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So we have rumours of a Namor The Sub Mariner movie planned, wither at Universal of Marvel depending who is talking. But here is a very interesting point to touch about a supposed Namor movie. He is one of the rare Marvel characters that has an actual, 100% solid rights-reversion case. Here's how it goes. The first appearance of[...]

Pearls Before Swine newspaper strip creator Stephan Pastis writes, Let me tell you. Just getting an email from Bill Watterson is one of the most

DC Comics recently published Tales Of The Batman: Carmine Infantino collecting the stories that turned Batman away from his more campy side and in the direction of the Batman of today But are the choice of issues all they're cracked up to be? The solicitation reads, The "new look" Batman made his debut in 1964, and[...]

It's time for the fifth, yes, fifth Comics And Medicine conference, at the end of the month, in Baltimore Founded by physician Ian Williams and RN MK Czerwiec, both comic creators, as GraphicMedicine.org. If anyone ever wants evidence of the mainstreaming of comic books, this is it right here Papers have been submitted and have been approved and will[...]

Nancy Collins, famous for her character Sonja Blue, recently returned to comics to write a Red Sonja story for Dynamite That has lead to her taking on the iconic Vampirella in a relaunch of the character This week we saw the release of the first issue and now Nancy is letting us see behind the[...]

Written by Montynero, with art by Mark Dowling, it's coming to hardcover print collection on June 18th from Titan Comics, so you won't have long to wait to find out just how strange or dark this story may get if you missed the single issues in 2013. We've got some posters here, and–drumroll–we have a trailer. Here[...]

When he brought the first issue to print with fledgling Blue Juice Comics as a creator-owned project, he didn't really know what to expect, but lightning struck and the first issue was a major success, selling out in its early print run at comic cons rather rapidly That was more than enough to encourage him[...]

Now it's time for Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso to take it for a spin Answering the question from CBR There has been a lot of talk in the industry this week about the possible future of "Fantastic Four." Last week, CBR published a report saying the books may be taken off the table stemming from[...]

So there has always been a natural connection between the two industries and we've seen comics starring wrestlers frequently… But I don't think we've seen any like this. Wrestling duo Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian teamed up with Art Baltazar and Franco to create this unique issue of Christopher Daniels And Kazarian Wrestle Aw Yeah Comics![...]

The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is hosting their "second issue" of their Comic Book Theater Festival throughout the month of June and have a raucous line up of deeply creative projects, all devoted to the comics medium From comic stories brought to life through actors, to performance-read comics with visual elements, this is a[...]

Roger Ash of Westfield Comics chatted with series writer Michael Uslan about the new series. ROGER ASH: How did you become involved with Justice, Inc.? MICHAEL USLAN: Some years back, I was working on a way to bring The Street & Smith Pulp/Comics Super-Hero Trinity of Doc Savage, The Shadow and The Avenger to the silver screen[...]

So who is that mystery man in Original Sin anyway? The one with mystical monster, Watcher and living planet killing bullets? Let's zoom in. Okay, it's not

And now we are running a crowd funding campaign to expand that bar at mygeekeasy.com. I know comics, that's not a problem, but the bar has been kicking my ass It won the award for best kept secret Orlando, then the secret got out and business exploded It was clear from the start that comic nerds[...]

From Demolition Man – the "Three Sea Shells" scene. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBI8uCKi2lI[/youtube] And selected panels from the very pretty future-set Rai #2 from this week's comics. Three seashells! I think we know what films Matt Kindt has a soft spot for. UPDATE: We receive the following note: I have it on good authority that was Mr[...]

  This is the solicited cover for Bloodstrike #35, published online in December 2012 for publication from Image Comics in March 2013… The series was never published though art from the series was used to illustrate Liefeld's Kickstarter appeal for a Brigade comic which raised $35,000 but still without the promised publication Currently Rob Liefeld says that,[...]

There's also a clip on YouTube, but as Mark says, If you click the iPlayer link you'll get an extra 2 min intro, a very cool thing I didn't expect being LOADS OF SPOILERS for issue 2 as we sent about 50 pages to Newsnight before the show [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnIotMTAZHQ[/youtube] There's the usual overclaim, and Mark Millar has deconflated[...]

Reprinting work from the original Detective Comics #27 that first features Batman, his name is up there in lights Probably not with a co-creator credit inside, Bob Kane's contract remains watertight after his death, but it's something… Because right now, all is not good with DC Comics and Finger's family…   It's a tale that most comic[...]

He seemed to have been out of sorts with Marvel and DC Comics of late. But the impending Spider-Verse event seems to have brought writer David Hine back to Marvel, reviving his popular Spider-Man Noir character with Fabrice Sapolsky, as the event sees to take in every version of Spider-Man ever portrayed, legally at least. The Edge[...]

El Jueves is a Spanish satirical magazine published for 39 years, weekly every Wednesday. Which is why it translates as "The Thursday". Except this weeks

Wonderworld comics owners Dennis Barger and Robert Bowman in Taylor MI are selling off their their 250,000 back issues of comic books to whoever will take them In bulk. Citing increases in rent and the reducing demand at shows for the dollar box –  as well as the DC Comics reboot – they say they have lost faith[...]

We've got an advance preview of Harbinger #24 – the penultimate chapter of "Death of a Renegade" from writer Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and Harvey

This is Margali, the original mother of Nightcrawler, and Jimaine, the sister of Nightcrawler, before it all got changed later on. As things are want to.

From yesterday's Amazing X-Men. Puck, recently of X-Force, getting a call... but who is his companion? He's old enough to be Talisman's... well...

Dynamite is relaunching Jack Kirby's visionary series Captain Victory. Now in the hands of Joe Casey and Nathan Fox, the new series sets the Captain on an

What would it be like if a twelve-year old from a technically advanced race got stranded in a world of swords, sorcery and dragons? An international team

Thanks also to the good folks at Midtown Comics in NYC for hosting Grant's appearance. Tony Wolf is an actor, voice-over guy, sometime illustrator and rabid pop culture fan in New York City.  He can be found lurking about at www.tonywolfactor.com and was the co-host of www.theactionroom.com. Michael Turney shot and edited this video[...]

It's written by filmmaker, actor, and comics creator Chris Miskiewicz, who's no stranger to the horror genre or New York set stories It's with some relief that I heard that it's coming to print a last, in all its water-colory glory as the supernatural invades the boroughs Rich Johnston, when he heard about it, called[...]

Chris Robeson continues his run on the Man of Bronze with Doc Savage #6 out this week. Battlestar Galactica writer Dan Abnett talked with Chris about what

Tell us a little but about how you and Kyle started cooking up this idea. Justin Jordan: The real origin of the book was two things that sort of bonded together in my head, which is often how comics come about I was watching some zombie thing, probably Walking Dead, and got to idly thinking that[...]

This week, we have Patrick Gerard as a guest, whose knowledge of business leads him to address the improved profit margin resulting from leaving Apple behind, resulting in the ability to lower the cost of comics and promote sales. Patrick Gerard writes: First of all, a bit of background on myself I'm the writer/publisher of the book[...]