Tag Archive | "DC Comics"

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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Guy Ritchie to direct Lobo movie

Friday, September 4, 2009

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Variety reports that former ‘Mr Madonna’ Guy Ritchie, currently working on the Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law-starring Sherlock Holmes movie (which is creating quite a buzz in movie circles) will be directing a film based on DC Comics’ Lobo for his next flick. The alien bounty hunter, created by Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer, was originally [...]

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Aquaman & Batman – it’s not any team up DC would recognise….

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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Fabio Moon (via hisTwitter) points out this great bit of unauthorised team up action featuring Batman and Aquaman from Brazilian artist Eduardo Medeiros. Someone let Mark Chiarello know we’ve got a perfect strip for next year’s Wednesday Comics. (link via Robot 6)

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Grant Morrison & Clive Barker in conversation

Saturday, August 22, 2009

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(Grant Morrison (left) and Clive Barker (right) in conversation at Meltdown Comics. Image from the Meltdown site.) A recent discussion between Clive Barker and Grant Morrison at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles July 1st 2009 has been posted with both video footage and a full transcript of the entire 3/4 hour event. It goes through a lot [...]

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A nice John Hughes tribute from Cliff Chiang

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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Writer and director John Hughes sadly passed away this week at a far too young 59 (BBC story and links). He was responsible for some of the most memorable and era-defining movies of the 80s, particularly for those of us growing up at the time. It doesn’t really matter whether you like them or not [...]

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All Star Superman Volume 2 – the end to possibly the only Superman story you ever need read.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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All Star Superman Volume 2 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely and Jamie Grant DC Comics. I’ve already reviewed both the first issue and the first volume (issues 1-6) of this story and it’s not going to come as a surprise to anyone that everything I wrote then still holds good: Morrison has taken Superman; a dull, tired character (after [...]

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Google goes Comics

Sunday, July 26, 2009

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Google search pages earlier this week were showing this Jim Lee designed DC heroes icon piece. It’s partly because of their teamup with the San Diego Comic Con (happening right now) and partly because of a recent expansion of the iGoogle themes to include various comic artists and characters. Should you wish you can have [...]

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Jonah Hex movie poster

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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Seems there’s a new Jonah Hex movie coming out in 2010. Nice poster though. Megan Fox always brightens up a movie poster. Even the god awful Transformers ones.

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Grant Morrison interview at the Onion AV Club

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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Another perrenially good interviewee, Grant Morrison always seems to have something worth talking about. And this interview at the Onion is no exception. “My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul. It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a [...]

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Den of Geek talks to Dave Gibbons

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Over on Den of Geek Michael Leader talks to the Dave Gibbons about the Watchmen movie as it comes out on DVD and how the addition of the Black Freighter and the ability to stop and re-watch scenes on disc adds to the sense of the film (I must confess I’m not convinced on that [...]

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Wednesday Comics issue 1: comics just got big again….

Friday, July 17, 2009

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Wednesday Comics # 1 Various DC Comics You might buy it on Wednesday (or more likely, here in the UK, on Thursday), but the perfect time to read Wednesday Comics is a Sunday morning. Unfold the comic to it’s full tabloid dimensions, lay it out on the floor and prop yourself up on your elbows to read it. [...]

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