Who’s your hero? Starting today, that’s a question ComicMix is posing to a number of folks inside the comics industry and then sharing the results with you. DC mainstay Jamal Igle steps up for the first crack at the query with some interesting results. Here’s a hint – his fave isn’t on this Teen Titans…
There’s an exciting new trend in comics these days. Comic book writers are actually being hired to write comic books. Recently, we’ve seen guys like Jim Shooter taking on The Legion of Super-Heroes, Marv Wolfman on sundry Teen Titans and the newer-still Vigilante, Tony Isabella told me he’s got a full schedule of assignments and…
At Heroes Con in Charlotte this past June, one convention goer asked DC EIC Dan DiDio what was the point of Amazons Attack. “What’s the point of any comic?” DiDio quipped back, leaving me to believe that the point was in fact simply to separate me from eighteen dollars and eat up ten minutes of…
A few news items of note from the various panels and such at the San Diego Comic-Con: • Marv Wolfman and George Pérez will be reunited to do Teen Titans issue #50. • Warren Ellis will be taking over for Joss Whedon on Astonishing X-Men next year. The title will change to Astonishing X-men: Second…
It’s said that there are only a few established art and entertainment forms that America can truly call its own — baseball, jazz music and comic books. It’s a bit of a hubristic statement, not surprising coming from a country as relatively young yet as vast as our own. It almost sounds as if we’re…
Writer/producer Mark Verheiden (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica,Timecop, The Mask, My Name Is Bruce) who’s also been known to write more than a few major comic books (Superman/Batman, Aliens, The Phantom, The American), will be handling the script for the new Teen Titans motion picture. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is being produced by Akiva…
The classic French science-fiction comic book character Barbarella will make her return to the big screen, according to Variety. Casino Royale writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have signed on to write the feature. Occassional comic book writer Jean-Marc Lofficier (Teen Titans) brokered the deal. The creation of Jean-Claude Forest, Barbarella turned heads in this…
Slightly more sincere than a Don Imus apology (which one?), ComicMix PodCast #25 asks the question "Why didn’t you see Grindhouse?", covers the cool new comics and DVDs waiting to meet your credit card and runs back to the day when the CB was the ultimate "IM." DC 52 #52 goes 48, SpongeBob gets two…
The Flash gets a new artist, the 2007 24-hour-comics-day is disclosed, this week’s new comics are previewed, Jae Lee is interviewed, IFC’s anime maven speaks… and… where is Buffy hiding? Mike Raub has the lowdown on ComicMix Podcast #10 — available right now, right here: Transcript www.ComicMix.com Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Is this…
Our second reviewer, longtime comics writer Tony Isabella, makes his debut as a ComicMix podcast critic and spells out his rules and regulations. Archie Comics takes on Marvel Comics in "Civil Chores." More previews of this weekend’s NYCC. Mike Raub delivers the news and the goods on ComicMix podcast #5 — which you can get…
