Comments Off | Posted: July 24th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
MTV spoke with Todd McFarlane, where he discussed Spawn 2, the sequel to the 1996 Martin Sheen vehicle. In the article, McFarlane said the character of Spawn would be “more like Jaws” than the last film because he won’t speak and that the movie would serve as a reboot, being told in the vein of modern horror films such as The Hills Have Eyes and 1408. Finally, he used the phrase “Passion of the Anti-Christ” to describe his approach to the movie, as well as citing movies like Crash and L.A. Confidential as influences.
The Comics News Post editorial staff would just like to say: Todd, don’t ever change. Please.
Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Daniel Clowes have provided their voices for a forthcoming episode of The Simpsons.
Chris Ware was also approached to join the group of world-class graphic novelists, but the Jimmy Corrigan creator stated that he was too busy practicing his knots and looking for a well-designed stool to jump off of.
Jeffrey Brown has announced that he’s writing and drawing an 80-page graphic novel based on Mixed Martial Arts combat.
The Gayest Comic Ever doesn’t have a release date, but we’ll be sure to let you know when we get all the relevant information.
It’s official: Mario Gully’s Ant has been canceled by Image. In a forum post, publisher Erik Larsen stated:
The book was chronically late and sales were in free-fall because of that. The sales were so low that nobody was making any money on it and Mario has a family to feed so he had to take work elsewhere. We’d talked about doing a final issue here to wrap things up but it never came together. I even plotted out an ending and drew layouts in an effort to give the book some closure but with the book generating zero income and Mario working elsewhere–it just wasn’t to be.
Larsen later added: “There was also the matter of the comic being horseshit.”
Finally,
it’s been announced that the San Diego Comic-Con is now completely sold out for Saturday. If you don’t have a ticket, you’re not getting in, period.
Comments Off | Posted: July 24th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Wondering how your favorite comic shop’s manager and his newest employee are faring on the road to San Diego? Click here to find out.
Comments Off | Posted: July 23rd, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Comedic Actor Seth Rogan is set to write and likely star in a film adaptation of The Green Hornet. This news hasn’t gone over well with the property’s fans, causing the majority of them to take to the streets en masse.
Erik Larsen has announced a major new series for Image Comics, where modern comics creators create new issues of classic Golden Age series. Writers and artists on board for
The Next Issue Project include luminaries like Frank Cho, Mike Allred, Bill Sienkiewicz, Howard Chaykin, Ashley Wood, and Brandon Graham.
The titles announced so far are Fantastic Comics, Speed Comics, Crack Comics, and Larsen’s Money Pit Funnies.
Comments Off | Posted: July 23rd, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
While WordPress tells me this is post #100, I think it’s actually more like Strip #90. Either way, it’s the final part of our Friday Night Four-Parter and, like I mentioned on Saturday, we’ll be on a daily schedule this week. It’s like a non-stop erotic cabaret!
Comments Off | Posted: July 22nd, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
What nefarious plan does Danny Levitz have in mind for “Yom Golem”? Get a major hint when you go look at the latest strip.
Comments Off | Posted: July 21st, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
For the next few days, we’re moving
The Rack to a daily schedule, leading up to SDCC. Afterwards, we’ll go back to our “normal” routine, which should be of some relief to Birdie.
Go read.
Comments Off | Posted: July 20th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Yeah, that’s Nick Fury choking a Russian to death on their own guts while an airfield explodes around them. Want to see more brutal violence? Check out
Bahlactas’s paean to fisticuffs.
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Just go read the first part of a hastily-scheduled four-part thing. More coming soon. Honest.
Comments Off | Posted: July 19th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Since his art is expressly designed to evoke Kirby, I was really surprised by the stylistic changes in Tom Scioli’s work featured in the latest GØDLAND. I really love the thick lines around the character’s bodies and the use of finer lines in the faces and shadows. It still brings a lot of the blockiness and energy that Kirby’s work had to the table while giving Scioli a more distinct look. The panels below compare his version of General Briggs in two recent issues.
I love watching artists evolve on the fly like this.
Let’s say you walked up to me and said “Hey, Kevin, how good was that
Giant Sized Marvel Adventures Avengers?”
I would respond with “Really, really good. You should buy it. Yeah, the Golden Age comics in the back include material from the recent Agents of Atlas hardcover, but the story is probably Parker’s best yet on the title, and Leonard Kirk’s art is always nice to look at.”
If this was at the comic shop, I’d have placed a copy in your hand already.
Yeah,
Cover Girl still has that typo on the cover, but man, I absolutely love Mateus’s art on the inside.
If I ever get around to finishing the full pitch on the next and
if Ross says he’ll publish it and
if Mateus doesn’t hate me at this point, I’d love to work with him again.
There’s three “if”s, surely providing enough vagueness, but I wanted to put that out there anyway.
