This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss the debut issues of Strange Tales II and Knight & Squire.
DOUGLAS: I enjoyed last year’s incarnation of Strange Tales as an …
The thriller RED opens in movie theaters this Friday; it doesn’t seem to be widely known that it’s based on comic books, and in turn has new comics based on it. The original version of RED was a three-issue miniseries by writer Warren Ellis and artist Cully Hamner, released in 2003-2004. (The initial paperback collection paired it with …
This Wednesday sees the release of Strange Tales II #1–the first of a three-issue miniseries in which various artists from the indie-comics world take on Marvel characters, a sequel to a similar miniseries published last year. Despite the Roman numeral in the new mini’s title, though, Strange Tales has intermittently been around for …
Yesterday afternoon, DC Comics sent out a press release announcing that, as of January, most of their ongoing print-comics series that had crept up to $3.99 an issue will be retreating to a $2.99 price point. An hour or so later, at the ICv2 “Comics and Digital” conference (an industry-only event preceding New York Comic-Con), Marvel’s …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss Deadpool MAX #1 and the new DC Comics Presents project.
DOUGLAS: Unlike a couple of you, I was expecting Deadpool Max to be at least interesting. …
It appears that roughly 2/3 of the people in the comics industry are currently working with 87-year-old superhero godfather Stan Lee on some new project or other, and that all of them are going to be announced at Comic-Con. One of them is “7,” to be published by the new Stan Lee Comics imprint (and debut with an animated video); courtesy …
In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we spoke with Doug Mahnke, who’s currently doing splendid pencil work every month on Green Lantern; his past credits include memorable runs on JLA, Justice League Elite and Superman: The Man of Steel, as well as the visually stunning Final …
This year’s New York Comic Con begins this Friday, October 8, its first year in its new autumnal slot. It’s not quite as overwhelmingly huge as San Diego Comic-Con (maybe half or two-thirds as big, without nearly as much movie-studio presence), but there are still a bunch of panels you’ll want to get there early for–not least Techland’s …
Ted McKeever’s new miniseries is odd enough that it leaves his Eddy Current and Metropol-era work fro the ’80s and ’90s eating dust, oddness-wise, which is saying something. The third issue, which comes out next Wednesday, continues to follow the exploits of lost astronaut Bzoma and the mighty, pictoglyph-speaking Gasolina across the …
After months of hedging, speculation and delays, Comic-Con International has announced the plan for the show’s long-anticipated potential move after 2012: it’s staying put in San Diego and its convention center (and bits of the convention center’s neighboring hotels) until at least 2015, rather than moving to either Los Angeles or …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss You’ll Never Know: Collateral Damage and Action Comics #893.
DOUGLAS: The first volume of You’ll Never Know, Carol Tyler’s projected three-volume …
In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we spoke with Nicola Scott, the Australian artist who’s best known for her work with Gail Simone on Secret Six and Birds of Prey, and who debuts as Teen Titans‘ penciller next month.
TECHLAND: What was the first comic book you ever read? What …
