Orange 621, Yellow 123, Green 254

This is pretty cool … Rob at the Aquaman Shrine shares a page from DC’s official style guide that shows the Pantone color swatches used for several of their characters: “I love how distinctive those poses by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez are–Green Arrow with his bow, Plastic Man being goofy, Batman a bit stand-offish,” Rob writes. [...]

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 [...]

Bad news on the doorstep: DC Comics Solicitations for February 2009

You’ll forgive me if I include some of the news from Dan DiDio’s LA Times interview in this little roundup. Between that article and these solicits, there’s a lot to sort through … and, obviously, not all of it good. Cancellations, character shuffling, and general restructuring seem to be the order of business [...]

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 [...]

FIRST LOOK: Captain America #44 Preview

Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you an exclusive first look at "Captain America" #44. Written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Luke Ross with a cover by Steve Epting, the issue goes on sale next week.

The Man of Steel, Deadpool, Jonah Hex: November 20th Comic Reel

Bryan Singer keeps quiet, a big money guy think's the world's ready for Deadpool, and the disfigured cowboy looks for something to say. Plus "Punisher: War Zone," "Gearhead" and more.

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

Tony Bedard fulfills a career-long dream when "R.E.B.E.L.S." #1 ships in February. 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.