I feel like a heel for not telling Rick Veitch how much I enjoy
Army@Love when I chatted with him at MoCCAFest. If you’re reading this and know Rick Veitch, please tell him I very much enjoy
Army@Love. For some reason, it wasn’t until the latest issue that I came up with the perfect Hollywood Pitch version of the title’s premise: “
Desperate Housewives meets
Wag The Dog, but good!”
I think I should have just waited for the eventual
Repo collection. Spears and G work much better for me in longform.
I think I ruptured something trying to pick up the
Madman Gargantua and the Dark Horse
Casper collection simultaneously. The former is just
huge and the latter uses some fantastic, heavy paper that’s sure to endure for quite some time. The
Casper trade also has great black and white reproduction, along with a second of pages done with the original colors and page tone intact, much like the public-domain work reproduced in
The Comics Journal.
Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK’s 11 reads like the first 20 minutes of the movie. That’s just fine because, hey,
MODOK. It’s nice seeing some of the Marvel Z-listers get some spotlights; I’d completely forgotten that Puma existed. Van Lente’s dialogue is always a bit of a treat – never
too stylized, but very individual and while I don’t think I’ve ever read a comic drawn by Francis Portela before (I see he’s done
Black Panther, a comic I can’t bear to read in its current incarnation,) I’m now going to actively check out his work in the future, especially if Pallot’s on inks.
Wow, there are a lot of little horizontal lines in this post.
No, I didn’t read
World War Hulk #2 yet. Maybe this weekend at the shop. I’m pretty sure it features Hulk wailing on people for page after page.
Comments Off | Posted: July 19th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Sebastian Bach wants to be in the upcoming
Spider-Man musical. The hair-metal love god recently told an Australian journalist: “They want a dude in his late 30s for the Green Goblin and you will not find anyone who will be more evil and Satanic and kick Spider-Man’s ass all over the fuckin’ stage! I guarantee you I’m the only actor who’ll try out for that who owns
Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man. I have it under lock and key and it’s worth a coupla hundred grand. I’ve collected Marvel comics ever since I was little. I love it and I want that role.”
Bach’s become increasingly known for his acting stints, most famously as Gil on the CW series Gilmore Girls as well as playing the title characters in Jesus Christ Superstar, Jekyll and Hyde, and Washed-Up Rocker Clinging Desperately To The Underbelly Of Fame.
ComicsPro, the retail advocacy group, has issued a position paper on the practices of variant and incentive covers.
The entirety of the paper, released yesterday, is offered below:
Please stop punching us in the junk. Thank you.
More news tomorrow, when we get our internet connection back at the CNP offices.
Comments Off | Posted: July 19th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Birdie and I would like to apologize for the images this strip will lodge deep into your cerebral cortex, worming their way down into your deepest, most private spaces and forcing you to confront the horrors of nerd’s inhumanity to woman.
Comments Off | Posted: July 18th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
DC has released the first promotional image for 2008′s Final Crisis, fueling rampant reader speculation. Questions asked by fans include: Where’s Green Arrow? and Where’s Ray Palmer? and Why is Batman so blatantly checking out Superman’s ass?
Dynamite Entertainment has announced a new series featuring superstar talent Alex Ross and his partner Jim Krueger. The series, in development for the last three years, is scheduled for release at the end of 2007 and features return of a legion of Golden Age heroes and villains, all under the creative and artistic direction of Ross and writer Jim Krueger.
“Superpowers will be unlike anything that Dynamite has done to date,” stated Nick Barrucci, Dynamite’s publisher.
It will, however, be just like everything else Alex Ross has done to date.
BOOM! Studios has announced a 2-year anniversary drink-up at the Hyatt Grand Lobby Bar on the first night of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.
That’s fine, guys. Do it when you know I’m not there. That’s. Just. Fine.
Checker has obtained the rights to reprint the now-defunct Crossgen’s comics catalogue. When asked why the company had obtained the reprint rights from Walt Disney, Checker’s Mark Thompson replied: “It’s kind of our specialty. With our backlist, we feel that our niche is when quality publications go by the wayside – bankruptcy, creator squabbles, whatever. We hate to see the fans suffer; they’re ultimate victims because they’re not getting to see great material. Also: dollah dollah bills, y’all! C R E A M!”
Please note that this may be the last Comics News Post until Friday evening; the internet connectivity at our main office in Somerville, Massachusetts has gone down and will be repaired Friday between 2 and 5.
Comments Off | Posted: July 18th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Yavin IV’s staff has carefully examined the Diamond shipping list for their fine, fine retail operation and now, they offer up
staff picks, wherein anyone should be able to find something to suit their needs, wants, and desires in the area of graphic literature.
(No, not like Lady Chatterly’s Lover.)
Comments Off | Posted: July 17th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Borders bookstores across England have pulled a controversial Tintin book from the children’s section. The Commission for Racial Equality stated it was unacceptable for any shop to stock or sell the 1930s cartoon adventure of the Belgian boy journalist because of its crude racial stereotypes. The Comics News Post editorial staff understands their concerns, but fails to see a real problem:
Internet sleuths have uncovered the people behind a series of unauthorized Watchmen viral marketing sites.
