Disgraceful: DC Says Incapable of Successfully Selling Older Archives
Our much maligned inspiration, Bleeding Cool, recently wrote about DC cancelling quite a few trade collections of older material, which they claim is inexplicably…
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Marvel Writer Jason Aaron Trolls Fans He Disagrees With, Again
Screen Rant discovered, but didn’t criticize, writer Jason Aaron’s insult to fans he’d similarly performed when he was writing Jane Foster as Thor, here taking…
Is it Time to End Monthly Comics? SyFy Almost Gets it Right
Wouldn’t you know it, somebody writing for a leading news publication seems to agree with my view that the monthly pamphlet model the industry’s…
Local Comic Shops Deal With Reality of Collapsing Industry
The Frederick News-Post in Maryland wrote a whole item about local comic store owners dealing with the reality of collapsing businesses elsewhere: Superheroes, once…
Why DC Comics’ Upcoming 5G is Destined to Fail
Screen Rant talks about DC’s upcoming event called 5G, which is supposed to make Wonder Woman the “first” real protagonist in the DCU, but…
Marvel Comics Fans Should Never Forget These Wretched Stories
CBR published another one of their mediocre lists of stories from past history, this one spotlighting embarrassing tales from over the years which they claim Marvel’s…
Why Marvel Comics Writer Donny Cates Says ‘No’ to ‘Fan Service’
The Texas Monthly did a podcast interview with Cates, who’s been assigned to succeed Jason Aaron as the Thor writer. At the beginning of…
What the ‘Birds of Prey’ Movie Gets Wrong from the Comics
Let the mayhem begin. #BirdsofPrey is in theaters February 7. pic.twitter.com/5D0zfhawGL — Birds of Prey (@birdsofpreywb) January 14, 2020 Looper recently wrote about the…
Christos Gage & Dan Slott Further Destroy Iron Man’s Tony Stark
There’s another “event” being produced by Marvel this year spotlighting Iron Man, and as this interview with Christos Gage on Newsarama confirms, “Arno Stark” remains the biological…
Is It Time For a Pause on Superhero Comic Film Adaptations?
The Fort Smith Times-Record published a puff piece about upcoming comics-based movies and other sci-fi fare, and the first one cited is Birds of Prey,…