I’m generally trying to renew my enthusiasm about the whole “reading comic books” thing, but these recent news items made me groan and groan and groan some more! One of these names just doesn’t belong here. Rich Johnston reported that Cup O’ Joe at NYCC included news on “a major project from Marvel would feature…
Check it out. Doomkopf will have some representation. The discussion will apparently be recorded and released as a podcast. I’ll try to get a transcript up once that happens. UPDATE: I made some comment about wanting to remove Tony Daniel’s scrotum and keep it for myself so I could punch it whenever I want, so…
JIM DOOM: Well, Doom DeLuise, welcome back. It’s been a while since our last podcast. [silence] I actually didn’t even test out these microphones to see if they still work. Is mine working? I said is mine working? Is mine working? Doom DeLuise? Is my microphone working? Hey. Hey? Is my microphone working? It’s been…
Yesterday, Warner Brothers has released an official sneak peak of Henry Cavill in the Superman costume from the upcoming Superman: Man of Steel movie: While Cavill himself certainly looks more like Superman than the last few people I can remember in the role, I’ve got to wonder… Why does Superman need to wear rubber? It…
Comic Con is fast approaching, and news is already starting to leak out a bit early. One of the things that has happened in the past couple days is that the teaser trailers for both “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Avengers” have leaked online. The Internet Police are on top of it, though, so it’s…
I never thought I’d see the day, but there it is. This image is from the Licensing International Expo in Vegas, which means this is the promo picture they’ll be plastering all over toys, lunchboxes, etc. It may just be me, but seeing these characters all together is without a doubt the coolest thing I’ve…
I’ve been kind of back and forth on DC’s announced reboot of its entire universe in August. I can see the pros and cons, and I still haven’t been sure whether I think it’ll be the final straw that gets me to bail on comics (or at least DC comics) once and for all. But…
Captain America has become like catnip for the Tea Party, giving them fits whenever another opportunity to assert their ideological ownership arises. Last year Fox News aided the Tea Party assault on Ed Brubaker (and his much less popular letterer); now, the “Hollywood!” dog-whistle has been blown. The Daily Caller ran an article a few…
Larry, owner of Trade-a-Tape Comics, on why he didn’t have Fantastic Four #587 on sale today: “I don’t want people coming in here and buying ten or twelve copies because they think it’s going to be worth something. I want my regular customers to get their copies. Then if there’s any left over, those knuckleheads…
This week marks the release of Fantastic Four #587, the highly anticipated issue that will feature the death of one member of Marvel’s First Family. Marvel is going to great pains to make this feel as special as possible. It’s reprinting the last four issues of FF the same day, the comic itself is being…