“Thank God we caught the people promoting our film at no cost,” said Don Seagal, head of marketing for Warner Brothers’ motion pictures division. “They’ll be prosecuted to the fullest extent of crazyperson law.”
Yesterday saw the opening arguments in an unusual court case:
Red Sonja, LLC, who maintain the rights for Robert E. Howard’s red-headed barbarian vixen, is suing Paradox Entertainment, a Swedish firm that owns the rights to most of Howards’s other creations, including Red Sonya, a pistol-packing female character that appeared in a single short story written by the pulp author. Red Sonja, LLC maintains that Paradox Entertainment has deliberately misled the public with press releases and marketing for the Red Sonya character.
A letter has been posted on the official Web site of Conan, maintained by Paradox, addressed to “All Conan and Robert E. Howard Fans and Licensees” headlined “Clarification regarding the character of Red Sonya” that explains the sexy, sexy differences between Red Sonya and Red Sonja.
Edited To Add: The court date has been pushed back to January, 2008
Comments Off | Posted: July 17th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Wow, this is underwhelming, disappointing, and pretty frustrating. Fan-favorite Mark Waid’s return to the crimson-clad speedster seems to be specifically designed to continue DC’s trend of mistaking “grim” for “mature,” with a few-years-older-now (thanks to something that happened over in JLA/JSA that I can’t get much of an explanation for) Wally West seeking revenge for the death of the last guy to wear the costume, Bart Allen aka the former Impulse. Spoiler alert: The Flash catches the bad guy in the end and the “ironic” punishment he metes out left a bad, bad taste in my mouth.
The Flash is the sort of character that doesn’t handle revenge sagas well, and part of me wonders if this is just decently-rendered (Karl Kerschl’s work is quite lovely, but Ian Churchill’s leaves me cold, cold, cold) deck-chair reshuffling done in an attempt to right a ship that’s about halfway sunk. Maybe the upcoming Flash series (and the subsequent return to an original ordering scheme) will feature a less-gritty tone, but I get the feeling that the current editorial tenor at Detective Comics Comics means that the “new” title will avoid the whole “fun” superhero adventure model and become yet another lackluster attempt at writing a 10pm drama, even if it involves a guy who runs very fast while wearing bright red pajamas.
Comments Off | Posted: July 16th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Co-written by me and Eureka creator Andrew Cosby.
Art by Pop Art Studios.
Ask your retailer for #1 and #2 if you’ve not gotten them yet!
Comments Off | Posted: July 16th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve just launched a dedicated Pet Shop Boys blog.
I’m sure you’re all very relieved that this gaping hole in your lives has been filled while reducing the number of times I burst into fannish glee on this page.
Seriously, though, this is something I’ve been pondering for a while. I wanted to create a site for fans that offered the exact opposite of the fascinating, if poisonous mix of slavish devotion and passive-aggressive lunacy offered on the various forums dedicated to the band. The precis is simple: no discussion or speculation on Tennant or Lowe’s personal lives (unless it’s relevant to a song, such as “Your funny uncle,”) and striving to create useful, insightful commentary on a band whose material I find fascinating.
I’ll most likely update two or three times a week. There’s an RSS feed and everything. Join in, if you’d like.
Comments Off | Posted: July 16th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Dean Cain is rumored to be in talks with the producers of Smallville concerning a potential role on the show.
Those looking for a reunion of TV’s Lois and Clark co-stars are going to be disappointed, though: Teri Hatcher’s too busy playing a skeletal attention whore in Hollywood, in Paris, and anywhere else there’s a camera, including the local Bank of America.
DC has unveiled some sneak peeks at its solicitations for October. Included in the offerings is the return of
Kingdom Come‘s version of Superman, this time to the DCU proper in a comic co-written by Geoff Johns and Alex Ross.
The cover, painted by Ross, prominently features the latest addition to the cast, offering purchasers a way to easily state they’ve given up on innovation or creativity in their superhero comics purchases.
Sean McKeever recently spoke to Newsarama about “The Jokester,” a new character being spun out of the Countdown event. Said McKeever: “This was an idea he [Dini] had as an alternate take on the Joker that he was going to use on the Batman animated series.”
In related news, scientists have reported that Batman: The Animated Series was cancelled just in time.
Comics News Post congratulations to Ain’t It Cool News’s
Harry Knowles, who
got married to his lady love Patricia on Sunday. Harry, thank you for helping nerds everywhere understand that no matter how misogynistic their thoughts or unattractive their appearance, a couple million hits a month on a slow moving, ugly website can get them laid.
Comments Off | Posted: July 16th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve given Birdie the day off to do some catch-up work on
The Rack, but you can check out our archives
by clicking here. Go, review, maybe find a strip you missed or laugh again at an old chestnut that you loved. You can also spend your time today telling your friends about The Rack by
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