This is a milestone: it was announced at San Diego Comic-Con that a live-action adaptation of Last Blood, a webcomic first published on Keenspot back in 2006, is in the works with Simon Hunter (The Mutant Chronicles) directing with an anticipated 2012 release. To our knowledge, this is the furthest any webcomic has gone towards…
On this day in 1917, Will Eisner, American comics pioneer and creator of The Spirit, was born. He would have been 94 today. To celebrate, Google has devoted its Doodle to him today, and Scott McCloud (his Understanding Comics is the intellectual heir to Eisner’s Comics And Sequential Art) writes up a tribute at the…
MERLIN might be the best show you’re missing. Season 3 just kicked off on The SyFy Channel and series stars Colin Morgan and Bradley James talk about what makes the show so cool, plus a change At The Top over at Marvel Comics and the Spidey musical finally gets a (good) break! And be sure…
And here we go… We have lots of stuff from the preview at San Diego this year, and a lot of new material as well. Looking good– what do you think about it?
Just about everybody over the age of 12 who had gone to the fabled San Diego Comic Con over the past several years has perceived the unbelievably massive overcrowding as an accident just waiting to happen. Well, this year it finally happened. As reported here and elsewhere, last Saturday a confrontation between two attendees ended…
This just in! Starro, the hive-minded starfish-shaped ne’er-do-well of DC fame has decided to take over the Earth (again). Unlike previous attempts that alerted the JLA all too quickly, Starro this time methodically hatched his spores all over the 2010 San Diego Comic Con. Shown here, the first nerdy victim, was obtained for the 50…
Is he the new SPIDER-MAN? If the internet is right, LOGAN LERMAN will lead off the Spidey Reboot plus a photo finish at the Box Office (but make way for KICK ASS), IRON MAN 2 is already the #1 movie of the year and Alyssa Milano on her (non) role in GHOSTBUSTERS 3. And be…
Man, he won’t even choose on a stamp, will he? Archie is now part of the 2010 Stamp program from the US Postal Service. The stamps are expected to go on sale in July during the San Diego Comic-Con.
Now that San Diego is over, we can look ahead ten days or so to the next convention. At the 2009 Chicago Comicon, Comix4Sight has joined forced with Wizard Entertainment to hold a charity auction the evening of Saturday, August 8th. The goal is to raise sufficient funds to help cover the costs of John…
Heroes has been losing viewers like Claire Bennet loses toes in the last season or two. A new volume might mean a new hope, but can they pull it out? Tim Kring, the troubled show’s executive producer, along with panelists Jack Coleman (Noah Bennet), Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura), Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet), Adrian Pasdar (Nathan…
Just announced at the #cupofjoe panel in San Diego: Marvel Comics has acquired the rights to Miracelman. More details to come…
The nice folks releasing the Coraline DVD today (based on the award winning book by Neil Gaiman, doncha know) have given us a free copy of the DVD to give to a ComicMix reader. As we’re too dang busy between now and San Diego to grade essays on “why I should get the free DVD…
