Tag Archive | "DC Comics"

The Unwritten – it’s all about the story, all about the fictions

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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The Unwritten Volume 1: Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity by Mike Carey and Peter Gross Vertigo / Titan Books This reads very much like Vertigo books of old, with all the high fantasy elements you used to get with Gaiman’s Sandman. And so it should, since it reunites Carey and Gross, who previously shared 70 odd issues [...]

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Marvel Vs DC

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Conor, Josh and and Ron on iFanboy discuss one of the all-time biggest things in comics, bigger even than Power Girl’s, er, reputation, it’s DC Vs Marvel:

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Everything changes at DC…..

Friday, February 19, 2010

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Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment have lit the comic equivalent of the papal smoke and the names of the five replacements for Paul Levitz’s vacant Publisher post were announced by DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson yesterday. Dan DiDio and Jim Lee are named as co-publishers, Geoff Johns is the new Chief Creative Officer, Pat Caldon becomes [...]

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The regular Bill Watterson interview slot (next one due 2030) ……. and Watchmen 2????

Saturday, February 6, 2010

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Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbes, and famous recluse, breaks a 20 year silence with an interview for the  Cleveland Plain Dealer. “By the end of 10 years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip’s [...]

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Absolute Justice

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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I watch Smallville periodically (although not religiously) but the Absolute Justice ep? Yeah, that’s seriously perking my interest! Looks fab. (via the Geek Syndicate Twitter)

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The next step in superhero comic evolution – the McHappy Read

Saturday, January 30, 2010

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If the return of variant covers, metallic shiny covers and the rest wasn’t enough, DC announced this week that their promotion for the recent Blackest Night event – giving retailers plastic lantern rings to give away – was so successful that they’re going to repeat it with the forthcoming Brightest Day event. For every 10 [...]

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Ian Rankin signing in Edinburgh

Friday, December 11, 2009

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We had the pleasure of hosting bestselling author Ian Rankin in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet last night, signing copies of his debut graphic novel Dark Entries, which sees John Constantine involved in a demonic reality show (what do you mean, all reality shows are secretly demonic?) for a delighted crowd of readers (click the pics [...]

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Darwyn Cooke’s Jonah Hex … ooooh, that’s nice.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

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Over on his blog Darwyn Cooke has an in-depth and interesting look at the art from Jonah Hex #50 where he spends time describing the process of experimenting with his art style, his influences and the sterling work of his colourist Dave Stewart: Couple of teaser quotes from Cooke: “The technique applied to the inks on Hex [...]

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Jeff Lemire revamps his site

Monday, November 23, 2009

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The excellent Jeff Lemire has revamped his official website and blog; if you’ve not read Jeff before its a good time to get in on his work, which I’m glad to see is gaining a wider audience. I first came across Jeff’s work via the engrossing Essex County trilogy which Top Shelf published (the series, [...]

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Peter Bagge’s Other Lives

Sunday, November 22, 2009

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Fresh images from the Vertigo blog of Peter Bagge’s 2010 Original Graphic Novel; Other Lives. It does look good – don’t you think?

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Red Son

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Hitting the racks tomorrow this rather tasty deluxe hardback edition of Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son; I love this Soviet propaganda style cover artwork by Dave Johnson.

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Ian Rankin signing in Edinburgh

Friday, October 30, 2009

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I’m delighted to say that international best-selling author Ian Rankin will be in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet International on Thursday the 10th of December from 5 to 7pm to sign copies of his comics debut with John Constantine, Dark Entries. You will need a ticket, but these are available free from the store (the event [...]

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The Dream Hunters

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Hitting the shelves today, the hardback edition of the excellent P Craig Russell’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: the Dream Hunters. I want.

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Carey and Gross on Tom Waters’ podcast

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Mike Carey and Peter Gross discuss their highly acclaimed new series for DC, The Unwritten, on Tom Waters’ Big Words I Know By Heart podcast. Unwritten is coming out from DC at the moment in monthly form while the first collected edition, Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity, is due to be published in January [...]

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Big changes at DC …..

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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Well, if you thought everything in US comicland would settle down after the recent Disney-Marvel deal it seems you were wrong. Big changes have been happening over at DC Comics in the last couple of days. For a start – it’s not DC Comics anymore. It’s now DC Entertainment. And that’s not all – here’s some of [...]

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