DC Direct has announced the upcoming WOMENOFTHEDCUNIVERSE:STARFIREBust designed by Terry Dodson and sculpted by Jack Mathews. This StarfireBust measures approximately 6" tall x 3.75" wide x 2.75" deep and is packaged in a four-c...
DC Direct has announced theWOMENOFTHEDC UNIVERSE line of cold-cast porcelain busts. First up in the collection will be the Wonder Woman bust, which was designed by Terry Dodson and sculpted by Jack Mathews.
This Wonder Woman bust will be a limit...
DC Direct has announced their upcoming WOMENOFTHEDCUNIVERSE: BATGIRL Bust. It was designed by Adam Hughes and then sculpted by John G. Mathews.This limited edition, hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain bust measures approximately 5.5'' tall 2.5'' wide a...
DC Direct has released an image and info on their WOMENOFTHEDCUNIVERSE: SUPERGIRL Bust.This limited edition, hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain bust measures approximately 5.5" tall x 2.5" wide x 2.5" deep, and is packaged in a four-color box. Thebust...
A bunch of new deluxe collector figures are coming in January of 2007. The figures on the docket include: The Flash, JSA Action Figures, Power Girl Bust, and a Batman figure.Pics are all attached, my personal favorite is The Flash ... by a mile.Flash wil...
DC Direct recently announced their HARLEY QUINN Bust, which is part oftheWOMENOFTHEDC UNIVERSE busts. This hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain bust measures approximately 5.5" high x 3" wide x 3.25" deep and is packaged in a 4-color box. Thebust was d...
DC Direct will release next summer the BIG BARDA bust as part oftheir amazing line ofWomenoftheDC Universe busts. his limited-edition, hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain busts measures approximately: 6.5" tall x 3.5" wide x 4" dee...
If I only play one fighting game this year, it’s, without a doubt, going to be MK vs. DC Universe.
I don’t really play a lot of fighting games. Sure I got into Street Fighter II for the SNES back in the day as well as MK II for the S...
Now that a new generation of readers have been introduced to the sprawling DC Universe, post-Crisis, thanks to the recent reissue ofthe HISTORY OFTHEDC UNIVERSE (now sporting an all-new Alex Ross cover), CINESCAPE takes a look at the end that started i...
OPINION: Fair warning: to get in all the great responses I got this week and to close this topic, I've had to go the SOUTH PARK route and make it bigger, longer, and uncut. (Probably not the wisest phrase to use in a column primarily about women, but ther...
DC Direct has announced the upcoming WOMENOFTHEDCUNIVERSE: HAWKGIRL Bust. Thebust was designed by award-winning illustrator Adam Hughes. This limited edition item is a hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain bust, which measures approximately 5.75" tall x ...
As mentioned last week, we have a slew of new releases in every category. There’s going to be some tough purchasing decisions that need to be made. We have two anthologies ofthe best fantasy literature ofthe year, one from St. Martin&rsq...
It’s Election Day, and if you haven’t already voted, I sincerely hope you’re planning on doing so. Come on folks, I know the Marvel vs. DC event ofthe nineties soured you on the democratic process, but you’ve got to give it anoth...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another long look into the dark heart of Comicscape! I thought about devoting another week to complaining about that recent Spider-Man catastrophe One More Day, especially given that the first issue ofthe new post-...
OPINION: Ever notice that there are far fewer female superheroes with their own ongoing title than male superheroes? A quick glance at the monthly offerings of both DC and Marvel, for instance, reveal just how huge a disparity it is. In the October listin...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another weekly web of Comicscape wonder. For the past couple of weeks, we talked about Spider-Man 3 in lieu of discussing the end ofDC’s weekly maxiseries, 52. The film came out the same week as the final issue of...
A couple of weeks ago, a COMICSCAPE reader asked me to do a column about breaking into comics. Here, I present the first of a couple of columns on the subject. Many comics professionals began their career in self-publishing they created their own books, ...
OPINION: Yes, you heard me right: "Part One." The response to my question about why there aren't enough female superheroes in their own books and what should be done about that problem was tremendous - and I finally got a goodly number of responses from f...
Last week's admittedly meandering column about sex and women in popular comics didn't garner much mail, but it lit the comment section on fire. I thought that a column about everybody's favorite subject (or at least mine and Al's) would at least get me a ...
The mainstream American comic industry never fails to alternately enthrall and enrage fans. Big-selling independents like Image, IDW, and Dark Horse offer fresh alternatives, but Marvel and DC still rule the roost. Both companies carry a stable ...
