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Today's release of Siege: The Cabal marks the beginning of the end of Norman Osborn's Dark Reign over the Marvel Universe. Let's reminisce over the on-again, off-again Green Goblin 's stranger moments of murder, mayhem, and flagrant disregard for contraceptives.
For the last year, Norman ...
Marvel
Norman Osborn
Spider-Man
Green Goblin
Willem Dafoe
Warren Ellis
Marvel Comics
Excited for the release of Mass Effect 2 next year? Here's something to whet your appetite even more: An exclusive peek at the variant cover for tie-in comic Mass Effect: Redemption . Click through for a preview of the comic itself.
Co-written by lead Mass Effect game writer Mac Walters ...
Dark Horse
Star Wars
Excited for the release of Mass Effect 2 next year? Here's something to whet your appetite even more: An exclusive peek at the variant cover for tie-in comic Mass Effect: Redemption . Click through for a preview of the comic itself.
Co-written by lead Mass Effect game writer Mac Walters ...
Dark Horse
Star Wars
Want to understand the works of German philosopher Immanuel Kant but don't have the time to slog through them? In this video, comic book critic Douglas Wolk explains the concepts in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment using comics art.
[via Neatorama ]
Other
Next year's San Diego Comic-Con may still be eight months away, but we've already found something there we can't wait to see: A biographical documentary about Final Crisis , We3 and Batman writer Grant Morrison . Click through for clips.
Wired's Underwire blog premiered these two clips from ...
DC
Grant Morrison
The Invisibles
Comic-Con
Final Crisis
Batman
Commander William Riker is a true Renaissance Man of the 24th century: poker player, jazz aficionado, Kirk-level lover of the ladies, and sporter of fantastic facial hair. No wonder a crew of webcomics artists have chosen to pay him tribute.
The Tumblr blog Number One has a healthy obsession ...
DC
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Roy Thomas
It may be the start of the holiday season - which, amongst other things, means that new comics are released on Thursday this week, instead of Wednesday - but that doesn't stop comics from bringing death, destruction and Iron Man .
Let's get the non-Marvel books out the way first, because ...
Marvel
Iron Man
Star Wars
Star Wars: Clone Wars
Doctor Who
Dark Avengers
X-Men
Why are there now seven Hulks (Three of whom are children of the original Hulk)? What are the differences between them all? And where did this all get started? We explain all for beginners and Hulk -curious bystanders.
This week sees the release of Fall Of The Hulks : Alpha , the first ...
Marvel
Hulk
Bruce Banner
She-Hulk
Skaar
You can tell who Skaar is from the title of his 2008 solo comic series, Skaar, Son of Hulk . More properly, he's the son of the Hulk and Caiera, the Hulk's wife from the Planet Hulk storyline. Surviving his mother's death, his attempts to save his planet from Galactus backfired and ...
Marvel
Hulk
She-Hulk
Galactus
Red Hulk
Who is the Red Hulk? More than a year after his creation, we're still no closer to his identity, but what we do know is that he was created as part of a military program to be "everything the Green Hulk isn't," which includes smart, immoral and apparently invincible. Besides ...
Marvel
Hulk
She-Hulk
Hulk
The original and potentially still the best, Robert Bruce Banner is the Hulk we all know and love: The man who risked his life to save someone from the Gamma Bomb they'd designed, only to get caught in its blast himself and end up with the most destructive case of Multiple Personality ...
Marvel
Hulk
She-Hulk
Bruce Banner
Better than the close-up of a toy , here's the official teaser poster for next year's Iron Man 2 , just released on Yahoo Movies .
Marvel
Iron Man
War Machine
Jonathan Cape 's illustrated short "How I Built My Father (And Where I Went Wrong)" is a beautiful and sad bit of magical realism, set in a world where children build their parents from scratch, but still can't always fix them.
DC
Tim Story
Jonathan Kent
We may be waiting on that flying car for a while, but Japanese designers have come up with some phenomenally futuristic concept cars. Comic book artist Paul Pope illustrates a handful of these Japanese automotive innovations.
To see Pope's article in its full-resolution glory, check out "It ...
Other
Paul Levitz
No-one lasts long in the comic-book universe, and you can't always count on springing back to life. Plan for your afterlife. Io9 rates the top six religions to affiliate yourself with before someone is kneeling over your body, shouting 'Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!'
Let's say that one day ...
Marvel
If you've been hoping that Warners would try and rush a Superman movie ahead of their 2012 deadline for the character rights, then you're out of luck. A new report suggests that Warners aims to keep the franchise on ice.
Anne Thompson writes that, despite the perceived need to get a new ...
DC
Superman
What version of Marvel's Norse God superhero are we going to see in the movie version of Thor ? From out of nowhere, a rumor comes that it's not the one we've all been expecting. Spoilers?
Ain't It Cool offers this surprising tidbit:
[W]e contacted a 100% tested and solid source, someone ...
Marvel
Thor
Kenneth Branagh
Natalie Portman
The first official pics of the Justice Society from Smallville have been released, and while the costumes are certainly faithful to the comic books, we're worried that they're kinda... well, ridiculous-looking. Click through to judge for yourself.
Weirdly enough, it's not Doctor Fate or ...
DC
Smallville
Doctor Fate
Hawkman
Justice Society of America
Even Marvel Comics can't resist the lure of Twilight . No, they're not producing comics based on Stephenie Meyer's hit series ( someone else had beaten them to it ), but offering up their own take on moonlit bloodsucking teenage angst. Well, kinda.
Twilight of the Midnight Sons: Twi ...
