TRY SOMETHING NEW Chapter 5: Rebel Spaceships, Striking From a Hidden Base
I feel like I have been doing this column long enough now that you all must be dying for a behind the scenes peek at how the magic happens. It all starts around 1:30 AM on Sunday night/Monday morning. That’s around 4 hours after I am supposed to have emailed this in to Tyler, our [...]
The Beginning Is Nigh
There is only one significant comic book being released this week, and the title is Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1. What, why and how is this a fact? Here we go: WHO IS RORSCHACH? Walter Kovacs, a.k.a. Rorschach is the stand out crime fighter from the ensemble cast that is Alan Moore’s Watchmen. As the unloved [...]
Percent of a Watchman
Statistics is fun, let’s try some. 100% of you are reading this sentence….see how that works? 75% of those reading this sentence comprise 3/4ths of my readership. 12% are dying for a drop of 100 proof, which is to say 50% alcohol by volume, meaning that 12% want 50% percent while 88% could care two [...]
Playboy previews Vertigo Crime Comics out this week.
With books like “Criminal” and Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of a Richard Stark novel, and Jason Aaron’s “Scalped” Vertigo Comics is starting to produce their own crime line of comics. Announced at SDCC, the Crime Line will feature works from Ian Rankin, Brian Azzarello,and Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. Playboy has an online feature previewing the [...]
Azzarello talks Doc Savage.
With comics version of “The Wire” sadly over in the form of “100 Bullets”, Brian Azzarello has been keeping busy. With a weekly installment of Batman comics in Wednesday Comics, and coming out this week an installment to Vertigo’s Crime Line, titled “Filthy Rich”. Coming in November he’s going to re-introduce Doc Savage to comics. [...]
Roundup of news from Chicago Comic Con.
This weekend was Chicago Comic Con, and even though all of the major publishers declined to participate. Wizard Talking Head Gareb Shamus still expected record attendance and said they were committed to the location and “As far as I’m concerned, we’ll be there forever.” Even though no one had a presence on the Con floor, [...]
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, [...]
News roundup from WW Philly and HeroesCon.
Last weekend, there was quite a bit of news coming out of Philadelphia and Charlotte, and this wouldn’t be much of a news site if we didn’t give you SOME idea of what happened. The big news spinning out of HeroesCon was Longbox, essentially an iTunes for comics. The brainchild of “Comic Book Tattoo” editor [...]