Greetings and welcome to yet another COMICSCAPE, and on a week when the books don't ship until Thursday, no less (damn holidays!). Last week, I threw together an admittedly uninspired "Best of 2005" column, but even I'm entitled to suck once in a while. R...
Greetings, fellow fiends, and welcome to another week of brilliant banter, witty rhetoric, and cataclysmic commentary about the state ofthe comics industry. Before we dive headlong into this pit of barbed wire and broken glass: I'll run your letters next...
Winning the Tiptree Award for feminist science fiction caps a fascinating chapter in the writing life of Suzy McKee Charnas. Thirty years after the writing ofthe first book in the dystopian Holdfast Chronicles, Charnas finishes the series with THE CONQUE...
Last Wednesday, Judge Stephen G. Larson ofthe United States District Court, Central District of California handed down an historic ruling in the legal battle over Superman. As of right now, the heirs of Jerry Siegel—his widow Joanne Siegel and daug...
Happy Wednesday, and welcome to another Comicscape. This week, we dive into DC’s weekly event 52, which just crossed the halfway mark two weeks ago. I would’ve covered it then, but the late-shipping Seven Soldiers #1 delayed th...
Two weeks ago, DC launched ALL-STAR SUPERMAN the second ofthe imprint some fans call the publisher's answer to Marvel's Ultimate line. Though not conceptually identical, the two imprints share a similar spirit born of both publishers' desire to attract ...
As with most media, comic books experience a fair amount of piracy on the Internet. Most ofthe time, sites only host BitTorrent trackers over actual scanned comics. The trackers allow the downloader to assemble the file in small pieces from oth...
My thanks to everyone who has already written in with well wishes for my future success, and to those who wrote in with suggestions for my last two columns. Ofthe many interesting ones that came in, the one that had the sort of "last word" quality that ...
OPINION: Last week we spoke to Richard and Wendy Pini, whose latest chapter in the ELFQUEST saga, THE SEARCHER AND THE SWORD, has just been released by DC as a 96-page hardcover graphic novel. (And before I forget, let me publicly say thank you to Alexand...
As we noted before, Phil Jimenez has some very clear ideas about Wonder Woman's character and career. In fact, he's even planning to reintroduce the Amazon to the ways of love, courtesy of a relatively new (and human) person in the heroine's life. But wha...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another Comicscape. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover this week.
Times have changed. I’ve changed. And, Comicscape is about to change. Before I dive in, I want to thank each and every one of you for...
My colleague of questionable esteem, Al Brown, and a couple of readers suggested I write a column about comics that might appeal to women and those repelled by spandex, big guns, big muscles, and big tits. Rather than just targeting women, I've decided to...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another mail-filled Comicscape maelstrom. Last week’s column on Marvel’s Civil War garnered some thoughtful letters – more than the paltry couple I seem to receive lately. For whatever r...
Greetings, my seething minions, and welcome to another week of COMICSCAPE brilliance. This will likely sound boring at first, but I promise it gets better: last week, The Wall Street Journal published a disturbing little story about product placement dea...
You can put that over on the left. No, the other left. Yeah, that's perfect. And that thingie over there can go a little higher. No, not that high. Down a pinch. Up just a tad. Hold it! That's perfect. Okay, now try moving... oh, hey there. Sorry about th...
Welcome to another week of Grind Your Axe at COMICSCAPE. I'm your host and all-around nice guy, Kurt Amacker. This week, we took some time at the Home Office to tear open some of your letters about that swinging new flick, V FOR VENDETTA. As most of our v...
Tonight, at 7:00 p.m. Central time, the Marshall Public Library Board of Trustees will convene to vote on whether or not to remove two graphic novels from their shelves BLANKETS by Craig Thompson and FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel. Louise Mills, a resident ...
World War II is soon to end, but for a group of American troopers in the Belgian Woods, it's still very much on, and it's about to get much worse. For one thing, the Germans they're fighting are no longer human - they've been taken over by a creature name...
No matter what holiday you celebrate there’s always one constant during the winter season: terrible gifts. Because of a schedule / travel conflict with the fam I happened to celebrate Christmas early this year. Did I get Subterranean Press’ li...
OPINIONAmazing, the amount of responses that including a single controversial quote in a column can garner! I got a record amount of letters responding to last week's column about the ULTIMATES's Nick Fury, an African-American character. The responses wer...
OPINIONNo death threats this time, thank goodness, and a few extra votes for new heroes, as well as some repeat votes for Matter Eater Lad and Dazzler. One anonymous fan even put in a vote for Phoenix, stating that "she upset the balance ofthe Marvel Uni...
