o “Aggressively Committed” In an environment where the bigger publishers have too much to lose to risk burning any bridges with comic-book retailers, it shouldn’t come as a great surprise that it’s a small independent company like Boom! Studios that comes out with the most sweeping and unapologetic approach yet to digital distribution. o “The [...]
o “We’ve Already Received Word from Retailers That They Feel This Is the Best Way to Set This Test Up” The key dilemma North American mainstream comics publishers are facing right now: They can’t afford to alienate comics retailers, and they can’t afford to not alienate them for much longer, either. There’s something at stake [...]
Kick Ass is getting a lot of press right now, and quite rightly so. The hotly anticipated adaptation of the Mark Millar/John Romita Jr comic book looks set to be THE comic book movie event of the year alongside Iron Man 2. But why is this title, with unknown characters and an 11-year-old fouth mouthed [...]
2009 draws to a close with a bang thanks to James Cameron’s epic Avatar movie doing huge business around the world, but there have been a number of milestones this year that have seen the geek community rejoicing (and flaming each other, as ever). It has been a pretty good year for genre entertainment as [...]
Something that is becoming ever more evident, working surrounded by comic fans old and new, is the rise in interest in the graphic novel format. We’ve seen a steady increase in graphic novel popularity over the past year or so, and now they are more popular than ever before. While individual comic sales have slowed, [...]
Recent news from the merchandise industry states that Marvel has put May 6th 2011 down as the release date for the fourth movie in the blockbuster Spider-Man film franchise. This fits in well with Sam Raimi’s recent statement that he was doing Spider-Man 4 next (and then EVIL DEAD 4 after that), and also with [...]
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I went along to the local comic fair yesterday, which takes place in a university building hall every two months and features dealers from around the country peddling various wares. This month’s made me smile in particular- there was an actual crowd there. Where events in recent months have been relegated to the canteen, this [...]
We’ve had an awesome batch of new issues this week, so let’s take a look at some of the comic book titles that are making an impact on our shelves! THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 584 After all the chaos surrounding Spidey issue 583, things are back to business as usual with Character Assassination part 2 by [...]
As heard on Slice of Sci-Fi and across the geek community online, Warner Brothers is to put most of, if not all of, its comic book movie projects on hold for the time being. While Marvel Studios continue to thrash out hit after hit (and with several films on the way during the next couple [...]
