Stop me if you’ve heard this before: rich corporate type takes to wearing a mask and fighting crime by night, accompanied by a sidekick. Okay, I’ve stopped. But how about this: the story is told using really interesting art (grey pencils, lots of shading) and from the point of view of the sidekick — who is not only more or less a grownup (early 20s, I’m thinking), but is a woman, and, so far, the position seems like more of a career position than the Batman-esque crime-fighting family dynamic.
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Retro Game Historians and From Bedrooms to Billions Directors, Anthony and Nicola Caulfield
The gaming industry has become one of the most profitable areas of the entertainment industry, with a huge legion of followers hungry for the next installment in their favorite gaming franchises. This is not an industry that happened overnight. To trace its roots we have to go back to the ’80s, when the gaming boom first exploded. Not from huge corporate studios, but from young teenagers’ bedrooms. From Bedrooms to Billions is an upcoming documentary from Gracious Films that charts the rise of the gaming industry in the UK, following the bedroom game coders who helped to pioneer the video game industry as we know it today. Creators Anthony Caulfield and Nicola Caulfield very kindly agreed to an interview with Grizzly Bomb to talk about this enlightening look at the start of computer gaming.
Comic Rack: Trinity War Revealed, Marvelman Coming Soon, & Villains Take Over DC in September!
Welcome back to Comic Rack! We take a look at a few comic stories making their way around the interwebs this week!
Marvel Previews: Superior Spider-Man #9, Avengers #11, Nova #4 & More!
Now that you’ve had a chance to hit your local comic shop and peruse this week’s selection, let’s take a look at a few more previews from Marvel on sale soon. As a special bonus this week we will take a look at some of the teasers released for July’s Superior Spider-Month!
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Webcomic Wednesday A-Z: I Taste Sound
Welcome to Webcomic Wednesday; while all you people with “jobs” scurry off to enjoy the Geek Sabbath (a.k.a. New Comics Day), we weary Web warriors must make due with the free, online version. But that’s okay; today’s entry is better than 98% of the crap available on the spinner racks.
I Taste Sound is a damned funny (and largely NSFW) collection of comics from Mike Riley.
Marvel Previews: Hawkeye #9, Avengers #10, Age of Ultron #6, Iron Man #8, & More!
As Marvel NOW! prepares the second wave of new titles, the first continues to move ahead during the huge Age of Ultron event. Bendis and team have promised a universe changing and ‘unguessable’ ending to the series which is sure to impact a lot of the titles, if not all of them. However, not all the Marvel NOW! titles will be caught up in the Age of Ultron rush, as this week’s crop of previews plainly shows.
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