In the Rear With the Gear
To answer a question many of you have asked already, I will not be attending San Diego Comic-Con this year, my immediate duties for Forbidden Planet keeping me in New York City. The interwebs with their bloggyreports and Twitterbooks can keep you up to speed with all the minute by minute updates ad nauseam. I [...]
Eisner Award Nominations 2010
This year’s Eisner Award nominations have been announced. Presented at a gala event during San Diego Comic-Con in July, the Awards are named after Will Eisner and are voted on by comics creators, editors, publishers, and retailers. For more information on the Awards and their history please visit Comic-Con’s Eisner Awards FAQs. (Note: links to [...]
Hey, check out some grainy footage from Iron Man 2 and Kick-Ass.
Over the weekend, grainy footage from the Kick-Ass and Iron Man 2 panels at SDCC wound up on the Internet. The Iron Man 2 footage, which was sweded by a couple of budding fanboys, showed Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) giving it to Gary Shandling which was quite hilarious. The Kick-Ass footage, however, I don’t [...]
Things we want from Comic Con.
A lot of cool things spun out of Comic Con, but given that we recommended you go shopping on Sunday, here are a few things we would love to pick up. Booster Gold fan club t-shirt [pictured above]. It looks like this was a giveaway at the con, and if that is so, that’s quite [...]
Fans Swede “Iron Man 2″ footage, Be Kind Rewind Style.
So some fans “Be Kind Rewind” ‘d the “Iron Man 2″ footage from Comic Con, because the studio hadn’t released the clip yet. And we echo what Topless Robot had to say on this topic: I’d also like to ask why on god’s green earth these studios don’t release the actual footage after showing it [...]
Captain Jack as Captain America?
At the Torchwood panel at the San Diego Comic Con this weekend (let’s face it: we’ll be talking about it all week) a fan asked John Barrowman a boring question: what other roles he’d like to play. This is what Captain Jack Harkness had to say: “You know what I want to play? Captain America,” [...]
SDCC: American Original Panel discusses creators.
At San Diego Comic Con, Jeff Katz announced creators behind his comedy anthology book “Comedy Death Ray,” and the first film to come out of the comic book and film production house. Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, B.J. Novak, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Scheer and Zach Galifianakis are among some of the first [...]
SDCC: David Tennant “sorry” for the end of “Doctor Who.”
At the San Diego Comic Con, people expected that Russell T. Davies would announce a “Doctor Who” movie starring David Tennant, but we would get nothing of the sort. Instead, what audience members got were trailers for the final three episodes of Tennant’s run as the Time Lord. And apparently, he’s sorry: I think he [...]
SDCC: Eisner Award Winners.
Last night the Eisner Awards were hosted and virtually everyone covered it. Below is a list of all the winners. Best Publication for Kids * Amulet, Book 1: The Stonekeeper, by Kazu Kibuishi (Scholastic Graphix) * Cowa! by Akira Toriyama (Viz) * Princess at Midnight, by Andi Watson (Image) * Stinky, by Eleanor Davis (RAW [...]
SDCC: “Choker” announced.
Man, have I been waiting with baited breath for this announcement for what seems like forever. Well, almost a year, really. Yesterday, the Bens, (those being Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith) announced they will be bringing “Choker” to Image Comics. Ben (McCool) has to be one of the most creative and likable guys I know [...]
News from Day 2 of SDCC.
I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck, and I didn’t go out last night, but it seems across the country the party was raging all night. I guess Daughtry performed at the Wrath of Con party last night, which seemed like quite the event. Regardless, yesterday we had the Eisners, Marvelman, and quite [...]
SDCC: Marvelman belongs to Marvel.
So that super secret thing that Rich Johnston alluded to that was going to be announced at Marvel’s Cup O’Joe panel? Well that thing is the company has bought the rights to Marvelman. “It is an honor to work with Mick Anglo to bring his creation to a larger audience than ever before,” said Dan [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]