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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[...]