Comic Book News & Previews

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WC10: Dark Horse's "Predators" Writers

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From IGN:
Batman and Robin #11 Preview

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From CBR WC10: David Finch

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Eisner Award Nominess have been announced

The below will be a difficult decision:

Best New Series
Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick, art by Tony Parker (BOOM!)
Ireedeemable, by Mark Waid and Peter Krause (BOOM!)
Sweet Tooth, by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo/DC)
The Unwritten, by Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo/DC)

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From Newsarama:
Writer Hickman Reveals the History of Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D.

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CBR's Exclusive Coverage of C2E2

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Newsarama's Coverage of C2E2

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From IGN:
The Return of Casanova Quinn

We talk with Matt Fraction about the long-awaited return of Casanova and the move to Marvel's creator-owned Icon imprint.

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From CBR:
C2E2: Cup O' Joe

"Casanova" returns from Icon this year as well, first in trade form with remastered colors and new material before the Matt Fraction, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon series starts up again with new stories.

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From CBR:
C2E2: Cup O' Joe

The Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman issues of "Marvelman" were asked after, and Quesada said that news was coming, and that all the speculation online about whether or not legal issues were holding up such material is untrue. The company is releasing Marvelman comics in the way they want, and they want to "start where it started" with the Mick Anglo creations that were so popular with British fans in the '50s and beyond. Quesada talked about meeting Anglo and how the man has written many books about topics outside of comics and how he's a World War II and boxing enthusiast, so introducing the man and his work to the public is key for Marvel. They're not interested in immediately shoe-horning the character into books like "Avengers."

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From MillarWorld:

In other words, I'm starting Balls To The Wall the week after next and the first issue will be out in September.

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From CHUD:
KICK-ASS COULD GO BALLS TO THE WALL IN A SEQUEL

From io9:
Kick-Ass 2's New Villain Could Be Named "The C*nts"

From Super Hero Hype:
Kick-Ass 2 is Gonna Get "Darker"

"Last night at the Q 'n' A, someone asked Johnny (Romita Jr.) if they're going to have some stuff from 'Kick-Ass 2' at Comic-Con and they said, 'Yes,' which means they're going to get started on it, which is exciting," Mintz-Plasse told us in an exclusive interview.

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From CBR:
Hope Larson to adapt A Wrinkle in Time

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SPOILERS

From Bleeding Cool:
Superman No More?

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From CBR:
Mignola Digs Into "Baltimore"

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From Newsarama:
Check out Kenneth Rocafort’s Velocity

Mint Condition Exclusive: Top Cow's New 'Velocity' Comic

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From Newsarama:
Mink Courts AMANO for DHC's SHINJUKU

In the upcoming illustrated novel Shinjuku, a retired Special Forces soldier has entered the seedy world of bounty hunting – and one of his first jobs is saving his own sister. Set in a futuristic 2020 in Shinjuku Tokyo, Shinjuku follows Daniel Legend as he descends into the depths of Tokyo to find his lost sibling and comes head-to-head with not just one underworld, but two: the criminal and the supernatural. What starts as a personal quest turns into something that could impact the world.

Legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Vampire Hunter D, Sandman: The Dream Hunters) is partnering with writer Mink for this illustrated novel – Amano's first in over a decade.

AICN COMICS Q&@: superhero talks with the Man Called Mink, Writer of SHINJUKU!!!

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Newsarama Preview - IDW's RICHARD STARK'S PARKER's THE OUTFIT

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From Bleeding Cool:
Flash Gordon, Mandrake The Magician And The Phantom Together Again

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Newsarama Exclusive Extended Image Preview: DUST WARS #1

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First Look: Fresh Art from Frank Miller's Xerxes Graphic Novel

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From Hero Complex:
Frank Miller returns to the '300' battlefield with 'Xerxes': 'I make no apologies whatsoever'

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From CBR:
Millar and Yu Are "Superior"

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Marvel MATURE Duo Preview: NEMESIS #2, PUNISHERMAX #8

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Swamp Thing To Hit Ethan Van Sciver’s Plastic Man First

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Some shocking news from DC:

Wonder Woman Gets New Costume, New Direction, and new Origin courtesy of JMS.



Check out an interview with the man here where many feel he shit on previous writers.

What say you? Were you under the impression that leather jackets on superheroes disappeared 10 years ago? Was the old costume too revealing?

