My first association with Star Wars is nearsightedness. I came to it a little bit late; I’ve never been a big movie person, and I was probably too young to see the original movie when it came out. By the spring of 1978, though, I’d heard so much about it–through my schoolmates, but also thanks to my obsession with Pizzazz magazine–that …
One of the highlights of Comic-Con, as far as we’re concerned, was the Sunday-morning “Techland Presents: Comics and Digital Piracy” panel, featuring comiXology’s CEO David Steinberger, manga expert Deb Aoki, and manga editor Jake T. Forbes, with Techland’s Douglas Wolk moderating. Aoki has posted a transcript of the entire panel over at …
DC Comics announced yesterday that the single-named artist Jock–best known for drawing The Losers–would be joining writer Scott Snyder as the creative team on Detective Comics as of November. We spoke briefly with Snyder at Comic-Con (before the Jock announcement had been made public) about what will be coming up for Batman in …
Of all the thousands of covers of John Williams’ main title theme from “Star Wars” floating around on YouTube, perhaps the most impressively elaborate is the a cappella group Moosebutter’s split-screen vocalese rendition, subtitled “John Williams Is the Man”:
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And yet, somehow, …
There have been rumors floating around for a few weeks that Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman’s long-out-of-print Marvelman/Miracleman comics are either closer to republication than they’ve been in a while, or further away. (Arguably, the recent kerfuffle over the “Medieval Spawn” case is just the latest set of aftershocks from the Marvelman …
Those who have been lamenting the end of John Ostrander and Jan Duursema’s Star Wars: Legacy comics series with this month’s #50 need rend their garments no longer: MTV’s Splash Page has reported that Ostrander and Duursema are preparing a follow-up six-issue miniseries, Star Wars: Legacy–War. Duursema claims that they’ve conceived of …
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 and Graeme McMillan discuss Deadpool #1000 and Daredevil: Black and White.
DOUGLAS: I confess that I don’t entirely understand why Deadpool’s sizeable cult thinks he’s …
Welcome to the conclusion of the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. We’ve been reading each volume of the series over the course of six weeks. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams, Evan Narcisse, Lev Grossman and Christine Lim are talking about volume 6, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour. (And read our comments on volume 1 here! And …
Hundreds of comics creators were showing off their work at Comic-Con International. We caught up with a handful of them to talk about their small-press projects, both new and still-in-the-works. In order of appearance: Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie), Cecil Castellucci (Odd Duck), Jacen Burrows (Neonomicon), Thomas Zahler (Love and Capes), …
I’m not going to deny it: I had an absolutely great time at this year’s Comic-Con. I saw some fascinating panels (and moderated a few), I found some books I’ve been looking for forever, I bought some fantastic original art, and I was convinced, contra Lev’s essay, that nerd culture is the healthiest it’s ever been, both in numbers and in …
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, Graeme McMillan and Lev Grossman discuss Wonder Woman #601 and Action Comics #891.
DOUGLAS: Wonder Woman #601 is J. Michael Straczynski’s first full issue, and at the end of …
Welcome back to the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. We’re psyching ourselves up for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (out now!) and the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World movie (due out August 13) by discussing each volume of the series over the course of six weeks. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams, Evan …
