DC Blacklists the Outhouse. DC has been upset at the comics news site for running satirical articles about them (as well as other publishers), and has informed them that they are revoking access to their creators for interviews, according to Christian "Bluestreak" Hoffer.
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posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me
on May 6, 2013 -
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Superman is a good guy. More than that, Superman is the best guy. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster in 1932, he's the archetypal superhero, a man of enormous power who places himself in service to the powerless. To borrow a famous phrase from the 1940s Superman radio serial, he stands for "truth, justice and the American way". -
Why Orson Scott Card isn't the right man to write Superman.
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posted by Artw
on Feb 14, 2013 -
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Hellblazer, the DC/Vertigo comic starring Alan Moore created occult investigator John Constantine, is being
cancelled at issue #300 to make way for a new comic set in DC's New 52 universe. Hellblazer was
DC's longest running continuously numbered comic and it's cancelation marks the last of the DC Comics characters with Vertigo titles being taken back into the mainstream DC universe (
previously). Vertigo was originally an imprint for mature readers occult themed titles and creator owned work, though it has changed over the years with an adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo becoming the first Vertigo to
receive TV advertising.
posted by Artw
on Nov 9, 2012 -
85 comments
Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book maxi-series published in 1985 and 1986 in which DC Comics condensed their multiverse into a single universe, thus "simplifying" and "improving" it. Whether they succeeded in that goal is a good question, and one I shan't address. Crisis is, however, incredibly important to understanding DC continuity, as well as being possibly the most significant crossover series of all time.
posted by Egg Shen
on Aug 22, 2012 -
121 comments
In 2010, DC Comics offered Alan Moore the rights back to Watchmen.
This is a factually accurate account of what happened. (SLYT)
posted by MegoSteve
on Jun 30, 2012 -
46 comments
Superstar Scottish comics writer
Grant Morrison is about to tear the DC Universe apart again with
Final Crisis, the latest in a series of apocalypses and world ending events he's inflicted
on various comics worlds over the years. But there was a time before fame when he wrote the tie-in comic for
ZOIDS, the robot dinosaur children's toy. So what did he do? Ushered in the apocalypse, in the form of
THE BLACK ZOID.
posted by Artw
on Apr 17, 2008 -
74 comments
"Zuda takes the Web publishing aspect out of the creators' hands, freeing them up to focus on writing and drawing the story. But to get Zuda to publish your comic, you first have to win a competition..." A major player enters into the fray of web comics publishing, previously populated mostly by
independents. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
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posted by ZachsMind
on Dec 28, 2007 -
47 comments
The Vertigo Tarot by
Dave McKean, illustrator of among many other good things the
Sandman comics, was
reissued in August. The cards, loosely based on characters from DCs Vertigo comic inprint, are among the most uneasily beautiful interpretations I've ever seen.
The original set was in a limited edition of 5000 copies and is changing hands for suitably outrageous sums on ebay. The new edition (slightly smaller cards) retails around the $30 mark.
posted by thatwhichfalls
on Nov 14, 2001 -
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