This weekend, while I'm signing my new comic book at Forbidden Planet (have I mentioned that at all?) Wondercon, from the people who bring you the San
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Jimmy Olsen Oneshot is a strange beast to sell, initially made up of the Jimmy Olsen back up strips that ran in the $3.99 Action Comics before a reverse ferret was performed and all the books went to 20 pages, losing their back up strips in the proces Not all have been collected[...]
More on that later, obviously.
SpiegelmanWatch: Art Spiegelman loves the current comic book scene.
"I can't even keep up with the comics I admire right now," he says "This growth spurt is so impressive and tracing it, trying to understand its implications, that will be the focus of (the lecture)."
"It's all very fertile,"[...]
A little something for everyone on BC today, though I think I'm most interested in all the Justice League movie talk that popped over the past few days.
Superhero comic books, it has been often said, are like soap operas. Well, it looks like they have the family trees to match. Here is how you get from
Rob Granito gets ignored for Geoff Johns and Zeb Wells, and we're right into tomorrow's comics from guys who have read them with Guy Gardner in Emerald Warriors, Jimmy Olsen's collected shorts, Action Comics as it all kicks up, Amazing Spider-Man, Kick Ass 2, Caligula (with Aaron calling for an Eisner nomination already), Avengers, Butcher[...]
Ever since China Mieville's Swamp Thing series was canned after five issues were dropped in the Vertigo bin, the expectation is that Swamp Thing would
Jesse Norton, working in animation, writes; When the March 11 earthquake hit Japan, I was sound asleep enjoying my first vacation in years. My friend
Car Design Fetish has been running a competition to redesign the Batmobile. The US winner was Paul Denton (below) and the International winner was Matt
How do we know?
Because air freighting copies of the free-to-customers comics from Diamond US to Diamond UK warehouse in advance have forced out regular shipping titles.
This is the explanation Diamond UK are giving for late and missing comics in the UK marketplace of late As a result, these titles will not be available today but[...]
Some say comics is the greatest show on earth, and here's today's installment:
Most-Read Comic Stories Today:
Rob Granito's MegaCon Adventure With Mark Waid
Dear Fraudboy: When you have comics' leading leftwing socialist hippiefreak AND comics' leading rightwing Nazi teaming up to smack you down, YOU HAVE FUCKED UP.
Who On Earth Is Rob Granito? (UPDATE)
Jay is one of[...]
Halycon is one of those strange books from Image Comics that didn't sell out straight away and become a massive hit in the aftermarket, principally because retailers knew Marc Guggenheim's impressive track record and ordered with a little more confidence Then of course Diamond dropped the UK's allocation of the second issue in the ocean,[...]
This is just one of the pieces being auctioned off by Dark Horse comics in a fundraise for the Red Cross' activities in the post tsunami/earthquake Japan Other items include;
Comics and graphic novels signed by Duncan Fegredo:
Two sets of the comics miniseries Hellboy: Darkness Calls, Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, and Hellboy: The Storm
Free Comic Book Day comic: "Hellboy:[...]
Also, quick plug, I'm signing my royal wedding comics at Forbidden Planet in London on Saturday at 2pm with Gary Erskine Do come by and say hi if you're on the right continent.
Anyway, these were the things that caused you all to go silly this week.
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I think my favorite moment was when this kid said to Ethan–after lying when asked if he'd actually claimed to have worked with Dwayne (a claim he ABSOLUTELY made)–"I just considered him a friend, same as I'd consider you a friend–" and E…than growled "Let's make[...]