Marvel Entertainment is taking a serious interest in television programming. Today, the company announced the creation of a division to create TV programming based around its extensive library of comic book characters. Jeph Loeb was named Executive Vice-President, Television.
Category: Comic Books
BOOM! Studios Invades the 2010 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition!
During the 2010 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition comics fans can stop by booth #235 to meet with Michael Alan Nelson, the writer behind the acclaimed BOOM! Studio’s 28 DAYS LATER comic series and Keith R.A. DeCandido, writer of BOOM!’s Sci-Fi smash hit FARSCAPE comic series. Both will be signing daily through the duration of […]
Marvel Introduces The X-Men to The Heroic Age!
Why have vampires targeted the mutant population? And who’s the jaw-dropping new member of the X-Men? And just what is The Curse of the Mutants? These questions will be addressed when the Heroic Age’s first X-book, X-Men #1 – the first X-Men #1 in twenty years – drops on July 8, 2010. The comic book […]
Is Daredevil Going Evil?
Daredevil has been through some stuff in the last few years and it’s all coming to a head in Marvel’s upcoming Daredevil centric event – Shadowlands. Marvel sent over this teaser of Daredevil killing his nemesis Bullseye with the caption “The Birth of Marvels Greatest Villain.” Hmmmm…..
COMIC BOOKS: The Stuff of Legend is Genuinely Legendary!
The Stuff of Legend: Book 1: The Dark may be an unwieldy title, but the graphic novel – the first in a series that collects the serial originally published in the Th3rdWorld Studios comic book – is a fast-paced, darkly disturbing tale that posits the existence of a real Boogeyman. Not only that, said Boogeyman […]
COMIC BOOKS: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel!
The acclaimed mash-up of the classic Jane Austen novel with a harrowing tale of a zombie infestation, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, was a game-changer for genre literature – so, naturally, it was ripe for adaptation as a graphic novel.
Iron Man Extremis Motion Comic, Episode 2 Preview
Last year I purchased The Watchmen Motion Comic, which was so awful that I was turned off by all future Motion Comic Efforts. I watched episode 1 of Marvel’s Extremis Motion Comic and am now a believer in this medium’s potential. Marvel has created a first rate production here. The 2nd episode of this series […]
COMIC BOOKS: D.R. & Quich take on the US: 2000 AD announces the launch of US Graphic Novel Line!
Some of the most iconic figures in comics history have been published by 2000 AD: Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, DR & Quinch and Strontium Dog among them. Known for their cavalier attitude toward such niceties as ethics, morals and even the law, these characters have provided fans with unfettered action, seriously demented satire and […]
COMIC BOOKS: The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia: For The Wonder Woman Fan Who Doesn’t Know Everything!
Wonder Woman has the most convoluted history of any comics superhero, with more than a dozen variations since the character was created 1942. Small wonder, then, that this oversized tome from DC/Del Rey contains more than eleven hundred entries over its four hundred and eighty-eight pages.
COMIC BOOKS: Oni Press Premiere’s Yo Gabba Gabba! Hardcover Story Collection This Fall!
You’ve probably seen the TV show – it’s reached an audience far beyond its targeted pre-school demographic. You may even have seen one of the spectacular live shows. Now,W!LDBRAIN Entertainment’s Yo Gabba Gabba takes its retro-style, cool music, vivid art and wild entertainment into the realm of comic books! Courtesy of Oni Press, DJ Lance […]
Marvel’s Iron Man Extremis Motion Comic – A Behind the Scenes Look!
You know, I hated, HATED the Watchmen Motion comic, it forever turned me off the entire genre. However, this past weekend I watched a couple of Marvel’s motion comics on the World War Hulk DVD and I have to say I was impressed. The production values on the recently released Spider Woman one that I […]