Showing posts with label dc comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dc comics. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2009

In the year 2000!


art by Leinil Yu.

In 1998, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Mark Waid and Tom Peyer pitched a revamp of Superman. Their proposal (entitled "Superman 2000") was turned down by DC editorial who swore those writers will never be allowed to work on the character.

Years later, those ideas are worked into All Star Superman, Superman: Birthright, 52 and...Spider-man?! Read an analysis of the Superman 2000 pitch here.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Finally!!!


DC comics is finally doing something significant with the Milestone characters whose return was announced more than a year ago. The original artists, including John Paul Leon and Milestone Founder Denys Cowan, will be joining writer Dwayne McDuffie to tell "a bittersweet tale that chronicles the literal end of a universe, and the birth of something new, with major consequences for the future of the DC Universe." Read more here.

What took so long? Read 4thletter! blogger David Brother's thoughts about DC's mismanagement of the Milestone properties here.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Peter Parker-ing of Clark Kent


Amazing Fantasy #15, art by Steve Ditko (left), Superman: Secret Origin #2, art by Gary Frank

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

More Morrison inspiration?


The above panel has been cited by Grant Morrison as an inspiration for his take on the current Batman-
"I can certainly see the Dick Grayson Batman digging this day on a more regular basis!"
Perhaps, the Dick Grayson Batman and Damian Wayne Robin were inspired by this:

Also, I think Bruce needs to look up the definition of the word "ironic."

Batman and Robin #3 hits comic stores today.

Check out a video discussion between Morrison and Clive Barker here.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

AV Club geeks out


Check out interviews with writer Grant Morrison, outgoing Dr. Who show runner Russell T. Davies and legendary Swamp Thing artist, Steve Bissette.

My favorite bit from Morrison's interview:

AVC: Speaking of British comics, if a British writer reaches a certain level of critical success, is he automatically inducted into a magic circle?

GM: Induction isn’t automatic, and involves a rigorous series of Harry Potter-style challenges involving hippogriff-wrangling, mer-wolf races, and all the usual folderol of an openly occult lifestyle. Marshall Law writer Pat Mills is also a magician of some infamy.

Davies on the Dr. Who format:
What I wanted to do was repeated patterns within the show, like every year we would go to the year five billion. Every year you’d go back in history and meet a famous figure, whether Queen Victoria or William Shakespeare or Dickens. Every year we’d come back to Earth and spend some time with the companion’s modern-day family. Not absolutely fixed within that, not a rigid path. But I think it’s important in an ever-changing show to have sort of little rocks or anchors that you can cling to and sort of say “Don’t worry, we’re still on the same show, I’m going to still always come back to what you like.”
Bissette on the creation of John Constantine:
And [John Totleben and I] wrote Alan [Moore], and said “We’re going to put Sting in the comic, and Alan, you better make it a character, because he’s not going to go away. We’re going to make him more and more visible, whether you like it or not.” So Alan made him John Constantine.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Monday, July 13, 2009

Wish you were here


Dean Motter's Radiant City (art by Los Bros Hernandez)

How can you beat a city called Mega City One? You don't.
Architect's Journal runs down a list of the top 10 comic book cities. A thorough image gallery appears with each entry.

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Monday, April 27, 2009

Great Scott!

(click to enlarge)
Paul Pope gives a sneak peek at his contribution to the upcoming Wednesday Comics. View art from other artists here and here.

Also, check out Pope's Star Trek/ Young Spock comic here.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Wednesday comics

Art director Mark Chiarello discusses "Wednesday Comics" here.
More about the 12-part weekly, large format series here and here.

I'm anxious to find out the price of an issue...