This past weekend Hollywood made a raid for new properties to take to the big screen. We’ve got the story — and here’s a hint on one of them, plus: — The Incredible Hulk trailer arrives at last, so get your TiVo set! — Heroes‘ Adrian Pasdar tells us how he COULD survive for Season…
Peter Gross has been working in comics since the 1990s, when he self-published the black-and-white series Empire Lanes. He’s best known for his work on DC’s Books of Magic and Lucifer but he also did artwork for Marvel’s Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme and Hellstorm: Prince of Lies lines and for Dark Horse titles Chosen and…
First, Marvel launched its online comics subscription service last November where you could read over 3000 comics online. Now, the company is dipping another virtual toe in the Internet’s waters and has joined with social networking site Facebook to launch a new digital comics application. This new application, according to Marvel: …immerses fans in the…
This week’s marks eleven years since the passing of my late wife, Kimberly Yale. The best way to remember people, I’ve found, is through stories – stories you know or stories you’ve heard. Story is what I do. So here are some of the stories by which I remember Kim. Kim and I…
It looks like Stan Lee’s next collaboration in comics will be one with a Far East flavor – we’ve got the story, plus — Jonathan Hickman’s Pax Romana is now free and online — Family Guy spins off Cleveland — The folks at Cannes will see Indiana Jones first — And yes, a brand new…
Eight years ago an anime appeared that has stood, and even reverberated, the test of time. Blood: The Last Vampire was a groundbreaking and engrossing effort that clearly left virtually everyone who saw it wanting more. Clocking in at a breathless, seemingly unfinished, forty-eight minutes (just enough to fill a network TV hour slot),…
Actor Richard Hatch has had the privilege of seeing the inside of the spaceship Battlestar: Galactica across three decades and two very distinctively different series. as the current show gets ready for its final voyage, he gives us his perspective on where it’s been and where it will end, plus: — Hulk scores another sell…
In order to entice readers and get them excited for Drew Goddard’s upcoming four-issue arc on Dark Horse Comics’ Buffy: Season Eight (as previously mentioned here), the publisher has now put another of Goddard’s Buffy stories, "Antique", online for your no-cost reading pleasure. The story, which has been posted in its entirety at the site, is part…
This column has its roots in Mike Gold’s column this week. While it’s not necessary to read Uncle Whizzy’s Wazoo this week, it is recommended – as it is every week. Loves my UWW on Monday! I’ve spent a lot of my writing career in other people’s sandboxes and, in general, have had…
Alice in Sunderland Bryan Talbot Dark Horse Books, 2007, $29.95 Even for an artist as hard to pin down as Talbot, [[[Alice in Sunderland]]] is odd and unique: it’s one-half a local history of the town in northern England where Talbot lives now and one-half a popular history of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll)…
LEGO’s coolest product now hits the comic stores – in two formats, no less. We’ve got the story, plus: — EA and Image offer up some Dead Space — Candyland, Battleship and Magic – all headed to the theaters — A new week means another brand-new trivia question and another chance to grab an exclusive…
The writer and artist behind my favorite graphic novel of last year, Top Shelf’s Super Spy, just announced the two projects he’ll be working on this year. On his Web site, Matt Kindt just revealed he’s currently putting together a book titled 3 Story: The History of the Giant Man for Dark Horse. Kindt writes…
