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Mittlewerk Makes Toys

This past Wednesday, Marvel Comics relaunched their series Thunderbolts with issue #110. The relaunch has a team of villains led by a newly pardoned Norman Osborne (Green Goblin) tracking down super-heroes who have not registered with the government.
Evidently the comic features a page that "shows" a TV commercial for Thunderbolts toys. When I saw [...]

Old SuperHeroes

If Superheroes aged in "real time," the ones we (and our parents) grew up reading might look a little bit like the works of artist Giles Barbier.

While you're on the site, be sure to check out some of his other works.

OHotMU and Who’s Who

If you look at my comics list on the site, you’ll see that the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and DC Who’s Who are some of my favorites. There’s something about having all of that information in one place. The bad thing about them is they become outdated even before they are published.
You can [...]

HBO Getting Preacher?

I don’t know how solid this story is, but it sounds too good to be true.
It looks like HBO is developing a series based on the DC Comics Vertigo series Preacher.
Preacher was a 75 issue series written by Garth Ennis with art by Steve Dillon. It told the story of Jesse Custer, a preacher [...]

Why I Liked Superman Returns

Recently, comic author Mark Millar posted his thoughts about Bryan Singer being announced as the director for the sequel to Superman Returns. They were:
For half the cash, it seems we’re getting twice the excitement and everything that was missing from the first picture. He also says he’s getting all Wrath of Kahn on this one’ [...]

Tarsem Singh to Direct Constantine

More bad comic to film news. Fandom.com reports that Tarsem (The Cell) Singh has been singed to direct a film version of Constantine (extremely good DC horror comic). With a script by the same fellow who wrote The Glimmer Man it looks bad all the way around. They describe the character as an occult Dirty [...]