The Army Times is reporting about an Avengers special called Spirit of America that’s going to be given as a freebie to the US troops.
However, after all the anti-war, anti-military tactics Marvel’s been shoving into other books, including that horror story they put out called Silent War #6, I’ve been starting to wonder if the soldiers of the US Army who like comics should be accepting any bonus
A writer for ICV2 (via The Beat blog) talks about how Marvel’s villains have become almost totally absent lately, if at all. He also argues that comics of recent have become far too bleak: Since Civil War started, the Marvel Universe has been all about the heroes fighting the heroes. I’ve honestly forgotten about villains these days. Think about it. Who’s the first “villain” to be introduced in
Amazing news. Jerry Robinson, one of the most famous veterans who was artist for Batman years ago, has now been named creative consultant for DC Comics. He’d worked alongside Batman co-creator Bob Kane as an assistant in 1939, and 3 years later became one of the regular artists.
An excellent choice they’ve made for a consultant.
Here’s an article from the Monroe News about an anime/manga convention being held in Monroe County in Michigan that features an American manga author named Mark Crilley.
It’s rare that I actually write a review/synopsis like this on this blog, since the main purpose was to combat dishonest press coverage of comics, but now, here’s a special review that I thought ideal and important to write, of the trade paperback compilation of Sword of the Atom, collecting the 4-part miniseries and three specials from the mid-1980s, that provided character development for Ray
Brian Bendis’s assault on Tigra through a villain called the Hood has gotten some people justifiably mad. But where did it all begin that Tigra was first misused, and that Bendis may have been “inspired” to further the pain? If memory serves, Bendis once said a few years ago when he first did Disassembled and wrecked havoc upon Scarlet Witch that he was inspired by John Byrne’s run on West Coast
For those who take interest in comic book movie adaptations, that’s surely got to be something to wonder. Quality of scriptwriting surely has to be the most important part of all, but I guess marketing plays a part in this too! As far as I know, Paramount is said to have a Cap film project in the works for 2009, but, here’s where the problem comes in: thinking back on the same studio’s decision
The Charleston Post and Courier has some more on the steps now being taken with Captain America, writing that his forced replacement is now packing a pistol. First:
“We definitely wanted a Captain America that still screamed, ‘This is Captain America,’ but this isn’t the same Cap you’ve been reading about,” says Ed Brubaker, the comic book’s writer. “This isn’t Steve Rogers.”But is it a story in
Here comes some interesting news. Chuck Dixon has been assigned as the writer for the new volume of Batman and the Outsiders. And, it looks like Cassandra Cain, the new Batgirl, may be finding repairs at last, assuming they’re not deceiving us (even with Dixon, I figure there should be cautious optimism):
DC has released two covers for #1: the main cover by Doug Braithwaite, and a variant cover
The Dallas Morning News talks about writers in Hollywood who’ve been dealing with comic books, or is that the other way around? The names I see given here are of men who may have first begun in comics, then started taking on TV scripting, such as Mark Guggenheim, Jeph Loeb, and Brian Vaughan.
But they’re quite right about why it really doesn’t pay to hire people who come directly from Tinseltown