Hey, remember those Star Wars comics where Han and Chewie teamed up with Bugs Bunny, Don Quixote, Godzilla, and the prototype for Luke Skywalker to defeat comics legend Sergio Aragones? No? Read on…
Continue reading Comic Flashback: Marvel Does Seven Samurai, With Han and Chewie
Marvel Comics today announced that much of its December line-up will sport variant covers with the characters in their ’90s incarnations and drawn by artists who arguably are best known for work in that era.
Continue reading Marvel ’92 Variants Will Have You Seeing Flannel, Checking Wizard Guide
Jacob Kurtzberg, better known as Jack “The King” Kirby, passed away back in 1994, but he would have been 98 if he’d lived to today. In honor of that birthday, we wanted to put out a list of his 98 best creations . . . which would have represented a very, very small percentage of his output. And with such a rich catalog, a best of list is very, very hard to put together in any methodological manner.
Instead, we thought we’d share our favorite Kirby creations in a slightly more digestible list, which ranges from the weird to the heroic, from the goofy to the outlandish, from the innovative to the arch-evil – yet are, to an item, wonderfully creative:
Continue reading Our Favorite Kirby Stuff on His 98th Birthday
A wave of cautious optimism, or perhaps cautious pessimism, swept through fantasy fandom yesterday as it was announced that several companies resolved some sort of dispute and now a new movie based on Dungeons & Dragons is in the works.
Continue reading New Dungeons & Dragons Movie Can Roll for Initiative
Listen up, true believers: looks like Marvel is bringing you 10 – 10! –Spider-Man-related titles. And the latest announced title, Spidey, shows that this “All-New, All-Different Marvel!” initiative is as interested in maintaining its classic past as it is in moving forward.
Continue reading Marvel’s Bold Push Forward Includes Room for Classic Spider-Man with ‘Spidey’
It’s the age-old problem with successful, long-running properties: how do you shake up a beloved character enough to spur interest, yet do so without changing something core to the character’s appeal?
Continue reading From Superman to Wonder Dog: Five Notably Bad Comic Book Revamps
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