Tagged: Image Comics

DC’s Next Cryptic Image Unveiled

News
August 25, 2010

Once again, the fine folks at the DC Source Blog have given us a sneak peak at yet another cryptic image. Well, not so much 1 image and a collection of White Lantern covers that have/are/will be gracing comic retailers shelves throughout the nation. As always, we here at Comicmix like to help you, our devoted fans, to deciphering the latest Dan DiDio “figgur’ it out” poster. Above you’ll find the piece (and for a larger version, click here) and below you’ll find our predictions. Let the snarking observing begin!

Take note that Jade sits in a row with Captain Boomerang, Reverse Flash, Osiris, and Max Lord. This proves she’s evil. Like all women.
Hawk and Deadman both sit perched ready to act. This is a signal both have to go to the bathroom. Or stone chairs wreck havok on one’s posterior.
Note that Firestorm has no mouth. This is a signal that Geoff Johns isn’t sure how to write dialogue for a half black intelligent Jason Rauch and half white douchebag Ronnie Raymond. When they combine, Firestorm is better off not saying anything at all… and looking cool.
Hawkman and Hawkgirl aren’t looking at each other. Looks like someone forgot the put the seat down… and someone should stop buying her makeup at retail. Museum curating isn’t a well paying gig, damnit!
Martian Manhunter and Maxwell Lord sit opposite each other, contemplating how long they have until people remember they don’t care about them.
Aquaman sits aloof, casually presenting the 180th design of his trident.
Behind all these resurrected folks is a tableau of the captured avatars, Necron, and that creepy hooded midget. This actually isn’t a clue… it’s a piece painted by Bruce Wayne while he was bored in the past. Batman can do anything.
Within that tableau, did you catch the white hand of creation Krona saw? We didn’t either.
If you stare long enough and lose your focus, like a magic eye, you can see Darkseid, Necron, Superboy Prime and the Anti-Monitor giving you the finger.

We hope that helps you figure out what’s going on, in the continuing Brightest Day saga. If you spot anything too, let us know in the comments below!

2009 Harvey Awards Nominees Announced

News
July 15, 2010

The 2009 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced along with the release of the final ballot. Anyone “professionally involved in a creative capacity within the comics field” is eligible to vote. All submissions must be sent to the Harvey Awards before Friday, August 7, 2010. The awards will be presented by Scott Kurtz (PVP Online) at the 2010 Baltimore Comic-Con on August 28.

The Harvey Awards, named in honor of the late cartoonist Harvey
Kurtzman, recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. They are the comic book industry’s oldest and most respected awards, and are the only awards to have nominees selected and chosen by individuals creatively involved in the comics field.

There are over a hundred nominated names and titles, including Geoff Johns (“Blackest Knight”), Klaus Janson (“Amazing Spider-Man”), and
“The Walking Dead” (Image Comics), to choose from twenty-two categories. The categories range from Best Writer to Best New Series to Best Online Comics Work.

There is a lot of talent listed among the nominees, and voting will certainly be no easy task. Jeff Kinney (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”) was nominated in four categories, Zuda had creators and comics nominated in seven categories, and “All-Star Superman” creators were nominated in four categories. Hopefully three weeks is enough time for voters to mull over all the fantastic nominees and cast their ballots.

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‘The Walking Dead’ shambles to AMC

News
March 30, 2010

AMC is shuffling forward with The Walking Dead, based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. The one-hour series begins production this June in Atlanta with actor Jon Bernthal playing lead character Shane.

AMC currently plans on debuting The Walking Dead this October as part of the network’s “Fearfest”, an annual 14-day marathon of thriller and horror films. Kirkman will serve as executive producer along with Frank Darabont who will also write and direct. Gale Anne Hurd will also serve as executive producer along with Charles “Chic” Eglee (creator of Murder One and co-creator of Dark Angel).

No word if the series will be in black and white like the comic is.

Wolverine as you’ve never seen him before

News
December 16, 2009

I’ve been looking for some place to use this image for a loooong time, and I’m tired of waiting.

Think of it as a magic of Christmas thingie.

Consider this an open thread.

Merry Cthulhumas!

News
December 10, 2009

In deference to the Great Old
Ones, Tor.com has devoted this December to everyone’s favorite cosmic
tentacled thing-that-cannot-be-described from Vhoorl.

