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Blog@ Q&A: Ivan Brunetti

I’ve read enough bad or lackluster anthologies over the years to know it’s not something you can just slap together. It takes real editorial vision and guidance to put together a solid collection of work, whether you’re talking about new material or older reprints. Which is my roundabout way of saying just how impressed I am [...]

Long live Smallville’s Legion?

If IMDB is to be believed, we now know the identities of Smallville’s teen-agers from the future. The Kryptonsite fan site points out that the entry for the Geoff Johns-written “Legion” episode has been updated with 25-year-old Ryan Kennedy as Cosmic Boy, and 17-year-old Calum Worthy as Lightning Lad. They join 22-year-old Canadian actress/pop singer Alexz [...]

Neveldine, Taylor drop out of Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex has survived the Civil War, countless gunfights and a trip into the far-flung future. But can he endure that dreaded Hollywood menace known as “creative differences”? Variety reports the Crank team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have dropped out as directors of the Warner Bros. adaptation, which was announced in July 2007. The reason [...]

An update on Carla and Lance

It’s Wednesday, which would typically mean Carla Hoffman’s The Fifth Color column would have been posted today if last week’s tragedy hadn’t occurred. Carla and her husband Lance suffered severe burns in the Tea Fire in the Santa Barbara, Calif. area last week. I want to say thanks to everyone who has commented [...]

One last poster (we swear!) for The Spirit

There appears to be some sort of competition between Warner Bros. and Lionsgate to see which studio can churn out the most posters for one movie. Warner Bros. is winning with Watchmen, but it’s not for lack of trying on Lionsgate’s part. Anyway, Cinematical has the roughly 173rd, and supposedly final, poster for Frank Miller’s adaptation [...]

Bedard Cries a R.E.B.E.L.S. Yell

Tony Bedard fulfills a career-long dream in February, when "R.E.B.E.L.S." #1 hits the stands. An updating of DC's classic L.E.G.I.O.N. concept of a space police force for hire, the series is set to make a super star of artist Andy Clarke.

REVIEW: "Amazing Spider-Man" #578

One of this week's highly anticipated releases, writer Mark Waid makes his debut on the thrice-monthly "Amazing Spider-Man." How does the issue, with art from Marcos Martin, stack up? Doug Zawisza has the review.

Permanent Damage

Steven Grant comes to the rescue of a new writer uncertain of where to start his story, reviews the latest comics-related books, digs up another Kubert rarity and spreads holiday cheer in this week's PERMANENT DAMAGE.

NBC.com launches next chapter of "Heroes: Evolution"

J. Michael Straczynski: Origin of a Writer

"Babylon 5" creator and "Changeling" writer J. Michael Straczynski spoke at the Screenwriter’s Expo about his beginnings, his transition into feature films, and the benefits of the comic book format.