Archive Page 2213

December 2024

Speed Racer driving back to print with deal between Tatsunoko Production and Mad Cave Studios – Comicbook

That this is a headline probably says more about the comics movie making business than anything: no, there's no Zoe Kravitz Catwoman movie in the making – Comicbookmovie

Burbank California now has a Green Lantern John Stewart statue – Cosmicbook

Crafted with intricate detail by Burbank’s American Fine Arts Foundry and Fabrication, the statue is based on designs by acclaimed DC artist Jamal Campbell. Weighing over 600 pounds, it joins Burbank’s prestigious lineup of DC statues, standing alongside the city’s tributes to Batman and Wonder Woman...."

Verdusa Spider Tee – Amazon

The Feb 2025 DC book list Covers – Gamesradar

The Thunderbolts* Movie from Disney will have Ghost in it, but not the Ghost that was already in the Ant-Man III Movie – Superherohype

The very final show of the Arrowverse Superman & Lois finally reaching the end – Polygon

Zatanna getting another series run starting next year – Comic-watch.com

Saudi Arabia Comicon from Thursday, Nov. 28 to Friday, Nov. 29 at the Jeddah Convention Center – Saudi Moments – Google Map of location in Saudi Arabia

DC to expand on their Compact Comics line of 5.5 x 8.5 inch books – Superherohype

James Gunn shoots down talk of Joker Series and rumoured New Frontier Justice League – Bounding into Comics

Saw this at Barnes and Noble on the new hardback display

Comics exhibit at Pompidou Centre, Paris, France – Comics Beat

Gemstone Price Guide 2024

The Jewish Answer To ‘Percy Jackson’ with the Dark Horse Comic ‘The Writer’ from Josh Gad and The Berkowitz Brothers

Story at Forbes

Golems, shedim, giant shofar blasts (tekiah gedolah, indeed), the Ring of Solomon, giants beasts of the apocalypse, Nazi conspiracies abound in the intoxicatingly Jewish fantasia that is The Writer. In other words, the new Dark Horse comic cooked up by actor Josh Gad (The Book of Mormon, Frozen) and the Berkowitz Brothers — Ben and Max — is the Hebraic answer to Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson you never knew you needed in your life....."

Cracker Barrel restaurant selling Batman and Wonder Woman birthday cake candles

Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner make charity campaign for help after Hurricane Milton. – CBR MSN

The Paperfilms office got hit badly by Hurricane Milton. We had to trash over 20k worth of books & put a new floor and remove some of the wall space in the office. We are running a sale to help with expenses. Up to 70% off retail.
Please share ! https://t.co/R1OoNNvom1 pic.twitter.com/oBTh6FFstL

— Jimmy Palmiotti (@jpalmiotti) November 3, 2024

Manga artist Kazuo Umezo has died

Story at The Comics Journal

Belgian publisher Dupuis yanks the graphic novel Spirou and the Blue Gorgon from shops over controversy of visual depictions of women and minorities – WION

Greg Hildebrandt has died – Comicsbeat

The "mixed results" of superhero movies in 2024 – Digital Trends

Superman artist Al Plastino gets plaque in Long Island – Newsday

Bio of Plastino here at Newsfromme

Mark Millar’s limited series Wanted, loosely adapted in 2008 into an atrocious movie, imagined a dystopian world where all the superheroes are dead and the supervillains have won. That’s kind of how the multiplex feels right now. Comic-book cinema, which towered over the competition a mere five years ago (it reached its popular peak in 2019, the year of Avengers: Endgame and Joker), has entered a state of ongoing commercial decline. Capes and cowls are no longer a sure thing at the box office; increasingly, it feels like we’ve stepped into a post-superhero age. And in the absence of the virtuously costumed, it’s supervillains — and antiheroes — who have fought for dominance over the screens of 2024...."

That headline is back: superhero fatigue – Movieguide

Many have pointed out that this superhero fatigue is in large part due to a flooded market. Marvel in particular has pumped out dozens of movies and series, leaving even the most dedicated fans scrambling to keep up...."

The article addresses the obvious: quality is wanting in the recent slate of superhero movies, and the audience that would show up for so many past films and give them $100 million dollar opening weekends has thinned out considerably (for example Venom III opened to half that this past weekend, i.e., $51 million domestic).

The article goes on to say that if the James Gunn Superman Leg

acy that is being put together right now cannot break the $100 million opening wall, WarnerBros "will have to do some serious reconsideration," but that seems to be the wave of feeling that going across the entire cinematic superhero factory, considering how many streaming and theatre releases cannot get traction with a mass audience.

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Original page December 3, 2024