Title: New Comic News.
jamiearmour - August 14, 2006 09:38 PM (GMT)
First off, we'll start in the DC Universe.....
Batman: Recent Marvel defectors Writer Grant Morrison and artist Andy Kubert have started their (minimum of) year long run on the main Batman book. They've kicked it off in big style, with a storyline called "Batman and Son" featuring the long forgotten son that Batman had with Talia Al Ghul, daughter of the villainous Ra's Al Ghul. :o :o :fear:
Martian Manhunter. Jonn Jonzz has for many years thought that he was the last of his martian race, using his powers to fight for Justice in the Justice League, but lately, clues have been leading the master detective to think he's been wrong. And he is. There's another Martian out there, and he too fights for Justice, in a rather more final, eye for an eye kind of way :guns: Oh boy.
Over in the Marvel corner.
Amazing Spiderman. J Michael Straczynski continues to write the best spidey book on the market at the moment. Spidey is caught up in the events of Marvel's civil war, he has no longer got his "secret identity" to hide behind as hero fights hero in what seems to be a fight to the finish.
Fantastic Four. J Michael again w**king wonders on this title that until a few years ago was sinking faster than a brick tied to a lead weight. This weeks issue shows basically the same story from this months Amazing Spiderman, but from the perspective of Ben Grimm's constant antagonists The Yancy street gang. Ben has thus far been non commital on the Superhero Registration Act, the new law that has caused the Marvel heroes to turn on each other. This issue, he makes his descision. And it's not the descision that anyone was expecting.......
The Incredible Hulk. Hulk's storyline "Planet Hulk" just continues getting better with each issue. After being fired off into space by his "friends" the super"heroes" of Earth, he's been made a slave, a gladiator, and now a resistance leader on the planet he has arrived on, a world where they have weapons that can hurt Hulk. The thing the aliens don't seem to get is, hurting him makes him angry, and we all know that.... The angrier Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets :fear: :fear: :fear:
Squadron Supreme news.
J Michael Straczynski (that man again???) is going to be w**king extra time on this title. By the end of the year, a big event will be occuring, a cross over between the Universes of Squadron Supreme, and the Marvel "Ultimate" Universe. With JMS w**king closely with Brian Michael Bendis (Marvel's other powerhouse writer) on this project, I get the feeling we're going to have our socks well and truly knocked off.
Oh yeah, and for a bit of nostalgia fun. This week, Marvel released the first ever Spiderman and his amazing friends comic. Fun and games, retro bliss. If you remember the animated series from the 80's, then go buy it. :thumbsup:
Batman: Recent Marvel defectors Writer Grant Morrison and artist Andy Kubert have started their (minimum of) year long run on the main Batman book. They've kicked it off in big style, with a storyline called "Batman and Son" featuring the long forgotten son that Batman had with Talia Al Ghul, daughter of the villainous Ra's Al Ghul. :o :o :fear:
Martian Manhunter. Jonn Jonzz has for many years thought that he was the last of his martian race, using his powers to fight for Justice in the Justice League, but lately, clues have been leading the master detective to think he's been wrong. And he is. There's another Martian out there, and he too fights for Justice, in a rather more final, eye for an eye kind of way :guns: Oh boy.
Over in the Marvel corner.
Amazing Spiderman. J Michael Straczynski continues to write the best spidey book on the market at the moment. Spidey is caught up in the events of Marvel's civil war, he has no longer got his "secret identity" to hide behind as hero fights hero in what seems to be a fight to the finish.
Fantastic Four. J Michael again w**king wonders on this title that until a few years ago was sinking faster than a brick tied to a lead weight. This weeks issue shows basically the same story from this months Amazing Spiderman, but from the perspective of Ben Grimm's constant antagonists The Yancy street gang. Ben has thus far been non commital on the Superhero Registration Act, the new law that has caused the Marvel heroes to turn on each other. This issue, he makes his descision. And it's not the descision that anyone was expecting.......
