ComicList Critiques by Charles LePage Black Jack Volume One Vertical Osamu Tezuka I know very little about manga, except for the review copies that have been sent to me. Having said that, after reading a preview of Black Jack Volume One, I highly...
ComicList Critiques by Charles LePage New Avengers #43 Marvel Comics Bendis, Tan, Miki Here we learn a great deal about Captain America we saw arrive on Earth with the rest of the 1970's-80's style heroes in the Skrull ship that crash landed in the Savage Land....
July 25th, 2008, LOS ANGELES – Radical Publishing is proud to announce that Bryan Singer, director of X-Men, X-Men #2, and Superman Returns has signed on to produce Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland based on Radical Publishing’s Freedom Formula, written by Edmund Shern. This is the third film deal by Radical Publishing, following the...
ComicList Critiques by Charles LePage Milt Caniff's Steve Canyon 1947 Checker Book Publishing Group Milt Caniff You will find no finer piece of literature in the world of comic strips or comic books than STEVE CANYON. Sadly, I started reading this strip in...
The 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were presented at the San Diego Comic Con last night. Here is the list of winners. Best Short Story: “Mr. Wonderful,” by Dan Clowes, serialized in New York Times Sunday Magazine Best Single Issue (or One-Shot): Justice League of America #11: “Walls,” by Brad Meltzer and Gene...
Suspended Animation Review Batman Special #1, published by DC Comics, 48 pages, cover price $1.25. In honor of the theatrical release of The Dark Knight, I present to you one of the better Batman stories from the eighties, found in 1984's Batman Special #1. The premise...
Updated shipping information for comics and products being released beyond the week of 07/30/2008, provided by Diamond Distribution and our friends at Things From Another World. View a dynamic version of this list, updated several times each week, leading up to its Friday release. Please let me know if any of the names...
Per Dan Didio at the San Diego Comic Con 2008, Final Crisis #3, which is scheduled to come out 08/06/08, might be delayed until the following week.
Image Comics announced at the San Diego Comic Con 2008 Marc Silvestri, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino, Rob Liefeld, Whilce Portacio, and Todd McFarlane, and Robert Kirkman will release a six issue miniseries, IMAGE UNITED.
July 25th, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA - Today BOOM! Studios and The Jim Henson Company revealed that Rockne S. O'Bannon, beloved creator of FARSCAPE, will be writing BOOM!'s recently announced FARSCAPE comic book series. Widely recognized as one of the greatest sci-fi series in television history, the multi-award-winning FARSCAPE will make the transition to...
ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 30, 2008, by Charles LePage. This is the *preliminary* list and is not complete. The complete, and much more accurate, list will be published next week. This information is compiled from a variety of sources including Diamond Distribution and our friends at Things From Another...
The WATCHMEN movie was previewed and discussed at the San Diego Comic Con 2008. Here are a sampling of the reactions. The first section is from "comiccon" on Twitter:
Recent Xeric Foundation grant recipient Gary Scott Beatty now offers his popular blog, the Aazurn Publishing Saga, on Aazurn.com, the site that carries information about his recent Xeric winning book "Jazz: Cool Birth." Into its third year, the blog details, step by step, Beatty's efforts to begin a comic book company. Beatty recently won...
New York, NY- July 25, 2008-- Electric Ant, Philip K. Dick’s seminal science fiction short story, will be adapted by Marvel Comics in the upcoming Electric Ant limited series to be released in 2009, it was announced by Marvel, and Electric Shepherd Productions. Dick’s work, which has revolutionized the world of science fiction, has...
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 25, 2008 – Top Cow Productions Inc. announced today that actors Jenna Dewan (“Step up,” “The Grudge 2”) and Luke Goss (“Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” “Blade II”), who were recently announced as starring in a movie based on The Magdalena comic series, will appear at the publisher’s panel on Saturday,...
NEW YORK, JULY 25, 2008 - Beginning Monday, July 28, mobile phone users and web surfers can enjoy Stephen King's latest work in a groundbreaking series of 25 original video episodes. The series of video episodes was created through a unique partnership between Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital, Marvel Entertainment, and CBS Mobile and...
A Kevin Smith Batman miniseries called CACOPHONY was announced at the San Diego Comic Con.
DC Comics Announced a Flash miniseries that will start in January titled THE FLASH: REBIRTH. It will feature Barry Allen, though it sounds like other Flashes will appear as well.
Stan Lee is going to partner with Disney to produce "exclusive digital content distributed online and via portable media devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPod." More details are to be released July 25 at the San Diego Comic Con.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ:ERTS), today announced that it is teaming up with WildStorm, an imprint of DC Comics, the largest English-language comic book publisher in the world, to create an exclusive, limited-edition Mirror’s Edge™ comic book. EA and DC Comics will distribute the first issue of the Mirror’s Edge...
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