It’s funny cuz it’s cruel. I mean, TRUE. It’s funny cuz it’s true.
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Er…weren’t most of these characters created by Jewish folks?
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There’s Gold In Them Thar Longboxes!
Bleeding Cool created a list of comic books published in the last 30 years that are currently selling for over $300. How many do you own? Cross your fingers and click over.
The Force Is Strong With Bruce Timm
Animation giant Bruce Timm once auditioned to draw a Star Wars comic. He failed to get the gig. Still, looking at Timm’s recently unearthed sample pages, I can’t help but wonder: Howzabout a Star Wars: The Animated Series?
To see the rest of Timm’s Star Wars art, click here.
DC Charts: 75 Years, 75 Batman Action Figures
For a larger pic and the names of each and every one of these tiny totems of justice, click here.
Charles Schulz/Jack Kirby Collabo
Way, way back in 1974, Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby and Russell Myers got together to create an action-packed piece for the San Diego Comicon program booklet. Forty years later, we’re still admiring it. (Via.)
Moomin Cafe Offers Stuffed Animal Accompaniment To Lonely Patrons
Not creepy at all. I just hope this photo never gets back to her Black Butler Body Pillow. SCANDAL!
Jamie Chung Joins ‘Big Hero 6’
Jamie Chung (Mulan in Once Upon A Time) will voice the character of Go Go Tomago in Disney/Marvel’s upcoming animated film, Big Hero 6.
Positive: Marvel Editor Sana Amanat Discusses The Importance Of Racial Representation In Comics/Cartoons
Lou Ferrigno Will Voice The Hulk In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’
In the first Avengers movie, the Hulk spoke only one line of dialogue: “Puny God.” That line was provided by actor Mark Ruffalo. But did you know that all of the other grunts and roars were made by the original TV Hulk, Lou Ferrigno?
S’true!
What’s more, while at WonderCon, Ferrigno told Nuke The Fridge that he will be doing the voice-over work for the Hulk in Avengers: Age Of Ultron (May 1, 2015). How cool is that?
HBO’s ‘Monster’ Is Getting Stronger
We’ve known for a while now that Guillermo del Toro is directing the pilot for a live-action HBO series based on Naoki Urasawa’s amazing manga, Monster. Pretty cool, right? Well, it gets better. Crazy hunter recently revealed that producer Stephen Thompson (Doctor Who and Sherlock) is writing the pilot!
This is like one of those heist movies where they hire the best thieves from around the globe to pull off some incredible caper. Only, instead of thieves it’s geeks, and instead of a caper it’s a TV series about a fugitive brain surgeon’s hunt for the ruthless killer whose life he once saved. So yeah, same thing.
The Falcon Wants A Wonder Woman Movie
“There should be a Wonder Woman movie. I don’t care if they make 20 bucks, if there’s a movie you’re gonna lose money on, make it Wonder Woman. You know what I mean, ’cause little girls deserve that.”
- Anthony Mackie (a.k.a. The Falcon in Captain America: Winter Soldier) in an interview with Geek Dad.
Via: doc birdman
‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Opening Scene — Now This Is Bloody Brilliant!
Using non-stop action and next-to-no dialogue, this brief clip reacquaints viewers with Iceman, Colossus and Kitty Pryde, while simultaneously introducing us to FOUR new mutants — Warpath, Blink, Sunspot and Bishop. Exciting stuff! I am so looking forward to this flick!
This Is Supposed To Be Terrifying, Right?
Alex Ross’ cover for Life With Archie #37.
Marvel-ous Moment Of Clarity
Via: Work hard. Render fast. And breathe.
Batmobile Limo
Available for weddings, proms and classy crime-fighting. Via.
All-Time Favorites: Genshiken
Shimoku Kio’s Genshiken is one of my all-time favorite comedy comics. It’s like a Robert Altman remake of The Breakfast Club, only instead of high school students in Saturday detention, it’s about college kids in an extracurricular otaku club.
