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This Wednesday, Elektra and great white sharks hit the comic store

What’s new at the comic shop tomorrow? As far as first issues, we have Before Watchmen: Rorschach by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, Michael Avon Oeming’s superhero comic The Victories (“Not long from now, all that will stand between you and evil are the Victories-six heroes sworn to protect us from crime, corruption, and the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

What if movie Captain America had the body of comic book Captain America?

Superheroes are supposed to have Olympian physiques, but this is plum disturbing. I chanced upon this image while writing today’s piece about Deadpool. As you can see here, Ultraculture has applied the body proportions — not unlike Rob Liefeld’s infamous 1990s illustration of busty Captain America — to Chris Evans’ human frame. The super-soldier serum…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

10 Comic Book Characters Who Are Cooler Than Batman

No, Batman isn’t the coolest person in comics. Consider: Batman is a little nutty. There are tons of stories where Batman is portrayed as an uptight dude who doesn’t understand the kids and their loud music. He just turned himself into a corporation. Batman’s sidekicks have included a dog in a cowl. But also, comics…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

How to write Deadpool (and actually make him funny)

Over the last several years, Marvel Comics’ mercenary Wade “Deadpool” Wilson has gone from tertiary X-Men antihero to one of the publisher’s most recognizable characters. (He’s getting his own video game, for criminey’s sake.) That’s some impressive longevity for a guy who was originally conceived 21 years ago as an in-joke rip-off of the DC…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Is The Walking Dead: The Movie in the works?

Rumor now has it that AMC wants to make a movie version of Robert Kirkman’s comic. They’ve already got a very successful television series — we can easily see how this zombie show could spark a two-hour, extra-gory flick. Bloody Disgusting reports that AMC is pursuing a Walking Dead movie, and points out that the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Poorly translated subtitles from a Chinese bootleg of The Avengers are amazing

Bootleggers often and inadvertently take creative liberties with their pirated wares — remember when Thor guest-starred on Game of Thrones? A similar phenomenon occurred with a Chinese bootleg copy of The Avengers acquired by Tumblr user Bileto. https://gizmodo.com/in-the-bootleg-game-of-thrones-thor-hangs-out-with-hou-5914374 In these tenuously translated subtitles, Thor and Loki (a.k.a. “Rocky”) are half-cousins/half-brothers, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are questing…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Brian K. Vaughan talks Saga, one of the year’s best science fiction comics

Robotic princes pooping placidly, mercenary cats that are also lie detectors, swearing ghosts, spider breasts, and extraterrestrial lovers who are quite literally star-crossed — you will find all this (and more) in author Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples’ comic book space opera Saga. Here’s what Vaughan (Runaways, Lost) and Staples (North 40) recently…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Goodbye Joe Kubert, Comic Book Titan

Yesterday pioneering cartoonist Joe Kubert passed away at the age of 85. Kubert was famous for creating and defining such characters as the hard-as-nails Sergeant Rock, the supernatural crime-fighter Ragman, the DC Comics stalwart Hawkman, and the caveman Tor, whose prehistoric adventures were catalogued in Kubert’s experimental 3D comics. For decades, Kubert was one of…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

This short comic will make you feel sorry for Space Invaders

It’s so easy to shoot at Space Invaders, isn’t it? Those pixelated aliens want nothing more than to descend upon the Earth, one line at a time. But what if it turns out that Space Invaders are just like us? Ehud Lavski’s The Invader takes the familiar trope of humanizing the enemy soldier and turns…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Drokk Yeah! Brand New High Res Dredd Photos!

Judge Dredd is one of the all-time great dystopian future comics — and a huge part of its appeal is the gritty, edgy look of the character as depicted by Carlos Sanchez Ezquerra and other iconic artists. We’ve already sung the praises of the new Dredd movie, coming in September — but now here’s some…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Dracula and Frankenstein are rival kings in the webcomic Ultrasylvania

Webcomics have provided a fertile training ground for neophyte cartoonists. Over the years, I’ve watched a number of artists go from toddling sketchers to masterfully sequential art storytellers. So it’s only natural that professors would look to webcomics as a training tool for students interested in careers in cartooning. That’s what makes Ultrasylvania such an…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

A first look at next week’s issue of Green Lantern

Courtesy of DC Comics, here’s an exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming issue of Green Lantern, which is penned by author Geoff Johns. This comic sees uneasy allies Hal Jordan and Sinestro square off against Black Hand, while the Guardians plan something ominous. This issue hits stands next Wednesday, August 15. Here’s the synopsis: GREEN…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

These zombie Disney Princesses are downright childhood-ruining

The internet’s affections for the undead and Disney Princesses are perhaps only matched by its predilection for seeing familiar characters in semi-unfamiliar situations. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, these portraits of zombie cartoon royalty by Thai illustrator Witit Karpkraikaew are so extraordinarily creepy I can only look at them in my…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Did you know the Joker once built his own utility belt filled with crap?