We celebrate by including this image we came across (but now can’t find the source of, sorry) which we hope will inspire an upcoming episode of The Brave and the Bold. It is our hope that this will please great Cthulhu so that he will eat us first.

J.J. Abrams takes on the Micronauts

News
November 6, 2009

J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Lost, Alias) is reported to be in discussions to produce a feature film based on the Micronauts toy franchise, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Micronauts toy line was created by Takara, later acquired by Tomy, and debuted in 1974 in Japan, where the line is known as Microman. Two years later the Mego Corporation introduced Micronauts to the US, and released five series of toys through 1980. Palisades Toys acquired the right to reproduce the toys in 2002, and the entire line was recently acquired by Hasbro. Additionally, Marvel Comics, Devil’s Due and Image Comics published Micronauts comic books, with several paperback books based on the property published by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.

At one point, they were so tightly integrated with the Marvel Universe that they crossed over with the X-Men and spun out a character that has crossed over with most of the rest of the line, Captain Universe.

No word yet on who will actually write or direct the film. But should we worry about these robots being handled by a production company named Bad Robot?

50 comics facts about the Class of 2013

News
September 2, 2009

Every year, Beloit College puts together a list of facts regarding the mindset of the class entering college this Fall—the Class of 2013. Their list, as always, is well worth a read, but this is ComicMix, and we’re here to talk about comics, by gum.

So as we get ready to send them off to college, we wondered: what constitutes the comics status quo for them? What’s normal to these kids born in 1991 (he asks, knowing that being born in 1986 puts him in largely the same boat)? So glad you asked.

The guy who did the above strip had already ended his daily strip and retired by the time these freshmen started reading newspapers.
There has never been a Miracleman (or Marvelman) comic published in their lifetime.
They have no idea who Don Thompson or Carol Kalish were.
Gambit has always been on the X-Men.
Spider-Man was always married to Mary Jane… until One More Day.
There wasn’t a DC multiverse until the end of Infinite Crisis.
Wally West was always the Flash, and his first sidekick was Impulse.
Adam West has never been Batman—he’s best known as the mayor on Family Guy.
Wolverine never wore a brown costume, and has always had a solo book.
Barbara Gordon has always been in a wheelchair.
Sandman has always been that pale-skinned goth guy with the hair.
Batman has had three Robins: Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, and Damian Wayne.
Lex Luthor has always been a businessman.
Image Comics has always existed.
So has Wizard Magazine.
New Mutants was a short-lived series from 2003-2004, until the recent relaunch.
Hank McCoy’s always been blue and furry.
Elektra has always been dead.
Frank Miller is the guy who did Sin City, and he never worked with Klaus Janson.
There’s never been a character named “Streaky the Supercat.”
The only composite Batman-Superman was a giant robot.
The original Dove has always been dead.
Thanos has always been searching for the Infinity Gems, so he can impress Death.
Death has always been a goth chick.
Jim “Rhodey” Rhodes has always been War Machine.
S.H.I.E.L.D. has always stood for Strategic Hazard Intervention, Espionage Logistics Directorate.
Kyle Rayner has always been a Green Lantern.
Starman has always worn goggles and a leather jacket.
John Romita. Jr. has always been known as a regular penciller for Amazing Spider-Man. John Romita, Sr. never was.
Ghost Rider was Danny Ketch.
Jean-Luc Picard was the first captain of the Enterprise.
Cerebus the Aardvark was always a classic.
Grendel has always been a Dark Horse title, except for that DC crossover.
Cassie Sandsmark was the first Wonder Girl.
Roy Harper was only known as Arsenal up until the current volume of Justice League of America.
There’s never been a First or Eclipse Comics. Comico only did some of those soft-core Elementals books.
There were originally four Justice League titles on the stands.
The original Teen Titans were comprised of a de-aged Atom (Ray Palmer), Risk, Argent, Captain Marvel, Jr., Omen, Prysm, Fringe, Arsenal, and Joto.
Julia Carpenter was the original Spider-Woman.
The two Avengers teams were the East Coast and West Coast branches. None of this New, Mighty, Dark, Pet, and Caramel Covered.
There’s always been a comic called Love and Rockets.
The superhero cartoons of choice were Darkwing Duck and Fox’s X-Men. For live action, it was all about the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.
Kraven the Hunter has always been dead.
Northstar has always been out of the closet.
Kevin Conroy has always been the animated voice of Batman.
Jim Shooter was the guy behind Valiant, then Defiant, and then he wrote the Legion for a while. Wait, he was at Marvel, too?
Phoenix is Rachel Summers, not Jean Grey.
Karate Kid was Ralph Macchio, and Ralph Macchio was the guy editing X-Men.
There have always been Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novels.
Disney never had a major successful comic book franchise.

