Marvel have spoken this week with Matt Fraction, one of the busiest writers in the comic book industry today. Currently involved with ‘Avengers vs. X-men’, ‘Invincible Iron Man’, ‘The Mighty Thor’ and ‘Defenders’, amongst others, Fraction talks about AvX and his love of comics stemming from ‘Secret Wars’, “My favorite fights were, well, all of […]
DC ‘Night of the Owls’ Free Digital Checklist
DC have made a free digital booklet available that chronicles the entire Night of the Owlsevent. The booklet features a checklist of all issues that are part of the event, including Batman, Nightwing, Detective Comics, Batwing, Batgirl, Birds Of Prey, Catwoman, Red Hood And The Outlaws, All-Star Western and Batman: The Dark Knight. The digital […]
Top Cow’s Artifacts online for FREE!
Top Cow will be posting pages of Artifacts on their homepage (topcow.com) for free. From this week, you can go to the website and read one page per week for free. As this is the debut week, there are three pages up so far. A new page will be posted every subsequent Tuesday from here […]
New ‘Old Comics’ in the Library of American Comics
IDW have announced a great new series of the Library of American Comics ESSENTIALS premiering in September. The hardcover books will feature a year’s worth of daily newspaper strips that are essential to the history of comics presented in an oblong novel format, 11″ wide by 4.25″ high. Each page will showcase the title given […]
‘House of Night’ in motion
Dark Horse have added another motion comic available for everyone online. This time it’s House of Night # “In the world of House of Night, society has known about vampyres for thousands of years, but humans have not always co-existed peacefully with them. In Beregen, Norway, there wasn’t a House of Night established for the […]
More ‘Night of Owls’ from writer James Tynion IV
DC continue their promotion of the Night of the Owls Batman crossover event with an interview with Batman back-up co-writer James Tynion IV. “I could see the epic size and shape of the story as it began last September. I was devouring every issue waiting to see what might happen next. When Scott offered me […]
Dark Horse talk ‘Resident Alien’
Dark Horse have posted an interview with writer Peter Hogan about Resident Alien, which launches today with issue #0. Hogan talks of his ideas behind lead character Harry and his experience working with artist Steve Parkhouse: “[Harry is] the ultimate outsider, and outsiders by definition make good observers. The fact that Harry has more sensitivity […]
Marvel Max Payne comic imminent
Via the Rockstar Games site, Marvel have announced that, through their ‘Custom’ label, they will be releasing a new digital comic series featuring the videogame character ‘Max Payne’. It will be written by Dan Houser and Remedy’s Sam Lake with artwork from Fernando Blanco and feature cover art from Greg Horn. The ‘Max Payne 3’ […]
This Weeks Comics (18 April 2012)
Comics scheduled for release on 18th April 2012. STAR WARS DAWN Of THE JEDI FORCE STORM #1 (3rd print) Dark Horse On the planet Tython, in the center of the galaxy, an order of warrior monks strives to maintain peace and to balance the mysterious power known as the Force. But a stranger is coming-one […]
Avengers Assemble: Iron Man vs. Thor Clip
Marvel have uploaded this great snippet of Iron Man facing off against Thor. Have a look at these great, recommended Iron Man and Black Widow books.
Transformers continues 21 years later!
Big news for fans of Cybertron’s finest: IDW have announced their plans to continue the old Generation One ‘Transformers’ comic book 21 years after it was last published! Following on from ‘Transformers #80’ (published in 1991), writer Simon Furman and artist Andrew Wildman will be creating all-new stories from the robots in disguise. ‘Transformers #81’ […]
More ‘Night of the Owls’ chat
Like writer Scott Snyder, ‘Batman’ artist Greg Capullo has also spoken to DC about the imminent ‘Night of the Owls’ crossover event. ‘Night of the Owls’ starts in ‘Batman #8’ and ‘Nightwing #8’, then continues across all of the Bat-family titles. Check out the full interviews with Greg Capullo and Scott Snyder.