Marvel have spoken with ‘Fantastic Four’ writer Jonathan Hickman where the ex-King of Wakanda, the ‘Black Panther’ is due to hit the spotlight in ‘Fantastic Four #606’, due out May 23. Marvel’s First Family may never be the same again. It all revolves around the worldwide lack of a certain precious metal found only in […]
Have you taken the leap for ‘Grim Leaper’?
Grim Leaper writer Kurtis J. Wiebe has revealed his thoughts on the new series, debuting at the end of May. In the story, every time he dies, Lou Collins jumps into a stranger’s body, and just as he’s learning something about his new host, another gruesome accident sends him leaping to the next one. Lou […]
Pete’s ‘Bagge’ of tricks!
Peter Bagge, cartoonist and creator of Buddy Bradley, Hate, Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, Sweatshop, Apocalypse Nerd and Other Lives has a new series called Reset debuting with Dark Horse this week, and he has shared a little of his writing process… “…I used to do everything by hand, including writing out all my outlines and […]
DC speak ‘Night of the Owls’ with artist Rafael Albuquerque
More ‘Night of Owls’ promotion from DC, this time a comment from ‘Batman’ back-up artist Rafael Albuquerque. In the brief article, he talks of his working methods with writer Scott Snyder. Full story.
A ‘Fraction’ of an Interview
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’ […]