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Hollywood is nearing a crisis situation. Soon, there will be no more white male actors named Chris left to star in superhero movies. The Chris rumor du jour is that Chris Pine (Star Trek) is in the running to play Green Lantern in DC’s Justice League franchise. If he winds up being cast, Hollywood will have…
Akira is wonderful. The Simpsons is wonderful. Put them together and you get something pretty special. This is Bartkira. As Kotaku first mentioned when the crowd-sourced project first launched, Bartkira is inspired by artist Ryan Humphrey‘s art (see below) and spearheaded by cartoonist James Harvey. With over 500 hundred artists worldwide, each contributor works in…
Watching Gotham continue its complete and utter lunacy in “Everyone Has a Cobblepot” last night, I was struck with a single, amazing thought. What if Gotham is an origin story not for regular Batman, but for the old Batman TV show from the ’60s? Because the ridiculousness is reaching that level. In fact, there are…
Will Eisner at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con; Cover of ‘A Contract With God.’ (Eisner photo by Alan Light) Welcome to Will Eisner Week, which runs through March 7 and celebrates the legacy of the comics great. Eisner, who died in 2005, is widely considered to be the inventor of the modern graphic novel,…
James Gunn says Marvel execs found the plot of Guardians 2 to be risky Everyone wants to know what to expect from GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2 despite the fact we are still two years away from seeing the film. But, with Marvel plotting out their projects years in advance, writer/director James Gunn already has…
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All-New X-Men #37 To Be Published After #39 Posted February 6, 2015 by by Rich Johnston Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools When this happens, you know there are some serious production issues. It happened with Spawn. It happened with Hawkeye. And now it’s happening with All New X-Men. Because we have this Black…
How do you cover the tree privates of a gigantic, naked plant creature such as Groot? The nether regions of everyone’s favorite one-worded Guardian certainly provided a lot of problems for the Guardians of the Galaxy design team. The Globe and Mail has a fascinating step-by-step Groot breakdown from GOTG visual effects supervisor Nicolas Aithadi,…
According to Joss Whedon, “Of all the heat I’ve ever taken, not having Hank Pym [in the Avengers] was one of the bigger things.” However, Whedon contests that it didn’t make sense to bring in Ant-Man into Earth’s mightiest movie heroes. In an long interview with Empire Magazine, Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon…
Chuck Patton/DC Entertainment Throughout the long and illustrious history of DC Entertainment’s Justice League of America — a team that debuted in 1960 and has been in near-continuous publication ever since — one era in particular stands out for many comic book fans as the nadir of the concept, a time when an…