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7 Bat-movies that didn't get greenlighted 26 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
Wall Street Cheat Sheet lists several Batman movie projects that never made it off the drawing board. The article also brings up the proposed movie based on the Justice League, whose working subtitle ...
Maybe DC's "big news" about Nightwing shouldn't be 26 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
For DC's Forever Evil crossover, they've said they have major news about Dick Grayson coming in September. But even if it's not bad news, should the internet go haywire as their marketing manager Joh...
WB's choice of Ben Affleck for playing Batman infuriarates fandom 25 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
Warner Brothers announced that Ben Affleck, whose career as an actor faltered several years ago, would play Batman in a Superman sequel where the twosome would combat each other. The announcement made...
When are the editors more troubling than the writers? 23 Aug 2013 | 05:49 pm
A writer for CBR spoke about his addiction to buying/collecting, and how he was allegedly turned off by the drop in quality of the X-books in the 1990s. He says: How I've forgiven myself for not lett...
Letter page from X-Factor 81 23 Aug 2013 | 02:56 am
Here's a letter page I scanned from an old issue of X-Factor 81 from March 1992, featuring at least 3 replies pertaining to the 76th issue, which was part of a story told in that series and the Incred...
Superhero identities are "negative" and "hip" to explore from that POV? 22 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
That's what the AV Club might have us think, as they wrote about 14 notable comics published back in 1983, with one being Alpha Flight, and they say the following about Aurora: Aurora suffers from ac...
Yahoo asks if comic moviemakers should care about comic readers 20 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
Yahoo's UK site asked if filmmakers adapting comics should care about the comics audiences. Of course they should, but that doesn't mean they have to pander to us with something moviegoers might not u...
The weaknesses of both the big two's business tactics 19 Aug 2013 | 09:09 am
While writing about who would win in a Marvel vs DC battle, Slate noted some of the weaknesses in the modern business models of the companies: ...they used to be more cooperative rivals. After a stri...
Mainstream comics used to make for great escapism, but today, less so 18 Aug 2013 | 10:24 pm
The Jamaica Observer wrote about the history of comics (mostly westerns) and how they were a great form of escapism in their time. And towards the end, they fall back on classically superficial lines ...
Jimmy Palmiotti references an important crime case 17 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
Palmiotti's pointed to the history of one of the most notorious cases of rape and murder that took place in the USA: The Torture Murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom http://t.co/ZkmtmeU3HB v...