As far as superhero schticks go, Batman’s laid claim to the all-purpose utility belt. It’s been his gimmick throughout the decades, even though other comic book characters have attempted to replicate the Caped Crusader’s ever-prepared prowess. (See: the pouch-drunk 1990s. I swore I saw Cable pull a tub of hummus out of his thigh pocket…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Ben Affleck to direct the Justice League movie?

Warner Bros. is desperate to find a way to do a Justice League movie to match Marvel’s Avengers. But now that Christopher Nolan has made it clear he’s not going to be dispensing Justice, who’s going to step up and be Warners’ answer to Joss Whedon? Rumor has it, the answer is Daredevil himself, Ben…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A first look at an upcoming issue of Dark Horse’s psychic espionage comic, Mind MGMT

Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics, here’s an exclusive sneak peek at this November’s issue of author/illustrator Matt Kindt’s psychic warfare series Mind MGMT. Here’s the rundown on Mind MGMT #0 and a brief conversation io9 had with Kindt about his plans for this byzantine comic. Well, lock up your dolphins, shield your brain, and don’t…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Hawkeye isn’t thrilled he spent most of The Avengers as Loki’s meat puppet

A member of The Avengers feels left out! Hawkeye (played by Jeremy Renner) is not thrilled that he spent most of his screen time in The Avengers as a mindless, bow-wielding goon for Loki. The actor told the LA Times that he spent 90% of the movie as a character he didn’t sign on to…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Godzilla, Gambit, and Scott Pilgrim are coming to your comic store this week

What comic debuts are out this week? First off, we have James Stokoe’s Godzilla Half-Century War, which looks ridiculously good — we did an extensive preview of it on io9 last week, so click away. Marvel is also publishing a new Gambit series, which will probably lack the torrid sexual volcanism of my own private…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Joss Whedon to direct Avengers 2 and develop a new TV show

It’s apparently official: Disney just announced that not only is Joss Whedon returning to The Avengers for a second movie — he’s also developing a Marvel TV show that is set to air on ABC. (Probably in the fall of 2013, at the soonest.) Variety’s Marc Graser tweeted: So we’re guessing that this TV show…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Breakdown of Avengers title sequence reveals Nick Fury’s holster and Black Widow’s stinger

What sort of cool Marvel shout-outs are hiding inside The Avengers’ opening and closing titles? What weapons and character staples did we missed as they flashed by the big screen? An excellent recap of the entire sequence reveals a few new glances at some iconic S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent toys, plus Avengers costume close ups. Art of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Wednesday, Elektra and great white sharks hit the comic store

What if movie Captain America had the body of comic book Captain America?

10 Comic Book Characters Who Are Cooler Than Batman

How to write Deadpool (and actually make him funny)

Is The Walking Dead: The Movie in the works?

Poorly translated subtitles from a Chinese bootleg of The Avengers are amazing

Brian K. Vaughan talks Saga, one of the year’s best science fiction comics

Goodbye Joe Kubert, Comic Book Titan

This short comic will make you feel sorry for Space Invaders

Drokk Yeah! Brand New High Res Dredd Photos!

Dracula and Frankenstein are rival kings in the webcomic Ultrasylvania

A first look at next week’s issue of Green Lantern

These zombie Disney Princesses are downright childhood-ruining

Did you know the Joker once built his own utility belt filled with crap?

Ben Affleck to direct the Justice League movie?

A first look at an upcoming issue of Dark Horse’s psychic espionage comic, Mind MGMT

Hawkeye isn’t thrilled he spent most of The Avengers as Loki’s meat puppet

Godzilla, Gambit, and Scott Pilgrim are coming to your comic store this week

Joss Whedon to direct Avengers 2 and develop a new TV show

Breakdown of Avengers title sequence reveals Nick Fury’s holster and Black Widow’s stinger

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