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
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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…
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.…
Marvel Comics is Girl Comics!
The Beat just broke the news of Marvel’s newest line: Girl Comic. In light of some of the scathing commentary regarding the anti-female vibe that seems to permeate the Marvel titles, it seems funny that Marvel would come out with…
Art Porn: Disney/Marvel Merger in Print
It’s just pretty. Okay, not sure what Marvel or Disney will make of the $15.99 copyright/trademark-infringing print. But who cares.. it’s awesome looking.
Comic Book Links For Tuesday December 15th
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…
Matt Fraction Wields The Thunder
A few years back I picked up a TPB called “the Annotated Mantooth” it was a slim enough volume and the cover had a tuxedo clad Gorilla adjusting his tie while a bunch of bloodied luchadores lay beaten in the…
Today(ish) in Twitter – Monday December 14th
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…
Kick-Ass Clip: A Little Nick Cage music please…
Nick Cage is a weird actor. He’s only good when he’s playing really off the wall characters – whenever he goes for ‘quasi-normal good guy’ I tend to hate him. Have you ever watched National Treasure? Holy god was that…
Sneek Peak: Fantastic Four #575
This is all the e-mail said: “THERE IS CHAOS IN THE UNDERWORLD.” Then this image from Fantastic Four #575. Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham’s Fantastic Four run has – thus far – been incredibly solid. When you’ve got a title…
Arkham Asylum gets sequel
Video Games | Spike TV VGAs 2009 | Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 Exclusive Debut Trailer XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii At last night’s Spike Video Game awards, it was announced and a trailer was shown for the…
Natalie Portman to star in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
According to Variety, Princess Amidala is about to kick some zombie ass in the adaptation of the Jane Austen parody. Not only is she going to star in the movie, she is going to be a producer as well. Portman will…
Frazetta JR arrested for stealing father's paintings
A shocking and pretty sad story for comic art fans out there. Frank Frazetta JR has been caught breaking into the Frazetta Family musuem with the help of an accomplice. They used a backhoe to break in and run off…
Batman Versus Robin and Versus History?
DC Comics’ week of announcements continues this morning with news of the return of Bruce Wayne in a time-traveling miniseries written by Grant Morrison. Debuting in April 2010, the aptly named Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne finds the character…
Zombieland writers to write Deadpool movie?
News from CHUD is pointing to the news that the writing geniuses behind the zombie comedy; Zombieland could be the ones to write the script for the upcoming Deadpool movie from FOX. This sounds like bloody awesome news, as Zombieland…
Spider-Man 4 to have Vulture? And…Vulturess?
Good news and semi-good news for us Spidey-fans out there. Movieline has stated that John Malkovich is slated to play the Vulture while Anne Hathaway is going to be playing Felicia Hardy. And that’s where things begin to get a…
DC Announces the War of The Supermen
Superman seems like the hardest character to get people to really care about. It seems we’re either rehashing his origin or we’re killing him off. DC took a pretty big risk with the whole Planet Krypton storyline – let’s be…
Comic Book Links For Tuesday, December 8th.
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…
Brent Examines DC's Earth One Graphic Novel Line
Something tells me I may get hate mail from this one. But someone has to speak up and say it. Well DC Comics…er…um Entertainment launched a big announcement over the weekend. DC’s Earth One line of graphic novels! They are…
Today(ish) in Twitter – Monday, Febuary 7th
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…