After a pretty unambiguously down second season, the NBC show Heroes is looking to get the magic back from its debut season that marked it as the network’s most important show. In an interview with the New York Times, Heroes creator Tim Kring gave some insights into what’s to come, as well as reflecting back…
Over at MTV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon talks about the big new direction for the comic book series, which sees Buffy and crew going off into the future. In case, like me, you don’t hold a Ph.D. from Whedon University, it’s a good primer on all the implications that take hold with…
You’ve likely heard a bit about a recent cartoon in the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest (seen at right) that was a pretty direct ripoff of an old Jack Kirby cover. The New York Post, among others, called it plagiarism. This doesn’t delve too much into that debate, but Patrick House, the man who won…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a series of reviews of the five books coming out from DC’s Minx imprint this year. Previously, Van Jensen reviewed Rebecca Donner’s Burnout and Cecil Castellucci’s Janes in Love. -RM] Brian Wood is a very good writer. Ryan Kelly is a very good artist. That makes the failure…
At the New York Comicon, Sega’s BJ Enriquez was elusive when asked about downloadable characters for the upcoming videogame based on The Incredible Hulk movie. Now we know why. Retailer Gamestop announced that Red Hulk, the mysterious enemy seen in current Hulk comics, would be a exclusive, playable character for customers who pre-order the Xbox…
It isn’t often that mainstream media picks up on toy collector news, but various news sources couldn’t help notice a mania for Dark Knight action figures based on Heath Ledger’s Joker. The New York Post reported that people lined up the day they went on sale. Within minutes, the stock was sold out. The craze…
Activision’s Call of Duty videogame series is, right now, the most popular game series on the market with Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat. What’s made the military shooter the #1 played online game for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC is the frantic, multiplayer action. At the New York Comic Con, Upper…
We assumed the crowd would be larger Saturday, but this is getting ridiculous. New York Comic Con rolls onward, dragging us in its wake. Here are a few shots from the floor Friday, taken before the masses overran the Javits.
As you probably know, except for the LA-based Michael Davis, every ComicMix columnist lives in the NY-NJ-CT metropolitan area. The famous magazine cover at right chides our perspective as somewhat skewed, but in reality I think New York City and its surrounding suburbs offer a pretty good microcosm of modern civilization. Not for nothing are…
Ah, Christmas in New York! ÂÂ The decorations, the good will, the beautiful tree in Rockefeller Center! ÂÂ In today’s brand-new episode of Jon Sable, Freelance: Ashes of Eden, by Mike Grell, the city is all that and more — because the terrorist Bashira has a nuclear weapon, and Jon and Maggie have to find…
Edward Zane Carroll Judson was born on March 20, 1886 in Stamford, Delaware County, New York. He ran away from home as a boy and took to the sea, taking on the name Ned Buntline, which he would use for the rest of his life—a “buntline” is the rope at the bottom of a square…
One of the best surprises in the stores this week was Mark Evanier’s long-awaited Kirby: King Of Comics biography of Jack Kirby, which is the latest step in his longtime association with the King. Mark gives us the story behind the book in an excerpt from an interview you can read on Monday here at…
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