Norman Mailer died this morning, age 84, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. You can scour the news to read about his importance to literature in the Twentieth Century, from his ground-breaking novels to founding the Village Voice. But did you know he also helped change comics? One night, we had a dinner party for…
Artist Paul Norris died yesterday at the age of 93. Along with writer/editor Mort Weisinger, Norris created Aquaman, one of comics’ most enduring superheroes and one of only five to be continuously published since earliest days of the medium. A versitile and gifted artist, Norris also drew such major characters as Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Sandman,…
Eighty years ago on this day in Johnston, PA, Steve Ditko was born. If you know anything about comics, you know Ditko’s work as the creator of Blue Beetle, the Creeper, Killjoy, Mr. A., the Odd Man, the Question, Shade, the Changing Man, and Speedball, and the co-creator of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Captain Atom, Hawk and…
All is cool and cheery in the land of comics and pop culture as The Big ComicMix Broadcast kicks off the week with our rundown of new issues and DVDs to grab. We’ve got the lowdown on GI Joe on the big screen, Battlestar Galactica back on BOTH screens and Britain’s greatest hero gets reborn…
Tom The Bomb has some interesting ideas on what should have been in Spider-Man 3, along with many of the problems in the film: They did it AGAIN. Sandman is a criminal just to raise cash for his sick daughter? Geez, why don’t they just pit Spidey against Robin Hood? Maybe the Dalai Lama could…
by Lillian Baker and Martha Thomases We went to see Spider-Man 3 on Sunday afternoon in the East Village. Even though it was dinner-time, the movie theater was full. “We” are Lillian Baker, age 8, and Martha Thomases, age 54. Here’s what we thought. Beware of spoilers. MT: I enjoyed myself in the theater, although…
So here we are, one day before the highest anticipated film of 2007, Spider-Man 3, gets released into a record 4,252 theaters. I, just like about a billion other fans, couldn’t wait to see this flick, mostly because this is the film where we get the infamous Venom as a villain, along with a laundry…
The phone rang. It was a dame. A brunette who’d make a swear off X-books and swear he only read Sandman. She spoke in a voice like syrup. "Do you want to be spoiled? Fair warning." "You always spoil me, doll." "It’s going down tonight." "What are you talking about?" "A late night shooting. After…
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