#July2011
IDW Wants You To Trade-In ‘Twilight’ For ’30 Days of Night. Do It!
IDW has a most righteous promotion going on this weekend at Comic-Con. They’re encouraging people to trade-in Twilight in exchange for their own copy of 30 Days of Night. The promotion is called Sparkles For Blood. I love this.
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In The DC Relaunch, Superman Is A Single, Flightless Orphan. Frown!
It seems that DC is going all out in their shaking up of Superman’s mythos for the DC Relaunch. The Clark Kent we’re getting in September is going to be markedly different than the one we get right now. Kent is going to be an orphan twice-over who initially can’t fly, and isn’t tapping any Lane booty. Dude’s sufferin’.
Also interesting is that the Superman titles will be taking place in different points in time.
New Cast Poster For ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’. It Looms! It Looms.
With only a week left until super soldier eerily Aryan looking yet fighting Nazis wunderchild Steve Rogers debuts on the big screen, there’s a new cast poster to chew on to kill the time. Chew it! Chew it up. Swine.
Marvel Set To Announce New ‘Defenders’ Comic At Comic-Con.
Marvel’s been dropping teasers images this week. The teasers which feature the outlines of the Red Hulk, Silver Surfer, Iron Fist, and Dr. Strange were all filled with words pertaining to the character and the tagline “It’s either in you or not”. Just what could that mean? Bleeding Cool has cracked the code.
Variant Covers: I Love It When You Deathstroke Me!
Sometimes I use comic books as a means to escape the drudgery of the daily routine. Tomorrow I’m going to be using them to escape the Furnace of Doom that is eating up the Eastern seaboard. The various nooks and crannies of my body are pooling sweat. My body smells like a refuge for swamp animals.
My air conditioner hates me.
It’s time to escape.
Variant Covers: The comic books I’m interested in this week. I’ll show you my pull-list, you show me yours. Behind the fence, where our parents can’t see.
Check Out Patton Oswalt’s Rejected ‘Batman’ Comics Pitches.
Stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt is an enormous fan of the geek world, a fact made knowable to anyone who has heard his routine. He’s also gotten a few stories published in the DC Universe, including JLA: Welcome to the Working Week. This week he decided to share a few pitches for Batman-related stories on his website. Stories that didn’t get approved.
DC: Our Relaunch Isn’t A Reboot, It’s A “New Beginning.’ Corporate Talk, Yes!
Following DC’s recent Retailer Roadshow, senior vice president of sales Bob Wayne released a statement that was absolutely stunning in its semantics, double-speak and nonsense.
Variant Covers: Blacklights, Fist Fights, and Tights.
This is Variant Covers. Comic book column. I tell you what I’m interested in this week. You share your pull-list with me. Together we form the comic book community that even the Heavens can only dream of! Or at the very least it is me blathering for hundreds of words in poorly constructed run-on sentences and way too many adverbs about superheroes and splash-pages.
Save me from myself.
Warren Ellis Talks About DC’s Reboot and Their Digital Strategy. Read This.
Warren Ellis is a bit of a touchstone of mine. When he writes I listen, and usually find myself raging at the mouth puppeting his sentiments because I find them so brilliant. Today Ellis posted a take on DC’s forthcoming reboot and their digital strategy on his blog.
It’s an excellent look at the inner-workings of the industry from a dude who has seen its grimy fucking guts.
Marvel Explains Why They Reveal Deaths To The Media Early. Hint, Money.
Last week, Marvel revealed the death of Ultimate Spidey in USA Today a day before it dropped on shelves. This seems to be a regular occurrence for the studio these days, so the intrepid souls at Comics Alliance wanted to know why. Fucking why.
The explanation isn’t complicated.
