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December 2024

AI Superhero Challenge Number 5

Grok vs ChatGTP with the prompt of skin diver superhero skin diver with flipper feet, cape, mask and using the colors Dark Red, Dark Burgandy, Dark Grey and white - click image to enlarge.

The "worry" over Diamond Distributors – Bleedingcool

Paintings from "the comic book killer" to be painted over in Australia – MSN ABC News

Leonard Keith Lawson (1927 – November 29, 2003) was an Australian comic book artist and commercial illustrator who gained notoriety for his heinous crimes, earning him the moniker "The Comic Book Killer." – ChatGPT

Game Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League coming to an end – Bounding into Comics

It’s only been just-barely-over-ten months since the live-service disaster hit shelves, but after launching face-first into the mud thanks to the dev team making practically every wrong decision possible, Rocksteady has announced that they will finally be bringing their ongoing support for the ill-fated Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League to an end.

"We're in it for the artform; screw the industry!" – The Comics Journal – interview with comics veterans Philip and Shelley Bond

Chris Evans joining Avengers Doomsday cast – Superherohype

Nothing gets fixed in comics if you don't talk about it

DC NFT Cards by Hro started in 2022 is coming to an end – Cosmicbook

100K print run in 2025 for graphic novel Kirby's Lessons For Falling in Love – Bleedingcool

Jeff Lemire project to describe "what it's really like to work for DC and Marvel" in a graphic novel autobiography – Gamesradar

Absolute Superman #2 is #1 – on the Bleedingcool bestseller list

More effort to get the original Ayer's cut of Suicide Squad feature film first version released – Superherohype

AI Superhero Challenge Number 3

Grok vs ChatGTP with the prompt of depicting a spider-themed superheroine - click image to enlarge.

AI Superhero Challenge Number 4

Grok vs ChatGTP with the prompt of depicting two superheroes battling with weapons of pasta - click image to enlarge.

The coming Thunderbolts* movie for 2025: the "members all hate each other" – Superherohype

The "Big Lie" in comics publishing – Comicsbeat

Article that describes the hope to exploit a comic book property into a movie or TV show is having a deeply negative impact on the business.

Almost every day it seems someone is launching a new comics publisher or imprint, promising that "the stories come first" – but a look at the talent and loglines shows that getting media money out of the deal is a major goal of the venture..."

Incoming Pres Trump threat on tariffs worrying toy industry – WGBH

Roy Thomas now getting co-creator credit for Wolverine: the complicated creation-origin story of the Marvel character is getting more complicated – Bleedingcool

The article points out that the people with "official" credits for creating Wolverine are no longer available to verify the claim coming from Roy Thomas.

Wolverine was created for Incredible Hulk #180 by writer Len Wein, designed by John Romita Sr, and drawn by Herb Trimpe back in 1974, before the character was picked up by Wein for Giant-Size X-Men #1..."

The coming of the finale of Superman and Lois TV Show - may also be a "a send-off to the Arrowverse as well" – Superherohype

"Batman Unburied: Fallen City" is set to premiere Nov. 26 exclusively on Spotify – Variety MSN

In addition to Domingo, "Batman Unburied: Fallen City" stars Gina Rodriguez (Barbara Gordon) and Jason Isaacs (Alfred Pennyworth), alongside Morena Baccarin (Allie), André Holland (Harvey Dent/Two-Face), Cheech Marin (Jim Gordon), Tahar Rahim (The Patriarch) and Alan Ruck (Coby Williamson).

In the first season of "Batman Unburied," a serial killer known as The Harvester terrorizes Gotham City, but Batman (Duke) is not coming to the rescue. In fact, Bruce Wayne has no memory of being the Caped Crusader at all. Instead, Bruce is a forensic pathologist, performing the autopsy on the latest victim when he's attacked by the killer himself.

More Batman News

Pattinson is doing a Chris Nolan movie – Comicbook

The Batman II Movie is going to be delayed a bit – Comicbook

Claim: Absolute Batman is the bestselling comic of 2024 – MSN CBR

The Moonray and Medusalem graphic novels, compared, contrasted – The Comics Journal

Are Indy comic books going to be able to survive rising costs – AV Club

For the past 12 years, standard 32-page comic titles were priced at $3.99, with some titles (mainly for kids) still at $2.99. But prices have been steadily rising; more than half of all new comics in 2024 cost $4.99, with some going up a dollar or two more with variant and stock card covers, or in some cases, extra story pages. It might seem like a small difference, but it has big implications, Image Comics co-founder and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane explained. "…For 20 or 25 bucks when we were younger, you used to be able to walk out [of a comic book store] with a pretty thick bag full of comic books. Now you can count them on your fingers."...

McFarlane also talks about being told by Marvel and DC people that some books are going to be put out on cheaper paper to get the prices back down, on some titles, to $3.99. Lookign further down the road in this way of thinking, it will be the height of irony if some portion of the comic book business once again finds itself back on newsprint (the cheapest printing paper that dominated comics for many, many decades). The problem, though, is that newsprint traditionally requires "web printing" which is only manageable for cost when the print run is a large number - - something that most comic titles simply do not have.

Absolute Batman title dominates bestseller lists for comics – Bleedingcool

The Ink Pop line launched from Random House to showcase "manga, manhwa (Korean comics), and print editions of webtoons" – Comicsbeat

The Graphic Novel I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together wins Toronto Book Award of $10K – cbc.ca

Uh huh: Henry Cavill Superman costume destroyed during audition process at DCU – CBR Resources

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Original page December 18, 2024