Bane Facts:
You've seen Tom Hardy look awesome as the character in posters and promos, but who exactly is Bane? Don't worry about shelling out cash for graphic novels and back issues, we'll teach you all about the villain that will appear in The Dark Knight Rises.
posted by troll
on Dec 26, 2011 -
44 comments
The most recent issue of Superman, 712, was supposed to have a certain storyline, but it seems at the last minute, DC Comics decided to nix that storyline and instead publish a five-year-old story about Krypto the Super-Dog. These sorts of things happen, but
Comics Alliance opined (with some help from direct sources) that the change was due to DC not wanting to feature a Muslim superhero (the original story had Superman aiding "Sharif", a Muslim superhero.) The theory is, after the brouhahae surrounding
the Muslim Batman and
Superman renouncing his American citizenship, DC is hesitant to add any more fuel to the "DC hates America" fire.
"But," says comic-book muckraker
Rich Johnston, "I have inside DC stories that are telling me the REAL reason the story got nixed." He claims it's not about Muslims, it's about...well, just see for yourself what it's allegedly
really about.
posted by Legomancer
on Jun 23, 2011 -
55 comments
"I've always loved the music from the Saturday matinee serial, and I figured a short that was animated to this music could be a really cool piece. I designed the character mixing all the traits from my favorite Superman actors from the past, and then looked at the work of Hugh Ferriss for inspiration on the background design." -
Superman Classic (yt) - A Superman fan film by disney animator by Disney animator
Robert Pratt.
posted by Artw
on Feb 9, 2011 -
7 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?
[more inside]
posted by ZachsMind
on Dec 28, 2007 -
47 comments
Infinite Crisis begins today. In 1985,
DC Comics released
Crisis On Infinite Earths -- arguably the biggest
retcon engine in comicbook history. The
goal of the
Crisis maxi-series was the unification of
disparate DC timelines and dimensions (designated as numbered or lettered Earths) into a single universe.
Beloved heroes died and
new heroes emerged.
Twenty years later, DC is putting all of its heroes and villains back in harm's way with
Infinite Crisis. Building steam from plot elements in last year's
critically-acclaimed Identity Crisis (written by NYT Bestselling Author
Brad Meltzer) and a quartet (
1,
2,
3,
4) of related mini-series published over the last six months,
Infinite Crisis (penned by
Geoff Johns) promises to be just as jarring as the original
Crisis. So jarring, in fact, that flagship characters of the DC Universe
will be pitched forward in time, a year into the future. To account for the lost time, a
weekly series called
52* will start in May of 2006.
And when the dust settles, DC will start progressing all of its characters and stories
in real time.
posted by grabbingsand
on Oct 12, 2005 -
53 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 -
14 comments