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Batwoman: Elegy Balances Surreal Suspense, Sexual Politics

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Lecko, I don't mind the jacket. It gives her pockets. But why is it cropped at the ribcage? That's so Image '95 it's scary. As for the entire costume, I thought she managed fairly well in the bicycle shorts and sports bra look when she lost her title. Make the top full-length, add a little color, and it would have been a fine look not too far off the classic.

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Lecko, I don't mind the jacket. It gives her pockets. But why is it cropped at the ribcage? That's so Image '95 it's scary. As for the entire costume, I thought she managed fairly well in the bicycle shorts and sports bra look when she lost her title. Make the top full-length, add a little color, and it would have been a fine look not too far off the classic.

Did you read WW #600? I thought it was quite good.

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My LCS was out before I got there. If I remember, I'll ask them to reorder a copy.

Which reminds me that I need to place my July Previews order this weekend.


And why the frak is JMS taking on two DC books when he owes Marvel FOUR issues of The Twelve? This is total BS.

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Interview between Jonathon Ross and Jim Steranko

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From CBR @ SDCC '10 | First look at LoEG Vol. III: Century #2 -- 1969

Top Shelf Comics revealed art from Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's upcoming project, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century." The latest chapter is scheduled for a 2011 release.

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From CBR: CCI: DC Nation

The DC Nation panel at Comic-Con International found Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, and JMS announcing new projects including a new Flash series and a collaboration between Johns and Morrison.

From Bleeding Cool:
Grant Morrison And Geoff Johns To Collaborate On New DC Project (UPDATE)

Take one writer of Final Crisis. Take one writer of Blackest Night. Let them collaborate on a big new shiny thing at DC. And start saving your pennies.

At the DC Nation panel at San Diego Comic Con, Grant and Geoff mentioned that they are working on a new project from DC Comics for next year, to which Geoff commented “it will not be small”…

No other details for now. But this is where it starts….

UPDATE: Grant Morrison also states that only Cameron Stewart and Frank Quitely have been decided as artists on his Multiversity project – Stewart on Captain Marvel and Quitely on the Watchmenesque Charlton characters of Earth 4.

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From Bleeding Cool:
Millar & Yu’s Superior: What Is It All About?

From CBR:
A first look at Mark Millar and Leinil Francis Yu's Superior

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From Newsarama:
Judge: McFarlane Owes Gaiman For Dark Ages Spawn, Tiffany and Domina

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From Newsarama:
BIANCHI Channels Frazetta, Tolkien in THOR: FOR ASGARD

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From CBR:
She Has No Head! – Is Wonder Woman A Gateway Drug? Could She Be?

I tried this past week, in order to get out of my funk, to think of things that I do find exciting right now in mainstream comics and the first thing that sprang to mind was Ben Caldwell’s YA (young adult) Wonder Woman Pitch that’s been making the rounds on the internet. There’s nothing about Caldwell’s fresh take on Wonder Woman that feels seen before or dull to me, it seems exciting and shiny and new and full of potential. The kind of book that could jumpstart me out of my malaise.

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From CBR:
She Has No Head! – Is Wonder Woman A Gateway Drug? Could She Be?

I tried this past week, in order to get out of my funk, to think of things that I do find exciting right now in mainstream comics and the first thing that sprang to mind was Ben Caldwell’s YA (young adult) Wonder Woman Pitch that’s been making the rounds on the internet. There’s nothing about Caldwell’s fresh take on Wonder Woman that feels seen before or dull to me, it seems exciting and shiny and new and full of potential. The kind of book that could jumpstart me out of my malaise.

Can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd be tempted to read it. Shame that DC won't take the shot.

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From CBR:
CHEW ON THIS: Ken Leung & Fricken

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SPLASH PAGE EXCLUSIVE: 'Kick-Ass 2' Preview, Mark Millar Says Production On Movie Sequel Is 'Nine Months Away'

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From CBR:
FAN EXPO: Yanick Paquette on “Batman Inc.”

Yanick Paquette talks to CBR about his return to DC Comics and why working with Grant Morrison, not Batman, was the biggest draw. He also revealed the dynamic duo have another project in the works.

