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Shane Black And The Cast Of 'Iron Man 3' Talk Marvel Moviemaking, Christmas And The F-Word

Andy Khouri — 2013-04-25T11:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Marvel, Movies, Interviews, News

Following a screening of Iron Man 3 on Sunday night, director Shane Black, screenwriter Drew Pearce and stars Rebecca Hall ("Maya Hansen") and Guy Pearce ("Aldrich Killan") met with the press at a conference in Beverly Hills on Monday to answer ... Read more

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Robert Downey, Jr. And The Cast Of 'Iron Man 3' Talk Sequels, Acting And Real-Life Violence

Andy Khouri — 2013-04-24T17:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Marvel, Movies, Interviews, News

Following a screening of Iron Man 3 on Sunday night, Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Ben Kingsley met with the press at a conference in Beverly Hills on Monday to answer questions about the new Marvel Studios film based on the ... Read more

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The Strange Case Of The 'Like A Virus' Kickstarter And Its Evil IndieGoGo Doppelganger [Interview]

Chris Sims — 2013-04-24T13:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Interviews

A few weeks ago, Ken Lowery and Robert Wilson IV launched a Kickstarter campaign for Like A Virus, a one-shot ghost story about a medium trying to uncover the mystery of a local haunting. Within a few days, they'd met their goal, but then ... Read more

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Snyder And Murphy On 'The Wake': A Vast But Claustrophobic Sci-Fi & Horror Adventure [Interview]

Matt D. Wilson — 2013-04-24T10:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Vertigo, Interviews

Next month, writer Scott Snyder and artist Sean Murphy team up for the new Vertigo mini-series The Wake. Early promo materials are short on details, but they say this much: The series is a "thrilling new underwater horror adventure" in which ... Read more

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Brandon Auman On Action, Loss And Obsolescence In 'Iron Man: Rise Of Technovore' [Interview]

Josh Wigler — 2013-04-23T13:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Marvel, Movies, Interviews, Animation

Tony Stark thrusts off on his third solo live-action adventure in just a few short weeks, when Iron Man 3 bursts into theaters on May 3. But that's not the only place you can see ol' Shellhead in motion this year. Earlier in April, Marvel ... Read more

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Greg Pak Talks 'Code Monkey Save World,' His New Kickstarter Funded Project With Jonathan Coulton and Takeshi Miyazawa

Chris Sims — 2013-04-16T13:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Indie, Interviews

Yesterday, Greg Pak launched a new comics project called Code Monkey Save World with musician Jonathan Coulton, in which Pak and artist Takeshi Miyazawa take characters from Coulton's songs and put them into a grand supervillain team-up ... Read more

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Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson on the 'Saga' App Store Fiasco [Interview]

Andy Khouri — 2013-04-15T14:30:00 00:00

Filed under: Image, Interviews, News, Digital Comics

Last Tuesday comics writer Brian K. Vaughan announced that Apple declined to sell the latest issue of his and Fiona Staples' hit Image Comics series Saga in its iOS App Store market on account of depictions of gay sex acts. The statement was affirmed ... Read more

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Dark Horse Collects Alex de Campi's Poli-Spy Kickstarter Hit 'Ashes' [Interview]

Andy Khouri — 2013-04-15T10:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Dark Horse, Indie, Interviews

A sequel to the Eisner-nominated 2005 limited series Smoke (with artist Igor Kordey), writer Alex de Campi's graphic novel Ashes was one of comics' bigger Kickstarter successes, raising over $32,000 in 2011 via the increasingly influential ... Read more

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SUPERMAG: Jim Rugg's Ambitious and Eclectic Comics, Illustration and Design Magazine [Interview]

Dylan Todd — 2013-04-11T15:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Indie, Interviews, Opinion

"Print is dead," is a pithy saying that gets tossed around a lot these days. Well, apparently nobody said in front of comics artist and illustrator Jim Rugg (Street Angel, Afrodisiac, The Plain Janes). This May, Rugg will launch the first issue ... Read more

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Vampire Noir: Brian Stelfreeze Returns to Monthly Comics with 'Day Men' [Interview]

Andy Khouri — 2013-04-11T10:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Interviews, News, Art, Opinion

