Dabels are back with Koontz
True to their word, the Dabel Brothers bounced right back with the announcement of a deal to adapt Dean Koontz's FRANKENSTEIN BOOK 1: PRODIGAL SON to comics form. The PR doesn't mention a publisher,...
LInks: Scenes from Michael Turner’s past
§ A high school rival of artist Michael Turner comes to grips with the present day:
Years later, a co-worker in my design department brought in a comic book magazine that listed the top artists...
Before there were steroids…
Superheroes WORKED OUT to stay fit! Stan Kleefeldposts excerpts from the 80s Marvel Strength & Fitness Book:
Dabel Bros. news wrap-up
Try as we might, we couldn't unearth the smoking gun of yesterday's news that the Dabel Brothers and Marvel were parting ways. Maybe there isn't one. The word from our usual sources is that...
Time for Thor to “play the game?”
IGN.com has a story about the upcoming THOR movie, which just had STARDUST'S Matthew Vaughn sign on as director. But who will play the Norse God?
The story says that Marvel is interested in...
Marvel and Dabel Brothers — Sayonara
Well, that didn't take long! This morning Marvel issued a terse press release announcing the end of the agreement between themselves and the Dabel Brothers, the much traveled but enterprising fantasy comics packaging concern....
Alex Ross on Avengers/Invaders
Well that didn't take long! Marvel has already revealed their new Alex Ross book and it's an Avengers/Invaders 12 issue cross-over:
"As a fan, as a reader, I enjoy those books," says Ross from his...
Genndy Tartakovsky on Cage
You can take your Millar and Hitch, the news from Chicago that MOST got us excited was animator Genndy Tartakovsky writing a Luke Cage mini-seres. :
Marvel's hippest hero for hire from Harlem, Luke Cage—a.k.a....
WW Chi round-up
Even more than usual, according to the report we heard, Chicago was the sleepy hungover Sunday to San Diego...there was a good bit of comics news, and the WB held off on the Dark...
Studio briefing: Thor, Punisher, Maintenance
Stardust helmer Matthew Vaughn has been tapped to direct Marvel's THOR Variety reports. Vaughn was once slated to direct X-MEN 3 so he's on a comic book tear;
Mark Protosevich ("I Am Legend") did...
Why is Robin kissing Superboy?
DirtbikeAcura RSX message boarders invade gay superhero film set and the results will make baby Jesus and Paul Levitz cry. Also, NSFW.
I look down and see something that I wish I had never saw....
Morning briefing: Gugino, Hulk
§ Sexy Carla Gugino will play Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre in WATCHMEN.
Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, a burlesque dancer-turned-costumed heroine and sex symbol the Silk Spectre who is part of the Minutemen, a group...