Genshiken‘s large cast of characters comprises pretty much every factor of nerdom, from the geek chic to the geek elite to those unapologetically un-hip nerds who take pride in their outsider status. Reading their rambling conversations about comics, cartoons, cosplay and love (lots and LOTS about love!) is often as hilarious as it is cringe-worthy. Hilarious, because most comics/cartoons fans have had similar discussions. Cringe-worthy, because…do I really sound like that?! Continue reading
‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Art Reveals Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch & Tony Stark’s Hulk-Sized Iron Man Suit
Click through for the full-size pics.
Who Owns What?
The only thing more confusing than comics continuity is comics film rights. For those of you still scratching your heads as to why there’s no Spider-Man in the Marvel Movie-verse, here’s a nice visual guide explaining which movie studio owns which Marvel characters.
Comic Book Review: ‘Silver Surfer: Requiem’
Since the Silver Surfer’s inception in 1966, the character has been an outlet for countless authors’ overwrought, over-written, middle-aged angst.
But is it any wonder why?
Unlike most of Marvel’s menagerie, the Silver Surfer isn’t a fast-talking teenager or a testosterone fueled he-man. He’s an intellectual alien prone to alliterate elegies and impassioned pleas for peace. If you’re a corporate comics writer with a flash drive full of unpublished poetry, you couldn’t ask for a better mouthpiece.
‘Seconds’ Available For Pre-Order
Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley has a new, 328-page hardcover graphic novel coming out — Seconds.
To read O’Malley’s description of the plot, click through… Continue reading
Cartoon Network Crossover Coming To Comics
Cartoon Network and IDW are planning a HUMUNGOUS comic book crossover event for this summer — the Super Secret Crisis War!
Bill Watterson Resurfaces!
Calvin And Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has released his first published cartoon in eighteen years, and it’s a documentary film poster! The documentary, Stripped, is a described as a “love letter to comic strips,” and includes interviews with such funny page luminaries as Bill Griffith, Richard Thompson and, yes, Bill Watterson.
My Top 10 Comic Book Covers of 2013
Most websites publish these lists in December.
The more meticulous sites will wait until January so they don’t miss any eligible entries.
But the lazy writers? The uninspired sites? Those layabout louts lacking any real writing goals and/or an online endgame? They plop one out on the last day of February, secretly seeking solace in the fact that ‘at least they didn’t wait ’til March.’
Um…enjoy? Continue reading
What If…Superheroes Competed In The Sochi Winter Olympics?
Francesco Francavilla, the artist who brought us Batman, 1972, has created a cool series of imaginative illustrations depicting your favorite corporate comics characters competing in the Winter Olympics. To see the rest of the set, click here.
Related: 2014′s Winter Olympics Mascots: The Good, The Bad & The Cuddly
Top 5: Sappy Spider-Man Comics
Spider-Man has always had girl troubles. From his first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 to whatever movie Marvel is releasing this year, the wisecracking web-head has rarely been lucky when it comes to love. Oh, sure, he’s had girlfriends. He’s even been married. But each and every affair inevitably ended in disaster. Death, dumping, a Marvel mandated mind-wipe — the deeper the love, the more messed-up the break-up. But does Spider-Man allow any of that to dim his dream of true love? Hells no. Skip ahead a few issues, and a new gal walks through Spidey’s door (or flies past his window…or punches him in the face while fleeing the scene of a crime…) and his lower half’s spider-sense starts tingling once more. Oh, comics. Ah, l’amour!
Listed below are my five favorite Spider-Man love stories. Some are silly, some are somber. All of ‘em are all-caps ROMANTIC.
Go, Read: 50 Comic Book Panels That Should Be Movie Scenes
This sort of ‘dream list’ used to be the province of comic book blogs and Wizard magazine. Now it’s a staple of big budget websites and glossy movie magazines. Is that pop culture progress or regress? You decide.
Fox Marketing: If It Ain’t Broke…
X-2 teaser poster (2003)
X-Men: Days of Future Past magazine cover (2014)
(Someone at Fox really likes Anna Paquin’s bum!)
Gamma Gamma Hey: An Abbreviated Introduction To The Art Of Ulises Farinas
Ulises Farinas’ excellent x-ray of the Thing is exactly the sort of thing that an 11-year-old me would’ve pored over for days. Of course, now that I’m an adult, I can only give it an hour. Maybe two. Three, tops.
To see the entire Thing (get it?), and learn a bit about Farinas, click through.
