Were you dissatisfied with Duke Jobs’ answers on Friday? Well we’ve got some soothing new comics balm for that itchy Apple burn. Industry wide problem indeed! We are aware of a get together in San Diego this week. We read some blogs. We will be there. Covering. (FYI, Scott Pilgrim vol. 6 drops tomorrow 7/20.)
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An evil Vader-like Jobs defeats Bill Gates in a light saber duel before force choking the daylight out of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen and brainwashing consumers into being tethered to AT&T. Happy Monday, everybody.
Yes, the world finally got to behold Inception this weekend, so now I can loop you all into the same debate that I’ve been having with other critics for the last month.
First things first: Tons of spoilers here. Stop reading if you don’t want it all ruined. And feel free to post a comment simply with your reaction – I would so …
Let’s start this post off with a personal note: I’ve been hankering for some Geoff Darrow art since I don’t know when. I first encountered his mind-blowing art in the ‘90s on Hard-Boiled, a sci-fi noir collaboration with Frank Miller. Ever since then, I went on to pick up Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (another partnership with …
If new rumors are to be believed, David Tennant has been beaten to the title of “The Doctor Who That Made It Big In Hollywood.” I mean, I’m sure he’ll be great in the Fright Night remake and all, but it really doesn’t measure up to the possibility that Sylvester McCoy has already been cast in the upcoming two-movie adaptation of The …
Turns out geekiness is so not next to Godliness, or so says the Westboro Baptist Church.
The church will be protesting outside of this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego next week in an attempt to stop the nation’s nerds from worshiping superheros. (Because that’s what we do, apparently.) Led by Reverend Fred Phelps, the congregation will …
If there’s one thing that every kid who owned Transformers toys in the 1980s can agree on, it’s this: The packaging art always looked cooler than the toys. Whether it was the fact that the illustration of Optimus Prime didn’t have skinny arms or legs that broke ridiculously easily (Yes, it still annoys me, dammit!) or just seeing a …
Just about every comics creator I’ve talked to recently has been thinking, at least a little, about how mobile digital technology is going to affect their work. For anyone who’s going to be at Comic-Con International next week, I’m going to be moderating a panel on “Comics After Paper” on Saturday the 24th, with creators Dylan Meconis, …
So, it’s official: Kevin Bacon will be the bad guy in Fox’s mutant reboot, X-Men: First Class. But what bad guy will he be? Fox are keeping things remarkably secret right now, which is probably either a sign that it’ll blow our minds, it’ll be someone so ridiculously lame that we won’t care, or it hasn’t been decided yet (My money’s on …
The hugely successful Assassins’ Creed franchise has been a huge hit on game consoles, with its mix of stealth, strategy and visceral combat. Part of what work in the series has been the ability to place its fiction in a myriad of historical time period. The first game had players controlling Altair in medieval Jerusalem and last …
In 2003, Max Brooks published The Zombie Survival Guide ($10, Amazon) in an original run of just 17,000 copies. No one really expected he could sell that many, let alone did they ever dream it would become a best seller – not a book about how to survive a zombie attack. Oh, how glad we are they were all wrong.
Brooks recently …
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 the second issue of X-Men: Second Coming, Superman #701 and Darwyn Cooke’s one-shot The Man with the Getaway Face.
DOUGLAS: I came …