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Yōkaiden vol. 2
Written & Illustrated by Nina Matsumoto
Published by Del Rey
Yōkai are creatures from Japanese folklore. If you’ve seen any Hayao Miyazaki films, you’re probably somewhat familiar with the concept – the kodama spirits seen in the forest in Princess Mononoke ...
Dark Horse
Will Eisner
You know what’s been a recurring theme this year? The escalation of the Con Wars, with Wizard Entertainment and Reed Exhibitions duking it out for possession of the Leadership Matrix and the leadership of the free world! Or at the very least, controlling shares of both fan dollars and ...
Marvel
Comic-Con
Kull the Conquerer has been many things over the years: mercenary, pirate, gladiator, king. And now, he might just be… a movie star once more.
Fantasy.fr has posted a link saying that the Robert E. Howard character may get another lease on cinematic life, after the tepid reception ...
Dark Horse
Robert E. Howard
Howard Chaykin
Conan
It’s official — 2009 will be remembered as the year of corporate shifting in comics, as IDW announced last week that Desperado Publishing would be joining the company as a brand new imprint.
“We are very excited to have Desperado join us,” said IDW COO Greg Goldstein ...
Indie
Desperado Publishing
Tony Harris
George Pérez
By Jimmy Palmiotti
Welcome to my 21st blog. I am now legal and will drink till I pass out in the corner. Anyway… been super busy doing many things inside and outside of comics these past weeks. Amanda and I took some time off to check out the space shuttle launch and it was pretty darn ...
DC
Jimmy
Find out more about Global Freezing here on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays or at ComicsByEgg.com .
Other
“The first time Astro Boy attacked United States servicemen was in 1967”: Joe “Jog” McCulloch puts Astro Boy’s latest assault on the U.S., in the form of a terrible animated film, in perspective in this column .
“Why James Rhodes Is Comics’ Ideal Black Hero”: Graeme McMillan breaks it ...
Marvel
X-Men
Spider-Man
Col James “Rhodey” Rhodes
The Darkness
Batman
“That’s what being a hero is all about, it’s that sometimes, you gotta take out a baby”: That’s Tucker Stone trying to look on the positive side of things in his latest Advanced Common Sense , which means Donna Troy taking out a zombie baby is actually an admirable thing, and Justice ...
Vertigo
Sandman
Donna Troy
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim
Neil Gaiman
Find out more about Global Freezing here on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays or at ComicsByEgg.com .
Other
Don’t worry, the artist of Green Arrow: Year One isn’t having a feud with Ollie Queen.
According to Jock’s Twitter feed , apparently his drawings of the left-leaning superhero were co-opted by the Home of Green Arrow and Friends … a web site which supports the ...
DC
Green Arrow
Green Arrow: Year One
When it comes to superheroes and beards, there’s not a whole lot of overlap.
Sure, there’s Hercules, and there’s Odin — goateed folks like Tony Stark and Oliver Queen just don’t make the cut — but otherwise, the number is pretty sparse. But Croatian ...
Marvel
Hercules
Odin
Tony Stark
Oliver Queen
Batman
Once he was a Loser — and now he’s one of Odin’s right hand men!
Marvel announced today that Idris Elba (who will be in the upcoming Losers film ) will be joining the cast of Thor as Heimdall. In the comics, Heimdall stands as the guardian of Asgard’s Rainbow ...
Marvel
Thor
Odin
Kenneth Branagh
Could this be the start of an online paradigm shift?
IDW Publishing announced this week of the creation of their very own storefront app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, in conjunction with iVerse Media. iVerse has helped translate a lot of comics to the iPhone, including Atomic Robo, Frank ...
DC
iphone
For comic book film lovers, sometimes the Blu-Ray debate is a tough one. On the one hand, Blu-Ray is becoming more and more prevalent due to the PS3 — on the other hand, though, why give up your existing DVDs to buy a more expensive Blu-Ray copy of the same thing?
Well, for at least ...
DC
Warner Bros.
A History of Violence
The Boys
Superman
Richard Donner
Gotta get back? Back to the past?
Well, Samurai Jack won’t disappoint — because he might be hitting the big screen in 2011.
Frederator has an interview up with series creator Genndy Tartakovsky, saying that he is teaming up with J.J. Abrams for a “2D/stereoscopic 3D ...
Other
J.J. Abrams
Esther Inglis-Arkell read what looks like this past Wednesday’s Justice Society of America 80-Page Giant #1 , and she did not enjoy the section by Jen Van Meter and Justiniano (pretty nice looking art, though!).
During that scene, Cyclone and Power Girl talk about how cool Power ...
DC
Power Girl
Justice Society of America
Cyclone!
Geoff Johns
Jay Garrick
Ellen Page
“New Moon” and all things Twilight is a much-debated subject. Already talked about here , here , and here , it opens the floodgate for debate on numerous things such as whether or not author Stephenie Meyer can form a simple sentence, to why her lead character, Bella, is a ...
DC
Joker
The Twilight phenomenon is nothing new. It’s just the apotheosis of a sort of pop-cultural nosferatu makeover that has been chugging along since Anne Rice sent moody young romantics swooning with Interview With a Vampire way back in 1976. Purists may scoff at the melodrama ...
Marvel
Dracula
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In 2004’s Green Lantern: Rebirth , Geoff Johns
had some pretty difficult challenges to wrestle with. Not
only did he need to bring the late and outdated Hal Jordan character back to life—no easy feat given the nature of his death and afterlife at ...
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Flash fashion: What all the well-dressed ...
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Last month, we sat down with some of the icons of comics to discuss how they felt about how they were represented in Halloween costumes. This month, with Thanksgiving fast approaching, we thought that we’d risk humorless tweets and reach out to ask what our heroes find themselves thankful ...