Penciller, inker, colorist and painter Brian Stelfreeze is a longtime favorite of art and illustration enthusiasts. Beloved by a generation of readers for his memorably stunning run of painted covers for Batman: Shadow of the Bat in the 1990s, ... Read more

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'Morning Glories': Nick Spencer On The Changing Seasons [Interview]

Josh Wigler — 2013-04-01T13:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Image, Interviews, Culture

The hour of the Morning Glories season finale isn't just near - it's already upon us. Last week, Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma's ongoing series about boarding school students steeped in sinister secrets wrapped up what the creators have called ... Read more

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It's Kids Vs. Bugs In 'Dark Horse Presents' As Lapham Launches 'Juice Squeezers' In July

Caleb Goellner — 2013-03-29T10:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Dark Horse, Interviews, Previews

On top of crafting some of the most critically acclaimed independent crime comics of the past 20 years, David Lapham has worked on a diverse catalog of memorable work-for-hire stories at essentially every publisher in the business. So when Dark ... Read more

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Writer Jeff Parker on Batman '66 Comic: 'Batman Is In On The Joke' [Interview]

Chris Sims — 2013-03-27T13:00:00 00:00

Filed under: DC, Interviews

Last week, DC announced that they were going to be producing a new digital-first series based on the 1966 Batman TV show, with the creative team of Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case. For those of us who love Batman '66 with what some might refer to ... Read more

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Michel Fiffe On 'Copra': 'That Stuff's In My DNA' [Interview]

Chris Sims — 2013-03-26T13:30:00 00:00

Filed under: Indie, Interviews

Over the past year, one of my favorite comics has been Michel Fiffe's Copra. Launched after the success of a "bootleg" fan-comic based on John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell's classic Suicide Squad, Copra twists the formula around for a ... Read more

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Joe Quesada Talks Re-Teaming With Jimmy Palmiotti For 'Ultimate Spider-Man' [Interview & Video]

Matt D. Wilson — 2013-03-22T14:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Marvel, Television, Interviews, Video, Animation

For a period in the mid-to-late 1990s, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti were the chocolate and peanut butter of comics. After teaming up to form Event Comics, the duo helmed the fondly remembered Marvel Knights imprint, which did a lot to bring ... Read more

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Scott Snyder Talks 'Batman: Zero Year': 'It's Become Something That's As Ambitious As I Can Make It'

Chris Sims — 2013-03-21T14:00:00 00:00

Filed under: DC, Interviews

Last week, DC announced that Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo would be doing an updated origin for Batman in the pages of Zero Year, starting in June's Batman #21. Considering that Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Batman: Year One has been the ... Read more

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'Nightwing' Writer Kyle Higgins on Redefining and Relocating Dick Grayson [Interview]

Andy Khouri — 2013-03-21T09:00:00 00:00

Filed under: DC, Interviews, News

One of the relatively few DC Comics writers to be well into the second year of his original New 52 gig, Kyle Higgins has big plans for Nightwing, the original Robin who many fans think of as the first born son of the DC Universe; the younger ... Read more

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Rick Remender on 'Captain America,' 'Devolution' and the Desecration of Charles Xavier [Interview]

Andy Khouri — 2013-03-20T13:00:00 00:00

Filed under: Marvel, Interviews, News, Opinion

Of all the all the superhero comics restaffed and relaunched as part of the Marvel NOW initiative, I think Captain America is the one that most lives up to the bold promise of an all-new, all-different direction. Written by Rick Remender and ... Read more

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Brian Azzarello Talks Wonder Woman, New Gods, And Creating New Greek Myths [Interview]

Joseph Hughes — 2013-03-20T10:00:00 00:00

Filed under: DC, Interviews

In stores today is Wonder Woman #18, the conclusion to the current storyline centered on Wonder Woman's search for Zola's baby, the latest child of Zeus and Diana's half-sibling. This story also introduced a new character, First Born, revealed to ... Read more

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Furious Five With Joe Keatinge: The Emerald City Comicon Edition [Interview]

Cheryl Lynn Eaton — 2013-03-19T11:30:00 00:00

Filed under: Interviews

Emerald City Comicon, a time when the "Seattle Freeze" thaws and comic creators, consumers, and costumers are welcomed into the city's warm embrace. The event also marks the beginning of convention season, a frenzied (and friendly) whirlwind that ... Read more

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