Posts Tagged ‘DC’
How to do Comics – the Jim Shooter way!
June 15th, 2010 by Riff
Ok I wasn’t planning this and I’ve got a helluva lot of other stuff happening right now, so appologies, dearest reader, for its brevity and lack of otherwise unenlightening commentary. However this is an interview with “shouty shouty” Jim Shooter, former EiC of Marvel, and often comic writer. He was the man in charge when [...]
Tags: CBR, comics, creation, DC, Jim Shooter, Marvel
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DC Universe Online News
July 23rd, 2009 by Riff
One of the quietest MMOs out there, the DC Universe Online is about to reveal some of its secrets at the Comic Con in San Diego. DCUO (which, by any standards, is an awful mouthful) let this taster loose over at Massively and frankly, from what I read, it’s pretty disappointing unless you’re a die [...]
Tags: Aquaman, Batman, Champions, Champions Online, City of Heroes, DC, DC Universe Online, DCUO, Green Lantern, Marvel, Nightwing, Robin, Superman
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Comics: Voting with your Wallet
May 20th, 2009 by Riff
Christine posted an interesting article on her The Other Murdock Papers blog regarding the cancellation of Captain Britain and MI-13, and her post rang very true to me. The main reason it did so was simply this: I stopped reading Daredevil when Brubaker took over because I thought (after 6 issues of Brubaker’s run) that [...]
Tags: Andy Diggle, Captain Britain, Daredevil, DC, Ed Brubaker, Joe Quesada, Marvel
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Friday Roundup
April 3rd, 2009 by Riff
A weekly round up of news in the world of comics!
Tags: Andy Diggle, Bono, Brian Bendis, comicbooks, Dan DiDio, Daredevil, DC, Ed Brubaker, Freakangels, Joe Quesada, Spider-Man, Stopblubbering, The Edge, Warren Ellis, webcomics
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Absolute Justice
March 10th, 2009 by Riff
This is one of those books you want to own just to keep it in pride of place on your bookshelf. It’s taking the whole comic as artifact into a new level but with real class. It’s the Rolls Royce of comicbooks I guess – if that’s not too much of an outdated comparison. DC’s [...]
Tags: Absolute, Alex Ross, art, comic books, DC, Jim Kreuger, JLA, news
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Warren Ellis’ FreakAngels
March 5th, 2009 by Riff
If you like Warren Ellis’ work, then you’ll love FreakAngels. What?!?! You’ve. Never. Heard. Of. Warren. Ellis?!?!?!?! Well you can read about him here, but his influence is pretty wide these days. I would venture to suggest that he’s managed to cast a very wide net – and impacted a lot of writing, but as [...]
Tags: Avatar Press, comic books, Crooked Little Vein, DC, Freakangels, Joe Quesada, John Cassaday, Marvel, Mike Mognola, Neil Gaiman, Paul Duffield, Warren Ellis, webcomics, Whitechapel
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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, [...]
Tags: art, Azrael, Batman, Brian Bendis, Captain America, comic artists, comic books, comicbooks, comics, crucial, Daredevil, DC, Ed Brubaker, Free Comicbook Day, Gene Colan, Greg Ruka, Hellboy, Image Comics, Jack Kirby, John Le Carre, Len Deighton, Marvel, Michael Turner, Powers, Punisher, Queen & Country, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Superman
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Dark Reign: Elektra
February 18th, 2009 by Riff
From Marvel’s website: Dark Reign Falls As Elektra Returns Elektra has been broken, beaten, and tortured by aliens…now she returns for vengeance. She’s been broken, beaten, and tortured by aliens…now she returns for vengeance in DARK REIGN: ELEKTRA #1 (of 5)! From red-hot writer Zeb Wells and acclaimed artist Clay Mann comes the Elektra story [...]
Tags: 300, Civil War, Clay Mann, comic books, comicbooks, comics, Dark Avengers, Dark Horse, Dark Knight Returns, Dark Reign, DC, Elektra, Frank Miller, House of M, Marvel, New Avengers, Sin City, Skrull, Zeb Wells
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Comicbook Legends
February 13th, 2009 by Riff
Comicbook Myths and Legends Interesting comments in this link. I don’t know how seriously to take it, nor the impact of it but hey, it’s fun and gives a little insight into how the industry works. My personal take in it’s more quirky than anything else but you’ll probably enjoy some of the snippets there. [...]
Tags: comic artists, comics, DC, Mark Millar, Marvel, Star-Lord, Superman
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Review: Y the Last Man
July 5th, 2008 by Riff
From well within the first issue, any sensible reader should be terrified out of his wits at the basic concept of this epic, and subtly, within pages I realised this could have no happy ending. Some 60 issues later, I was to realise just how right I was, and yet… Ok let’s start at the [...]
Tags: Brian K Vaughan, DC, Jose Marzan Jr, Pia Guerra, Vertigo, Y the Last Man
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