Upcoming Collections of Unusual Comics
Still sitting on an unused Amazon gift card from the holidays? I’m about to help you spend it — and then some.
Listed below are a handful of upcoming omnibus collecting some of the most bizarre superhero stories ever to come out of mainstream comic book companies. If you’re the type of comic book reader who prefers far-out flights of fancy to po-faced fight scenes, I think you will LOVE these books!
Go, Read: DC’s Super Dictionary
Back in 1978, The Super Dictionary was a fun way to teach kids new words using context and repetition. Nowadays, it’s a treasure trove of oddly-captioned weirdness. I can only hope I age as gracefully.
For more entries, visit My 70s, The Super Dictionary or buy your own.
A Lonely Vigilante In The Lone Star State
French photographer Remi Noël, fascinated by American culture and the state of Texas, traveled from Houston to Dallas taking black and white photos of his “traveling companion,” a small Batman action figure. While the concept may sound like a one-note gimmick, the resulting photos range from the haunting to the hilarious, perfectly capturing the surreal sensation of traveling alone in a faraway land.
Click through for more. Continue reading
Badass Bag Design
Minimal, yet memorable. Well done, Marvel. Via.
22 Panels That Always Work
(Or: Some interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around talking for page after page!)
Awesome, ain’t it? Even when Wally Wood is doling out solid comics craft advice, he’s still the same sarcastic and subversion sonuvabitch we fell in love with in MAD Magazine.
In a similarly sarcastic and subversive gesture, Powers artist Michael Avon Oeming recently re-drew this chart as an “homage” to Wood. Oeming, as you may remember, is the long-term collaborator of comics scribe (and master at staging scenes where characters are “sitting around talking for page after page”) Brian Micheal Bendis. Coincidence?
Related: Wally Wood’s ‘Comic Strip Character Christmas Party’
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Batman: The Deal’ & ‘Superman: God’s End’
Quell Your New Year’s Neurosis With These Two FREE Comics!
The new year often brings with it some serious soul-searching. Like the mid-year and end-of-the-year soul-searching, this beginning-of-the-year soul-searching is usually pretty depressing. Some folks will tell you to simply ‘snap out of it.’ Take a walk. Pop a pill. Buy a puppy. Not me. Over the years, I’ve found that the best way to stop feeling sorry for myself is to momentarily engage with something far more miserable — like, say, a maudlin movie or a particularly bleak book.
Don’t get me wrong. Human interaction works…sometimes. But other times it’ll leave you feeling far worse than before. That’s why I recommend art. Even at its most grim and gritty, well done art has the power to be life-altering. Inspiring, even.
This morning I had just such an experience with Gerardo Preciado and Daniel Bayliss’ two FREE, unofficial, online comics, Batman: The Deal and Superman: God’s End. Both of these comics are undoubtedly downers, yet both of them also planted the seeds of hope within me.
Frozen’s Oaken Co-Directing Disney/Marvel’s Big Hero 6!
It’s official. (And true!) For the full story, click here.
Happy New Year!
Ernie Busmiller’s Nancy. Via.
Tumblr’s Top Comics Talk
Tumblr is a lot like a comic book shop — dark, dingy and full of deviants and detritus.
KIDDING.
No, Tumblr is a lot like a comic book shop because if you browse around long enough, you’re bound to come across something that you would have NEVER seen anywhere else.
From a Bronson-esque Batman to Beyoncé in a Beto dress, here are a few of the better bits I happened upon this week.
First Look: ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Pt. 3
Gerard Way is posting Gabriel Bá’s concept art from the third Umbrella Academy series.
Click through for the full size versions.
Eye-Gasm: Wally Wood’s ‘Comic Strip Character Christmas Party’
Looking to lose yourself in some nostalgic nuttiness? Check out this double-page spread by Wally Wood (art) and George Belkin (script) from Mad #68, circa 1962.
To see the original, uncut Bristol board image, click the link below!
A Printable Present For Comic Book Fans:Official Marvel Comics Office Stationary
This FREE, downloadable Marvel Comics office stationary (circa 1967) not only makes the PERFECT PRESENT for that luddite comic book fan on your shopping list, it’s also a great way to role-play your favorite old-school comics creators!
