Comic Book Links For Tuesday, December 22nd

It’s been a pretty busy weekend here at Comic Book Daily Head Quarters, we’ve been scouring the interwebs looking for fun links to get your through the usual Tuesday blahs. As always if you come across an interesting link or article that we may have missed, please by all means...

Just A Thought: This Decade in Comics | Part Two

Previously Brent took a look at 2000 to 2003, highlighting all the good, the bad and the interesting.. now he tackles 2004  to 2009 and then takes some guesses at what we can look forward to in 2010. 2004 Identity Crisis begins at DC. A murder mystery that becomes fairly well received by...

Lethargic Lad #116.3

Today(ish) in Twitter – Monday, December 21st

Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing our collective bums off at some of them. We’d also like...

Examine Arkham Asylum 2 Teaser Trailer

Do you guys remember Pop Up Video? Oh man, I loved that, there were so many great little factoids – in fact I sort of wish that normal music videos all that factoids pop up to better explain why certain videos stink so much. Well, the good folks at Gametrailers.com’s Pop Block...

Stephen King & Alex Maleev & Marc Guggenheim = Comics

Marvel is proud to announce STEPHEN KING’S “N.” #1 (of 4), a new graphic fiction adaptation of the bestselling author’s chilling short story in his recently-released collection, JUST AFTER SUNSET. The blockbuster creative team of Marc Guggenheim and Alex Maleev, also...

Art Porn: Michael Cho’s Christmas Card

[via Michael Cho's Blog] Here’s my holiday card for all of you who’ve dropped by to check out my blog this year. May you all have a wonderful season, and a bright start to 2010. And if you’re a freelancer like me, I sincerely wish you some extended time off with no last...

The Christmas Gift That Doesn't Come Until March

So, advance solicits are out right now and Comic Book Resources has a shot of something that makes my heart jump: DOOP RETURNS. Doop was created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred during their phenomenol X-Force/X-Statik run. For those not in the know Milligan and Allred basically took some of...

Undervalued Spotlight #17

Fantastic Four #25, April 1964, Marvel Comics. This issue brings a ton of stuff to the table. It features a now classic battle cover pitting the Hulk against the Thing. Though Hulk first appeared on the cover of

Sin City Actress Dies

One of the actresses from the movie adaptation of Frank Miller’s Sin City; Brittany Murphy has passed away at the age of 32 due to a heart attack. Details are still sketchy but what is known by CNN is very slim. Brittany played the role of one of Dwight’s girlfriends; Shellie who...

Crazy Comic Covers: World's Finest #165 "The Crown of C...

The Cover: This is just a fantastic cover. Apparently Superman and Batman have become the rulers of the world and Batman is some sort of greedy globe mongering Bat-jerk who is wearing a crown on top of his cowl. Isn’t a cowl a form of hat already? So he’s wearing a hat on top of his hat?...

More on the X-Men First Class movie

  Alrighty, I’m sure you’ve all heard about Bryan Singer coming back to the X-Men franchise by directing the First Class movie. Variety has gotten some more details on the project. According to Variety: “This is the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation...

Today(ish) in Twitter – Friday December 18th

Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing our collective bums off at some of them. Bryan Lee...

Auction Highlights #16 – Christmas

Christmas. I really was hoping for a lot more Christmas themed comics to be moving on eBay this week but the pickings were slim. Here are the highlights of my search:

This Iron Man 2 Trailer Needs More Gary Shandling

Who needs words…. check it...

Want Captain America Reborn Spoiled for you?

Spoiler Warning: DO NOT READ IF YOU DON’T WANT CAPTAIN AMERICA: REBORN SPOILED!!! From Captain America: Who Will Wield The...

Frank Miller’s Xerxes

One of the best graphic novels ever was Fank Miller's 300, the story of the Spartan’s stand against the Persians at Thermopylae. It was turned into a mega hit film back in 2007. The movie with a seemingly tiny

Singer To Haze Froshes at Xavier's Institute

It’s an announcement that we’ve heard tricklings of here and there, and it has finally happened at the premiere of Avatar yesterday- Bryan Singer has announced he is returning to the X-Men franchise he started, refined, and then abandoned for a dude with a cape and a penchant for...

Just A Thought: This Decade in Comics | Part One

Well, we are at the end of a decade. And surprisingly, comics have had a very solid run this decade, on all fronts. As I’ve been doing some research into the decade, I’ve found a lot of interesting material to cover: creatively, business wise, and even some general gossipy sort of...

Iron Man 2 goes viral?

Alright comic fans, Marvel Studios has put together a little viral marketing campaign to get us all excited about Iron Man 2. Marvel sent out a bunch of fake newspaper clips to a number of movie/fan sites with a little bit of background information. You can see some of the clips at these...