A couple of weeks ago I posted about comic book writer Mark Sable’s troubles with the TSA over a script of his excellent “Unthinkable” comic. What happened was Sable was detained by the authority because […]
Fantagraphics has just published a new collection of comics from “Hate” creator Peter Bagge: Everybody is Stupid Except for Me. Originally appearing in the pages of Reason- a 40ish year old Libertarian magazine with a […]
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian is writing a new “Lobo” series with Sam Kieth. This is today’s “get me this book, right now” moment. Brian Bendis is getting on the Amazing Spider-Man crew with number […]
Sometimes, I just can’t help myself when stuff like this comes down the pipe just before the weekend. Its like Hollywood intentionally plans on torturing us to deliberate and scream at each other over the […]
We’re big memorabilia people here at The Daily Planet, even bigger at the store. All I can say is that if I ever get the chance, I am so buying that full size Thor helmet. […]
Released today, Andy Runton’s award winning kid’s comic “Owly” will star in its own animated short film at the San Diego Comic Con. From the release: Directed by Moto Sakakibara and storyboarded by creator Andy […]
A big thanks to Jeff Ayers for that message and the compliment yesterday, and also to Heidi MacDonald for the link. Earlier today, Heidi informed us of the Comics Interweb on a recent ruling in […]
I’m really, really trying to not go into a “Shining” reference here, so please thank me for that. Since our new online store has gone live (hint, hint its at the right or click here), […]
Hot topic. During a team-up with horror writer Clive Barker last week at Los Angeles’s Meltdown comic book store, Grant Morrison said that he was currently writing the book where Wonder Woman would return to […]
Just wanted to take a second and post hoping that each and everyone of you readers out there are having a lovely Fourth. Here in New York City, the climate is a perfect 70 degrees […]
In a story with NPR, “Superman” group editor Matt Idelson declared that Supergirl would begin wearing bike shorts under her signature skirt. From the copy: The man in question: DC Comics editor Matt Idleson. The […]
New comics. This week we have Steve Rogers coming back from the dead, in “Captain America Reborn”. Though it shouldn’t matter whether he comes back from the dead, it is sure to be a beautifully […]
“Babylon 5” creator J. Michael Straczynski is leaving “Thor”. His exit on the extremely popular, Eisner nominated re-boot had long been rumored, and was confirmed by Comic Book Resources on Friday. JMS said: The one […]
Mark Sable, writer of Boom! Studios “Unthinkable” comic about a writer who goes to work for a think tank to predict terrorist scenarios post 9/11 became a “person of interest” recently while traveling to New […]
Good thing, because he will be playing Spider-Man’s penultimate nemesis, Norman Osborn in Julie Taymor’s Broadway show, “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.” Also announced with Cumming, via press release, Evan Rachel Wood (currently starring in […]
Collider reports from a press screening of “Watchmen: The Director’s Cut” on Blu-ray that Zack Snyder’s full vision of “Watchmen” will have a brief theatrical run in four cities for one weekend before Comic Con […]
“This will not do!” It always amazes me peoples’ varied perceptions of our cumulative geekiness as comic and SF fans. And were you in my position you, too, would struggle with the connotations people in […]
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.” -Elvis Costello An anonymous email received in response to last week’s column- wherein I recalled the laughable […]
by Jeff Ayers “Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out. And then bring one every ten minutes.” This past Saturday I was struck by a sudden, sharp, and sobering […]
Further proving this writer’s hypothesis that damn near everyone involved in the pop arts these days wants to be associated with comics and geek culture, an onslaught of prose novelists are releasing comics in the […]
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