robocop Archives

Saturday Trending Topics: We've Got The Future Under Control
We just got our first glimpse of the look and feel of the new Robocop film, and they're setting the right tone, I think Looking forward to what else we might see on this next week: The URL Omnicorp.com has come to life, bringing us lots of titanium-plated, servo-motored fun I ran a Who Is check[...]
SPOILER: Batman #8 And Nightwing #8
You remember that scene, when returning to fight the Mutant gang, Batman basically turns up in a fucking tank? Well, trapped by the Talons in his own mansion, Bruce Wayne does something equally as glorious. He cosplays as Robocop. Okay, this is from the ten page back up strip, and the artists interpretation of it here, is different[...]
Extended Robocop #4 Preview, And Other Dynamite Bits And Bobs
Here's an extended preview of Robocop #4, out today, as well as other Dynamite titles following in its wake… ROBOCOP: ROAD TRIP #4  32 pages FC • $3.99 • Mature Written by ROB WILLIAMS Art by UNAI DE ZARATE Cover by FABIANO NEVES Robocop and what's left of the Old Detroit Police Department have been rescued from Lake Erie but what[...]
Frank Miller Vs Alex Cox On OWS… And Robocop
I was asked to direct his script for ROBOCOP 2, and turned it down Unlike the original ROBOCOP, which trod a path between right wing politics and left wing irony, Miller's script was reactionary and obnoxious, pitting its robot police hero against homeless people No wonder he is so popular with[...]
A Road Trip With Robocop (And A Little Ennis On The Side)
Dynamite are launching a new Robocop series in December, Robocop:Road Trip I'm envisioning Robocop at the wheel and a large cybernetic orang utan leaning out of the window flipping OCP the bird Written by Rob Williams, drawn by Unai, cover bu Fabiano Neves. Also in December, a couple of Garth Ennis-written books (that Butcher cover looks[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Do Michigan Authorities Fear Comics?
First Robocop, now this No sooner do we hear that a small tourist town in Michigan has arrested Batman, then comes word that Michigan state police have handled a Thor movie press kit as a possible bomb  Better safe than sorry in such situations, to be sure  But early this year there were rumors[...]
Sunday Runaround: Superman Red & Superman Blue. Also: Brilliant
Plus a touch of Robocop and other tidbits from the world outside Chicago Let's get to it: C2E2 2011: Bendis and Bagley on Their BRILLIANT Creator-Owned Debut The two creators are certainly familiar with each other — they collaborated on 111 issues of Ultimate Spider-Man together from 2000 to 2007, breaking Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Marvel[...]
Robocop Redux
While Brendon gets progressively more ill, Michael Moran writes for Bleeding Cool: Hard on the metal-encased heels of the news that a statue of the cyborg crimefighter is to be erected in Detroit, news reaches us that Robocop will also be returning to the cinema. Paul Verhoeven's darkly satirical 1987 movie spawned a brace of more[...]
Internet Runaround
UPDATE: He has been found not guilty. Newsarama tells us about the return of Robocop at Dynamite Will they publish Nick Locking's missing story? And, oh yes, Newsarama also have the Amazing Spider-Man seventies cover variant featuring President Richard Nixon and an afro Spidey If only they'd actually done that back then. CBR runs interviews with X-Force's[...]