Posts Tagged ‘Brian Bendis’


Trending Topic (Comics & Twitter) #comicsIwant

May 29th, 2009 by Riff

It’s taken me a while to get into twitter but I must admit I’m hooked by the phenomenon. It’s a social network in a microcosm – it’s a smorgasbord. You take what you want – it can be fully interactive or it can be as brief as a text message: “We’re going down the pub.” [...]

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Free Comic Book Day

May 2nd, 2009 by Riff

Yay it’s free Comic book day, so get on down to your local retailer and pick up lots of comicy goodness for nothing Yeps that’s right, zero, nowt, zilch, 0, nuffink!! (And if your retailer’s not supporting it, ask him why not!!!) Lots of comicbook goodness, including a special oneshot of the Avengers, written by [...]

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Friday Roundup

April 3rd, 2009 by Riff

A weekly round up of news in the world of comics!

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Diggle to pen Marvel’s Daredevil

March 21st, 2009 by Riff

So catching up on comic news as I’m prone to do – after all, who else is gonna keep you in the mix? – and this flops onto my desktop courtesy of Myspace Comicbooks’ “Cup o’ Joe.” Frankly this is excellent news. Excellent? It’s fucking fantastsic! Yep, Andy Diggle is take over from Ed Brubaker [...]

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Ed Brubaker’s Angel of Death (a non-review)

March 4th, 2009 by Riff

Ok I need to start out here by telling you I really don’t like what Ed Brubaker does. In fact, I make strenuous efforts to avoid his stuff because, frankly, I think it’s crap. (Ok, I’ve never met the bloke, but I intensely dislike his stories, although I want to be clear that I don’t [...]

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Oeming launches new site

February 26th, 2009 by Riff

Michael Avon Oeming has just launched his new site. Looks cool. I love this guys work both his art and his writing. I’m guessing he’s best known for his work with Brian Bendis on Powers, initially published by Image but now part of Marvel under their Icon imprint. He’s also written a great run on [...]

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New Trends in Digital Comics

February 25th, 2009 by Riff

As the mainstream comic producers begin to explore what’s now being called “the digital medium” there’s a bit of a buzz on teh interweb tubes regarding how those trends are developing – and there’s a remarkable surge of creativity as the spotlight focusses on this new medium. Marvel are making a big thing of their [...]

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Art or Artifact: Comics as Commodity or Entertainment.

February 22nd, 2009 by Riff

Comicbooks aren’t for kids any more it seems. Hell some of them aren’t for grown-ups either. For many they seem to be a cash cow, an investment, something to be stored in vaults, in plastic (or better still foil) bags, in acid-free cardboard boxes in low ultra-violet light, never to actually be read or enjoyed, [...]

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Dark Avengers Preview

February 12th, 2009 by Riff

This looks scary and exciting and exciting and scary all at once. I must admit I’m rather behind – I’m still catching up with Secret Invasion so I’m only getting snippets of the previews etc but I wanted to share this with you, since Bendis himself tweeted it. Dark Avengers Let me know what you [...]

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Spider Woman in action

February 10th, 2009 by Riff

This seems quite an exciting prospect: Brian M Bendis and Alex Maleev, who produced one of the finest series ever in Marvel Knights Daredevil are to collaborate on Spider-Woman. Better still this is going to be a move into some exciting new technologies, digital motion comics. I’ve not yet seen any examles myself but hey, [...]

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