The Incredible Hulk. Hulk's storyline "Planet Hulk" just continues getting better with each issue. After being fired off into space by his "friends" the super"heroes" of Earth, he's been made a slave, a gladiator, and now a resistance leader on the planet he has arrived on, a world where they have weapons that can hurt Hulk. The thing the aliens don't seem to get is, hurting him makes him angry, and we all know that.... The angrier Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets :fear: :fear: :fear:
Squadron Supreme news.
J Michael Straczynski (that man again???) is going to be w**king extra time on this title. By the end of the year, a big event will be occuring, a cross over between the Universes of Squadron Supreme, and the Marvel "Ultimate" Universe. With JMS w**king closely with Brian Michael Bendis (Marvel's other powerhouse writer) on this project, I get the feeling we're going to have our socks well and truly knocked off.
Oh yeah, and for a bit of nostalgia fun. This week, Marvel released the first ever Spiderman and his amazing friends comic. Fun and games, retro bliss. If you remember the animated series from the 80's, then go buy it. :thumbsup:
little pixie - August 20, 2006 01:16 PM (GMT)
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| The Times August 19, 2006 Bestselling author plots a new career in comics By Jack Malvern The creator of the Inspector Rebus novels says that he is fulfilling his dream IAN RANKIN, the bestselling crime novelist, will begin a new career as a comic writer after he finishes the last Inspector Rebus novel. However, Rankin will not be abandoning his chosen field completely. He has decided to throw himself not into the world of muscle-bound, cape-wearing heroes but that of a supernatural detective, John Constantine, who appears in the monthly comic Hellblazer. Rankin is the latest author to transfer his skills to comics after Jodi Picoult, who has written bestsellers such as My Sister’s Keeper, announced last month that she was writing storylines for Wonder Woman. Rankin announced that he was in negotiations with Vertigo — an imprint of DC Comics, which publishes Superman and Batman — at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Thursday night. He told The Times that he had sent Vertigo a six-line plot outline that would give Constantine a new set of cases to solve. “The beauty of comic books is that you can do new things with the same character and the readers don’t seem to mind,” he said. “In my version he is going to be much more of a pulp fiction-style private eye who happens to deal with supernatural characters rather than ordinary cases like divorcing couples. “I will do stories for five or six issues, but DC might do it as a complete graphic novel.” He suggested that he might weave his love of horror films into the plot. The Constantine character was created in the mid-1980s by Alan Moore, the British writer best known for V for Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, as a minor character in the Swamp Thing comics. The morally ambivalent detective, who has been to Hell and back, got his own series in 1988 and was turned last year into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz. The film made $230 million worldwide. Rankin has been reading comics since the age of five. “Sadly, at the age of 46 I’m still reading them,” he said. He grew up reading the Beano and the Dandy before moving on to more sophisticated comics including Swamp Thing. He also tried drawing his own comics at the age of 6, but gave up when he decided he could not draw. “I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I’d have a spy story, a space story and a football story,” he said. He also drew comics about an imaginary pop group called Kaput, who were always No 1 in the charts. Rankin was introduced to DC bosses by Denise Mina, a fellow Scottish crime-writer who wrote the most recent Hellblazer issues. “She broke the barrier,” he said. “This New York-based industry started looking outside its normal area for writers. I pitched the idea for a storyline, but I haven’t fleshed it out yet.” He said that the discipline needed for writing comics was very different from conventional books. Some writers, such as Moore, can write pages of text for one panel. “You never know what will happen,” he said. “I may not be any good at it.” Rankin will delay writing Hellblazer until November, when he hopes to have finished his final Inspector Rebus novel. The untitled w**k will take the detective into retirement. He is also preparing to publish the penultimate Rebus book, The Naming of the Dead, in October. It is set at the time of the G8 summit at Gleneagles and includes a scene in which Rebus causes George Bush to crash his bicycle into another policeman. The author promised his audience at the book festival that he would not kill his detective and hinted that the character may return as a civilian. “He won’t go quietly into the sunset and retire to Spain,” he said. SWITCHING SIDES Stephen King wrote The Dark Tower, a series of graphic novels illustrated by artists, including Dave McKean Jodi Picoult, the bestselling American author of My Sister’s Keeper and Vanishing Acts, announced last month that she was writing stories for Wonder Woman Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is writing Astonishing X-Men George Romero, the writer and director of Dawn of the Dead, has written zombie comics for Avatar Andy and Larry Wachowski, creators of The Matrix trilogy, are writing a graphic novel called Shaolin Cowboy Kevin Smith, the writer of films such as Dogma and Clerks, has written Green Arrow for DC Comics Denise Mina, a Scottish crime-writer, has written the latest series of Hellblazer |
