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Some diligent journalist needs to jump in and write a book about the ongoing fight for the rights to Stan Lee’s Marvel creations, because it becomes a little more bizarre every day. The case is essentially between Stan Lee Media and its shareholders, who are collectively filing suit against Marvel and Stan Lee, saying they…
Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft By Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez IDW Publishing, October 2008, $24.99 Horror in comic books have always been an uneven affair. These days, horror comics tend to feature zombies or H.P. Lovecraft adaptations but there’s so much more that can explored. Fortunately, Joe Hill doesn’t mind going where others…
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) will next try his hand at adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan. He has a script from Stuart Beattie (Australia) that ignores the classic 1912 novel in favor of a story set in the 1930s that will be a “romp with a hefty helping of romance: Think…
By the time this column runs we may have some other, more fresh horror than the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Certainly, those of us who love comics will have read myriad opinions on What It All Means, and, perhaps, we will simply want to talk about something else. Tough noogies….
Salon.com has added Berkeley Breathed’s weekly Bloom County spin-off Opus (or is Opus an Outland spin-off?) to its plethora of political and cultural features. Other comics on Salon.com include Tom The Dancing Bug, WayLay and The K Chronicles. To celebrate the occasion, our pal Douglas Wolk did up a major interview with Berkeley. where the…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of All Things Pulp by Tommy Hancock DILLON AND THE VOICE OF ODINBy Derrick Ferguson178 PagesPublished by Pulpwork Press I read a lot, always have. I read a lot of Pulp, Pulp of all varieties and all stripes and eat it up like a jungle explorer lost in a desert who finished…