The creators behind the classic Marvels series (as well as similarly wonderful Astro City) have announced that they’re re-teaming to honor lesser known characters created by Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby with a brand new comic, Kirby: Genesis.
Focusing on Kirby’s latter, …
The Plain Dealer is reporting that Harvey Pekar, their own local comics legend, was found dead this morning.
Pekar became famous for spinning mundane moments from his own ordinary life into his American Splendor comic, which featured hypnotic portraits of his neuroses and curmudgeonliness illustrated by some of comics’ brightest …
Slash Film compiled a nice little roundup of photos from Michael Bay’s newest Transformers film, showing shots of a battered urban landscape, stars Shia LeBueof, Tyresse Gibson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and more destroyed vehicles than you can shake a stick at. Last month, Bay promised he’d ditch the dorky comedy and concentrate on …
Breathe easy dear readers. Comics will return to Wednesday delivery this week. Here the full list of single issues hitting your local comic shop. Be sure to check back later in the week for our featured pull list, the comic book club, panel of the week, and our continued coverage of Scott Pilgrim. You’re welcome!
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Over the past few years, Matt Kindt has written and drawn a series of intriguing, ambitious graphic novels that combine genre-story premises (he’s particularly fond of World War II-era spy stories) with ingenious comics-formalist gestures and clever design. Revolver, out later this week from Vertigo, isn’t about espionage, but it’s a …
When Titans Clash…! Except this time, those titans are Marvel Entertainment and Ed Norton, arguing over why the latter won’t be reprising the role of Bruce Banner in the Avengers movie. The news broke as a rumor on Friday evening, and was quickly confirmed by Marvel Studios the next day, with studio president releasing this …
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 the first issues of Neal Adams’ Batman: Odyssey and Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s Scarlet.
DOUGLAS: I’ll say this for Batman: Odyssey: it …
By now, you’ve seen our exclusive clip from tonight’s premiere of the new season of Syfy’s Eureka, and may be thinking “That looks great! But I’ve never seen Eureka before. Can I just start watching tonight, or do I need to know things first?” Don’t worry about such things – The answers are right here for you.
So Eureka Is… : A …
Rumors are flying that Chris Columbus – the man who brought both Harry Potter and Home Alone to the big screen – may be the director of the Christopher Nolan-produced, David Goyer-written Superman movie reboot. An unnamed source told fansite Superman Homepage that an offer has already been made to Columbus to helm the 3D revamp for the …
We all made it to Thursday this week. Congratulations everyone. Now it’s time for Panel of the Week. This week we’ve got terrifying Irishmen, Sookie’s worst nightmare, pro-level spooning, bat role reversal, and uvula abuse. It’s a full plate. Let’s get started.
Vengeance of the Moon Knight #10
Many a shrinking super hero has been …
The downside to producing a film about the most-used social networking system of all time? Being blacklisted by said social network.
David Fincher’s upcoming The Social Network, an unauthorized story about the creation of Facebook, is unable to market the film on the site itself. According to a Slash Film post, the film violates …
The most recent Bond movie may just have been canceled due to studio bankruptcy, but here’s an argument for fixing that sooner rather than later: Inception and The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan has admitted that he wants to make a James Bond film.
Speaking before the world premiere of Inception, Nolan said,
I’ve loved the
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