Comic book convention season officially opens today, with the beginning of Emerald City ComiCon in Seattle. Between now and the middle of October, a whle lot of people in the American comics industry will be crisscrossing the country on a regular basis, digging through their pockets to come up with big announcements for every show, [...]
Dwayne McDuffie, the comics and animation writer, editor and producer who died this week following complications from surgery, wasn’t a particularly flashy writer: His aesthetic was to get out of the way of the way of the story. But he was a forward-thinking creator, and he quietly wrote a stack of comics and animated TV [...]
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about Fantastic Four #588 and Avengers #10.
The comics and animation worlds are in shock today with the news that writer and producer Dwayne McDuffie has died from complications following a surgical procedure on Monday evening.
The All-Star Superman movie comes out today: a 75-minute, PG-rated, direct-to-video animated feature, based on the celebrated Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely miniseries from a few years back, and starring James Denton as Superman and Clark Kent, and Christina Hendricks as Lois Lane. Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan–the reviewers from Techland’s Comic Book Club–reviewed it, [...]
Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma’s series Morning Glories is one of the very few American comic books in its category right now: an ongoing, creator-owned series, in the conventional color-pamplet format, with sizeable buzz and sales figures, that doesn’t quite belong to any established comics genre. It’s about a group of six promising 16-year-olds who’ve [...]
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about the first issues of Jennifer Blood and Silver Surfer, as well as Amazing Spider-Man #654.1.
Long before Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter heroically took on IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy! to defend the honor of humanity against the vanguard of the inevitable robot uprising, comic book superheroes were battling evil computers and robots, and handing those metallic jerks their mechanical back panels. Here are five of the more memorable matches.
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds comes out tomorrow in North America for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Some of the Marvel Comics characters in the console fighting game are fairly big names: we assume Spider-Man and the Hulk don’t need much of an introduction. But other playable Marvel characters may not be [...]
Osborn #3 arrived this week with no particular fanfare: the middle episode of a five-issue miniseries that spins out of Amazing Spider-Man, it’s the kind of secondary superhero comic book that doesn’t tend to get a lot of attention. Still, it’s one of the most entertaining comics of the week, a tightly condensed, intensely creepy [...]
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about the first issues of Love & Capes: Ever After and Power Man and Iron Fist.