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From CBR:
Kim Thompson on Translating Manara

Dark Horse announced this summer at San Diego's Comic-Con International that it would be translating the works of famed Italian artist Milo Manara, with some of his books becoming available in English for the first time. Working with writers like Alejandro Jodorowsky, Neil Gaiman, Hugo Pratt, and influential directors Pedro Almodóvar and Federico Fellini, Manara stands as one of Europe's premiere artists, and his own original material has cemented his reputation as one of the greats of erotic comics.

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From CBR:
Paul Pope talks Battling Boy, DJing and the new THB

Paul Pope is comics’ closest equivalent to a rock star.

It’s a reputation he’s garnered by both his comics works and his personality — and by the fact he’s an active DJ. He now splits his time between New York City and Europe, the latter of which is the first to see some of his anthology work. Last weekend, Pope and AdHouse Books stealth-released a new issue of his seminal series THB at Baltimore Comic-Con, with extra copies now available on AdHouse’s website. The unique nature of this release was due in no small part to Pope being off the shelves of American comic book stores for years while he completes the graphic novel Battling Boy for First Second.

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From Newsarama:
TOMASI & Gleason Re-Team For BATMAN & ROBIN

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From CBR: SUPERIOR WEEK: Mark Millar

CBR gets up close and personal with Mark Millar's latest creator-owned effort as the writer explains how the tale goes beyond the Superman myth, what inspired its hopeful, emotional tone and how Leinil Yu helps save the day.

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From CBR:
Kubert Teases "Flashpoint"

While industry star Andy Kubert ("Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? ") was a featured guest at Fan Expo in Toronto - and boasted one of the longest queues when it came to autograph seekers - the artist was noticeably absent from the DC Nation and DC Universe panels on Friday and Saturday.

That was too bad for fans eager to learn more about "Flashpoint," the 2011 Flash-centric mega event he's illustrating for DC Comics, which is written by superstar writer Geoff Johns. Teased in the closing two pages of "The Flash" #1 in April 2010, all that is known about "Flashpoint" so far is that it features the speedsters and whatever threat they're up against has somehow changed the futures, pasts (or alternate realities) of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

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From Fabio and Gabriel's Blog August 13, 2010:
Dream come true.

My brother and I have been wanting to tell stories in comicbooks for as long as we can remember. At first, we just wanted to copy what we were reading, as a way of being part of that magical universe of super-heroes, barbarians, space guardians, street punks and pirates. But soon the need to tell stories became stronger than the simple act of drawing.

We have told lots of stories – well, a few – from princes and fairies, to young people in love, to robots and waitresses. All these stories came out of our need to tell them, without any requests, any pressure, straight out of our heads. All those stories were building the ground for us to be finally able to tell Daytripper.

Daytripper is not a project we have had for a long time. It came from an idea I had some 8 or 9 years ago, but it was not more than that. It was one of the ideas we pitched to Vertigo when Bob Schreck asked us for ideas. It was the one they liked.

However, ever since we started actually working on this comic, it has become the story we have been waiting to tell our entire lives.

Issue 9 just came out, one we're really proud of, and next month brings the conclusion of our story. This has been a terrific journey. This is what comics mean to us. A real dream come true.

A GRAPHIC CONTENT Exclusive Preview: DAYTRIPPER #10

A great writer once said that we have to die to prove that we’ve lived. For nine beautiful issues, Bá and Moon have chronicled the different deaths of Brás de Oliva Domingos, so what’s left to say? Now, with the final chapter, there’s no turning back – for them or Brás. How brave must you be to keep going when you know death is the final outcome?

This amazing mini series, which on the surface seems to be about death, but at its heart, explores the wonder and emotion of life, concludes with DAYTRIPPER issue #10 this Wednesday.

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From CBR: SUPERIOR WEEK: Leinil Francis Yu

The artist behind the latest Mark Millar written series describes designing an old timey twist on the Superman model, explains why he wants to keep it creator-owned and shares exclusive art from inside "Superior."

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From Deadline: '70s Marvel Rival Atlas Comics Relaunches

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I give them six issues per book, which is more than most of the '70s titles lasted. Wow, were most of them bad. The only title that stands out in my memory is The Scorpion, sort of a precursor to Howard Chaykin's Dominic Fortune. Though the concept of Ironjaw tends to burn itself into the brain -- barbarian has his jaw cut off by evildoers, a witch rivets a new one to his face. Amazing.