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DC Comics’s iPhone/iPad App Arrives in the App Store, Finally

Attention, comic book fans! DC Comics has just released its free app for the iPad and iPhone, and it looks pretty slick. It’s basically a storefront and reader for DC books built on Comixology’s system, with weekly additions, charts and free offerings as well. Obviously, the art looks a lot better on the iPad’s bigger…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Superman will pull a Forrest Gump and walk across America

Superman can fly around the world so fast he can reverse time. But in Superman comics this year, Kal-El will be hoofing it from sea to shining sea to reconnect with Americans. And he might stop by your hometown! DC Comics’ Source blog revealed today that in J. Michael Straczynski upcoming “Grounded” story arc, Superman…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

On the frontier, with just a cowboy and his trusty tyrannosaur

This is so blindingly awesome that it almost needs no explanation. But I’ll tell you what it is – a new kids’ book called Rex Riders, about the American frontier. With dinosaurs! Creator J.P. Carlson writes to tell us about it: The cover is by Italian paleo-artist Fabio Pastori, and the interior illustrations are by…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Barnes & Noble is (pretty much) giving comics away

If you get your ass to Barnes & Noble, you’ll find that a select batch of trade paperbacks are selling at 80% off. And good stuff, too. Hope it’s not an Amazon-style glitch, but hurry just in case. [Twitter]

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin

Swamp Thing, you make comic book Wednesday sing

If you’ve never had the pleasure of reading Alan Moore’s Saga of The Swamp Thing, this week’s a good place to start. A new edition of the Bearded One’s run is on the shelves, and it’s creepy as all get-out. This week. DC/Vertigo releases a reprint of Saga Of The Swamp Thing: Book 3. I’m…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Is Scott Pilgrim the Canadian superheroic ideal?

Who’s Canada’s ultimate superhero? Guardian? Puck? Captain Canuck? This essay from The Walrus argues that Scott Pilgrim (and Michael Cera) embody the “Canadian sane man comic book superhero.” They represent Canada’s national status as an understated outsider. [Spotted on Metafilter]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Is Anchorman’s Adam McKay 100% on directing The Boys?

We’ve known that FunnyOrDie.com co-founder (and Will Ferrell brah) Adam McKay was in the running to direct Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s hedonistic superhero series The Boys. Apparently, McKay is now “in serious talks with Sony Pictures” and “close to signing.” [Collider] Artwork by Darick Robertson.

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

In the 1950s, Mickey Mouse shilled amphetamines to Africa

In the 1950s, the recreational use of amphetamines like Benzedrine and Dexedrine was legal, and even Disney characters got in on the uppers game. In the following comic, Mickey and Goofy go to Africa to sell crank. It transcends wrong. The comic, which was available for 15 cents and one Wheaties box top, depicts Mickey…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

A taste of that Blue Beetle footage everyone’s been talking about

If you missed it, DC’s Chief Creative Officer, Geoff Johns, tweeted that DC did some tests to see how the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle would look in live-action. DC will show more at Comic-Con. (It’s at around 0:48.) [Robot 6]

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin

From here to paternity: Scifi’s best and worst fathers

As you get set to give dad another crappy tie or singing, wall-mounted bass, we’re looking at the most caring — and the most callously destructive — father figures in movies, comics, and TV. THE BEST KYLE REESE The Terminator He might’ve been an absentee dad — almost as absentee as you can get, given…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Robert Rodriguez’s Machete is slicing its way to comics

The “Mexploitation” action flick — which sprang from one of Grindhouse’s fake trailers — will get both a prequel comic and an ongoing series from IDW starting in September. Awesome. The only problem: They picked the wrong Grindhouse character. Don’t get me wrong: If the comic — cowritten by Rodriguez and Aaron Kaufman, with art…

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin

Jonah Hex: How the West was drawn

It remains to be seen if the finished product is pulpy awesome or pulpy awful, but the design work that went into the Josh Brolin adaptation of the DC Comics Western is lush and seedy.

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin

What It’s Like To Own An Apple Product

Shiny new Apple gadgets are revealed regularly and each time that happens we rush to a store and go through the same cycle of reactions. Drool. Love. Hate. Love. Drool again. This is what owning Apple products is like. Reprinted with permission from Matthew Inman aka “The Oatmeal,” a former web designer turned comic artist.…

Tech News Matthew Inman

The first photos of the Blue Beetle’s live-action transformation

Remember how Geoff Johns was all atwitter about debuting the potential Blue Beetle TV series at Comic-Con? Well, Johns jumped the gun and leaked photos to DC’s The Source blog. Here’s his alter ego, Jaime Reyes, becoming the carapaced crusader. Johns had this to say about the stills: I feel very fortunate to have been…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

The superhuman concept art from Darick Robertson’s The Boys

The one and only Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, JLA: A Midsummer’s Nightmare) sent us a ton of concept art and sketches from his superhuman shit-kicker series, The Boys. Check out early designs for the team and Darick’s commentary about the art! Darick co-created The Boys with Garth Ennis and characterizes these pieces as the “concept and…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

What’s the difference between being a concept artist and drawing comics?

The best concept art tells a story, all by itself. But what’s the difference between creating concept art for movies, versus drawing comics or illustrating books? We asked some of our favorite concept artists, and here’s what they said. James Clyne (War Of The Worlds, The Fountain, Star Trek, Avatar and Battle Angel): I think…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

An exclusive preview of Dark Horse Comics’ Predators #4

Here are some exclusive preview pages from Dark Horse Comics’ Predators 4, which hits the stands June 30. In this prelude to the Predators film, the Yautja are on the hunt, and someone’s organs are going in the trophy room. Here’s the solicit info: Predators 4 Writer: Marc Andreyko, David Lapham Penciller: Guilherme Balbi, Gabriel…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

So You Think Superheroes Can Dance?

Could a dance troupe launched by So You Think You Can Dance be the superhero webseries we’ve all been waiting for? Maybe — the Legion Of Extraordinary Dancers’ trailer sure looks impressive. The LXD, who are braving the wrath of Alan Moore with their colorful name, performed on SYTYCD a while back, and it was…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Island of Apple-Banished Toys

When Apple breaks with a technology—like, say, Flash—where does it go to live out the rest of its days? Looks like a nice little purgatory, actually! I think in this scenario, HyperCard is Gilligan. [Joy of Tech] Click to view

Tech News Brian Barrett

When comic book heroes go nuts, the readers win

In this week’s comics haul, the sanity of two big-league comic protagonists — Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead and Billy Butcher of The Boys — hits a breaking point. When our lead characters go bonkers, we’re all the richer for it. Let’s start with Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s superhero hit squad saga, The…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

DC Comics’s iPhone/iPad App Arrives in the App Store, Finally

Superman will pull a Forrest Gump and walk across America

On the frontier, with just a cowboy and his trusty tyrannosaur

Barnes & Noble is (pretty much) giving comics away

Swamp Thing, you make comic book Wednesday sing

Is Scott Pilgrim the Canadian superheroic ideal?

Is Anchorman’s Adam McKay 100% on directing The Boys?

In the 1950s, Mickey Mouse shilled amphetamines to Africa

A taste of that Blue Beetle footage everyone’s been talking about

From here to paternity: Scifi’s best and worst fathers

Robert Rodriguez’s Machete is slicing its way to comics

Jonah Hex: How the West was drawn

What It’s Like To Own An Apple Product

The first photos of the Blue Beetle’s live-action transformation

The superhuman concept art from Darick Robertson’s The Boys

What’s the difference between being a concept artist and drawing comics?

An exclusive preview of Dark Horse Comics’ Predators #4

So You Think Superheroes Can Dance?

The Island of Apple-Banished Toys

When comic book heroes go nuts, the readers win

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