The untimely passing of Marshall Rogers has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream media, as there have been obituaries from both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Both laud his landmark work on Detective Comics as being a touchstone for many later artists’ interpretation of the Batman.
Robert Lee Washington III, a comic book writer best known for writing the first 18 issues of Static for Milestone Media, passed away today after suffering from multiple heart attacks. Robert had a heart attack yesterday afternoon. He collapsed, unconscious, and was rushed to Mount Sinai hospital in Queens. In the following twenty four hours,…
I love TV shows, but sometimes I’m terrible at keeping up with them. As with comics, I tend to skip a few weeks and then mainline three or four episodes in a row, mostly because I hate getting just a tiny bit of story and character interaction and then waiting a whole week for more….
You are reading a blog post. It is about a book. You immediately worry that this is going to be some kind of pomo bullshit, probably designed to mimic the book itself, and that the blogger thinks he’s being clever. Reader, you are so very right. Ex Libris is a visually inventive but thematically vague…
Brett Ratner has unsheathed his cinematic broadsword to impale the tender teat of the much beloved barbarian, Conan. Ain’t It Cool News reports that "it appears to be official that Brett Ratner is directing [Conan]." According to the Web site, the film’s scribe Howard McCain (Outlander) "had some big plans for how to structure the…
Matt Bomer, star of USA Network’s hit series White Collar, has joined the panel for the World Premiere of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s Superman: Unbound this Friday, March 29 at 6:00 p.m. as part of the WonderCon marquee evening event in the Anaheim Convention Center. As the voice of Superman, Bomer will headline the post-screening…
Kryptonsite reports that ABC has made the pilot of No Ordinary Family available online and legally over a month before its September 28 premiere… but only if you’re one of the first 50,000 people. Visit NoOrdinaryScreening.com and put in the password “Extraordinary.” (Please note that this is case-sensitive.) There, ABC is screening the pilot with limited interruption. This password/screening apparently…
