Source: Variety.com
"Justice League" is no longer moving faster than a speeding bullet.
Source: TV Guide
There are only four episodes of Supernatural to go before the writers' strike puts the demon-hunting Winchester brothers on hiatus.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
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Source: MTV Movie Blog
Back in the Year of 1986, Alan Moore introduced the world of mainstream comic books to many more complex themes and situations.
The New York firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects has been selected to design President Bush's Presidential Library. The W Library will be sighted on the SMU campus (Laura's alma mater, W went to Yale but they already had a library).
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By day, two Canadian men hold down fairly normal jobs, but at night they are drawing on their imaginations to illustrate superheroes for DC Comics.
Source: retroist.com
How often do you see a contest run by the villain of the comic? It seems like such a great idea that needs to be imitated (hear me batman sequel).
Source: The New York Times
"Stardust" is a fantasy film that can be watched not just by the "Lord of the Rings" crowd, but also by people who wouldn't be caught dead at a fantasy film.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
I really want to stand up for graphic storytelling, and I'll be doing so in a series of blog posts starting today. But comics' representation of women can make this very hard.
Source: The L.A. Times
...sales of comic books have been increasing steadily for the last five years. And that doesn't just include graphic novels—the perfect-bound trade paperbacks that have become the default format for the medium.
I remember when I was a young lad back in the seventies and early eightees. My entire world revolved around 2 things: Sports and Superheroes. The latter has always completely fascinated me.
Source: TechCrunch
Just in time for the San Diego Comic-Con, DC is starting up a new comic website, Zuda Comics, to search for and buy the greatest web comics. Artists are able to submit up to an eight panel comic to be judged by DC's band of editors.
Source: International Herald Tribune
DC Comics, the venerable publisher of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, on Monday will introduce an online imprint that amounts to a virtual slush pile, accepting submissions from the public and paying for the best comic strips that come in.
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When you go to the seed, click on the logo and you get redirected to Is this a promise of a sequel to the sequel? Or is it a promise of more going on then you know who in The Dark Knight?
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White is attached to direct. Frank Miller's brand of ultra-violent morality delivered more than $430 million worldwide to Warner Bros. this spring and the studio wants more.
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Marshall brought a film noir feel to Batman comics in the 1970s.
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The comics industry mourns today the loss of writer Arnold Drake, co-creator of DC Comics' Doom Patrol and Deadman. Drake fell ill during last month's New York Comic-Con and was hospitalized for pneumonia, reported Ken Gale, host of the 'Nuff Said WBAI radio program.
Source: Wired News
I was taking a look at the recently released video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, and it got me thinking about superhero names. The Silver Surfer is an unlockable character in the game, and I think that's pretty cool.
Source: Empire
A superhero team of oddly powered people being led by a bloke in a wheelchair? If your thought was, "why, that's the X-Men," pour yourself a hearty glass of wrong.
Source: Empire
The next on the development slab is DC Comics' "Deadman," a character with a somewhat unusual origin story; he's a trapeze artist who gets murdered in the middle of an act.
Source: hollywoodreporter.com
What a disgrace that they have to inject their stupid politics into a comic book hero. I've always liked Batman more anyway. From the article: But in the latest film incarnation, scribes Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris sought to downplay Superman's long-standing patriot act.
Source: filmstalker.co.uk
The DC Comics President has updated us as to where the movie version of the hugely successful Watchmen comics and graphic novel is, and quite frankly it's not any further forward.
Source: CNN
It's about time they started adding some diversity to comic books.