SDCC: Vertigo Crime Panel.
I am ridiculously fired up over what comes out through the new Crime Line series of books from DC/Vertigo Comics. Shepherded in by Will Dennis, Kiel Phegley at Comic Book Resources gives us a great outlook of what to expect. Karen Berger [VP of Editorial introduced panelists Jason Starr, Peter Gross, Jeff Lemire, Chris Gage, [...]
Friday roundup of news from Day 1 at SDCC.
I’ll admit I’m intrigued with Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet film, Topless Robot featured the above picture of the Black Beauty, the Green Hornet’s car that drives around accompanied by annoying buzzing sound. The car looks awesome regardless. A lot of weird and unexplained bits of news have shown up from the very first day of [...]
The Daily Planet Presents: Thursday Walk of Shame #2 with Jeff Ayers and Dave Press.
Good evening one and all, and welcome to our second installment of the Thursday Walk of Shame. I am Dave Press, this week we discuss my ridiculous obsession with Deadpool, “Coraline”, “Immortal Weapons #1″ and “Dethklok vs The Goon.” So without further ado, let’s do this thing: *** DAVE: I have this obsession lately, and [...]
SDCC: Matt Fraction is all things “Iron Man”.
That is certainly a good thing. From consulting on the “Iron Man 2″ movie, to being nominated for an Eisner for his work on “Invincible Iron Man” it now surfaces that Matt Fraction is writing the video game version of Jon Favreau’s film. The trailer premiered at Comic Con. Along with this bit of news, [...]
Google celebrates Comic Con.
Make it around Google today? No? Then answer me this: how do you NOT make use of Google over the course of the day? Well, whatever. In celebration of Comic Con, they’ve produced a number of great iGoogle themes for your use. There’s the Vertigo one that I’m using, then there some really awesome ones [...]
REVIEW: Richard Stark’s “The Hunter” adapted by Darwyn Cooke.
When this book was first announced at Comic Con International last summer I nearly flipped at this idea. When I got the book in my hands six weeks before the release I flipped again. If you’re expecting the bright colors and sharp superhero designs that came along with Cooke’s “The New Frontier” and “The Spirit” [...]
Not going to Comic Con? Hang with us.
John Parker had a great little piece over at Comics Alliance yesterday regarding solutions to those of us not going to Comic Con, and Mark Batty Publishing‘s own Adri Cowan and I went ahead and ran with it. ARRANGE A NERD PROM OF YOUR OWN Why not? Get in touch with the folks at the [...]
Going to Comic Con? Here are some tips.
io9′s Graeme McMillan has done this thing for years: steps to surviving Comic Con. Frankly it would be presumptuous for me to tell you how to survive the convention, considering I’ve never gone and I’m not going this year. However, that does not mean that I won’t be bringing you highlights from the con as [...]
“Prince of Persia” graphic novel announced and other odds and ends.
Yet another graphic novel tie-in to a movie with an all star cast of artists attached. I swear, this is too good to be true. Heidi over at the Beat says, Cameron Stewart (“Seaguy”), Tommy Lee Edwards (“Marvel 1985″), Nico Henrichon (“Pride of Baghdad”) will collaborate with writer Jordan Mechner to bring the Jake Gyllenhaal [...]
Tuesday Morning Cartoons.
Marvel and DC Comics have released their latest animation endeavors with the “Spider-Woman” motion comic, and the first four minutes of “Green Lantern: First Flight”. We would embed the clips to the body of this article, but they’ve crashed my browser four times since this morning. So, apologies. The Spider-Woman “motion comic” which still just [...]
The Monday Wrap-up.
Little tidbits of news popped up over the course of the day, including more photographs from the first episode of Matt Smith as the new Doctor Who. Probably my favorite line of the day regarding the outfit change is from Tom Peyer, saying he’s the new Tucker Carlson. I was rolling on the floor laughing [...]
“Jennifer’s Body” Graphic Novel announced.
Shocktillyoudrop.com has an exclusive preview of the comic adaptation of Diablo Cody’s next film starring Megan Fox, “Jennifer’s Body.” Published by Boom! Studios, the book will be written by Rick Spears (Black Metal) and drawn by an all-star cast including Jim Mahfood, Nikki Cook, Tim Seely, and Ming Doyle. I kind of roll my eyes [...]
Happy Anniversary, Moon Landing!
“Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.” — Buzz Aldrin And to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the original Moonwalk Dancers. And to Mankind. If you’ve ever visited the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum you’ll have seen artifacts [...]
DC Comics Writers Consulting on Warner Films.
An interesting piece from the Hollywood Reporter creeped up yesterday, and it seems like no one has written a thing about it. Apparently, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, and Marv Wolfman have been hired by Warner studios to consult on the film properties of DC characters they’ve written. Levitz and DC’s Los Angeles-based film exec Gregory [...]
New “Doctor Who” outfit revealed.
Like I’ve mentioned before I’m a huge fan of “Doctor Who.” So when they announced that someone two years younger than me will be taking over the role from David Tennant, I was curiously cautious. I found this story via “Phonogram” artist Jamie McKelvie, who twittered the BBC News story that included the above photograph. [...]
