Would cheering up sell more comics?
Retailer John Riley of Grasshopper's Comics has a piece at ICv2 called "Sharpening the Sword--Where Are The Villains?" which suggests that since we're living in grim times, the pervasive grimness of superhero comics...
Marvel gets online ad agency
Gorilla Nation, one of the more prominent online ad agencies, announces that they'll be selling as space for Marvel's website. not too much to be read into this except that if you are getting...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales – September 2007
by Paul O'Brien
For the second month running, things are fairly quiet at Marvel. The biggest item on their schedule is the continuing WORLD WAR HULK event, and the X-books are also seeing gains...
Baddest Nerd on the Planet
We all know that there are plenty of comics-reading athletes, from noted Superman fan Shaquille O'Neal to dozens and dozens of pro wrestlers. But, if we had to pick the scariest comic book fan...
Stop violence against Tigras!
We're terribly relieved to know that there have been no threats issued against Brian Michael Bendis in the wake of his "non-rapey" scripting of Marvel superheroine Tigra getting severely beaten by The Hood. A...
State of the Industry Alert!
A few disparate threads which, taken together, stick a thermometer straight up the rectum of the comics industry. Sales are good, but is the patient really healthy?
Over at Newsarama the cancellation of AMERICAN VIRGIN...
Silver Surfer struts stuff
Wait a minute, speaking of the Silver Surfer, he has a new mini coming out called Silver Surfer: In Thy Name. We were alerted this in one of the about 200 emails that Marvel...
Get Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer for 99¢
Speaking of downloading, did you know you can legally download stuff from BitTorrent.com? Well neither did we, but it seems various studios have pacted with the site for paid downloads.
In fact, BitTorrent is making...
Hulk is to be red for a while
HULK #1Written by JEPH LOEBPencils & Cover by ED MCGUINNESSVariant Cover by OLIVIER COIPELSuperstars JEPH LOEB and ED MCGUINNESS will change the way you see THE HULK! In this startling origin epic, the breathtaking...
Sam Raimi on Spidey 4, ED 4
Long interview with Sam Raimi at MTV Movie News. He talks a lot about SPIDEY 4, but it sounds like he'll have a far less hands on role.
Over the last few months, however, Raimi...
New Cap, new clothes
Alex Ross designs new duds for Captain America....AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME!
Six months after the death of Steve Rogers captured national attention, Marvel is proud to unveil the new Captain America as...
Kibbles 'n' Bits 10/9/07
§ Author on author action as Susanna Clark (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell ) profiles Alan Moore for the Telegraph:
It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore...
