While most comics-to-film fans are all “Batman this” and “Captain America that” these days, it’s important to remember that not all comic books are just about superheroes. And that is increasingly becoming the case for movies based on comics as well. Case in point, the upcoming supernatural Western Jonah Hex starring Josh Brolin as the infamous confederate soldier turned bounty hunter with the …
It seems that anything goes in Andreas Hofer’s artistic universe. You’re as likely to encounter dinosaurs as comic-book heroes, Nazis, Sigmund Freud, John Wayne, Veronica Lake or spacemen and cowboys.
Joins Captain America in Shetlands shindig Even comic book superheroes need to chill out from time to time, and it appears that the Shetland Island’s Pierhead Restaurant & Bar is where they let their hair down, along with the Mafia and giant white mice*:… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
Doug Bratton could be forgiven for having a swelled head; it would be easy enough for him to draw himself that way.
Comic book fans are mourning the loss of a pioneer in the industry, who started one of the nation’s first stores that sold only comic book stores, and later ran one in Mount Prospect.
FLEMINGTON — For those working in the corporate world and wanting to be the envy of the office, Comic Fusion provides the right trinkets, gadgets and toys to keep a desk entertaining.
Descendants of Marvel comic-book artist Jack Kirby sue for film rights to some of the publisher’s best-known superheroes For Hollywood studios, which have spent billions on the rights to icons such as Spider-Man and the Hulk, it is a nightmare scenario worse than any tale from the golden age of comic books. A forthcoming court case could hand the children of legendary Marvel comics artist and …
The huge comic book and pop culture convention is outgrowing the San Diego Convention Center. All three cities want the crowds and their tourist dollars. Call it a clash of the titans.
A lifelong comic-book fan and a veteran of the British gangster genre (having produced Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch and directed Layer Cake ), English filmmaker Matthew Vaughn gets a chance to combine both passions with his new movie, Kick-Ass . As Vaughn explains, “It’s best described as a mixture of Superbad , Kill Bill and Spider-Man all rolled into one.
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.