In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This week, Chris Roberson, the writer of Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: Dust to Dust and iZombie, is in the hot seat. (And scroll down for an exclusive preview of Dust to Dust #2!)
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Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too …
With the creation of iPhone/iPad apps for both Marvel Comics and indie publisher Boom! Studios so far this year, New York-based comiXology seems to be stepping into the position of the company most likely to help publishers transition into the world of digital comics. I spoke to the company’s CEO, David Steinberger, earlier this week …
Evan I won’t be getting our hands on TRON until later today but here’s the latest trailer to whet your appetite. The Disney booth is pretty amazing and we’ll have photos to share shortly. It should be noted that this trailer doesn’t show any actual gameplay.
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Behold the Tron Legacy Light-Ride
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Every week we single out some comics that we can’t wait to get our hands on. This week it’s yet another Avengers lineup, a holy warrior, a beleaguered war journalist, the ultimate in X’s, and of course, zombies. We can’t let Newsweek and it’s geektastic Konami Code undead antics have all the fun. Come back later in the week for the …
It was 25 years ago Thursday that the Discovery Channel began operations, reaching its initial 156,000 subscribers with reality programming that – at the time – was a whole lot less common on cable. Today, that audience has soared to 100 million subscribers in the United States alone; internationally, the network now reaches 1.5 …
Congratulations to Summit Entertainment for the most ridiculous lawsuit of the year, in which they’re suing the manufacturers of a jacket worn by one of the characters in Twilight for telling people that their jacket was worn by one of the characters in Twilight.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Summit Entertainment filed a …
The Jonah Hex movie, starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox, opens this Friday. Here’s a quick primer on Hex’s long, twisted history in comic books.
February 1972: Jonah Hex makes his first appearance in All-Star Western #10, in a story by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga. All that’s revealed about him is that he’s a badass …
The ongoing legal action between Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane over creation and ownership of characters from McFarlane’s Spawn series looks set to drag on even longer, with US District Judge Barbara Crabb giving both sides an additional ten days to submit additional arguments for their respective cases before reaching a …
Wondering how the Golden Era of Disney managed to look so good? Let Walt Disney himself break it down for you, in a wonderful memo from 1935 to Don Graham, the man tasked with teaching Disney’s animators how to reach the desired standard, filled with comments like this:
The point must be made clear to the men that our study of the
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Just one day after picking up a special Webby Achievement Award for their viral genius, geektastic band OK Go has released their next video with viral potential. The video, for song End Love, is a stop motion masterpiece. I think you’ll agree.
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This is entirely unnecessary and a whole lot of fun, in a terrible, terrible way. Enjoy?
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