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Review: Image's Hallowe'en Eve
Writers only have so many pages to tell a story in comics but with one shots you don't have the added help of more issues to follow This comic has only 32 pages of actual story telling, granted more than the average comic but still not much to pack a story into. The story starts off[...]
FREE: Peter Cannon Thunderbolt #1
Here is the first issue of Dynamite's Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt absolutely free, legal, totally above board. The second issue came out this week. So if
Why The Walking Dead Is Out And Saga Is In
Alex Wilson writes for Bleeding Cool; Comics should always be a source of amusement for their reader After all, comics are a part of the entertainment industry and when a comic becomes uninteresting people stop reading it An old saying from our favorite caped crusader "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to[...]
When Bill Jemas Met Paul Levitz At NYCC
Which included an aggressive media prescence spearheaded, publicly at least, by Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada. During that time a number of disparaging statements were made against DC Comics, alleging that the company, and Publisher and President Paul Levitz was responsible for mismanagement and not financially exploiting the success of Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman[...]
Review: Hip To Be Square – A Look At The Devastator #6 "Indie"
Where the successful pieces in this anthology take the established tropes of being a hipster and twist them in some unexpected to elicit comedy – this piece is just simply too meta to work – which makes it into that which the issue should be making fun of. This magazine is formatted to be equally comprised[...]
NYCC 2012: A Unique & Common Experience
For comics it's always fun to chart someone's adolescent comic development with Leifeld, who when you're 13, is the greatest artist you have ever seen He's the artist that stage in comic fandom development Then you're supposed to get a little older and move on from enormous guns and tiny heads The Comic Convention also[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: The Spider-Man Sequel Sort-Of Spoiler
Because much is based on comics that have been essential-reading classics for a long time Of course, it's remixed and built on for film, but still — if you made a list of Spider-Man storylines that they'd likely build a movie around sooner or later, this one would be pretty high on your list. Most-Read TV/Film[...]
The Doctor Via Cyanide And Happiness
This is what people send me after comic conventions. Honestly. Hey, I ran into the guys who create the web comic "Cyanide and Happiness." I asked them to
The World At Noonan – Too Much Nolan In My Diet
At the New York Comic Con, I happened to find myself at one of the DC Comics panels And I couldn;t help but hear a most entertaining conversation behind me, before the panel began Turning round, I met Lucy Noonan And now you get to meet her too… Recently I attended the Arrow panel at New[...]
When Hollywood Steals From Comics
Photo by Seth Kushner. If any aspiring comic book creators were still under the impression that bringing their project to Hollywood would be an easy endeavor, or a hard endeavor, Friday's "Comics, Hollywood – What Creators Need To Know" panel put those hopes to rest It's not easy, it's not just hard, it's damn near impossible. One[...]
Scott Lobdell Will Join You In The Sun
My favourite Superman line is "They will join you in the sun." From All Star Superman. I was pleased to see it also being used in Man Of Steel. And then
Swipe File: D.O.A. Vs Secret Warriors
On the left, Canadian punk band D.O.A's new album We Come in Peace. And on the right, the cover to Secret Warriors #7 by Jim Cheung. Peace or War? You decide!
Review: Telikos Protocol #1 – by Peter Cooper and Adam Burn
Check out the most funded tables: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/comics/most-funded?page=2 I've included some preview pages through the review, the last two are preview art not from issue one: So that beauty I was referring to: The underscapes, styling and character design are reminiscent of some of the best science fiction that I've read[...]