Amid the "it’s been three days, is Johnny Hart still dead?" cracks elsewhere in the blogosphere, over at the Huffington Post student Frankie Thomas remembers Hart by placing his comics firmly in her childhood, then continues, "Let’s face it: when it comes to comics, print media is dead." She goes on to talk about the…
Via Jessa at Bookslut, the good news is that comic artist and journalist Joe Sacco has a 16-page piece in the latest Harper‘s entitled Down! Up! You’re in the Iraqi army now. You can see the thumbnails (like the one at right) here. The bad news is, you can’t see the full-size art to actually…
Wizard is reporting that writer David Goyer has sold an idea to Warner Bros. for a movie focusing on DCU supervillains. In Goyer’s vision, which he’s developing with fellow writer Justin Marx, Super Max would take place in a maximum security prison housing supervillains where a wrongly convicted Green Arrow has been sent and where…
Heidi Meeley at Comics Fairplay, which had a booth at this year’s Emerald City Con, is collecting everyone’s ECC reports to put all in one place. If you wrote about the con and your report isn’t included in her listing, please let her know. A link post like Heidi’s is one of the best ways…
Newsstand distributors have released some misprinted copies of Iron Man #16, wherein pages are printed out of order. Expect to see these on eBay shortly going for far more than their worth by any objective measure. Reports of copies of Iron Man #16 printed with their pages out of order appearing in various Borders bookstores…
This is the week ComicMix went interactive, adding our comments feature and Active Conversation/Latest Comments windows at the right. Rest assured there’s much more to come, but in the meantime here’s your weekly catch-up on our regular columns: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #8: You say you want an evolution… Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color…
Writer John August notes, "Ever since I announced that I’m writing Shazam!/Captain Marvel, I’ve gotten some great questions and comments from longtime fans of the character, many with detailed pleas to include a specific cherished piece of the mythology. But when I tell people face-to-face that I’m writing a Captain Marvel movie…their eyes go up…
You know something’s become a cultural phenomenon when it’s used as a springboard for humor pieces, on the assumption that viewers and readers will "get it" because the source material has become firmly embedded in our collective consciousness. So it was with great amusement that I read Dr. PZ Myers’ take on 300 wherein he…
From Scott at Polite Dissent: And from the first-ever Washington Post Peeps Show: I have no idea of the connection between Peeps and superheroes, but then I was never that much of a Peeps fanatic.
ComicMix would like to wish all our readers a very happy Easter, wherein we pay tribute to Eostre, the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxons — otherwise known as Astarte in ancient Greece, Ishtar in Assyria, Ostara in Norse myth, and Peeps in modern times — by eating questionable foodstuffs high in sugar content. And…
Auntie Beeb confirms that the Virgin Galactic spaceport proposal is a go. Residents of New Mexico have voted their approval of "a new tax to build the nation’s first commercial spaceport." Virgin Galactic will be building in Dona Ana County, described as " a relatively poor and bleak swathe of desert in southern New Mexico with…
When it comes to robots, it’s fairly well acknowledged that Japan’s been kicking other countries’ butts since the days of Astroboy. Now, reports IESB, "the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has drafted a hugely complex set of proposals for keeping robots in check. The document, entitled Draft Guidelines to Secure the Safe Performance of…
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