Ostrander Auction: ‘Detective Comics’ #768 page 22 from Steve Lieber with Batman

With only four issues remaining in Countdown to Final Crisis, the looming end of DC’s year-long, weekly series marks not only the grand finale of a sprawling, epic storyline but also the conclusion of two years of weekly deadlines for industry veteran Keith Giffen. After serving in the role of "breakdown artist" for the entire…
I’ve seen a few Internet commenters wondering why anyone would want to smell like a “sweaty robotic suit” or whatever, but really, it’s refreshing to see a comics-related tie-in that’s not a t-shirt or knick-knack made of plastic. I’m an adult, and sometimes it’s fun to buy adult things that are also totally geeky. And…
Over at Making Light, former Valiant Comics editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden started a thread on trying to explain marketing categories in publishing, and how they’re not solely determined by the content: Say your book features a strange and powerful device, the Transnistrian Infundibulator: If the storyline is about the inception, interim difficulties, and eventual happy…
Filmmaker Matthew Vaughn recently announced plans to go the independent route with an adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s gritty series Kick-Ass after studios balked at the ages of the characters and the level of violence in the story. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Vaughn has managed to raise $30 million on his…
That’s it. I’m burned out. I’m frazzled. I’m toast. It’s all getting to me. I close my eyes, but the browser tabs stare at me. What to do? Luckily, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, autor of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Roswell novels, as well as many of her own, has started writing The Freelancer’s Survival Guide….
Today’s collection of items may not be worth a post of their own, but may be of interest: Twilight watch: Director Catherine Hardwicke declined a monster payday to direct the sequel New Moon, but she said no because she didn’t want to make the movie under the deadline and budget constraints that would have been…