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Also at DC Nation panel at the Emerald City ComiCon this weekend, writer Greg Rucka said that the long-rumored Batwoman comic is forthcoming. The announcement wasn’t supposed to be made until San Diego, but after the crowd let out a chorus of boos, Rucka confirmed it. This comes a few months after DiDio [...]
Peter PanBill Willingham had some great news for Fables fans at the DC Nation panel at the Emerald City ComiCon this weekend — he’s been given the ok, presumably from DC’s legal department, to use Peter Pan in Fables. Expect to see the character show up sometime after issue #75.
Willingham had originally planned on [...]
WitchbladeAfter a TV series on TNT and an anime version, Witchblade stretches her media legs once again — Variety reports that Platinum Studios, Top Cow Prods. and Arclight Films are working on a live-action Witchblade movie. They hope to start production in September.
In addition to a brief WTF moment in the article [...]
– Tom Spurgeon interviews Tripwire editor Joel Meadows.
– Fantagraphics store manager Larry Reid is profiled.
– Blog@ columnist Neil Kleid is going to be at the People’s Improv Theater for Comic Book Club in New York Tuesday night.
– Gelatometti has video from the Image Seven signing on Free Comic Book Day.
– San Diego Comic Con teasing [...]
Iron Man #120th Century Danny Boy reports that legendary artist Gene Colan’s liver is failing him, according to an email sent by Gene’s wife, Adrienne:
My darling, sweet, handsome and brilliantly gifted husband’s liver is failing. The complications are very nasty. This week it’s fluid retention and encephalitis. He’s on powerful meds now to diminish the [...]
This week I toyed with the idea of a Dave theme week–quoting folks in support of Dave Sim’s correspondence policy or Hispanics in support of this other Dave. But both prospects could not hold my attention for long. Instead I opted for the following random quotes, not necessarily all inspired by events of the week. [...]
Iron Man for PSP CoverI recently played the PSP version of Iron Man and while some of the features are impressive, it seems Sega forgot the most important aspect of any game: fun. That’s right, Iron Man for the PSP just isn’t all that fun to play. It seems, especially for [...]
Dave Sim’s new work Glamourpuss has begun to see print and so far the reactions are interesting.
Ben Avery gives a generally positive review:
Essentially, the comic is Dave Sim musing about what this comic will be. Graphically, he starts out drawing photo-realistic black and white drawings of fashion models and ruminating on how he could do [...]
Dateline NBC
The Dateline NBC website has the complete transcript, and partial video, from last night’s episode, which focused on the murder trial of retailer Michael George.
George, co-founder of Pittsburgh Comic-Con, was convicted in March in the 1990 killing of his first wife Barbara. A jury found that he shot her in the back of their [...]
Pulp TalesBOOM! Studios and a great line-up of creators are putting together a benefit book for artist Josh Medors, who has cancer. Pulp Tales Benefit Book is due in September and can be pre-ordered on the BOOM! site now:
PULP TALES BENEFIT BOOK FOR JOSH MEDORS
Contributions by Steve Niles, Josh Fialkov, Kody Chamberlain, Tony Fleecs, [...]
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