Besides his career as an actor and comedian, Patton Oswalt has written a handful of comic books. His latest, coming out later this year, will be a Serenity one-shot, drawn by Patric Reynolds, focusing on Alan Tudyk’s character Wash from Joss Whedon’s space western. (The image you’re seeing below is the public debut of Frank Stockton’s …
This morning, DC announced that J. Michael Straczynski would be writing Superman and Wonder Woman beginning in July, with issues #701 and #601, respectively (apparently preceded by previews in June’s anniversary issues). That’s now been followed by a kind of statement of purpose by Straczynski, which amounts to “here’s why I love …
Jason Shiga’s artwork is as precisely functional as a mathematical proof: it communicates what’s happening in his comics clearly, it’s funny, and that’s about all that can be said for it. But he’s an excellent, very funny, enormously original, and wildly peculiar cartoonist–American comics’ equivalent of bands like the Raincoats and …
There’s a touch of silver in the solicitations for the next few months’ superhero comics–a hint that both DC and Marvel are trying to recapture the tone of the so-called Silver Age, the era from the late ’50s to the early ’70s when both franchises laid the groundwork for what they’ve been doing ever since. Nobody’s let anything …
The direct-to-DVD animated feature Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths comes out today. It’s written by former Justice League of America writer Dwayne McDuffie, and features a bunch of plot points–and Easter eggs–that allude to comics of the past.
Here’s a guide to some of the movie’s source material:
Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s miniseries Kick-Ass is, as the cover of the collected edition that came out this week indicates, “now a major motion picture”–or will be when the movie opens in April. Like Millar’s earlier Wanted, the comic book is written like an action movie, right down to the Bondian smart-ass wisecracks its …
This morning, it was announced that DC Entertainment’s new president Diane Nelson had named Dan DiDio and Jim Lee as DC Comics’ co-publishers, and Geoff Johns as Chief Creative Officer. TECHLAND spoke to the three new appointees about what comes next for DC.
So Jim and Geoff: are you going to be moving to New York?
JIM LEE: I …
This morning, DC Entertainment named Jim Lee and Dan DiDio as the new co-publishers of DC Comics, and Geoff Johns as Chief Creative Officer (a new position)–all three of them longtime company insiders. Here’s a few thoughts about what their new roles might mean.
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Imagine for a moment that the U.S. was involved in an endless, morally dubious war that had hammered away at a major city. Imagine that that city was perpetually trying to rebuild itself even as internal violence and insurgencies ripped at its seams, and as a private security contractor employed by the American government largely did as …
The Question #37 came out this week–the first issue of that series to be published in twenty years. It’s the last of the one-off revivals DC’s been publishing over the past month as tie-ins with their Blackest Night event. This one, though, is special: it actually is effectively a new issue of the odd, intense little series whose …
Sometime in the late ’80s, master hacker Kevin Phenicle, a.k.a. “Boingthump,” went underground. For a few years, until the law caught up with him, he drifted around the country, constantly changing his appearance, creating new identities for himself, and making money by rigging radio station call-in contests. That’s the story covered by …
