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Jonathan Ross And Ian Churchill's The Revenger Becomes… Revenge!
Previewed in last week's Elephantmen, Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill's The Revenger from Image Comics, will undergo a name change by the time it's published January. I'm told it will now be called "Revenge" but the lead character will still be called The Revenger. Turns out another webcomic had the same name (it might be this one)[...]
The New Comic From Jonathan Ross And Ian Churchill, The Revenger, Out In February
Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill's new comic for Image, The Revenger. Regular readers will know just how big Jonathan Ross is in the UK Basically, he's John Stewart as a chatshow host with the comparative audience of Leno and Letterman combined He's proper funny, has championed the causes of comics, he's presented the Eisners (and kissed[...]
America's Got Powers Got A Really Cool Ending (Spoiler-Free-Ish)
What creators Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch have achieved here, is to let nobody see it, until it's revealed to us. It's the allegory of a teenager railing against one certain injustice, to be asked to think of the bigger picture And then to actually see the bigger picture and have their mind mildly blown[...]
Pop Culture Hounding Ian Churchill On The Revenger
Towards the end, he touched on The Revenger, his new comic with Jonathan Ross, as the complete opposite of Marineman With Jacobean influences, 1970s influences, its original title was Frankenstein 90210 And he may like to work on another idea with Jonathan, "set in Florida with giant animals"… Chris says; Aw yeah, we're back again! Following my[...]
Jonathan Ross And Ian Churchill's The Revenger – A New Comic For 2014
And a teaser image. The Revenger, by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill, to be published in January. Ross has Image titles Turf and America's Got Powers to his name but is better known in the UK as the our preeminent TV broadcaster and chat show host Churchill has X-Men, Supergirl, Cable and more recently Marineman on his resume. The[...]
How I Won An Eisner Award
By Rich Johnston. It's true. You won't have seen my name or that of Bleeding Cool's on the nomination, but I won it all the same. Or co-won. Or I was part
And The Winner Is… Here Are The Folks That Took Home Eisners Last Night
The awards are the industry equivalent to the Oscars with awards presented by The Nerdist's Chris Hardwick, TV personality and writer Jonathan Ross, best selling author Neil Gaiman and actors John Barrowman and James Marsters. But what would an Eisner post be without "The Kiss"… [youtube]http://youtu.be/FGWiF126IF4[/youtube] Best Short Story: "Moon 1969: The True Story of the 1969 Moon Launch," by Michael Kupperman, in Tales Designed to Thrizzle #8 (Fantagraphics) Best Single Issue[...]
Jonathan Ross And Neil Gaiman To Re-enact "That Kiss" At The Eisners?
I understand that Jonathan Ross will join Neil Gaiman as guest presenters during the upcoming Eisner Awards ceremony this Friday. The last time they stood together on a stage, this happened. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8NxWnMhlso[/youtube] From another angle. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIDTTKdxbT0[/youtube] Of course, they wouldn't want to repeat themselves[...]
Kevin Bacon Tells People On The Street That He's The New Doctor Who
Or tweet to Jonathan Ross. It's not Kevin Bacon, obviously But it is funny that I was only joking about it the other day… Kevin Bacon has been making England his home of late And filming commercials for mobile and broadband provider EE Including today, acting about in front of the camera on Wentworth Street, in[...]
Jonathan Ross And Ian Churchill To Create New Series, The Revenger – A Tragedy
Published anonymously, the manuscript for teh stage play The Revenger's Tragedy was an English language Jacobean revenge tragedy, later attributed to either Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton. It also informs the title of Jonathan Ross' new comic which sounds a little more superheroic in nature, The Revenger – A Tragedy A Jacobean Avengers perhaps? He's writing it[...]
Jonathan Ross And Tommy Lee Edwards Part Ways On The Golden Age
I understand that Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards' upcoming comic The Golden Age, about superheroes in retirement, will not be going ahead as planned But it will be going ahead. They both worked on Turf, Ross' first comic, published by Image, and then serialised in CLiNT Magazine The Golden Age was to have been a[...]
Eating Breakfast With The Walking Dead
UK TV veteran and budding comics writer Jonathan Ross was on hand to introduce everyone and glean a few stories about their work on The Walking Dead Some of the more interesting facts to come out of the morning's discussions included. – Gale Anne Hurd is considered an honorary Brit thanks to her massive love for[...]