Write a love letter from Stan Lee to Stan Lee!
(For bonus believability, always alliterate.)
Pen a paranoid letter of resignation from Steve Ditko!
(Don’t forget to quote Ayn Rand.)
Call Stan Lee a pest, a punk and a plantation owner, care of Jack Kirby!
(Tip: Crackling energy dots were Kirby’s version of emoticons.)
Why, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination and mental storehouse of useless comics gossip. In other words — LIMITLESS!
Click through for the full size stationary.
A Few Words About (And A Handful Of Pics From) Bryan Lee O’Malley’s ‘Seconds’
IO9 just posted a nice interview with Scott Pilgrim creator, Bryan Lee O’Malley. The subject? O’Malley’s upcoming graphic novel, Seconds. Along with some hints as to the comic’s plot and inspirations, O’Malley also shared some images from the book.
Reprinted below are a few excerpts from the interview and some very cool pics.
Mike Mignola-Labelled Wine Creeps Out Of The Cellar
The Mortal Vintner is now selling their Mike Mignola-labelled wine, “Skeleton Head.” Visit their webstore before midnight Dec. 18 and you’ll get a 20% discount AND Mike Mignola will sign your bottle!
Arresting Aerosol Imagery, Batman!
This beautiful Batman-themed graffiti was found by SneakyLawyer and his girlfriend while exploring an abandoned housing complex in Belgium. The artist, who uses the name ‘PETEONE,’ filled multiple rooms with his Bat-art, sampling styles from Bruce Timm, Brian Bolland and Jock.
Click through for more pics!
Can’t Exploit The Comic? Exploit The Creator!
Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio have purchased the rights to Dan Dollar’s screenplay, A Boy And His Tiger. The script is about Calvin And Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s early career and “his struggle with sudden popularity, coverage, and licensing battles.”
For over twenty years, the “notoriously reclusive” Watterson has been turning down Hollywood’s offers for a big screen adaptation of Calvin and Hobbes. It’s not hard to imagine how he feels about this.
2 Silly Comics For Cynical Comics Fans
Hulk SMASH! Hulk SCOLDED! Hulk…sniffles?!
Batman is a hoarder. And no matter how hard Alfred tries, the caped crusader refuses to clean out the Batcave.
X-Men Promo Posits: It Wasn’t A ‘Magic Bullet,’ It Was A MAGNETO Bullet
“According to a recently declassified report from the Warren Commission, [Magneto] altered the trajectory of Oswald’s second bullet, effectively murdering the president.”
Magneto on the grassy knoll — I love it!
‘Sleeper’ To Awaken In The Arms Of Affleck & Damon
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are producing a film adaptation of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ superhero spy comic, Sleeper.
This is GREAT NEWS in my opinion, as Sleeper is my second favorite espionage comic book of all time. (1st place? Steranko’s Nick Fury.)
Sleeper is the tale of Holden Carver (a.k.a. The Conductor) — an angry, anti-social, super-powered secret agent. After being fused with an alien artifact, Carver is imbued with increased strength, heightened healing and the ability to store pain and pass it on to others. The story opens with Carver working DEEP undercover in a James Bond-y criminal organization run by an evil genius named Tao. How deep? Only one man, John Lynch, the director of International Operations, knows that Carver is really one of the good guys. Then Lynch gets killed. This leaves Carver stranded in the middle of his mission, with the good guys believing he’s a bad guy and the bad guys beginning to suspect he may not be who he claims to be. Chaos, bloodshed and S&M ensues.
I Got My Brother-In-Law Into Comics.In Exchange, He Gave Me Wood.
That sounds a little dirty, doesn’t it?
Still, it’s 100% true. A few years back, my nephew, Joel, started asking to borrow comics. As he was totally new to the art-form, I had the privilege of curating his syllabus, carefully collating which books he’d read and in what order.
A couple months into this brightly colored brain-washing, his father (my brother-in-law…well, my STEP-brother-in-law…actually, legally, my EX-step-brother-in-law…gosh, these things get complicated quickly!), Frank, told me that he’d been reading the comics, too.
I had to ask: Did he actually LIKE reading them, or was he reading them to make sure I wasn’t using comics to corrupt his kid?
Both.
