There's been a fair bit of art recycling in comic books of late. Recent issues of X-Men just re-ran scenes from a Free Comic Book Day edition with minor text alterations while another just reused the same art as a previous issue in order to tell the story from a different and less unreliable narrator. […]
JMS is the executor of Harlan and Susan Ellison’s literary estate, and part of that job is to prepare Ellison’s work for republication and keep it in print.[caption id="attachment_1294777" align="aligncenter" width="600"] "The Last Dangerous Visions" graphic from JMS[/caption]Dangerous Visions is the legendary Science Fiction anthology edited by Harlan Ellison that heralded the New Wave alongside[...]
AWA Studios' Upshot Studios releases E-Ratic #1 on December 2nd, and today, they revealed a preview of the book's variant covers. The official synopsis reads: "You're fifteen years old. You're suddenly granted incredible powers. Cool, right? There's only one problem: you can only use your powers for ten minutes at a time. What do you do when […]
J Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato return to the Artists, Writers & Artisans, Inc series The Resistance with The Resistance: Reborns oneshot. And we also get a new series, Mann's World by Victor Gischler and Niko Walter. And it's all part of AWA's January 2021 solicitations. RESISTANCE REBORNS ONESHOT #1 CVR A RAHZZAH (MR) ARTISTS […]
Michael Straczynski has a longer career in writing television. A huge silver age Superman fan, JMS got into television writing in the 1980s and wrote hundreds of scripts staring with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and going on to She-Ra Princess of Power, the Real Ghostbusters, and the 1980's Twilight Zone relaunch. It[...]
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 […]
