Jonathan Hickman and his Red Wing collaborator Nick Pitarra tease their first Image Comics ongoing series, The Manhattan Projects, the true story of the top secret work that the atomic bomb was just covering up. Check out (and feel free to share) the two brand new teasers below, which were created especially for ComicsAlliance readers. ...

As part of its promotional ramp-up for The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony hosted events with the film's principals in different cities around the world today, all simultaneously and linked up via some kind of video technology that I will never, ever understand. Stars Andrew Garfield (New York City), Emma Stone (Rio de Janeiro), Rhys Ifans (London) and director Marc Webb (Los Angeles) presented a new ...

Why stop when you're on a roll? Cartoonist Kerry Callen is back with more cleverly animated versions of comic book covers for your enjoyment. The artist of a hilarious series of Golden Age superhero trolling strips and a contributor to ComicsAlliance's Great Comics That Never Happened, Callen's latest batch of animated covers include a gun-toting Dark Knight, a restful Calvin and Hobbes and, ...

As depicted in the documentary Confessions of a Superhero, the area of Hollywood Boulevard between La Brea and Highland in Los Angeles is famous for its population of street performers who dress as popular characters from film and comic books. And as you know from previous ComicsAlliance coverage, these individuals are prone to violence. Another episode occurred last Friday, this time ...

The main event of Superbowl XLVI came in the middle of the second quarter, when Marvel Studios dropped the latest teaser spot for The Avengers, the forthcoming Joss Whedon film that unites for the first time on screen Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye and, most importantly, Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury. The new clip features some predictably exciting action shots ...

In all the excitement surrounding Before Watchmen, we'd completely forgotten that DC Comics had already published a new Watchmen comic by creators other than Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It was called Botchmen, and it happened all the way back in 2009, in issue #499 of a magazine called MAD. ...

We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists and/or specific bodies of work, but there's just so much great work on sites like like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and other countless blogs that we've created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the virtually countless pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our ...

J. Michael Straczynski was the most outspoken participant in yesterday's press tour of DC Comics' controversial new initiative, Before Watchmen, whereby JMS and a host of other high profile talents will create new prequel miniseries based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. Owned completely by DC, the classic 1987 graphic novel about outlaw superheroes in an alternate American history is ...

It's possible you've heard of Avengers Vs. X-Men, the 12-issue event series written by Marvel Comics heavyweights Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Olivier Coipel, Andy Kubert, and John Romita, Jr. The book is is, according to Marvel, "the biggest comic book event in history." We've seen loads of teaser material relating to the ...

Image Comics celebrated its 20th birthday today, truly a milestone year in the life of an independent comics publisher. The company was founded on February 1, 1992 by Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Whilce Portacio, Mark Silvestri and Jim Valentino as a means for those popular creators to produce and publish their own original work while retaining full ownership of their ...