Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Comic Round-Up: March 17, 2015


"Spider-Woman" by France-based Julia Lost


Event: Rob Liefeld, Deadpool creator and Image Comics co-founder, will appear at Phat Collectibles in Anaheim, CA on Saturday, April 11th at 2:00 PM to send off the Merc with a Mouth in style! Co-hosted by Agents of Cosplay. RSVP on Facebook!

Event: Russell Lissau will appear at Defiant Comics in Forest Park, IL on Saturday, April 11, 2015 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm to sign his new new miniseries OLD WOUNDS! RSVP on Facebook!

Interview: Football player Israel Idonije talks about his childhood love of comics, and the series he’s been developing, The Protectors. Idonije has brought in writer Ron Marz and artist Bart Sears to work on the project, and there’s a motion comic in the works as well.

Interview: An Interview With Comic Book Legend Walter Simonson

Interview: James Kochalka talks about how he creates memorable characters and visuals, why he likes making comics that kids can appreciate, and what he learned while creating the Glorkian Warrior video game.

Interview: Warren Ellis Answers Your Questions About The Future

News: Controversial Batgirl Variant Cover Cancelled.  In celebration of the 75th anniversary of The Joker, DC Comics is releasing variant covers in June, depicting their popular villain. After threats of violence and harassment the artist, Rafael Albuquerque, agreed to pull the cover. Who was being threatened and harassed? Not the artist. Rather, the people objecting. Predictably the backlash #CHANGETHECOVER has generated backlash #SAVETHECOVER in a standoff reminiscent of Gamergate.

News: Lars Vilks, whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad led a gunman to try to assassinate him last month, on Saturday made his first public appearance since the attempted shooting to accept the Sappho Award from the Danish Free Press Society in Copenhagen.

Reviews: Marykate Jasper on The Surface #1. Abhay Khosla on two recent superhero comics. Todd Klein on Justice League #38 and Aquaman #38.  Doug Zawisza on Captain Marvel #13.

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Are DC & Marvel Placating a “Vocal Minority” of Fans With Practical Female Character Costumes?

Best Selling Comic Books of All Time

For everyone foaming at the mouth over the new DC costumes, here’s a reminder that Wonder Woman once wore biker shorts, people. In other words, changing clothes is like death in comics—it’s all temporary.

Great Moments From Great Comics #1: Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck

Greg Matiasevich at Multiversity has a very thorough round-up of thoughts and developments in the New Mexico mother who had Palomar pulled from a high school library after claiming it was child porn on the local TV station.  The CBLDF has joined with the Kids Right to Read Project to file a letter defending Palomar as the literary work that it has always been recognized as.

Jason Momoa tooks a swipe at Marvel in a very sly, subtle fashion: he wrote “fuck marvel” on a picture he was autographing.

Milwaukee man buys 1,307 Bazooka Joe comics

The NY Times ran an obituary for Irwin Hasen and the portrait it paints of his later years is pretty good. I think he lived a pretty good life.

Suicide Squad Rumor Explains Batman's Involvement
 Top Selling Comic Book Issues of this Century

Who Will Make You Sick of Comic Book Movies, DC or Marvel? I'll hold my opinion until the next Green Lantern film.

Why this popular superhero comic took over 10 years to get made into a show


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