Kill Shakespeare #1: A Sea of Troubles is one of the stranger comics I’ve read. The premise is that England is under the thrall of thee evil wizard, William Shakespeare – and that banished Danish Prince Hamlet is the one prophesied to kill him and free England from tyranny.
Category: Comic Books
WonderCon 2010 Day 1 in Pictures!
It’s WonderCon time here in San Francisco. The first day was pretty mellow with a manageable crowd. The highlight of the day was The Television Composer’s Panel which featured Emmy Award Winning Composer Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisy), Lisa Coleman! (of Wendy and Lisa fame and currently the Composer for Heroes), and Jeremy Zuckerman & Ben […]
WonderCon 2010: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Yesterday, I had a sit down with a very rare species – a female video game producer. Meghan Morgan is the producer on the brand new Activision title, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. She gave us a walkthrough of the the game and some tidbits. Here’s what I learned from our 1/2 hour discussion: The game’s plot […]
Iron Man Extremis: Motion Comic Preview and EclipseMagazine.com Exclusive!
The folks at Marvel sent over this Exclusive clip of their upcoming Motion Comic – Iron Man: Extremis! Check it out, it’s really cool.
COMIC BOOKS: The Legendary CBGB Rocks Again Thanks to BOOM! Studios!
CBGB was the legendary New York club that broke such acts as The Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads and Television – to name a few. BOOM! Studios and CBGB Holdings will release a sneak preview of the CBGB comic book mini-series at the SXSW CBGB Stories panel hosted by Seymour Stein, president and chairman of Sire […]
COMIC BOOKS/GAMES: The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade – How Two Guys Went From Web Comic Creators To Moguls While Trying To Avoid Any Kind Of Work!
The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade is, like its writers, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, many things. It is an autobiography of the writers; a chronicle of how posting a web comic strip back in 1998 led to a company that publishes the web comic; has set up a multi-million dollar charity, and created the […]
COMIC BOOKS: BOOM! Studios Brings TV’s Most Daring Villain to Comics With Farscape: Scorpius!
BOOM! Studios has built a good reputation as a comics publisher that both licences great properties [Uncle Scrooge, Cars, Die Hard, Farscape] and quality titles [Incorruptible, 10, Irredeemable] produced by some of comics’ most talented writers and artists [Mark Waid, Keith Giffen, Mike Mignola]. One of their most successful franchises is Farscape – they’ve produced several […]
GRAPHIC NOVELS: [Forty-Five] Creates a Unique New World!
Anyone who’s read previous Com.X releases [Cla$$War, Razorjack, etc.] will likely be delighted with the publisher’s newest release, [Forty-Five]. It’s a unique idea that may have been inspired – at least in part – Who’s Who collections of the sort that Marvel and DC have published in the past, but with one unique twist. Rather […]
MOVIES: All-New Spider-Man in 2012 – New Writer, New Director, New Cast!
Sony’s billion-dollar Spider-Man franchise is undergoing a complete overhaul. According to deadline.com, creative differences have led to Sam Raimi pulling out of Spider-Man 4. Now the next Spider-Man film will be written by Jamie Vanderbilt [Zodiac] and will reboot the series – taking Peter Parker back to high school, where he will be a teenager […]
Comic Books: Marvel Proclaims 2010 The Year of Spiderman!
I usually don’t post dumb teasers like this, but hey it’s a slow news week and I’m genuinely curious about what Marvel has planned for Spiderman in 2010. Every since that dumb retcon a couple of years ago, I have to admit Spiderman has been on a roll lately, I still think he should get […]
COMICS: Deadlocke – Let’s Talk Anger Issues!
Sometimes the story of how a comic comes to be is almost as interesting as the comic itself [think the metamorphosis of The Middleman from spec script to comic; from comic to TV series, and from TV series back to comic…]. Deadlocke, written by Arvid Nelson and drawn by Nick Stakal, has followed almost as […]