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Comic Book Babylon Launches Today, Ten Years After Dave Cockrum Settlement
Ten years ago, Marvel Comics settled all rights arguments with X-Men artist Dave Cockrum and his characters Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus and more, in a deal negotiated by Clifford Meth and Neal Adams, while Cockrum was in a hospital bed. Today, Meth's publisher Aardwolf Publishing is putting out Comic Book Babylon about that legal battle and many others[...]
Graham Humphreys Paints The Covers To Video Nasty, Launching This Saturday
"Video nasty" is a peculiarly British term, coined in the eighties for films available on VHS and BetaMAX tapes believed to corrupt their audience through extreme violence and sexualised violence. It's also the name for a new comic launching this Saturday in London, not at the London Super Comic Con (thoigh they will be there), but[...]
From Game To Film – Are We Losing Our Adventures?
The game characters, actions and voices are also ingrained on the players and, as with watching film adaptations of your favorite comics, unless they hire those self same actors nothing will feel quite right. Minecraft, in all its beauty, is a game which allows creation and where the limitations are set by the person playing and[...]
Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – Triumphal Returns From Stray Bullets To Beasts Of Burden
It's quite a full line-up, so dig into this week's comic releases. Books featured in this episode include: DC Comics: Justice League Of America #13 Marvel Comics: All-New X-Men #24 IDW Publishing: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #32 Image Comics: Stray Bullets: Killers #1 Vertigo: Royals: Masters Of War #2 Image Comics: Mercenary Sea #2 Image Comics: Manifest Destiny #5 Marvel Comics: Captain Marvel #1 DC[...]
Dave Cockrum's Personal Uncanny X-Men Collection For Sale
Comics from the Estate of Dave Cockrum are being put up for sale by his widow Paty Cockrum These are Uncanny X-Men comics from the artists file copies and each will be bagged and boarded with a note saying where they came from. Dave Cockrum worked for Marvel, DC and Warren over the years with two[...]
Steve Ditko Is On Kickstarter Again With Something New
Just a single image shown below and a note saying the following: ROBIN SNYDER AND STEVE DITKO Celebrate 26 years of publishing with a brand-new title #9 Teen is complete, finished and ready to go. There is only the editorial page to complete and we will release our new book. This new comic book contains another story in the[...]
Exclusive – First Look At The Covers For Valiant's Rai #2
Here we see the covers by Raul Allen, Mico Suayan and the mask variant by Rian Hughes. RAI #2 Written by Matt Kindt Art by Clayton Crain Covers by Raul Allen and Mico Suayan Mask Cover by Rian Hughes Variant Covers by BART Sears and Paolo Rivera Discover the astonishing world of the 41st century! This summer, Matt Kindt and Clayton Crain's one-of-a-kind[...]