There is a very clear trend now with comics that are made in to movies or TV shows.  No matter how well the property does, especially in the case of a movie, it still helps drive sales of the comics they are based on.  This is a interesting trend now as traditionally print comics have…

It’s fairly safe to say that everybody expected Iron Man 2 to blast open the doors of summer with a huge opening weekend box office take, and it did not disappoint. The total estimated tally for the new flick came in around $134 million for its first three days in wide release, compared to the…

When Rich Johnston made a post, not long back, about how HTMLComics was hosting pirated comics the countdown clock in my head went off as to when the site would get taken down.  Johnston’s post meant the major comics publishers would suddenly notice the site was there.  This week the site was official taken down…

I am not surprised to find out that the movie adaptation of the Losers did not do well this weekend.  It came in at number four in its debut, according to Box Office Mojo.  Now I was a fan of the comic but when I saw the tailer I thought the movie looked like junk…

I read this qoute from Marvel artist David Aja by way of today’s Jounalista at the Comics Journal. Ann Nocenti told me recently she had a bunch of teenagers at house that said “marvel comics are for old people”. It might be just me but I found that incredibly funny.  It does point to the…

It was a busy weekend for news thanks to the C2E2 convention in Chicago. : GraphicLy officially launched its desktop version of their digital comics store with their mobile version soon to debut.  I tried the desktop version and found it to be somewhat better then the LongBox digital service.  There are a number of free…

I ended up being disapointed with Flash Rebirth.  It started off well but it quickly become plagued with problems from delays to editorial have a far to heavy hand on the project.   Despite that I wanted to give the relaunch of the Flash monthly a try. I like Francis Manapul’s work, so that was enough…

According to CBR, the first issue of Hickman’s SHIELD has sold out and is going to a second printing.  For me that is the best news I have heard from Marvel recently.  I thought the first issue was great but I wasn’t sure how well it would do given how new a property it is…

I made this point in a previous post among other points, but I wanted to come back to this point as right now it’s one of the larger issues I’m seeing with all the news and debate that the iPad has generated.  I’m getting increasingly angry as everywhere I look people are talking about the…

Well Jonathan Hickman does it again.  He managed to make the Fantastic Four into one of the better books at Marvel, which has been much needed relief given how bad many of Marvel’s books are at the moment.  Within the first issue of his new SHIELD series he manages to do the same with this…