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From Bleeding Cool reporter Joshua Stone: Artists Keith Pollard and Ron Wilson were both honored for their lifetime of work within the comic book industry with the Inkpot Award at the start of the That 70s Panel on Saturday at Comic-Con International (SDCC). Pollard is best known for his simultaneous work on the Marvel Comics titles The[...]

But, now that it's Steve Rogers, we're just going to lie down and let it happen? Here's the thing, this succeeds has character-driven fiction, but it woefully fails as super hero fiction Making every character nigh-unlikable with the exception of a chosen few, namely Hawkeye, Black Widow, the Champions, Tony Stark, Hercules, Ant-Man, and the ones[...]

The next episode of Supergirl has some big things in store… like putting James Olsen in the Guardian armor, introducing Parasite to the series, or some personal changes for Mon-el and Alex Danvers… but if you take a look at the trailer below, it sure seems like they're doing a remake of John Carpenter's The[...]

** Potential Spoilers ** One of the big questions folks have had about the Fantastic Four has been what happened to the scene in the trailer where The Thing drops from an airplane The scene was part of the original script that Josh Trank was working from The idea being that just after the one-year-later jump[...]

Jamie Bell talked with AOL Build about his upcoming turn as Ben Grimm / The Thing in Josh Trank's reboot of the Fantastic Four Bell talks about the great responsibility of taking on such a beloved character and working with actor and mo-cap expert Andy Serkis to get the motion capture aspects of it right. Fantastic[...]

Continuing form yesterday, Fox released this featurette of writer Simon Kinberg and director Josh Trank talking about casting Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm / The Thing Seems Trank has always been a fan of Bell and was just looking for the right project to work with him on. Fantastic Four hits theaters August 7th. #FantasticFour's Simon @Kinberg[...]

By David Dissanayake With their new Image ongoing series Spread, Justin Jordan, Kyle Strahm, and Felipe Sobriero have concocted the most intriguing idea for a horror comic that I've heard in a long time:  Lone Wolf & Cub in an America taken over by John Carpenter's The Thing. Who says simple, "_____ meets _____ by way of[...]

He's never made any bones about the fact that the one thing he wants to do in his lifetime is work on The Fantastic Four, the comic that led to his vow, aged 12, to become a comic book artist. He got a shot at working with on his favorite characters, Ben Grimm as a character[...]

 Over in the film/tv column, a twist on John Carpenter's The Thing and a Doctor Who teaser rounded out the day  And soon some retailers will be doing some realtime trending of their own. Today's Most-Read Comics Stories Hot Comics – The Four Image Contenders They are all new comics from Image[...]