Tag Archive | "DC Comics"

Resurrection time…. forgotten pieces from Vertigo’s past

Friday, March 11, 2011

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Vertigo Resurrected: Shoot and other stories Written by Warren Ellis, Brian J. Bolland, Brian Azzarello, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Steven T. Seagle, Peter Millgan, Bill Willingham and Bruce Jones. Art by Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning, Brian Bolland, Essad Ribic, Frank Quitely, Jim Lee, Tim Sale, Eduardo Risso, Bill Willingham, Bernie Wrightson, Tim Bradstreet. DC/Vertigo Vertigo [...]

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DC draws the line …. Marvel’s Tom Brevoort snarks back

Saturday, January 8, 2011

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So, DC have come out with their “Drawing The Line” campaign. Dropping the cost of their main books to $2.99 and the page count from 22 story pages to 20. Does this mean that every year, as comic prices get higher and higher, DC are going to keep dropping the page count? That would make [...]

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The French Batman vs The Racists…..

Friday, December 31, 2010

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There’s a new Batman title called Batman Inc. and from what I gather it involves Bruce Wayne franchising out the Batman role around the world. Yes, it’s McDark Knight. I haven’t read it. Apologies. It’s been a busy Christmas and the idea of a Batman franchise, even one written by Grant Morrison, just doesn’t really [...]

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Jim Lee talks DC Online

Thursday, December 30, 2010

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Sony’s videocast talks to DC Comics’ Jim Lee about the new multiplayer DC Universe Online: Interview with Jim Lee about DC Universe Online – SGNL from SonyElectronics on Vimeo.

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Nice art – covers, galleries and auctions…

Sunday, November 14, 2010

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From hither and thon…. Darwyn Cooke’s variant Flash #7 cover – from DC’s Source blog. Beautifully evokes the spirit of Carmine Infantino. Art from a French gallery retrospective of Ben Templesmith’s work. More details on Templesmith’s blog. A hugely famous cover to Detective Comics #69 by Jerry Robinson – and now available for your wall [...]

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Unauthorised Comics….

Saturday, October 16, 2010

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Unauthorised Comics are a series of short multi page strips curated by Ulises Alfonso Farinas, featuring some very familiar DC characters – Batman, Big Barda and Gren lantern are shown above, but there’s also Deadman, Wonder Woman and Plastic Man. And there’s some very, very good work in there as well. Farinas introduces the site [...]

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Welcome, Cereal Convention

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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The first three volumes of the new editions of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman go on the racks today, nice new trade paperbacks (using the much restored artowrk and colouring from the Absolute Sandman editions) of Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll’s House and the short story collection Dream Country. Glancing inside Doll’s House I’m reminded of a [...]

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P. Craig Russell’s vision of Death in Action Comics

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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Paul Cornell blogs about the forthcoming issue 894 of Action Comics which not only features Neil Gaiman’s character Death making a rare appearance in the DC Universe but this lovely P. Craig Russell variant cover as well. (Yes, I hate variant covers as a concept, but it doesn’t mean I can’t occasionally enjoy looking at [...]

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Dear DC Comics…..

Sunday, September 26, 2010

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……. do you remember when you at least pretended that your superhero comics could be enjoyed by children? Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #5 – out in December. Just stupid DC. $4 and a cover that no mom and dad would buy for their children. What was it people were saying about DC Entertainment cutting DC [...]

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Wildstorm…. put out of it’s misery?

Saturday, September 25, 2010

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This week we had the not too surprising news that DC Entertainment, owned by Warner Bros, was relocating to the west coast so that all of the media properties that Warner are really going to exploit the life out of will be where all the money is. Meanwhile, DC Comics stayed put, seemingly cast adrift [...]

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Jerry Robinson: Ambassador Of Comics

Thursday, September 16, 2010

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Jerry Robinson: Ambassador Of Comics Written by N. C. Christopher Couch; illustrated by Jerry Robinson; introduction by Pete Hamill; foreword by Dennis O’Neil Abrams ComicArts Jerry Robinson is described on the cover flaps of Ambassador Of Comics as “one of the living legends of American comics” and it’s something you can’t really argue with. He [...]

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Modern Age gets Silver Age treatment…

Saturday, August 7, 2010

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Missed this until this week – more great stuff from Chris Sims at Comic Alliance - imagine todays comic covers done classic (DC) Silver Age style. There’s lots more at the link, but this one’s my favourite, probably just for the Infantino pointy finger caption…..

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Forbidden DC to be published….

Saturday, July 24, 2010

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Earlier this week we got the news that DC/Vertigo were looking back through the archives at material they’d passed on for one reason or another and have had a change of heart. First up is Warren Ellis’ Hellblazer story “Shoot”, which was spiked after the Columbine shootings and never published. Over at Warren Ellis’ blog he [...]

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Wonder Woman gets a new costume, Internet explodes…..

Saturday, July 3, 2010

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Or was that just my take on it? Earlier this week DC (via The New York Times) unveiled a new costume for Wonder Woman, designed by Jim Lee and premiering in Wonder Woman 600 out last week. Quite a lot of people don’t like it. And an awful lot of them have gone online to [...]

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Sometimes cussing is just necessary….

Saturday, June 12, 2010

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…. and sometimes it’s funny as well. This from Comics Daily had me laughing like a drain. And you know what, they have a bloody good point. This…… is really, really shite. What the hell is up with DC at the moment? It’s like they’re trying to be as offensive as possible and destroy any [...]

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