Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
All panels are from Fantastic Four #198 (September 1978), script by Marv Wolfman, breakdowns by Keith Pollard, finishes and inks by Joe Sinnott, colors by Janice Cohen, letters by Rick Parker
jpurdie (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
One of my eBay purchases was out of curiosity and the book arrived today. It’s The Oz Encounter, Weird Heroes Vol. 5: Doc Phoenix. Published in the seventies and written by Marv Wolfman, a name I recognise from reading Marvel comics all those years ago. The series was created by Ted White, a noted SF writer. They make no bones about the fact that the book and characters are homage to Doc Savage,...
Diversions of the Groovy Kind (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
In the mid-70s, Wally Wood was back doing some work for DC. Woody was applying his talents to cool stuff like inking the JSA (in All-Star Comics ) and Stalker (over Steve Ditko pencils) to ca-razee stuff like these two Plop! offerings! Wotta way to wrap up our Warriors and Wizards Week ! From Plop! #14 (April 1975) and Plop! #23 (July 1976) here are "Wednesday's Child" (written by Marv Wolfman)...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I was 100% unfamiliar with this. It set around for a few days. And I stared at it, wondering what the hell it was. It came out back in 1988, when I was a Junior in High School. But I never saw it. I put it in, and in the first episode, DESTROY THE DEFENDROIDS – about the time Lois and Supes are flying hand in hand as hints of CAN YOU READ MY MIND play… I was a bit stunned. Marv Wolfman...
The All-New Al (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
More Brave & Bold. This is from #17, by Marv Wolfman and Phil Winslade. The story, which concludes in #18, is pretty good, aside from being pretty repetitive. It features a callback to Triumph, the widely-loathed post-Zero Hour JLA...
/Film (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Entertainment Weekly has learned that the CW are planning to air the upcoming Justice Society-heavy Smallville two-parter (“Society” and “Legends) as a two hour movie event on January 29th 2010. Penned by comic bookwriter Geoff Johns, the television movie will feature the arrival of Justice Society members Hawkman (Michael Shanks), Doctor Fate (Brent Stait), Stargirl (Britt Irvin),...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Entertainment Weekly has learned that the CW are planning to air the upcoming Justice Society-heavy Smallville two-parter (“Society” and “Legends) as a two hour movie event on January 29th 2010. Penned by comic bookwriter Geoff Johns, the television movie will feature the arrival of Justice Society members Hawkman (Michael Shanks), Doctor Fate (Brent Stait), Stargirl (Britt Irvin),...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Mania is reporting a rumor that Rachel McAdams has met with the producers of Spider-Man 4 to play the role of Black Cat. The female cat burglar has long been rumored to be part of the next installment of Sam Raimi's big screen Spider-Man series, although there has never been any confirmation of such. If true, she would likely be one of two rivals in the fourth movie (technically, she is more of an...
Comics Worth Reading (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Last week, the 13 episodes of the Superman cartoon produced by Ruby-Spears in 1988 came to DVD on a two-disc set. Comic fans may be interested due to the involvement of Marv Wolfman as story editor and Gil Kane as production designer, but the short series didn’t really live up to its pedigree. Ruby-Spears SupermanBuy [...]
ComicMix (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
When you think of the classic Marvel artists, you think of masters of the medium such as Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita Sr, John Buscema, and Gene Colan. No wonder Marvel left all other American comics publishers in the dust. This coming February, Marvel Entertainment will honor one of those gentlemen by releasing The Invincible Gene Colan , a visual tribute and biography of one of the most...
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Media Release -- This coming February, Marvel Entertainment will release THE INVINCIBLE GENE COLAN. It is a stunning visual tribute and biography of one of the most brilliant, sublime and influential comic artists in the genre's history. Including observations from Stan Lee, Neil Gaiman, Walter Simonson, Marv Wolfman, Tom Palmer and John Romita Sr., it also contains tons of Gene's beautiful, eye-popping...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
§ All the way back in September we interviewed Jeffrey Brown at his SPX panel, and he admitted one of his dreams was to write a story for Marvel Comics. Now he has a blog post called Childhood Dream: Check. And this is why. § PvP’s Scott Kurtz – who has not exactly kept [...]
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Marv Wolfman, the veteran comics writer who had just completed the 12-part “Crisis On Infinite Earths” series that reshaped the DC Comics universe, served as story editor and writer on the ’88 series, which utilized John Williams’ music and was more influenced by the Christopher Reeve movies than any of the other TV series before “Smallville.” This Luthor is flamboyant...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Marv Wolfman, the veteran comics writer who had just completed the 12-part “Crisis On Infinite Earths” series that reshaped the DC Comics universe, served as story editor and writer on the ’88 series, which utilized John Williams’ music and was more influenced by the Christopher Reeve movies than any of the other TV series before “Smallville.” This Luthor is flamboyant...
Animated Views (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Television animation veterans Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the executive producers behind 1988's Superman series, reminisce about their Man of Steel.
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