Yesterday, DC Entertainment announced that its comics division’s new editor-in-chief was Bob Harras. A couple of things immediately seemed curious about that appointment. One was that DC hadn’t actually had an editor-in-chief since Jenette Kahn (who held the position for 22 years) left in 2002. The other is that Harras has already been …
Marvel’s editor-in-chief Joe Quesada has let it be known that upcoming plans for Marvel Entertainment are likely to include some kind of live-action TV series. This isn’t Marvel’s first stab at television, of course: for more than 35 years, they’ve been trying to get their comics the kind of promotion that the small screen can offer. A …
Dark Horse Comics has relaunched a handful of the old Gold Key Comics titles in the past few months, including Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom. This new version is written by Jim Shooter, the comics-industry vet who previously revived Solar in the ’90s as part of the Valiant Comics line. Courtesy of Dark Horse, we’ve got an exclusive …
“The most important panel in a Marvel comic this year,” last week’s Marvel T&A discussion with senior editors Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso informed us, was the one you see excerpted above: the top half of a two-page spread in Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr.’s newly released Avengers #5. There’s not much actually happening in it: …
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, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss Thor #615.
DOUGLAS: I’m not sure what I expected Matt Fraction and Pasqual Ferry’s first issue of Thor to be like, I’m pretty sure this wasn’t it, and I …
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 …
This morning, DC Comics announced its long-rumored move to the West Coast–or, rather, that that move wasn’t quite as drastic as it had been rumored to be. DC Entertainment’s digital and other non-print media operations are moving out to Burbank, to be closer to the Warner Bros. mothership; the comics publishing division is hunkering …
The latest in a string of all-star comics anthologies to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, The CBLDF Presents Liberty Annual 2010 comes out October 6. Here’s an exclusive preview of a handful of pages from it, courtesy of Image Comics, including artwork by Paul Guinan (Boilerplate), Skottie Young, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, …
When it comes to the profusion of comics and the ever-expanding bulk of Previews, I am generally a “let a hundred flowers bloom” kind of guy; I’m very happy that American comics have reached the point where there are so many different kinds of publications for so many different kinds of readers. But every explosion is followed by an …
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, Evan Narcisse, Mike Williams, Lev Grossman and Graeme McMillan discuss Love & Rockets: New Stories, vol. 3 and X-23 #1.
LEV: I read the first story [in Love & Rockets: New Stories vol. 3]. I WANT TO …
Proving once again that there is no piece of comic-book intellectual property so minor that somebody won’t bank on nostalgia for it, Ardden Entertainment has announced that they’ll be relaunching the mid-’70s Atlas Comics line at this year’s New York Comic-Con.
The original Atlas/Seaboard didn’t last very long: it was launched in …
Two of the best independent English-language comics publishers have sales going on this week: Top Shelf has over 100 of their titles on sale, many for $3 or less, and Drawn & Quarterly is discounting nearly everything in their catalogue by at least 30%. Here are five killer deals on excellent books from each publisher.
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