Comics in the Media
You know you’re a comic book nerd …
When the first thing you notice and the only reason you buy a CD is because you can recognize Jamie McKelvie’s artwork almost from across the record store: It’s not a bad CD, either. It’s very “English,” and the lead singer doesn’t have the greatest voice (not that that’s every stopped great bands from existing, [...]
ESPN + Superheroes … How will Marvel marketing screw this up?
If you haven’t seen or heard about the NBA preview in ESPN The Magazine (the world’s most idiotically-named magazine!), it features various Marvel artists blending various Marvel characters with various NBA players. It’s, frankly, pretty goddamned cool. And I’m sure Marvel will see absolutely no bump in comics sales from it, because they’re, well, a [...]
New comic strip by A. David Lewis!
A. David Lewis, the writer of last year’s best graphic novel, Some New Kind of Slaughter, has a nifty new webcomic strip running in The Boston Phoenix. It’s called Brave Play, and it’s drawn by Matt Roscetti. It takes place over the course of the 1948 baseball season (it began running just when the season [...]
The political leanings of superhero comics … revealed!
No, this isn’t another post about Captain America #602. It’s partly inspired by that, but it’s much more far-reaching than that. You recall that every once in a while I like to generalize about comics in such a way that it sends people into paroxysms of rage? Well, here’s another one of those posts! They’re [...]
How will the overreacty Internet respond to this?
Marvel sues to keep Spider-Man, X-Men copyrights.
The Disneyfication of Marvel?
Disney is buying Marvel for $4 billion in cash and stock. Thoughts?
Stupid reviewers think big fun summer action movies are stupid!
Paramount won’t screen G. I. Joe for critics. Usually, this means the movie sucks and has a built-in audience anyway, so who cares what those stupid reviewers think? This, according to the story, is an odder move, as this is the final big-time action movie of the summer. It’s not surprising based on the critical [...]
More interesting auction news!
Action Comics #1 sells for $317,200. Apparently, it’s the first appearance of some dude named “Superman.” Man, what a dumb name. Why couldn’t he have been called something cool like “Amokk” or “Vibraxis” or “Mammon” or “Zapatak” or “Logix” or “Ripclaw” or “Armata” or “Softcore” or “Slog” or “Devlor” or “Wipeout”?* That would have been [...]
Interesting auction news!
NEW YORK – The comic book that’s billed as the first ever created by African-Americans for a black audience is up for auction. A copy of All-Negro Comics No. 1, as it was called, is up for sale by comics entrepreneur Stephen Fishler. He says the comic is very rare – lasting one issue in [...]
The National Basketball Association = scans_daily?
The NBA has cancelled plans to release a “Krypto-Nate” T-shirt after DC complained about stupid copyright infringement. After this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend, during which wee Nate Robinson leaped over Dwight Howard to win the slam-dunk contest (Howard was wearing a Superman cape, like he did last year, and Robinson was wearing a green Knicks [...]
300 Online Press Events Are Good
The 300 online press event Warner Bros organized Friday, which was hosted by Second Life, went quite well, as director Zach Synder, writer Frank Miller and actors Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and Rodrigo Santoro engaged in an extensive audio chat, answering questions presented by the online bloggers and podcasters who were there. For your convenience, [...]
