Originally the Marvel podcast toldja. Then Bleeding Cool toldja. Yesteray, Jude Terror toldja. And now Marvel.com have toldja. The teased project with Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross and Yildiray Cinar is, as we said, The Marvels. And, as we toldja, is described by writer Kurt Busiek as "Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime." Busiek continues, The whole idea of […]
Marvel Comics has teased a new series launching in May from Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, and Yildiray Cinar, dubbed "the most ambitious series ever to hit the Marvel Universe." The house of ideas promised to reveal the details next week. But Bleeding Cool already has them. The most ambitious series to ever hit the Marvel […]
A couple of months ago, Bleeding Cool scooped the news about a new series being curated by Alex Ross called Marvel Anthology. That Ross would draw the first episode and would write subsequent issues for others to draw or paint. Then last month while Kurt Busiek was guesting on the Marvel podcast he talked about the […]
A couple of weeks ago, Bleeding Cool scooped the news about a new series being curated by Alex Ross called Marvel Anthology. That Ross would draw the first episode and would write subsequent issues for others to draw or paint. While Kurt Busiek was guesting on the Marvel podcast (below) he talked about the Marvels […]
Batman Creature Of The Night is a prestige mini-series that has been a long time coming from Kurt Busiek and John Paul Leon. The first issue came out in late November 2017, intended to be a companion piece to Batman: Secret Identity. Young Bruce Wainwright lost his parents in a violent crime…and in the real world, no superheroes exist to save […]
Marvel has added some new classic comics to Marvel Unlimited this week, ones which weren't advertised in their February press release. Included are issues #2-9 of Venus, the 1948 Timely series which ran for 19 issues. Marvel was apparently spotty with their credits at that time. None of the issues have the creators credited on […]
Face front, true believers! Marvel Comics is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross's Marvels in the only way they know how: with a @#$%load of variant covers, baby! We already knew about Alex Ross's Marvels 25th Anniversary variants launching in January, as well as the February release of Marvels Annotated, which […]
It isn't just new Conan comics and Marvel's own classic comics that the publisher will be bringing to comic racks in the coming months. A new press release from the House of Ideas highlights a new idea: collecting the Conan comics Dark Horse published while they held the license, beginning with Kurt Busiek and Cary […]
We always love it when Mark Millar rewrites history. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he recalls the origin of his Ultimates series with Brian Hitch. Brian and I pretty much ran the Ultimate line ourselves. He did Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, I did X-Men and Ultimates. It's funny to look back on now, but […]
FremantleMedia North America is going from flawed gods to all-too-human heroes, with the American Gods producer having acquired the rights to develop writer Kurt Busiek and artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross's superhero comic book series Astro City as a live-action television series. Busiek and Rick Alexander will pen the pilot; and executive produce alongside […]
The DC solicitations will be out soon, but writer Kurt Busiek gave fans a sneak peak when it comes to Astro City, his creator-owned Vertigo series with Brent Anderson and Alex Ross. According to Busiek, April's Astro City #52 will be the final issue of Astro City as a monthly series. Over a hundred issues of […]
In February, DC is publishing a new trade paperback called Wonder Woman: Forgotten Legends, which collects, amongst other things, the 4 issue Legends of Wonder Woman comic from Trina Robbins and Kurt Busiek. The collection includes a story from 1989's Wonder Woman Annual #2, Play Like, by Robbins and Lee Marrs, and Wonder Woman #318 by […]
After looking through the comments and past the people who took umbrage with the fact that I admitted my favorite comic books series wasn't perfect, I got the feeling that many in the comments wanted me to talk about Fabian Nicieza, Kurt Busiek, and Tom Grummett's New Thunderbolts series from 2004. That's fine, because, when […]
DC has finally set a release date for Batman: Creature of the Night by Kurt Busiek and John Paul Leon, a comic which was in the works as far back as 2010. Despite the title, the comic isn't about Batman becoming a member of KISS. The book is billed as a thematic sequel to Superman: Secret […]
At last, I am getting around to devoting a series of op-ed/retro review pieces to my all-time favorite comic book series, Thunderbolts. And what better place to start than the beginning, when the Thunderbolts were created by industry veterans, Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley. First appearing in Incredible Hulk #449, the Thunderbolts were a mysterious […]
Jim Zub, Jon Malin, and Matt Yackey's Thunderbolts is one of the best comics to come out in recent years. There, I said it. It's the truth. Here we have a comic that perfectly balanced character and action, perfectly understood the characters and the spirit of the team, and had some of the most endearing […]
Last night, comics veteran Kurt Busiek entered a number of Twitter exchanges with followers over the characters of Superman and Batman. The idea was pretty straightforward: he wanted a relationship between Big Blue and the Caped Crusader that showed camaraderie and fun. When someone asked if he was suggesting that Superman and Batman do something […]
The Rocketeer: High Flying Adventures doesn't waste any time in dropping the reader right into the action. We open with Betty rightfully scolding Cliff for being late to rescue her, and Cliff doing what he does best: winging it. The Rocketeer is one of my personal favorite comic book characters. The old-school, beat-'em-up hero and […]
Not entirely sure how this one started. Maybe people started talking about DC's Creator Development Program again, or maybe one creator decided to share and then all the others jumped on. Maybe people just got bored and all had the same idea. At any rate, twitter is awash at the moment with various comic creators, […]
Back in the beginning of June I had the pleasure of sitting next to Kurt Busiek while attending the Phoenix Comic Con. I hadn't met him previously, but really enjoyed talking with him over the weekend. He turned me on to his Image comic series The Autumnlands that he's doing with artist Benjamin Dewey and […]
