With the possible exception of the Black Panther, no other black franchise has garnered as much “it’s going to be a major movie or TV show” hype within the fan rumor mill than Static Shock. Finally the Black Panther is going to happen. As for Static Shock … kinda. In 2018 the Black Panther movie…
The countdown to the Super Bowl kickoff is getting shorter, and the excitement is about to start. By the end of the night, who will be the big winners and losers on Madison Avenue? BBDO AdMan, Will Bordeau, gives us some last minute tips on the commercials you don’t want to miss plus we’re on…
Todd McFarlane told Game Pro that he is eager to begin work on a new Spawn feature film. “Yeah, you know…ever since Iron Man came out, the phone’s been ringing,” McFarlane admitted. “A movie studio CEO called me today, actually: ‘I just wanna say we’re interested. But I think he was the last of the…
Yesterday, the first part of my interview with Spawn creator Todd McFarlane focused on issue 185 of the long-running comic and the changes in store for readers as he returns to active creative duty with Whilce Portacio and Brian Holguin. Since part one ran, it has been announced that the shipping date has slipped a…
Spawn is now a teenager in the world of monthly super-hero comics, sixteen years old and counting since 1992 when creator Todd McFarlane moved out of Marvel’s House of Ideas to help form Image and launch his own flagship title. In 2008, Spawn is trying to reinvent itself and attract more readers and interest in…
Todd McFarlane recently announced that he’s returning to Spawn, the comic that helped build his empire. In a few months he, along with Image co-founder Whilce Portacio, return to the series and we’ve got the details, plus: — Viper brings back The Killer Tomatoes — Patsy Walker gets her soot in the Marvel Universe —…
Over at LA Weekly’s geek culture blog, Topless Robot, they’ve put together a list of the worst album covers designed by artists from the comics industry. Among the examples on their list is Canadian hip-hop group Swollen Members’ 2003 album Heavy, featuring a cover by Todd McFarlane. McFarlane has at least one respectable album-cover credit:…
Comics Links Variety reports that Todd McFarlane’s toy-based re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz is being developed as a movie. (See all the toys here; everyone else went with Dorothy as the obvious illo, but I thought his vision of Toto was just as bad, but even weirder.) Mark Evanier writes about Robert Kanigher and…
MTV News talked to Todd McFarlane about the new Spawn movie he’s financing himself. (Wait…isn’t he also claiming he’s bankrupt? Now I’m confused.) The LA Times has noticed that the dying-by-degrees traditional comic-book market isn’t looking quite as sickly as it had been recently. The inferior4+1 reports on a DC Comics press release which says…
Grammy award-winning Stevie Wonder is interviewed, DC’s weekly Countdown is discussed, and Tony Twist gets five million bucks from Todd McFarlane… all this and more (again) on our latest podcast from Mike Raub. Just press play:
