When it comes to favorite female comic book creators, Gail Simone tops my list. Her work on Birds of Prey and Secret Six earned her that spot, but it’s her present work on Batgirl and her commitment to the characters she writes that puts her in that top spot for life. In an Emerald City Comic Con panel on Batgirl and diversity in comics, Gail Simone (along...
Today at Emerald City Comicon, writer/artist Rick Remender gave fans a chance to ask some of the questions that every fan wants to ask their favorite writers. For those of you unfamiliar with Remender’s work, he is currently writing Venom, Uncanny X-Force and Secret Avengers for Marvel. His past works include creating the Fear Agent character for Dark...
Yesterday at Emerald City Comicon Top Cow announced that it would be publishing Sunset through its Minotaur press imprint. Sunset, written by Christos Gage, follows a retired mobster named Nick Bellamy. Bellamy, an enforcer for the Las Vegas mob, had retired to Florida trying to leave his life of crime behind him. The story of Sunset picks up when his life of...
CB Cebulski has been a busy man this year at Emerald City Comic Con. In addition to moderating the Marvel “Breaking Into Comics” panel, he also hosted his own “Pint O’ CB” panel, which allowed readers to catch up with a few of the biggest writers in at Marvel. The panel consisted of Invincible Iron Man and Thor writer Matt Fraction, Captain America...
IDW Publishing just announced via their Facebook page that Mars Attacks, 21st Century Slaughter, the musical version of the Topps Trading cards series (and IDW comic series) they announced last week was in fact, an early April Fools day prank. The story was covered by many outlets as legitimate, including Comicbooked.comIDW had this to say on it’s...
Yes, you heard right. Alan Moore has just accepted a Bram Stoker Award in a newly created category called “Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel” for his work in Neonomicon. The Bram Stoker Awards, for those like myself that were unaware, is an annual event that recognizes authors who do exceptional work in the horror genre. I’d heard from...
50. Alan Moore Pre-Emptively Creates “Before ‘Before “Watchmen”‘” “The difference is that I’m stealing it,” legendary creator explains 49. Local Comic Book Artist Is Local They walk among us, almost like normal humans 48. Seinfeld To Continue As Comic Book First issue: 24 blank pages 47. Zap! Pow! Bam!...
I first started to collect comic books when there were no re-launches, no digital copies, and comic book companies didn’t start a new series over with a new number one unless they were a previously failed series. A few examples are Ghost Rider, The Eternals, and Ka-Zar. Even the X-Men’s failure to garnish a following resulted in the series being cancelled in...
Erika Moen and Jeff Parker, from booth #223 at Emerald City Comic Con, have confirmed what they hinted in the commentary under the last page of their murder-mystery comic, Bucko: the comic will be printed by Dark Horse! That’s right: 102 pages of twenty-somethings running around Portland, trying to solve a murder and have a threesome, and getting mixed up...
Back in February the original illustrator for The Walking Dead comic series, Tony Moore, filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court against series writer Robert Kirkman. As I understand the situation, Moore claims that back in 2005 Kirkman informed him that the pending The Walking Dead TV series deal on the table would be unable to proceed until Moore...
Apirl 1st, 2012- For several weeks I have been debating with some of my fellow Comic Booked staffers about who the absolute best super villains of all time are. Someone has made a case for just about every villain that can be thought of. After these weeks of debate we decided to make a list of the 10 greatest villains of all time. Whittling down the list to just...
April 1st, 2012- After a prolonged legal battle with DC Comics and it’s parent company, Warner Brothers, the Seigel and Shuster families recently decided to license their version of Superman to Disney. Inside sources tell us the announcement will come early this week. Long time followers in the court case will recall how last year the families won back...
April 1st 2012- Michael Bay is about to make headlines once again as he makes another big announcement on the next installment in the Ninja Turtles franchise. Comic Booked caught up to him at Wal-Mart and he had this to say: “I know what I’m doing, people are acting like I have never made a movie before. Just because Donatello will be a female...
This Sunday is WrestleMania XXVIII, the WWE’s answer to the Super Bowl and the Oscar Awards, so I figured it would be a good time to take a look back at one of the comics involving wrestlers and to a WrestleMania Edition of It Came From The Longbox! Back in the 1990′s the-then World Wrestling Federation (WWF) teamed with Chaos! Comics, home to Lady...
