It’s a world with heroes — but no superheroes.

The actor-director says “It’s the thing I have been going toward, in a way, since I was young, and I think when it’s done I may be finished.”

Superheroes, remakes, 3D animated comedies — who says summer hasn’t started? Not Hollywood, which will try to keep post-Avatarmoviegoers lulled into submission with sequels, stars and special effects untilIron Man 2opens May 7.[…]

The director offers up new details on the long-awaited comic-book projects. Credit: Warner Bros.

Is Matthew Vaughn’s violent, bloody and hilarious adaptation of the cult comic book the best superhero movie ever made? IGN will tell you.

Green Lantern is fighting half of his superhero friends who have been turned into Black Lanterns of death. Halo characters have left their bestselling videogame and are on the cover of their own comic.

A new comic book will be released this spring about Al Franken, whose superpower may be that he’s a U.S. senator in a country that’s a superpower. He’s also got super comedy skills, or at least Lorne Michaels of “SNL” used to think so.

The prevalence of superhero movies at the multiplexes has made them ripe for self-reflection. On the surface, Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass” fulfills that opportunity. Adapted from Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.’s 2008 comic book mini-series, which focuses on a nerdy high school student named Dave (U.K. star Aaron Johnson in the feature version) - whose fascination with superheroes leads to his …

Stars of the comic and sci-fi world came out Saturday in downtown Seattle for the Emerald City Comicon - and you could tell this was no dentists’ convention.

Grant Morrison, a popular Scottish comic book writer and playwright, has no problem creating work that’s pretty damn crazy. His new works, “Batman and Robin #10″ and “Doom Patrol, vol. 1,” are no exception. Indeed, he regularly points to surrealism, automatic writing, and shamanic visions as inspirations for his work.

It’s a world with heroes - but no superheroes. The first issue of “First Wave,” a six-issue miniseries…

He is the Coatbridge comic book writer who has taken Hollywood by storm and wants to direct his first film in Glasgow.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved comic books. My earliest memories (and cutest baby pictures) are of my dad and me dressed up as Superdad and Superbaby, attending Purim festivities as Betman (the Hebraic equivalent of Batman), waiting in line for Space Mountain at Disney World as my dad told me the origin story of Captain America, at Passover Seder observing the similarities between …

From chicks in chain-mail bikinis to musclemen in tights, from the Tijuana bibles of old to the latest panty-flashing fan service in Japan, sex and comics go together like a complete lack of social skills and comics. So here’s a brief roundup of some notable comic book hotties – according to me.

:The Caped Crusader pounds the Man of Steel — and the recession — in a comic book auction on February 25 at Heritage Auctions. An anonymous superheroes fan paid a record $1,075,500, including the buyer’s premium, for a 1939 comic book with Batman’s first appearance.

Fantasy mirrors reality, when even Superheroes get fired. The reality of un-employment is spinning its ugly web into the fantasy world, catching Superhero Spiderman off guard in comic book series out today. Spiderman’s’ alter-ego Peter Parker, A Daily Bugle newspaper photographer is laid off.

“Urgent Evoke” is an online game that seeks to cure real-world problems Players earn points by responding to weekly challenges The game begins on Wednesday; it focuses on Africa, but anyone …

Even Spider-Man needs to accept the laws of physics. (AP) Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.

This article has been read 0 times. Here’s something you probably never learned in school: A comic book helped propel the Civil Rights movement.

A 1939 copy of Detective Comics #27, with the first appearance of Batman. The comic book was sold by the auctioneer for a record price of $1,075,500, during an auction conducted online Feb. 25, 2010. AP Photo/Heritage Auction Galleries.

Last week’s record-breaking auctions are lesson for all those parents who threw away their children’s comic books.

It’s a question that has exercised generations of schoolboys: Superman or Batman - who would win? Now, finally, we have the answer. Four days ago, a near-perfect sample of the comic book in which Superman made his debut, Action Books No 1 dated June 1938, went up for sale via an auction website.

Comic books first featuring the superheroes set auction records.

A rivalry between Spider-Man and Superman surfaced Friday night. The students that dressed as the comic book superheroes, Blake Manning and Brent Burns, took it outside after Spider-Man won the costume contest.

“Martin Luther King gave direct edits of this comic book.” By Anna Reilly.