Last night, Marvel Comics announced their next big company-wide brand title that will be popping up on all of our favorite comics following Secret Invasion. That title, in case you were still wondering after that ominous logo above, is “Dark Reign.” It’s being compared to the Initiative brand, which stemmed from Civil War, and is…
• Grant Morrison responded to the various Countdown / DONG / Final Crisis continuity problems in a recent IGN interview. MORRISON: There were a couple of discrepancies which affected the early issues of Final Crisis and which came about because of the way the two books were being written out of order and to different…
Stereogum.com has free (legal) downloads of a new song from the Dead Science called “Make Mine Marvel.” According to Stereogum, the new Dead Science album will be “…based strictly on obscure comic book and Wu-Tang Clan references, which is a thing avant rock trios do.” All I’ve heard from the band prior to this was…
Greetings, all. I recently sat down with infrequent poster “Doominator” to talk about some news on a potential relaunch of the failed Superman franchise. Here’s how it went. Enjoy: Doom DeLuise: In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov announced that the studio is going to be…
• As you may have guessed from the image at the right, Doomkopf.com is now optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Users will still have the option of switching back to the standard Safari view if they so choose, but otherwise iPhone and iPod touch users will automatically be greeted by a portable-browser friendly…
from The Onion: EARTH—Former vice president Al Gore—who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save—launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope that his only child…
Editor & Publisher has a new interview with Jerry Robinson, the man who created The Joker for Batman comics in 1939. How does Ledger’s portrayal of the supervillain compare with Jack Nicholson’s hammy turn in the 1989 “Batman” film? “They’re really different,” replied Robinson, who has also had a long career in newspaper cartooning and…
This is all pure speculation, but, then, isn’t that the most fun kind of speculation? Just the Hail Mary, shot-in-the-dark kind? I think so. After watching The Dark Knight over the past weekend, I’ve been thinking a lot about who could be the next villain in the third installment of Christopher Nolan’s new Batman franchise….
As we get one day closer to the release of The Dark Knight, I wanted to draw your attention to The Dark Knight Project, a fan-made movie released yesterday by Chicago filmmaker Jerry Vasilatos. It focuses on two high school students who are trying to get the first video footage of Batman. The film takes…