Tag HYPE!
Commentary: The Comedy of “Before Watchmen” Hype
Oh, we all knew the Watchmen sequel was coming. The art leaked and DC's lawyers went wild -- unusual enough to know something was close to an announcement. Then the last round of announced reprint books included The Art of Amanda Conner (some of her art was in [read more]
The First Valiant Series Announcement (X-O Man of War)
After announcing a book for Free Comic Book Day and a lot of teasing, the relaunched Valiant has announced it's first title. X-O Manowar is launching on May 2nd. That's actually the Wednesday BEFORE Free Comic Book Day.
X-O's high concept is, roughly stated, Conan in Iron Man's suit. [read more]
Official: Garth Ennis Relaunches The Shadow at Dynamite
The rumor that's been making the rounds is true: Garth Ennis is the writer when Dynamite launches their ongoing revival of the classic pulp franchise, The Shadow. Joining him as the artist is Aaron Campbell, who's been doing Green Hornet: Year One and Dark Shadows for Dynamite. [read more]
Cross-Over News Round-Up (DC and Marvel)
A little more information on the various cross-overs has emerged over the week.
Batman/Night of the Owls
Over at Newsarama, Scott Snyder has shed a little light on this Batman Event that's spawned its own back-up feature. [read more]
Carlos D’Anda – The Newest Justice League Fill-In Artist
Share this link on Facebook!By Todd Allen
DC has just announced Carlos D’Anda as the fill-in artist for Justice League #8. They describe D’Anda as a “fan favorite,” but probably not the kind of fan favorite you were expecting. D’Anda is a concept artist for the Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: [read more]
Liefeld Uber Alles: Rob Liefeld Helming Deathstroke, Hawkman _AND_ Grifter
You can't accuse Rob Liefeld of shying away from work. While his old Extreme characters are getting relaunched over at Image, Rob's just been announced as taking over no less than three titles at DC. [read more]
He’s Back and God Help the Guilty – Dynamite Reissues The Shadow by Howard Chaykin
You may recall that Dynamite laid hands on the comic book license for The Shadow, a little while back. Come to find out, they also laid hands on the reprint rights for the previous Shadow comics. You know how Dark Horse reprints Marvel Star Wars and Conan comics? [read more]
Detective Comics Back-Up Announced, _Not_ Linked to Batman Back-Up
For the moment, it looks like the rumor mill was wrong on the Bat-book back-ups being linked. At least if they are, it in't in an obvious way. DC has announced the back-up in Detective Comics will be a 10-page feature about Harvey Dent, A.K.A. Two-Face. Since [read more]
Batman Back-Up Feature and Cross-Over Event Announced
Before we get into the Bat-office's announcements, it has come to my attention that Detective Comics #1 has made the December Top 300 List for Diamond. When #4 is coming out, #1 is still charting? With an index of 3.01, that means Detective #1 sold about 3% of [read more]
Superman: Earth One – Volume Two Announced for 2012
After announcing Batman: Earth One, DC follows up by announcing the second volume of the JMS/Shane Davis Superman: Earth One graphic novel series. The first volume of this Superman reboot sold VERY well and made a strong case for original graphic novels in the superhero genre. (As opposed [read more]
Need a font?
In case you haven't noticed their fantastically stylish ads running in the sidebar. Comicraft is wrapping up their New Year's Day font sale right about now -- hurry over and pick up some serifs to keep your comics looking classy. [read more]
A New Year’s Gift From The Beat!
Listen to Heidi MacDonald, The Beat herself, discuss 2011 in comics on a special year-end edition of More To Come, the PW Comics World podcast! As you may or may not know, Heidi has been one of the hosts of our bi-weekly comics news podcast for the past several months. [read more]
The X-Men vs. The Avengers: A Review (Yes, I’ve Read the Whole Thing)
You may have witnessed some out of control hyperbole about Marvel's recently announced Avengers Vs. X-Men. My personal favorite, courtesy of Newsarma's recap:
Pre-taped words from all five writers. "There's never been an Avengers vs. X-Men super-blowout, so it's like, we have to do it," Bendis [read more]
MEMOIR picked up by Warner Bros TV.
Another day another comics in Hollywood deal! But this one's all in the family, as it's been announced that Warner Bros. TV is developing MEMOIR by Ben McCool and Nikki Cook, as announced in Publishers Marketplace. The deal was negotiated by Angela Cheng Caplan at the Cheng Caplan Company. McCool [read more]
NYCC Announcements: Yen Press Adapts NYT YA Bestsellers
Share this link on Facebook!Yen Press has announced two manga style adaptations of bestselling YA novels: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Chronicles of Nick and Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices trilogy. HyeKyung Baek is attached to The Infernal Devices as artist. Both series will initially be serialized online at Yen Plus before graduating to a print [read more]
NYCC Announcements: Viz Takes Shohen Jump Digital, Syncs Closer to Japanese Original
Share this link on Facebook!This is interesting. Viz is migrating Shohen Jump to a digital edition that’s only 2 weeks removed from the Japanese original. (And you can probably chalk that up to translation time.) They’re on the library model for this. Full access annual subscription or $0.99 4-week rental. [read more]
NYCC 11: Come see The Beat at the “Comics History of the World Panel”
Hype alert! I'll be making my only scheduled public appearance at NYCC at 1:30 today. [read more]
PIGS #1 gets convention variant cover by Katie Cook
Well, it's been an exciting week for comics, what with you know what, and you know who. But one of the most buzzed comics of the week was PIGS #1, written by Nathan Cosby and our own Ben McCool, with art by Breno Tamura. This new Image book -- about [read more]
Don’t Believe the Hype: Decoding the News about Digital Comics Sales
Filed under: Opinion, Digital Comics
Thanks to the relaunch and DC Comics relaunching their universe and going day-and-date digital, and the accompanying flood of press pimping those announcements, ComiXology and DC have managed to dominate the news... [read more]
SDCC11: ICv2 confereence adds new speakers
PLEASE NOTE WE ARE A SPONSOR AND PARTICIPANT IN THIS EVENT! HYPE ALERT!
That said we wouldn't be involved if we didn't feel it is an excellent line-up and the conference is sure to make a lot of headlines. [read more]