Big news for Dragon Ball fans this week! First, was the news that Akira Toriyama, the manga’s creator, would be writing a new manga series and then today it was announced that he’d be writing the first new TV Dragon Ball anime in 18 years. While there have been the occasional Dragon Ball movies, the upcoming Dragon Ball Superi is…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Two Weeks of Comics Musical News in a Row!
Dominic Cooper Confirmed For Lead In Preacher We reported on the rumors a few weeks back, but Executive Producer Seth Rogen confirmed on Friday that Dominic Cooper will be playing Jesse Custer in the up-coming Preacher TV adaptation. The AMC show is aiming for a 2016 air date, and I think a preacher traveling across America with…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: Opera + Comics Go Together Like…Peas and Carrots?
Tintin Becoming an Opera…Which Is Weird but Cool? Step aside, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, there’s a new weirdest theatrical comic adaptation in town. Tintin, the well-known European comics created by Hergé about the titular character going on adventures, will be getting the opera treatment in the fall with an adaptation of the story The Castafiore Emerald. This story, at…
Tumblr Fandom Doesn’t Owe You Sales: The Fans Who Are Ruining Everything (This Week)
Tell us, oh Internet sages, about this new phenomenon they call Tumblr fandom: “I had a discussion at ECCC with someone in comics, I’m not going to mention who, about how busy the convention was, and they said that some of the attendees were probably just ‘Tumblr fans.’ I asked what she meant, and she said that…
Drink Your Comics: Convergence!
So everyone is talking about DC’s New 49, I mean…er, Convergence, these past few months as DC attempts to diversify their lines. In celebration of what I am sure is a well-intentioned attempt to stop fridging female characters and glossing over characters who should be canonically bisexual and preventing lesbian characters from marrying their partners,…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Hockey Masks = Automatically Terrifying
Two really lovely interviews this week! First up is Lucy Knisley talking about her new work Displacement which is a travelogue about taking her two elderly grandparents on an old people cruise to the Caribbean. In particular, she writes about her relationship with her grandmother, who has memory impairment and doesn’t always recognize Knisley. As someone whose…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Godzilla Literally Goes to Hell in these Comic Announcements
This past weekend was Emerald City Comic Con, where indie comics & their creators get to be the belle of the ball. There are bigger cons coming up where Marvel and DC will more of their news, which will culminate in the San Diego Comic Con media blitz that takes over the internet for a full…
The DC Daily Planet: Killer Croc Fans, Rejoice!
Catie here, filling in for Laura this week! The DC news-sphere is pretty Bat-heavy this week…which means it’s probably not too different from most DC news weeks! We now have solid, irrefutable proof that DC has reached its “grim and gritty” apex and is starting to emerge on the other side…there are now official adorably…
Incredible Indie Tuesdays: Process, Process, Process
Too often, comic fans don’t know what goes on behind the scenes to see what work goes into making an individual issue–you don’t exactly get to have a ‘making of’ documentary when it comes to film or TV. This week, a number of really interesting interviews came out on just how an indie comic comes…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Lots of Thoughts and Feelings on Editors + Dominic Cooper?
First up, the Preacher TV Adaptation Allegedly Eyeing Dominic Cooper for Titular Character. This adaptation of Garth Ennis’ and Steve Dillon’s Vertigo series has been long in the making, but they may finally be getting closer to casting their leading man. Dominic Cooper, probably best known to comic fans as Howard Stark in Captain America and the recent Agent…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Movie Deals and Creator Interviews
Valiant Publishing Makes A Major TV and Movie Deal Valiant Entertainment has inked a ‘nine-figure deal’ with DMG Entertainment, a Chinese-based company, that will focus on investing in developing Valiant properties for TV and movies, plus products specifically for the Chinese-language market. Nine figures, by the way, means numbers at or above $100,000,000, a.k.a. 100…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Short and Sweet Conference Edition!
It has taken me two full days to get to (blah) a work conference–complete with two canceled flights and a flat tire–so let’s hit this week’s highlights! Jim Zub on the Changing Creator-Owned Comic Market The MUST read this week for anyone interested in the economics of the publishing industry and creator-owned comics. Jim Zub…