And he wanted more! Continue reading
2nd Vertigo Title Making The Move To TV
It seems like it was only a week ago that the only way you could find DC/Vertigo on TV was via the posters in Roseanne’s home.
Come to think of it, it WAS just a week ago! Continue reading
Somewhere In The City, The Kingpin Smiles
The ugly, accident-prone, fiscally f*cked Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will close its doors in January, Variety reports.
While the $75 million musical takes in an estimated $1 million per week, the show costs $1.2 million per week to produce. Add in the large legal settlement made to original director, Julie Taymor, as well as the countless payouts to those folks injured during the show’s run, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is now officially “the most expensive production in Broadway history and a financial wreck for investors.”
Thank heavens Uncle Ben didn’t live to see this.
Is Arseface Coming To AMC?
Badass Digest is reporting that AMC has ordered a pilot based on the darkly humorous, decidedly adult comic book, Preacher, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Continue reading
Miyazaki Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
After two retirements and a recent health scare, Hayao Miyazaki is back with TWO new projects. One looks great. The other sounds AMAZING.
First up is the new Studio Ghibli documentary, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness. Director Mami Sunada (Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman) set up camp at Ghibli, following Miyazaki around as he worked on The Wind Rises, and Isao Takahata as he completed The Tale of Princess Kaguya. If the trailer is any indication, expect a nice, long, behind-the-scenes look at the most magical animation studio operating today. Continue reading
Tumblr’s Top Comics Talk
Nightwing commutes between Blüdhaven and Gotham. Aquaman splits his time between the ocean floor and the Hall of Justice. Me? I spend every other hour toggling back and forth between the wide open plains of the World Wide Web and the dank, darkened confines of Tumblr.
Why?
Cuz while the internet likes to think of itself as erudite and enlightened, Tumblr is unapologetic in its nerdiness and navel-gazing. It’s a lot like a comic book shop in that way. And just like a comic book shop, if you browse around long enough, you’re bound to come across something that — for better or worse — you would have NEVER seen anywhere else.
Here are a few of the better bits I happened upon this week.
Comedians Vs. Comic Books
Stephen Colbert, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Pete Holmes have been doing a lot of comic book comedy bits lately. But seeing as you’re an internet elitist who only watches TV online, I compiled them all here so’s you wouldn’t miss them.
You can thank me later.
(Preferably with cash.)
(Real cash, not &#$@’n bitcoin.)
Marvel Is Making Sequels To Their Sequels & Spin-Offs Of Their Spin-Offs
In a move that will surely shock millions, Marvel has boldly decided to move forward on a few more comic book adaptations.
Comic Book Review: Black Jack Vol. 1
Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack answers the age old question: What would an EC Comic by Carl Barks look like?
I must admit, I didn’t know what to expect when I first picked up Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack Volume 1. While Tezuka’s Astro Boy is often hailed as the cornerstone of modern manga, reading it has always felt to me like more of a ‘study of the grand masters’ than an honest-to-goodness engaging read. (Sort of like reading the first few dozen issues of Superman or The Green Lantern — the art’s amazing and the characters are iconic, but goddamn if the stories aren’t repetitive.)
But Black Jack? Wow.
Just What I’d Hoped For: Melodramatic Mutants
X-Men: Days of Future Past — Trailer & Pics
At last — the first official trailer to Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past! While very little *new* info can be gleaned from this trailer, it’s nice to once again see mutants crying, Xavier whispering regrets, and Hugh Jackman gripping his head in…what? Pain? Frustration? In order to make his hair do that cowlick-on-the-sides-thing?
Whatever it is, I’m loving it. ALL of it.
Continue reading
30 Second Comic Book Review: X-Men: Bizarre Love Triangle
This is my favorite type of X-Men story — the type that eschews big, beefy brawls for heartfelt character interaction and unabashed melodrama.
Top 5: Comics That Take Place On Halloween
One of my favorite things about the holidays is digging through my comics, finding the PERFECT stories to match the merriment. While the St. Patrick’s Day pickings can be a li’l paltry, Halloween never fails to provide. Listed below are my Top 5 comics that take place on Halloween. If you have any others that you’d like to recommend, feel free to share ‘em in the comments section. I’m always looking for more!
