In a twist more surprising than the one used on the gatefold cover this month, a character not seen since the launch of the New 52 appears in preview pages just released for Batman Incorporated #10 (and embedded below). Michael Lane, the most recent character to use the name Azrael in Batman comics and the second long-term candidate (Mark Shaw, a former Manhunter, was briefly hinted to have been recruited by the Order of St. Dumas) will make his first
While most of the attention lately has been focused on the superhero movies debuting this summer, Marvel Studios has just now kicked off the marketing campaign for this winter’s Thor The Dark World. Last week, Marvel released the first poster from Thor The Dark World, and today they’ve released the first photos (as well as a couple minor plot spoilers). Tomorrow, Marvel will release the first Thor The Dark World trailer. In USA Today, Thor star Chris Hemsworth reveals some
Empire Magazine is routinely a source of cool news and great soundbytes about genre movies and pop culture in general–and often have the opportunity to debut new art from major motion pictures and occasionally comic book series before anybody else. So it’s always exciting when they unveil one of their upcoming covers a little bit early, as they’ve done this morning with not one but two Man of Steel covers for the upcoming June issue of the magazine. The hometown
It’s been a very good week for Warner Bros. After starting off the 2013 box office with a string of failures, Warner Bros. scored a homerun with 42, which has been exceeding expectations at the box office. Warner Bros. also launched a successful vial campaign for Man Of Steel and released the third official trailer for Man Of Steel. By pretty much all accounts, the new Man Of Steel trailer was another homerun for Warner Bros. After it was released,
At this weekend’s Fan Expo Vancouver, Michael Rooker, who played Merle Dixon on The Walking Dead, was asked about the possibility of a spinoff comic series starring brothers Daryl and Merle Dixon. (Of course, the Dixon brothers are not currently part of the ongoing Walking Dead comic series, as their characters were unique to the TV show.” Michael Rooker responded, “If me and Norman had any more scenes than we already had in that series, it would already be the
According to a new interview with Iron Man 3 writer Drew Pearce and writer/director Shane Black, the pair would have liked to include elements of the classic “Demon in a Bottle” story from Iron Man #120-128. That the story would serve to inform the plot was one of the earliest rumors surrounding the film, and one that dogged production for long after a number of people involved with the movie denied it was being adapted. Eventually everyone realized there simply
With a second volume of a planned trilogy on the way from writer Onrie Kompan and artist Giovanni Timpano, the recently-released hardcover edition of Yi Soon Shin: Warrior and Defender is truly a fascinating piece of comics literature. Not only is the book well-written and beautifully-rendered, but it’s accompanied by interviews and commentary by the creators that reflect how close the book came to not being able to be made on a number of occasions–which resonates when you’re reading a
Not only has Valiant’s Archer & Armstrong been one of the most consistently entertaining comics of the last year or so, but also one of the most consistently thought-provoking and, occasionally, educational. Of course, not everything you learn in Archer & Armstrong will be totally acceptable in the classroom. For instance, there’s no physical evidence linking Gilad Anni-Padda to the fabled grassy knoll that overlooked the assassination of President John F. Kennedy–but in this month’s issue of the comic, that’s
It looks like everybody is getting into the Amazing Spider-Man 2 photo tweeting act. While director Marc Webb has been tweeting photos pretty regularly since production started on Amazing Spider-Man 2, actor Dane DeHaan has now tweeted his first photo. What Marc Webb and now Dane Dehaan have been doing is actually a pretty cool way to promote Amazing Spider-Man 2, and we wish more directors and actors would follow suit. The photo above from Dane DeHaan shows the first
One of the most intense scenes during season three of The Walking Dead was when Daryl Dixon found zombie Merle. At first, Daryl just tried to push Merle away, but eventually he put Merle out of his misery by repeatedly stabbing him in the head. In fact, Daryl stabbed Merle so many times in the head that it was pretty much impossible to count all the stabbings. At the Fan Expo Vancouver this weekend, actor Michael Rooker, who plays Merle,
Last night, the Brooklyn Nets blew out the Chicago Bulls to win their first-ever playoff game by a score of 106-89. And, of course, on the sidelines was the BrooklyKnight, a superhero mascot designed by Marvel Comics in cooperation with the Nets organization. The character’s name, of course, is a play on the fact that people from Brooklyn are commonly referred to as “Brooklynites.” The Nets moved to the borough from New Jersey at the beginning of this season. You
Earlier today, we reported on a new project from Evan Young, one of the creators behind the hit graphic novel The Forgotten. As we noted at the time, not a lot has been said about the property since it was optioned in 2009. The Forgotten revolves around a man who has the psychic ability to remove himself from the memories of others, effectively making him a ghost, but the studios involved haven’t forgotten about the film adaptation of the Philadelphia-based crime graphic
While set photos surfaced this past week which showed Jamie Foxx as Electro, director Marc Webb has just revealed a very different look at Jamie Foxx’s character. Before Jamie Foxx became Electro, he was a man named Max Dillon. In an early interview with MTV, Jamie Foxx described Max Dillon as being someone who has been take advantage of and has gotten his ideas stolen in the past from the big company. After bumping into Spider-Man, Max Dillon starts to
During the Fan Expo Vancouver this weekend, The Walking Dead’s Michael Rooker took part in a question and answer session with fans. Rooker was asked a couple questions about Guardians of the Galaxy, his new mohawk and director James Gunn. As first reported by Comicbook.com, Michael Rooker recently met with Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn in England. After Comicbook.com’s report, Deadline reported that Michael Rooker had been officially cast as Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy. While the
The Last West is the next big project coming from Evan Young and co-creator Lou Iovino. Currently being funded on Kickstarter, the project is a 220-page neo-Western graphic novel that the creators described to ComicBook.com as a Vertigo-style “what-if” comic. The book, set in a world where technological advancement has been stopped cold and only one man knows why, evokes a primitive near future–a bit like NBC’s Revolution, but in a world where people haven’t just shrugged and accepted that
