No artist yet, but this cover is by Kaare Andrews, who also has a couple of AWA titles on the go.JMS is best known as the creator of Babylon 5, co-creator of Sense 8, Midnight Nation and Rising Star, as well as writer of Spider-Man and Thor comics, the first Thor movie, Changeling and World[...]
it's a story told against a huge, planetary backdrop that explores what would happen in the real world if 15-20 million people with powers suddenly emerged out of the population.THR has JMS saying “DC and Marvel are products of the times that produced them DC, which came to prominence in the '40s and '50s, a very[...]
Michael Straczynski had a very memorable run on Amazing Spider-Man in the mid-2000s, with notable improvements like "now Spider-Man has organic web-shooters like in the movies" and the unforgettable One More Day storyline, in which Spider-Man, totally keeping within his character, makes a deal with Mephisto that sacrifices his marriage, a storyline that was a[...]
Michael Straczynski took to his facebook page to write a letter, talking about where he came from and how important Harlan's friendship was to him.The pair worked together a few times, Ellison wrote two episodes of JMS's Babylon 5 space-centric tv series, as well as JMS adapting for film one of Ellison's works, "Repent, Harlequin! Said[...]
Fans of Netflix sci-fi drama Sense8 might want to take notice, if they want to see a third season of the show. With its popularity and cliffhanger second season finale, it's been widely assumed that the show will be renewed. But with the June deadline approaching, fans are beginning to get worried, tweeting things like: https://twitter.com/postbadsense_8/status/869307102786965506 […]
Fans of Netflix's Sense8, the multi-cultural telepathy sci-fi drama from The Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski will have an unexpected gift under the tree on Christmas Eve. For some reason, the show is getting a Doctor Who style Holiday Special, to be released on December 23, according to a report by Deadline. The official description […]
Joining Superman Earth One (which he also writes), Batman Earth One, Titans Earth One and the upcoming Wonder Woman Earth One comes the fifth in the line of original DC Comics superhero graphic novels, Flash Earth One. And it's to be written by Joe Michael Straczynski. He announced this at his panel at San Diego Comic Con […]
Adi Tantimedh writes, You'd think Sens8 was the type of ambitious international Science Fiction epic that many of us have dreamed of, finally realised through the labyrinthine dynamics of international financing that wasn't possible 10 years ago. A famous actor in Mexico with an identity crisis… an East European criminal inheriting his father's gang and […]
So Brian Bendis has been doing some fun things with time in the Marvel Universe titles he's been writing these last few years. Time was rewritten with Age Of Ultron. The All-New X-Men came from the past to the present, while the Future X-Men came from the future to the present, giving us at one […]
So, last year Ben Templesmith was replaced as the artist on JMS's Ten Grand comic series for Image Comics A work-for-hire gig for Ben, he seemingly went incommunicado after being sent a script At the time JMS wrote,
Most recently, we gave Ben a full script on July 26th It is now September 4th, and we[...]
JMS told Chris,
I would love to write a Doctor Who episode someday, I'm a huge fan I'm curious to see how the new guy does, I love what Matt Smith is doing so I'll give the new guy benefit of the doubt I do know what that story would be But honestly? Steven Moffat is[...]
Michael Straczynski, otherwise known as JMS!Joe and I discuss the many and varied comic projects he has going on at the moment, including Terminator for Dark Horse Comics, Twilight Zone for Dynamite Entertainment, and his continuing work on the Joe’s Comics imprint with Image Comics (Ten Grand, Sidekick, Protectors Inc.)We also discuss his background with[...]
But don't you fret! There are comic book things! Cameron Stewart, Will Simpson, JMS and Tintin!
Saturday 4th JanuaryCameron Stewart is signing at Gosh! Comics tomorrow
Creator of the award-winning comic Sin Titulo, and artist on such mind blindingly good titles as Batman and Robin and Sea Guy will be at Gosh! on January the 4th from[...]
This is Nick Barrucci, the publisher of Dynamite Comics, publishers of The Twilight Zone #1 out today, written by J Michael Straczynski. It features the story of a man who changes his identity utterly. But what an identity to change to. That's… Nick isn't it? Or at least a younger, slightly slimmer version of him. […]
So, Dynamite are publishing more new books today than Marvel. And two are launches, Legenderry and The Twilight Zone. And each has a bevy of retailer-exclusive covers below…. does your store have one to itself? THE TWILIGHT ZONE #1 J. Michael Straczynski (w) Guiu Vilanova (a) Francesco Francavilla (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99 […]
The Adventures Of Apocalypse Al, a four part mini-series by JMS, Sid Kotian and Bill Farmer Was to have come out frtom MTV Geek And then, well, the Geek fell.At which point, Image jumped in, already publishing a number of JMS' titles as Joe's Comics It's been completely written and drawn, the first issue story[...]
JMS was quoted, talking about The Twilight Zone comic, saying
You can’t do a Twilight Zone story in ten pages, or one twenty-two page comic book; you need to be able to establish and develop the character, and that takes time You could never do a single comic book with the depth of storytelling you’d get[...]
Something like this… a preview of Ten Grand #5 drawn by new artist CP Smith. With "Nothing interesting happens in heaven"… an interesting use of knocked back ink lines for effect.
I’ve already talked to Neal; Neal would love to do a new rendition of Captain Power so he’s on board...Lay: Did you know that also Neal came up with the look for Skeleton Warriors? The original look for those characters when Gary created them, the visual came from Neal Adams.
THE GUARDIAN PANELSThe Guardian Books podcast[...]
There, next to quadratic equations and early clumsy fumblings are the words above.Sidekick is a new comic book by JMS and Tom Mandrake out next week about a second string, Flyboy, who has lost the first string This is a Robin whose Batman has died, and he's not coping.This kind of territory was most successfully[...]
