Tuesday, May 01, 2007

I’m a Marvel and I’m a DC

Monday, April 09, 2007

RIP Johnny Hart

The creator of the newspaper strip BC and the Wizard of ID is gone. I was a huge fan of that strip as a kid. I had lots of the paperback collections, along wioth Peanuts. 

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Crime Comics Blog

Writer Chris Mills has created a blog for crime comics called Guns in the Gutters. There will be lots of reviews there, including reviews of some of my books. In fact, they used the cover of Streets #1 in the logo. 

Monday, March 26, 2007

Great Frank Miller Interview

I missed this NPR interview from January (found it on Macker’s review of 300). It makes me interested in reading Holy Terror, Batman now. I wasn’t sure about it before. And I can see why so many left-leaning reviewers hated 300, because its politics are a slap in their face.  (And notice what a huge success it is. What does that tell you?).

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels

There’s some real howlers here.

Hyper Comics

A new website called Hypercomics promises to be a Web 2.0 site for comics creators.

Planetwide Media, a leading provider of interactive entertainment and online software applications announced today the official beta launch of http://www.Hypercomics.com, the next generation online social network for Online Comics and Storybooks.  Membership to Hypercomics.com is free and allows anyone – from a fan to a professional comic book creator – the ability to create, upload their own personal comic creations and search officially licensed and approved content from various genres such as comic books, animations, manga and anime.  Users can create and publish personalized digital comic books, storybooks, game comics or photo comics to share with friends, family and fans.

More than just an online social network, Hypercomics.com serves as a key resource for fans and content creators by providing an online destination to publish, search, create, showcase, review, rate and discuss new comic book and storybook creations.  Hypercomics.com provides complete online social networking functionality including commentary, ratings, blogs, forums and groups.  Hypercomics.com will allow comic creators to share their work, discuss others’ work, enter contests and read interviews with Comic Book Industry professionals.  Exclusively and for a limited time, the first 5,000 members to sign up for a Free Account during the Beta Launch of the Hypercomics.com and post one or more user generated creations (UGC) will receive a free digital download of Comic Book Creator™ software.  A trial version of Comic Book Creator™ will let a new member design, create and post UGC’s online to Hypercomics.com and will let “you” become the comic book creator.  You will be able to share UGC’s with your friends.

“Building a social network and community at Hypercomics.com is an outgrowth of our self-publishing digital comic book creation software ‘Comic Book Creator™’, which puts user generated creations in the hands of everyone,” said Kevin Donovan, President of Planetwide Media.  “Hypercomics.com was created with the intent to connect entertainment brands directly to their fan bases who have been craving more and more interactivity with their favorite characters.”

Friday, March 16, 2007

Stan Lee Sues Marvel?

Actually, Stan Lee disapproves of this lawsuit by Stan Lee Media. Huh?

Stan Lee Media sued Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion Thursday, claiming it co-owns Marvel’s superhero characters, including Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk.

The company is no longer owned by Stan Lee, the comic book legend who more recently hosted the TV series Who Wants to Be a Superhero? on the Sci-Fi Channel, which was produced by his latest company, Pow Entertainment.

In the suit, filed in the Southern District of New York, Stan Lee Media seeks to assert rights to the revenue generated by its superheroes that Marvel Entertainment is profiting from.

Mr. Lee formed Stan Lee Media during the dot-com boom as a way of bringing his superheroes online, but the company went bankrupt and produced a litany of lawsuits and criminal charges in its wake involving stock manipulation schemes against the other co-founders of the company.

‘Stan Lee is no longer with the company, but the contract remains intact.’

Now the company is back from the dead, having been reconstituted by Jim Nesfield, who gathered a group of former investors, while he took charge as chairman, CEO, and president. He has now filed a lawsuit on their behalf.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Wonder Woman’s Wheels

I guess this is what she’s use to fight the carbon emissions of her invisible plane. 

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

300 Nerd

Wu sha!

Burn, Marvel, Burn

Adding insult to injury is not the best way to run a company. These guys are really becoming an embarrassment. Oops...too late.