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Interview: Zenescope at NYCC
Interview with Zenescope Entertainment’s Ralph Tenesco at the New York Comic Con. Continue reading
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Tagged comic books, fantasy comics, indie comics, superhero comics, Zenescope
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Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 2
Previously: Comic Book Cramathon: Garth Ennis’s The Boys pt 1
So far The Boys has been a mixed bag of superhero conspiracy theory, toilet humour and extreme ultraviolence. With Volume Three: Good for the Soul, Ennis takes a breather, letting The Legend fill Hughie in on the Ennis’s intricate back-story. This couldn’t have come sooner, and lends a genuinely … read more
Interview: Artist Echo Chernik at NYCC
Interview with comic artist Echo Chernik at the New York Comic Con. Continue reading
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Tagged comic books, indie comics, sci-fi comics, superhero comics
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Interview: Brain Food Comics at NYCC
Interview with Brain Food Comics at the New York Comic Con. Continue reading
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Superheroes, Strip Artists & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists Review
2011, Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written by Britt Aamodt
Beneath the colourful imagery, comic books have always held a certain tragedy. Behind every fantastical world and heroic individual rising against the forces of evil there’s some poor, solitary soul confined to a drawing board, wondering how they were ever naïve enough to believe that drawing/writing comics could pay the bills. … read more
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Stan Lee’s The Guardian Project Graphic Novels up for Grabs
Stan Lee’s latest venture, The Guardian Project, has been unveiling its 30 new superhero creations – each based on a different NHL team – on a daily basis according to user votes on Facebook.
Those voting in the daily match-ups are automatically in with a chance to win one of 10 Limited Edition Guardian Project Graphic Novels per … read more
NBC’s ‘The Cape’ TV SHow Debuts this Sunday – iPad Preview Available
With a happy new year comes new season premieres, and one of the shows comic fans are probably most interested in/apprehensive about is NBC’s The Cape.
The show stars ER’s David Lyons as Vince Faraday, a police officer turned vigilante after being accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Faraday adopts the guise of his son’s favourite comic … read more
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Tagged DC Comics, Summer Glau, superhero comics, superhero movies
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Stan Lee’s Guardian Project Line-Up Revealed January
Fans of craptacular Marvel Comics creation NFL Superpro may soon have reason to rejoice. Stan Lee, in partnership with Guardian Media Entertainment and POW! Entertainment, has announced his new series The Guardian Project, an NHL-themed superhero title. Continue reading
Action Comics #894 Review
$3.99, DC
Story: Paul Cornell
Art: Pete Woods
Colours: Brad Anderson
Yup, it’s part 5 of ‘The Black Ring’, which shall forever more be referred to as ‘that issue of Superman with Death in it’.
I’m not quite sure why it’s so jarring to see Neil Gaiman’s Goth-girl incarnation of Death chatting with Lex Luthor. Early issues of The Sandman… read more
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Tagged comic books, DC Comics, Neil Gaiman, superhero comics, Superman
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Brian & Bobbi Graphic Novel Review
215 Ink
Story: Adam Wilson
Art: Franco Viglino
Ever since Stan Lee introduced fallible heroes with feet of clay, comic writers seem intent on convincing us that being born with superhuman powers is the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. Take Brian, the protagonist of 215 Ink’s latest graphic novel Brian & Bobbi, a teenager with the … read more
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