Love your comic shop? Be in a music video! The folks over at Geek and Sundry are putting together a music video for Free Comic Book Day. Record and submit your video by April 22 for a chance to be a part of it. 2014 Eisner nominees are out Did your favorites make the list?…
Con Diary: Emerald City Comicon Day 1
I was taken to my very first con in 2011 by my unapologetically geeky, big sister. Back then, Emerald City Comic Con’s exhibition floor spanned only half of the fourth floor’s ballrooms. In 2014, the entire Washington State Convention Centre is home to the northwest coast’s premiere comic book and pop culture convention. With so…
Reading Diaries: Much Ado About YA, and Some Top Five Bad Books
When last we spoke I was reading Crazy Town. I’m ashamed to say that between work and school, I just didn’t get through it. I recently picked up an interesting book on a research trip to a bookstore (book cover research, aw yeah!). Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books by Jean-Paul…
Review: Lumberjanes #1
Lumberjanes #1 Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis Brooke Allen BOOM! Studios The Lumberjanes, written by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis with art by Brooke Allen, hit comic book shops last week. The title had a popular early debut at Emerald City Comic Con, with BOOM! Studios reportedly selling out of the ECCC exclusive covers. The…
News & Things: Paul Bettany Sexy Robot Edition
Paul Bettany Confirms Avengers: Age of Ultron Appearance as the Vision Paul Bettany spoke to Jimmy Kimmel about finally appearing in person in the Marvel cinematic universe as the Vision in the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron. Seeing as he’s been the deliciously British voice of Jarvis thus far, it’s not a stretch to imagine…
London Super Comic Con Interview – Kieron Gillen
The last of my LSCC interviews is with Kieron Gillen: comics playlist compiler, prolific Tweeter, author of Über, Young Avengers, the Phonogram series, Three, that run of Journey into Mystery, the upcoming The Wicked and the Divine (and much more), and, of course, 2014 GLAAD award recipient (for Young Avengers). I had originally intended to conduct…
Call for essays: Batwomen75
Last year we honoured Lois Lane’s 75th birthday with a series of essays from our staff and some awesome guests. This year, we’re honouring the girls and women of the Batbooks! (Don’t worry, Catwoman will get her own 75th birthday party next year.) Are you a Batfan? A women-of-the-Batbooks fan? Do you have a great idea…
Freedom! Masculinity! Anxiety! 300: Rise of An Empire Is Unsurprisingly Dick Centric and Decidedly American
If 300 was about dicks, 300: Rise of an Empire is about our freedom to swing them. The sequel comes nine years after 300 wowed young white men everywhere with CGI, slow mo, and speeches, and tries to recreate that “winning” formula. Its action is roughly contiguous to 300‘s, retelling naval and political clashes leading…
News & Things: Neo-Tokyo is About to E*X*P*L*O*D*E
News New X-Men: Days of Future Past Clip The new scene shows Kitty Pryde and the future X-Men—Blink, Bishop, Iceman, Sunspot, Warpath, and Colossus—preparing for a Sentinel attack. Happy Birthday Katsuhiro Otomo! Otomo, the Japanese manga artist and anime director best known for his iconic work on AKIRA, is 60 today. Young Avengers wins GLAAD…
News & Things: Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind der Jäger!
Attack on Titan Gets Real Attack on Titan, the anime/manga hit that’s blowing up in the US (seriously– have you been to a con lately and not seen one of those little platoons of SNK cosplayers?) celebrated 30 million volumes sold by publisher Kodansha by projecting this amazing (and super creepy) Titan in Kawasaki, Japan.
Archie Will Die–What Does It Mean?
This week, Archie Comics announced that its star character, musician, ladies man, goofus, and sometime superhero, is slated to die in an upcoming story. The death, in Life With Archie #36, is neatly timed to come on Archie Comics’ 75th anniversary. Unlike the revolving door that governs mortality in superhero comics, in Archie Comics’ books,…
Amazon to Acquire comiXology
If you’re visiting the comiXology website today, you’ll see a “Message from the CEO” rotating on in the banner. After seven years of business, the message from David Steinberger announces that comiXology will become part of the Amazon family. The message also states that they will retain its identity as an Amazon subsidiary so they can continue…