A screw-you-Pat amount of books came out this week with a little something for everyone: several anthologies for the SF reader, new fantasy / horror stand-alone novels and series installments, and even a widely neglected, early novel from George R.R. ...
Marvel will adapt Stephen King’s 1978 post-apocalyptic novel, The Stand, into a 24-issue maxi series. Details remain scant, but we’ll know more soon enough. Dark Horse has signed a three-year “first look” deal with Univer...
Since concluding both PREACHER and HITMAN in 2001, Garth Ennis hasn't written his own ongoing series outside ofthe gleefully violent PUNISHER for Marvel. That changes with this month's double-shipped THE BOYS for DC/Wildstorm Ennis and his pencil-partne...
Welcome to the
latest edition oftheDCG Artist Spotlight!
Our victim today is
Rhonda, the one and only WonderWomanGoddess.
Comics2Film (C2F):
When and how did you start doing photomanips?
WonderWomanGoddess (WWG):
I had been a lifelong comic fan, and one...
Each December, I feel obligated to write one ofthese wretched “year in review” columns that gives you, the reader, my perfunctory thoughts on comic books through the last 12 months. These things hardly satisfy anyone, least of all me...
Before I begin this week's column, I have an announcement to make: my last COMICSCAPE column will be Wednesday, February 2, and my last review for CINESCAPE for the time being will also appear that week. I'm sure there's at least one or two readers who wi...
Somebody call the newspapers like, all ofthem because something happened this week that will never happen again: everyone agreed with my rant about the 1990s comic boom. Seriously, guys, I'm about to cry and send everyone those annoying Yahoo e-cards....
We're proud to kick off our new monthly column in the comics section, a no-holds-barred round-up covering all the titles you should be reading and perhaps a few that you shouldn't. It's all compiled by stalwart correspondent Tony Whitt, so take it away, T...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of cutthroat Comicscape action! Late as usual, I realize the furious spell of controversy over the statue of Mary Jane Watson-Parker leaning over a laundry hamper wound down last month, but the storm ov...
One ofthe first comic book series I can remember feeling addicted to was Marv Wolfman and George Perez's New Teen Titans. There was just something about these characters: Wonder Girl, Starfire, Raven, Kid Flash, Cyborg, Changeling and Robin that struck ...
Burbank, CA (April 28, 2008) – Batman and the Teen Titans find themselves in the fight oftheir lives as Warner Home Video (WHV) and DC Comics bring the final installments oftheir heroic animated tales to DVD with the releases of 'The Batman: The C...
Everyone loves zombies. They scare the hell out of you. They serve as a perfect metaphor for, well, “us.” And, best of all, they eat people. With those sterling qualities, I see very little not to like about our lumb...
Having superpowers isn`t all it`s cracked up to be. When last we saw the superpowered main characters of Rising Stars, a cadre of suddenly high-powered Specials prepared to wreak havoc on the world that had ruined their quiet lives. The words ofthe power...
Hail and well met, COMICSCAPE faithful. Welcome to another week in which I provide you, my loyal readers and constant detractors, with a half-hour of free, advertiser-supported comic commentary. And this week, CINESCAPE gives you twice the goodness with...
What They SayIn a futuristic world where evil comes in all shapes and sizes, she is the ultimate weapon. She\'s Cutey Honey, a one woman S.W.A.T. team whose android chassis is capable of changing at will into a dazzling array of hard-hitting, curvaceous b...
Although working on a handful of projects for theDCU and WildStorm Universe, writer Gail Simone was glad to put some time aside to talk with Mania readers about her upcoming work with the "Birds of Prey," "Gen13" and the residents...
Welcome to the new site everyone for the Weekly Book Buzz’s first new edition on mania.com. I won’t waste your time with comments on the new design or site features because frankly, we’ve got too much to do with so many releases comin...
The young comic book fan inside Phil Jimenez must be doing cartwheels ever since the popular scribe took over the writing and artistic chores on DC's Amazon princess, WONDER WOMAN. Shaping the destiny of a pop culture icon with 60 years of history behind ...
This October, Dracula will once again rise from the dead to haunt comic shops. Image will bring William Harms's unique vision ofthe historical Dracula to New York City in IMPALER. The prince awakens in modern times to fight a vampire plague begun centu...
Some say you can never have enough of a good thing, but STREET OF A THOUSAND PLEASURES proves that even copious amounts of naked female flesh can get tiresome, even for the most virile of males like myself, whose whole reason for being is to daydream abou...
To the publisher’s credit, Marvel continues to expand its genre repertoire beyond superheroes. Though the company endures a great deal ofoft-deserved criticism, it has understood an essential requirement for attracting new readers. If...
