comics medium Enter Alan Moore's world of grueling survival with Crossed +100.
This masterwork is a self-contained whole new world, no prior knowledge of the Crossed series is needed.
All the covers for the series have[...]
By Joshua Stone One of the things I was most excited about seeing at San Diego Comic-Con this year were The Walking Dead building sets from McFarlane
We like to run process art to show the stages of making a comic as well as how much each job adds to the art. Here we have a very unique situation as this
By Brian Goldberg Marvel Legends collectors recently rejoiced with the release of the new Target Exclusive 3 pack. Ms. Marvel, Radioactive Man, and
So that's what Mark Millar was teasing last week.
Image Comics is to publish a prequel to Millar and Frank Quitely's Jupiters Legacy comic, to be written by Miller, with art by picked-by-Quitely Wilfredo Torres, a ten issue series set in the glory days of the Jupiters Legacy characters The Utopian, Lady Liberty and more[...]
This week, it's time for 2000 AD's Prog 1904, out on October 22nd in the UK and worldwide from the 2000 AD webshop at www.shop.2000ADonline.com and
He cultivates a look…
But not everyone knows what Steve Yeowell, his artist on Zenith, Sebastian O and Invisibles looks like.
Well, this last Saturday at Gosh! Comics in London, Steve did a signing for the controversial Zenith collections from Rebellion So we, at least, know which side of the division he lies on…
Photos courtesy of Heri Mkocha
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