Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
One of the biggest daggers thrown at webcomics is that because it’s so easy to start one, anybody can do it and there’s just so much poorly done work that webcomics are viewed as amateur and not worthy. Well what…
SVK is a comic created by writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan), artist D’Israeli (2000 AD), and the design studio BERG. SVK is described as an experimental comic because parts of the story are printed in ultraviolet (UV) ink. Using the UV…
Remember last week when I mentioned that my next column would be all about an alternate X-Men universe? Yeah… well… it didn’t go as planned. Here’s the story. About two or three weeks ago, I get a brilliant idea for…
Last week was a little bitter-sweet for me in terms of comics. I arrived to the comic shop to find the last trade of Planetary, waiting for me in my pull box. It was an excellent read but something interesting…
Earlier this week it was announced that Warner Brothers was proceeding with pre-pre-production on a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer film WITHOUT Joss Whedon. Given my love of the tv series and current comic series, my reaction of “Urgh!” is…
Every week CBD’s Editor in Chief Pete DeCourcy asks the question and the crew (and special guests) give their answers, we’ll be doing this for 52 weeks. Tip of the hat goes to the gang at Scans_Daily for the inspiration.…
I am dying to play the new Scott Pilgrim video game. Unfortunately I am an Xbox 360 owner (my tag is BCGrendel316 if you ever want to murder me in Halo) so I’ve got to wait a few weeks until…
I’ll let the picture do the talking. [via Warren Ellis ]
The trailer for Red, about retired CIA operatives who don’t stay retired long, has hit Yahoo!, and it destroyed my initial thought that being bad-ass and sexy ends at 42. Based on the Comic Book by King of All Things…
The trailer for Red, about retired CIA operatives who don’t stay retired long, has hit Yahoo!, and it destroyed my initial thought that being bad-ass and sexy ends at 42. Based on the Comic Book by King of All Things…
A trailer has been released for Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, the newly announced feature-length documentary about by Sequart and Respect Films, the folks behind Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods. “Oh god,” Ellis wrote this morning on his blog. “The trailer…
The first issue of Siege has come out and it’s not too bad. The fact that it’s only four issues means that this could be the most compressed storytelling that writer Brian Michael Bendis has ever given us. Bendis is…
I am a huge fan of movies. I’m also a big fan of movie history and trivia and love hearing about projects that disspapeared or never quite got finished. Movies like The Fountain. Sure it did finally get made but…
Official Press Release Principal photography has begun in Toronto on Summit Entertainment’s spy-thriller “Red,” based on the DC Comics graphic novel of the same name by Warren Ellis. Joining previously announced stars Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker and Academy Award®-winners Helen…
For those of you out there that are fans of uber awesome writer Matt Fraction (Thor: Ages of Thunder, Casanova, Iron Fist, etc) now have the chance to ask him questions. He’s taking over Warren Ellis’ forum to give you…
Warren Ellis comics can basically be summed up with the word ‘awesome‘ – they’re always thought provoking, with some sort of quasi fantastical in the real world setting, showcase some sort of fringe science and have characters who talk about…