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In One Week, In Two Weeks
Welcome to the future! Next week's comics, listed today And the preliminary list for Premier publishers for the week after that Which means we can look forward to Glory #23 and Peter Panzerfaust #1 from Image and a new Glamourpuss from Aardvark Vanaheim The week after it has to be Dark Horse Presents #9… cos[...]
Ramona Fradon – Wonder Woman Of Comics
Funded by Kickstarter, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines is a film looking at the history of the character and her hostorical and cultural impact and will premiere at SZSW this year, including interviews with activists, action heroines including Lynda Carter and creators such as Gail Simone and Kathleen Hanna. Someone who my have[...]
Marvel Demands $17,000 For Gary Friedrich's Ghost Rider Prints
Nicolas Cage recently sold his copy of Action Comics #1 for over 2 million, and will have received similar for starring in Ghost Rider 2. Gary Friedrich, the creator of Ghost Rider is, however, penniless. Oh Danny Boy reports the legal language; 1 The profits realized by plaintiffs in connection with the distribution and sale of goods depicting[...]
DC Comics To Launch Smallville Season 11 As Weekly Digital Comics
With the chapters collected into print comics monthly. The digital Smallville Season 11 comic will begin from DC Comics on April the 13th, with the first printed collection on May 16th, with Clark Kent now as Superman, and the cast of Oliver Sullivan-Queen, Chloe Sullivan-Queen, the Lanes and the Luthors. Gary Frank of Batman Earth One does[...]
Thursday Runaround: Marvel Math Vs DC Math
Comics, 1942-1986, a new exhibition at the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia's Chinatown, which takes a long, hard, critical look at the depiction of Asians and Asian Americans in superhero comics. AuctionWatch: What's the price of securing a trademark? Twelve exceedingly rare DC ashcan comic books from the late 1930s and early 1940s, including Action Funnies Ashcan[...]
Sacrifice Reaches Issue Three…
Sacrifice #3 continues Sam Humphries' one man attempt to show that Diamond Comic Distribution is unneccesary with his self-distribution model... the next
Ordering More Saga #1 Than Justice League #1
Saga, from Image Comics, written by one Brian K Vaughan and drawn by one Fiona Staples But he has some concerns about other retailers He writes for Bleeding Cool; As we are getting our Previews numbers together, I've noticed a lot of talk about the FCBD books and the lack on info on some titles, but[...]
Want To Work For DC Comics? There's A Digital Platform For That
Yesterday we looked at a couple of digital jobs as Marvel Comics Well, it looks as if DC Comics is extending their employment into that area too… Time Warner, Inc – Job details – DC Comics Production Designer The Production Designer will have frontline responsibility for the day-to-day implementation and execution of DC Entertainment's brand strategy, style[...]
Twelve Thoughts About Twelve Comics – PunisherMAX, Deadpool, Batwoman, Superboy, Secret Avengers, Conan, Thief Of Thieves, Wolverine And The X-Men, Battle Scars, Demon Knights, Batgirl And Adventure Time
In three panels we get updates on the current status about the pregnant Kitty Pryde (Kitty and Buffy pregnant in the same month?) Doop jokes about religion, a reference to the codebreaker for Doop's language that fans worked out, the propensity for Wolverine to be in plenty of comics at once – and motivation for[...]
Buffy And Abortion
USA Today reports that in today's issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 from Dark Horse Comics, Buffy shares her newly discovered status as a pregnant woman with her family and friends She presumes that the vampire on-again-off-again lover Spike is the father, although there's some plot-purposeful indecision about that And hey, it may[...]
Scott McDaniel Tells His Side Of The Static Shock Story
It also includes some examples of John Rozum's script, which is rather rare for New 52 books, as well as how certain ideas were generated, and DC's decision making process for which books are published and which are not, and how he really doesn't like Rozum describing the comic as a "total turd" I'm not sure[...]
The No Spin Zone – Marvel And DC Executive Interviews
But he's hardly alone in this, DC's Executive VP-Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood and Senior VP-Sales Bob Wayne were doing something similar the other day on Comic Book Resources. Here are a few snippets from both interviews – and what they are actually saying in red. John Rood: To have our number fives sweep the[...]
Batman #5 Spins Us A Second Print
Earlier today, Bleeding Cool told you how Batman #5 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo had received some of the heaviest reorders from comics retailers through January Well, DC Comics seem to have made it official Batman #5, a literal topsy turvy journey for Batman and the Court of Owls, leading to the upcoming Bats[...]