prophecy girl - March 8, 2007 10:36 AM (GMT)
Captain America is shot dead in New York by a sniper in the latest Captain America comic from Marvel, which hit newsstands on March 7, a sensational plot twist that had been kept a closely guarded secret, the Reuters news service reported. :o
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jamiearmour - March 9, 2007 03:02 PM (GMT)
Further to Claire's story above (which isn't a spoiler any more, the book came out yesterday)
It seems that Marvel are promoting this as the "real deal" though they do say, that the ramifications will be felt for the "next 12 months" at the end of which it'll be revealed it wasn't really him :rolleyes: Probably :lol:
It seems that Marvel are promoting this as the "real deal" though they do say, that the ramifications will be felt for the "next 12 months" at the end of which it'll be revealed it wasn't really him :rolleyes: Probably :lol:
prophecy girl - March 9, 2007 04:09 PM (GMT)
prophecy girl - April 25, 2007 09:42 AM (GMT)
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| Transformers Graphic Novels Due Two Transformers graphic novels will hit stores in June and will act as prequel and companion narratives to Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers movie, which opens in theaters July 4. IDW Publishing will release Transformers: The Movie Prequel and Transformers: The Movie Adaptation. The first, a 120-page book, was developed in accordance with the story being told by the filmmakers, IDW said, and will unveil the events that lead up to the movie's story. Spanning centuries, the story follows the robotic heroes and villains from Cybertron to Earth, explaining how their war came to Earth. Co-writers Chris Ryall and Simon Furman teamed up with longtime Transformers artist Don Figueroa to create the prequel, which was released in monthly comic-book installments prior to being collected in this complete trade paperback. Transformers: The Movie Adaptation, meanwhile, is a graphic-novel version of the movie. The adaptation was written by Kris Oprisko and features artwork by Alex Milne. Like the film, the graphic novel tells the story of the epic feud between the Autobots and the Decepticons as it plays out on present-day Earth. In their efforts to prevent the war from overwhelming Earth, the Autobots team up with an unsuspecting teen who just might be the lynchpin in this intergalactic war. |
sci fi wire
prophecy girl - July 12, 2007 05:27 PM (GMT)
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| Bid to ban 'racist' Tintin book The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) is calling on high street books to pull a Tintin adventure from its shelves over claims it is racist. Complaints about Tintin and the Congo have led to Borders and Waterstones moving it to their adult section. A spokeswoman said the book contained "words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles". Borders said they are committed to let their "customers make the choice". 'Racist claptrap' The store's spokesman added: "Naturally, some of the thousands of books and music selections we carry could be considered controversial or objectionable depending on individual political views, tastes and interests." A Waterstones spokesman said: "We have reviewed the title's situation and are moving it away from the other Tintin titles into the graphic novel section." The CRE spokewoman said: "How and why do Borders think that it's okay to peddle such racist material?" "The only place that it might be acceptable for this to be displayed would be in a museum, with a big sign saying 'old-fashioned, racist claptrap.' "It's high time that they reconsidered their decision and removed this from their shelves," she added. The book's publishers Egmont said the book comes with a warning that it features "bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period - an interpretation some readers may find offensive". The Tintin adventures were written by Belgian author Herge - real name Georges Prosper Remi - from 1929 until his death in 1983. He continued to revise his books after their publication, and admitted embarrassment over some of the views they expressed. A scene in Tintin in the Congo in which the eponymous hero gave a geography lesson to Africans about Belgium was later changed to a maths class. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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