There’s a little trend in comics blogs that’s turned up over the past few months: Tumblrs devoted to a specific creator’s work, reprinting a single panel or a single page at a time, out of their original context. A Moment of Moore, one of the more prominent ones, is dedicated to Alan Moore’s work. Whoever’s [...]
Marvel Entertainment has been dealt a blow in the ongoing legal battle with the estate of Jack Kirby over the ownership of 45 of the company’s most popular (and lucrative) characters – and Disney has been told that it’s involved, whether it likes it or not.
It appears that the Invisible Woman is on Death Row again. Marvel’s been making a fairly big deal out of Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting’s forthcoming Fantastic Four story arc “Three,” in which one of the long-running superhero team will die for realsies, and they’ve been understandably hush-hush about which one. This week’s Fantastic Four [...]
The creators behind the classic Marvels (as well as similarly wonderful Astro City) have announced that they’re reteaming to honor lesser known characters created by Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby with a brand new series, Kirby: Genesis.
In a move sure to surprise no-one, the Walt Disney Company have gotten involved in the ongoing legal battle between the heirs of Jack Kirby and recent Disney purchase Marvel Entertainment over the rights to the many characters that Kirby created for the publisher, including the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk and many more.
“The Losers,” Sylvain White’s movie about a Special Forces team that sets out for revenge on a betrayer who thinks they’re dead, opens this Friday. The movie is based on a comics series that ran from 2003 to 2006–but its roots actually go all the way back to the ’50s… sort of. Here’s the scoop.
