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Could this be a vision of John Constantine’s future?

Monday, May 2, 2011

Please, if you haven’t read Brightest Day ##24 yet, and have any interest in doing so, just stop reading now. You all thought Grant Morrison’s superhero John Constantine was just a ridiculous, overblown, bit of fun courtesy of a Danny The Street dream in issue 53 of The Doom Patrol (art by Ken Steacy). But [...]

Tiny Titans …. awwww. now with added pink.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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I’ve been meaning to have a look at DC’s rather adorable looking Tiny Titans for a long time, and it’s on the next want list for the primary school graphic novel library I’m in charge of. Well, if I wasn’t convinced before this would definitely have done it – a quick interview with artists Art [...]

Brendan McCarthy’s unused Grant Morrison script for Doom Patrol….

Saturday, April 16, 2011

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…. and he’s doodled all over it: From the FuckyeahGrantMorrison Tumblr. Originally published on The Strangeness Of Brendan McCarthy fansite where Brenden had this to say: “I found this DOOM PATROL script the other day that I had doodled all over, from Grant Morrison… It was an episode that Grant wrote for me to draw [...]

Green Lantern Wondercon Trailer….

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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You know, I really can’t decide on this. The first minute or so looks like a video game advert (you know the bits where they stick the phrase “not actual game footage” on screen?), and that stupid little mask is just plain ridiculous, but towards the end there’s a little feeling that this might just [...]

“Do you really think the families of Superman’s creators should be treated this way?”

Saturday, April 2, 2011

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(Joanne Siegel in the 1940s and in a Joe Shuster sketch looking very Lois Lane) This has been all over the comic Internet last week, but I couldn’t not at least mention it. Less than two months ago, on February 12th 2011, Joanne Siegel died at age 93. She was the widow of Superman co-creator [...]

Alternative world Opus

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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This appeals to my inner comics and my inner SciFi geek so much – in the excellent SF series Fringe (currently one of my favourite shows) there is a second, parallel Earth, similar to our world but a little different. Slightly different versions of the characters we know, differences like the World Trade Centre towers [...]

A very brief look at DC’s history

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Vincent Molina fairly flies us at a superpowered pace through a very brief visual look at the history of DC Comics in about a minute:

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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Could this be a vision of John Constantine’s future?

Tiny Titans …. awwww. now with added pink.

Brendan McCarthy’s unused Grant Morrison script for Doom Patrol….

Green Lantern Wondercon Trailer….

“Do you really think the families of Superman’s creators should be treated this way?”

Alternative world Opus

A very brief look at DC’s history

Resurrection time…. forgotten pieces from Vertigo’s past

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

The French Batman vs The Racists…..

Jim Lee talks DC Online

Nice art – covers, galleries and auctions…

Unauthorised Comics….

Welcome, Cereal Convention

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

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