COMIX UNDERWORLD
WHERE THE MANY WORLDS OF COMICS COLLIDE
Best. Panel. Evar.
Warren Ellis had this great thread recently over at The Engine.
He asked people for their nominations for the greatest single panel in comics and started things off with this one:
Some of the entries are serious - lots of Sandman, Preacher, Watchmen, panels from Batman: The Killing Joke.
But the best ones were just hilarious. Some of [...]
Crooked Little Vein
Warren Ellis’ first novel, Crooked Little Vein, is coming out in August. The advanced praise is in, the ads have been created and I have my copy pre-ordered.
A couple of things about this ad:
1) It’s hard for me to remember a time when I was this excited for the release of a book. This is [...]
Captain America gets capped?
BY ETHAN SACKS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Comic book icon Captain America lies sprawled on courthouse steps after Marvel hero is gunned down by sniper. (Art by Steve Epting)
Cover of 1941 debut
Captain America is dead. The Marvel Entertainment superhero, created in 1941 as a patriotic adversary for the Nazis, is killed off in Captain America #25, which [...]
300 at WonderCon
Frank Miller’s vision of Sparta in graphic novel form comes to life on the big screen in 300.
The trailer got me hooked.
Yahoo! Movies provides much to explore.
C|net goes to WonderCon
The tech site delivers a slideshow from the 2007 show.
Rowe Marvel?s at Civil War series
The News & Record’s Jeri Rowe writes about his feelings of nostalgia after pouring over Marvel’s Civil War series.
Jeri says:
But with the Civil War series, which ended last week, there’s something that goes beyond the worn-out parade of comic book clichés.
It’s the series’ moral ambiguity, the sense of unease, that pervades the entire Marvel universe. [...]
Warners Plans A ?Justice League? Movie
Source: Variety / Author: Garth Franklin
Having successfully relaunched their “Batman” and “Superman” franchises, and with the likes of “The Flash” and “Wonder Woman” in development, surprising news came to light today about DC Comics next big project.
Warner Bros. Pictures is looking to make a feature based on super team [...]
Gibson on Gibson, the fleeting nature of futurism and ?Transmetropolitan?
From a post about Second Life on William Gibson’s blog:
“The thing that’s going to be quaint about “cyberspace” (that already is, really) is the inherent assumption that it’s a realm unto itself; that it’s in any way elsewhere or other.
Glancing sideways is becoming more generally recognized as about the best way of doing what we [...]
Stan Lee?s realism
NPR interview with the creator of the truly human superhero. Lee gives Renee Montagne his take on realism in a world of fantasy.
BKV joins writing staff of LOST
Brian K. Vaughan, author of the wildly successful and mind-bendingly strange comics Y: THE LAST MAN and EX MACHINA, has joined the writing staff of the enormously popular and mind-bendingly strange TV show LOST.
From Vaughan’s blog:
“I’ve learned more about the creative process in two weeks inside the Lost writers’ room than I did in four [...]
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