It’s going to happen someday. The host of pulp magazines dwindled away to a last tenacious few (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, for one, is still going); radio dramas disappeared one by one; the final soap operas are slowly being picked off. And eventually the herd of hundreds of serial periodical comic books are going to be thinned out …
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Jim Lee on Drawing Comics and the WildStorm Legacy
Icons: The DC Comics and WildStorm Art of Jim Lee comes out this month–a big coffee-table book surveying Lee’s past two decades as a comics artist. It includes a hefty sampling of his work on Superman, Batman and the various titles Lee created for WildStorm, as well as a new Legion of Super-Heroes story drawn by Lee and written by Paul …
Batman on Broadway? Dark Knight Heads to the Stage
He’s conquered comic books, movies, televisions and even short-lived fad dance crazes, but can the Dark Knight really handle life on the stage? DC Entertainment, Warner Bros and Water Lane Productions have officially announced Batman Live, a touring live production that brings Batman face-to-face with, in the words of the press release, …
The Comic Book Club: Batman & Robin #16 and Strange Tales II #2
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams and Evan Narcisse discuss Grant Morrison’s final issue of Batman & Robin and Strange Tales II #2. WARNING: Bat-spoilers lurk below.
DOUGLAS: The more I think about the Big …
DC Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras On Batman’s New Status Quo (Spoilers)
The end of this week’s issue of Batman and Robin doesn’t just wrap up the five-year storyline that Grant Morrison has been cooking up, bringing back Bruce Wayne from throughout time, explaining who Dr. Hurt is, and restoring order to Gotham City – It also sets up the new status quo in its final pages, as (I’m serious about spoilers, …
The Dark Knight Also Rises For Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan has revealed the title of his third Batman movie, but he’s not so eager to give away what it’s about just yet. Nolan told the LA Times’ Geoff Boucher that the follow-up to The Dark Knight will be called The Dark Knight Rises, and that it will “use many of the same characters as we have all along, and [introduce] some …
Interview: Peter Molyneux Talks Fable III
At about 1:30 in the video below, you’ll notice that Peter Molyneux makes a Batman reference. That’s because Peter Molyneux and I always wind up talking comics. When I first met Molyneux during a press tour for the first Fable, we wound up talking about Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher. And, most recently, he talked about a battle …
Peter J. Tomasi Talks Batman and Robin
Yesterday, we spoke with Tony Daniel about his forthcoming Batman run; today, we’ve got a brief interview with writer Peter J. Tomasi about his forthcoming run on Batman and Robin. Tomasi and artist Patrick Gleason have been the team behind Green Lantern Corps‘ success over the last couple of years. They’ll be taking over with Batman and …
Tony Daniel on Writing and Drawing Batman
Tony Daniel was the main artist on the latter half of the Grant Morrison-written run of Batman, and for most of the last year, he’s been writing and drawing the series. Following a series of special issues around the “Return of Bruce Wayne” event (including a two-part sequel to “Batman R.I.P.” by Morrison and Daniel), he returns to his …
New Art and Screens for Batman: Arkham City
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, we’ve got a look at the hotly-anticipated Bat-sequel due in 2011. The screens below seem to show off some of the new moves and abilities reported elsewhere, including a flying/gliding mechanic and a double takedown.
The lowdown on the game’s plot is that Quincy Sharpe–the asylum …
Origins: Dustin Nguyen
In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we spoke with Dustin Nguyen, one of the most adventurous artists in mainstream comics at the moment. Currently the artist for Batman: Streets of Gotham, he’s also drawn extended runs on Detective Comics and WildC.A.T.S. (He also maintains a …
Blast From the Past: A Little Batman To Go With Your Coffee
A little known film version of Batman has resurfaced on our radar. The Adventures of Little Batman, loosely based off of the 1966 TV series, is one of the most poignant renditions of the beloved comic book. It also helps that little adorable children play all the titular roles.
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