Movie Comics

Reviewed: Uniqlo Superman by Yan Cong, POTA: Visionaries by Dana Gould & Chad Lewis, The Scar by Andrea Ferraris & Reno Chiocca

Is it time for Michael Myers to make another return: to the comics page?

Cates will also write the screenplay for this generational epic about aging relatives and inter-dimensional swordplay.

By Pamela Auditore WonderCon '17 returned to the Anaheim Convention Center from Los Angeles Friday, bringing larger crowds and consummate raconteur and Eisner award winning writer, Mark Waid. As a writer and editor, Waid, has done just about...

Could it be that Hollywood's junkie-like reliance on sequels could be coming to an end? A series of so-so-sequels, many based on comics, tallied another disappointing chit with this weekend's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadowstook. Produced by Michael Bay, the film was #1 at the box office but with a moribund $35.25 million, on a production cost of $135 million. X-Men Apocalyse was #2 with $22.3 million, a 66% drop that's typical for sequels but further evidence of a softening market:

Yesterday Alex Zalben had a modest proposal on CBR called For Comics to Survive, They Must Align with Movies & TV and drew a lot of fire on comics twitter. The piece starts out pointing out how DC dropped the ball by not having a Supergirl comic to come out with the Supergirl TV show but unfolds it as a tarp to cover much of the Big Two publishing strategy:

A lot of newish comics companies have launched of late—Double Take, Aftershock, Z2—and I'm guessing they would all like to have films made from their comics. Well, Double Take, the branch of gaming company...

Firstly, there’s such a thing as a comic called THOR: THE DARK WORLD, “Prelude”, a two-part “limited series” introduced this month which is apparently designed as a movie tie-in meant to bridge the gap...

Monsters vs robots in bone crushing Guillermo del Toro-vision? I'm there! Get in the mood as we talk to screenwriter Travis Beacham about his prequel graphic novel.

I'm not going to lie, but my "mjolnir" dropped when I saw the brand-spanking-new Thor: The Dark World movie poster. You won't see the poster at your local theater until the 23rd, but it...

With Oblivion—the Tom Cruise SF vehicle—opening next week, we have some official word about the graphic novel that inspired it, via Radical Studio's evp Jesse Berger. Although I've been skeptical in the past about...

We've written before about OBLIVION, the SF movie that seemed to be "based' on a graphic novel by director Joseph Kosinski, adapted by Arvid Nelson and Andree Wallin -- although a mock-up of the project was apparently used to lure Tom Cruise into starring in the film (which opens later this month) -- Ksinski now says it will most likely never be published::