Sara Douglass’ The Wayfarer Redemption series chugs ahead with another volume, Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files gets another action-packed installment, and science fiction anthologies run amok in this week’s Book Buzz.
Happy Tue...
OPINION: First, a brief rant: Marvel has one ofthe worst websites in the comics world in terms of up-to-date info. Last week, the site was promoting (and is still promoting as of this writing, October 26, by the way) X-STATIX #13 as the first part ofthe...
I love The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman’s zombie epic rarely fails to impress, and I conclude each issue cursing his name for ending it. Though I’ve found the book a bit slow in the past few months, I still continue to enjoy th...
I'm writing this week's column with a bad head cold, and my blocked sinuses make me feel like watching movies with a lot of head trauma (decapitation, shotgun explosion, screwdriver to the temple, etc.). Luckily, here's something made to order. SPOTLIGHT ...
Ever since that famous rocket carrying its oh-so-precious cargo was launched from the doomed planet of Krypton back in 1939, it seems that death and superheroes have been constant companions. Most didn’t have to endure the demise of an entire plane...
It is forty-five minutes into Thursday morning as I write this, which means one thing is clear: Comic-Con International 2005 is upon us. Wednesday is traditionally "Preview Night" here at Con, which is the Comic-Con
Sideshow booth at Comic Con 2005...
VIZ DONATES $100,000 IN GRAPHIC NOVELS TO U.S. PUBLIC LIBRARIES
MANGA OUTREACH TO NEW AUDIENCES NATIONWIDE
San Francisco, CA (6/16/00)-Viz Comics, America's 5th-largest comics publisher and largest publisher of Japanese comics, has recently donated over...
Greeting, Maniacs, and welcome to another heart-stopping, villain-crushing edition of Comicscape. This week, I feel woefully short of ideas. I also failed to schedule an interview or garner enough mail to create a column. In lieu of ...
After a successful run with indie publisher Shooting Star Press, Tom Waltz and Casey Malone's CHILDREN OFTHE GRAVE has found a new home in trade paperback form at IDW. The black and white miniseries tells the chilling story of a black ops squad of only ...
Greetings Cinescapers! How was your weekend? Fingers still broken? Must be cause I didn't receive a letter from you all week. What's a matter? Don't have time to send your favorite TV commentator a little love note, a letter of compliment, a dead rat?! Gu...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another web-slinging, wall-crawling edition of Comicscape, where we elevate Internet discourse above typing in “leet.” Last week, I offered my mixed review of Spider-Man 3. In short, while I thoroug...
Bluntly put, I despise television. The overcrowded pallet of unwatchable crap overwhelms the handful of decent shows. A few years ago, I decided to spend my downtime reading comics instead of looking for ghost hunting specials on the History Channel or TH...
For the first time in my year and a half of running this column we’ve got a release schedule absolutely barren of any new hardcover debuts. But what this week’s offering lacks in hardback entertainment it more than makes up for in…well,...
My Thoughts on X-Men: The Last Stand After a year of fan anticipation rife with both trepidation and outright, venom, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND opened in theaters last Friday to the second-highest single day box office gross ever, following REVENGE OFTHE SIT...
OPINIONBefore we launch into this week's discussion, I must apologize to the reader who brought up the Nick Fury question in the first place - seems I called him "Brian" when his name is actually "Chris." That being said, I must remind everyone that if yo...
Last weekend, fans from around North America and elsewhere convened for the excellent annual Toronto Trek convention. I attended as a panelist, moderating discussions on everything from real-world science to space romances to intolerance of gay fans to pr...
Most people know Glenn Danzig through his 30-year musical career. From the Misfits to Samhain to Danzig, he has remained a pioneering force in dark rock. His discography includes everything from cacophonous, yet catchy hardcore punk to 1950&rsqu...
Months of acrimony between Viacom, Inc. and Chris-Craft, who jointly owned UPN until Viacom forced Chris-Craft to sell earlier in the year, came to a head this week when Chris-Craft shocked Viacom by revealing a deal with another media giant, Rupert Murdo...
Reading and enjoying epic genre literature requires, unfortunately, a great deal of patience. Though we love our favorite authors for their mind-expanding work, their creation of new worlds and imaginative storytelling ability, we can be the first to bran...
`What if...?` A ton of good horror stories boil down to this question. `What if...a vintage car were possessed?` asked Stephen King`s CHRISTINE. `What if...a man of science created a living creature?` asked Mary Shelly`s FRANKENSTEIN. `What if...that nice...