What’s yours?

(Alan Kistler and Glenn Hauman contributed to this list.)

Disney Eats Marvel: The most disturbing image of the day (so far)

News
August 31, 2009

Inspired by a twitter from Brian Reed, and drawn (or at least posted) by petroglyf.

A reply from Imagi about ‘Astro Boy’

News
August 5, 2009

With regards to the recent C&D letter from Imagi’s lawyers, we’ve received the following:

August 4, 2009

Mr. Glenn Hauman
ComicMix.com

Dear Glenn:

Imagi Studios apologizes for any misunderstanding or inconvenience caused by the legal letter of July 29 regarding the image posted with your story about Astro Boy. This letter, which truly resulted from a miscommunication, was sent in error, and is hereby retracted. We thank you in advance for your understanding.

We would only like to point out that the image which appeared on your site is not from the movie as it is early concept art, and therefore we would greatly appreciate it if you could replace this image with one of the new stills from the Astro Boy movie, which are attached herewith.

Imagi Studios prides itself on being collaborative with the media by providing images as well as access to filmmakers and executives, and we hope to further our relationship with you in this way as well. We would also like to express our warm appreciation of your support and that of ComicMix.com to date, and we look forward to sharing updates on Astro Boy and future projects with you and the ComicMix community.

Best regards,

Erin Corbett
President, IMAGI STUDIOS U.S. & Chief Marketing Officer Worldwide

Erin, your apology is accepted. We’ve restored the articles to the site, and while we won’t replace the image, lest we be accused of histroical revisionism, we’re happy to make an annotation to the article indicating it’s early art and share the newer images with the rest of the world– starting with the one above, which I think is one we haven’t seen before.

Review: Goats: Infinite Typewriters by Jonathan Rosenberg

Reviews
July 20, 2009

Goats: Infinite Typewriters
Jonathan Rosenberg
Del Rey, June 2009, $14.00

It’s not true that every webcomic will eventually have a
book, even if it seems that way. There are some projects that even [[[Lulu]]] will
choke on; some things that are too short and obscure and just plain pointless
to be immortalized in cold print. But, with magazines and newspapers running
around like the proverbial head-chopped chickens – all the while conveniently
neglecting to mention the fact that newspapers had the most profitable two
decades of their existence right up to a handful of years ago, and collectively
blew those profits on buying each other out and paying off the families who
were smart enough to take huge wads of cash and toddle off to do something less
glamorous, like badger sexing – webcomics are beginning to look like the only
good game in town, so even staid book publishers – like Del Rey, the science
fiction imprint of Ballantine, which, despite being part of the massive,
serious, Bertelsmann/Random House empire, has made buckets and bushels of money
over the past thirty years from [[[Garfield]]] books and even less likely drawn items – are surfing heavily from work, calling
it research, and drafting up big-boy contracts for cartoonists whose work has
only previously appeared in shining phosphor dots.

(And, now that that
sentence has cleared the riffraff out, let me get down to specifics.)

The house most active in snapping up webcomickers is the
comics publisher Dark Horse; I don’t believe they intended it that way, but
they’ve taken a strong line in signing up nearly all of the webcomic creators
that I read and appreciate on a regular basis. What does that leave for other
publishers? Well, it’s a big web, and God knows – despite my occasional
pretense otherwise – I’m not the Czar of Online Comics (though that would be a great job to have – mental note: give BHO a
call later to see if it’s possible), so there are almost certainly dozens of
damn good comics online that I don’t already read.

Which is a really roundabout way of saying
that I wasn’t familiar with [[[Goats]]] – even though Rosenberg has been doing it since the end of April 1997,
and the entire archives (including the strips reprinted in this book) are all
available online, costing no more than a few cents for electricity and an
attention span unusual in any web-surfer. If you don’t believe me, have a link – that goes back to the very first
strip, which, in usual daily-comics fashion, bears very little resemblance to
the strips reprinted here.