Jonathan Ross Makes A Major Silver Age Art Acquisition At SDCC
Jonathan Ross is a British tv celebrity and comic book creator — most recently working with Bryan Hitch on America's Got Powers Of course, we've known Jonathan Ross was a big comic fan for quite awhile  Rich recently put together a little primer on Ross for Americans who don't know much about him. But he's also[...]
Notes From The Eisner Awards
Of Jonathan Ross reminding us in gory and vicious details of the loser attribute of those who don't win It was a year for Marvel, who only a few years ago were shut out of every award, though only for Daredevil and Criminal It was a year for DC to be marginalised, and Archaia to[...]
Ten Ways For Americans To Get To Know Jonathan Ross A Little Better
I really like Jonathan Ross Always have, whether that was staying up to watch the Last Resort as a young teenage, watching him reinvent British television in the nineties by discovering Vic Reeves, getting a thrill of self-validation when he came out as a major league comic book fan, and the first time when I[...]
Bryan Hitch's Image Comic Crashes To #149
When Image Comics signed up Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch's book Americas' Got Powers, it was a real coup One of the biggest name A-list artists in comics and a media broadcaster with a massive profile in the UK and a growing one in the US. The first issue, double sized for $2.99 was lucky to[...]
Kapow 2012: Jonathan Ross Considering A Comic Book Podcast
At Kapow's Image Comics panel this morning, with Eric Stephenson, Nick Spencer and Bryan Hitch, Jonathan Ross stated that he had plans to launch a comic book podcast, because of his contacts in media and comics. He also talked about planning new comic books with current collaborators Bryan Hitch and Tommy Lee Edwards but also Ian[...]
Jonathan Ross' Mid-Life Crisis On Very Important People
And in tonight's episode, as well as a rather entertaining Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell sideswipe, they also went for Jonathan Ross and his Superfriends, Russell Brand and David Walliams, depicting them as comic book characters that Jonathan is creating as part of his… Exactly Terry plays Jonathan Ross and Walliams, Morgana plays Russell Brand, with a prosthetic[...]
The Bleeding Cool Review Of The Avengers In 3D
Jonathan Ross was on the stage introducing members of the cast, but we were shuffled up the escalators to our seats Where we got Iron Man and Hulk-themed 3D glasses They are totally going on eBay. Ours was a rather short journey Marvel Studios have been on it for years On the bus to the cinema[...]
Thursday Runaround – From Avengelyne To Ricky Gervais
Doubt I'll get the chance tonight though. RossWatch: Jonathan Ross writes for the Evening Standard who crown him the King Of Comics. When I had my first job in London I decided to re-read one of my fave series of all time — Hergé's magnificent Tintin — on the Tube to and from work[...]
Boxing Clever With America's Got Powers
Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool; America's Got Powers by Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch is a comic entirely about fighting It's also a very, very clever comic about fighting. The set up is pretty standard; a crystal lands in San Francisco and instantly every woman within a certain radius falls pregnant The children, once mature, exhibit[...]
David Tennant Is The Professor!
The Sun newspaper reports that David Tennant is the model for the Simon Cowell-alike character in America's Got Powers, with writer Jonathan Ross comparing the resemblance to Bryan Hitch's appropriation of Samuel Jackson for the Ultimates and hoping that the same might happen again Hitch also worked on design on the revived Doctor Who series. The[...]
Preview: America's Got Powers #1 by Bryan Hitch and Jonathan Ross
But America's Got Powers by Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch from Image Comics The first non-Marvel work from Bryan for some time, the first creator owned work from Bryan for even longer 38 pages of it for $2.99 An incredible bargain, that also happens to have one of the hottest artists today and written by[...]
Will America's Got Powers Be The Biggest Bang For Your Buck In April?
It may be a combination of schedules, issues with getting retailers to order two launch issues for the same month, or the desire to make a bigger impact on day one, but the announcement that America's Got Powers by Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch would now launch with one issue in April, with 38 story[...]
The Neil Gaiman/Jonathan Ross/Mark MIllar/Tony Lee Charity Doctor Who Book
They include; Al Murray, Andy Nyman, Angellica Bell, Bill Oddie, Boyd Hilton, Charlie Brooker, Charlie Higson, Chris Chibnall, Chris Tarrant, Christopher H Bidmead, Conor McNicholas, David Quantick, Ed Petrie, Emma Freud, Gary Russell, Graham Duff, Hugh Bonneville, Iain Lee, Iain Morris, Ian McMillan, Jacqueline Rayner, Jason Arnopp, James Moran, Jason Flemyng, Jenny Colgan, Jeremy Dyson, Jon[...]