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The Comic Book History Of Wonder Woman's Best Friend, Etta Candy
She debuted in Sensation Comics #2 in February of 1942 In her first appearance, Etta was a sickly, malnourished young lady that Wonder Woman discovered at a hospital By her second appearance, she had become much more spirited, but also much larger… attributing her revitalization to her love of candy and sweets She would become[...]
Warren Ellis And Jason Howard Are Working On Something Else Between Trees…
At the MIT Media Lab yesterday, Warren Ellis was been interviewed by Kevin Slavin about his life, work and thoughts about stuff as part of a series entitled Mythophysics Of The New Normal. Along the way, he also made mention that he and Jason Howard are taking a break between the second and third volume of his Image[...]
What If The DC Universe Had Social Media?
These cover the comics, television and films, taking a shot at everyone from Aquaman to Arrow to the Man of Steel The Texting video was written by Michael Jonathan Smith, Michael Adams Davis, and Michael Schroeder I'm guessing after doing the Facebook video by himself, Smith decided he need to triple the Michael. The comedy in these[...]
Coady And The Creepies Get A Punk Rock Anthem And Video
BOOM! Studios has unveiled a music video for "Creepies R Go," the anthem for the punk band The Creepies in BOOM! Studios' new BOOM! Box comic, Coady and the Creepies, by award-winning comics creator Liz Prince (Tomboy, Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?) and artist Amanda Kirk. The song was created by Prince[...]
Comic Store In Your Future – Year One
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool Find previous columns here. Alright, In a previous week's column I didn't break the internet and Rich says as long as I quit with the pip, pip stuff I can keep writing plus so long as Jude Terror doesn't threaten to quit its all good[...]
30 Days Of Night, A Comic That Changed The Industry, Turns 15
There are no million dollar options anymore, but the pipeline from indie comics to move studios is still strong Seems like every other movie out there is coming from one comic or another Atomic Blonde is from Oni Press, Two Guns was from BOOM! and on and on There are a lot of factors that[...]
Kieron Dywer, Political Cartoonist
Kieron Dwyer is no stranger to controversy. The former Avengers and Captain America artist once go into it with Starbucks over a parody cover for his
Escape From Gulag 396 Offers Little Escape But A Lot Of Faith
Valiant comics has been creating some of the most consistently good comics on the market for years now But lately, they seem to have found a new gear Their Divinity III event called Stalinverse is allowing the creators to re-imagine the Valiant Universe as if it existed in a world run by the Soviet Union[...]
Rucka / Sharp Wonder Woman Part Of Superhero Exhibit In Israeli Comic Musuem
Art from Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp's run on Wonder Woman is part of an exhibit a the Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics in Holon, Israel This is the only museum of it's kind in Israel and features what is described as  "a rich permanent collection and rotating exhibits touching upon cultural, social, and political[...]
Is Marvel's Comic Definition Of Magic Different From The Film Version?
And I never really though of a demonic creator like Mephisto as being a magician. Did Doctor Strange really bring magic into the MCU, or was it the Scarlet Witch? Or are Wanda's powers in the films very different from those in the comics? This is the problem with retconing origins over and over… you end[...]
Comic Store In Your Future – That Was The February That Was
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics writes weekly for Bleeding Cool Find previous columns here. After reading how this year's February didn't exactly set the comic industry on fire, it didn't come as a surprise by any means. February's comic sales had Marvel in the top ten with Darth Maul and the main Star Wars title[...]
Comic Book History Of Abra Kadabra
Recently it was announced that David Dastmalchian had been cast to play Abra Kadabra on an upcoming episode of The Flash. Now Kadabra has been part of
R.L. Stine to Write Man-Thing Series for Marvel
Marvel takes us behind-the-scenes of their new Man-Thing #1 comic that is out today. They've taken one of their famous monsters and given it to horror
Writer's Commentary – Erica Schultz On Charmed #1
My hope is that fans of the show and fans of comics in general pick up these books and find the same adventure, action, humor and ass-kicking fun that the Charmed television series had for so many years! Page 1 One of my main goals in writing these Charmed books is to have fans say, "Wow! That[...]
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Todd McFarlane became famous for drawing his version of Spider-Man, went on to co-found Image Comics, created the character of Spawn and then buy some really expensive baseballs But early on in the 90's he worked on Guardians of the Galaxy with Jim Starlin As a tip of the hat to that time and the[...]
Fred Van Lente On Z Nation, Zombie Cows And Soylent Z
But they still invest a lot in characters you care about and stories that matter, and the comics series will be following in that spirit in spades. DW: How did you get involved in the project? Were you a fan of the series before getting a chance to write the prequel? FVL: I've done a lot of zombie[...]