Archive Page 2217
December 2024
The lost Little Lulu stories – The Comics Journal
Comic book sales of 2024: improvement – Comicsbeat
As far as analysis goes: The big story of 2024 was really the periodical bounce back – a return that was much needed...
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Ms Marvel now a X-Men "for as long as Wolverine" – Bleeding Cool
The best manga of 2024 – Comicsbeat
The 8 Famous Movies that traumatized "Millennials Forever" – Comicbook
Transformers? The Lion King? Gremlins? What? How is the headline justified by the movie list which is the well-produced but usual pablum of pop culture?
AI Art Challenge #12
"Make an action woman wearing brown leather on a motorcycle leaping over a burning bus with zeppelins in the sky."
Chat GPT delivers the basic prompt without the "leaping over a burning bus" but Grok goes completely sideways with buses in the sky, no zeppelins at all, and no leaping. Each AI is pretty good with anything on fire, there's a strong pyromaniac skill within both AI intelligences. Click image to enlarge.
How Deadpool's F-bombing and family movies saved Hollywood box office in 2024 – Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood 2024: no original movies made the domestic top 10 box office list – 10 top-grossing US films were all sequels and prequels – Techspot
Dan Mora gets "Best Cover Artist" for 2024 award – Comicbook
Kill The Justice League game is now free online – Comicbookmovie
Happy New Year by Maurice Ketten - 1925
The best webtoons of 2024 – Comics Beat
The controversy of David Ayer supporting James Gunn's Superman – Bounding into Comics
Is AI artwork going to destroy comic book artist careers? – CNN MSN
Below: AI generated art from Chat GPT and Grok with prompt of "AI pixel monster attacking a humble comic book artist"
What sold the best in comics of 2024? Absolute Batman and Ultimate Spider-Man – CBR MSN
Jason Momoa cast as Lobo for Supergirl movie – Superherohype
Best comic books of 2024 – Hollywood Reporter
Wish Casting
Predicting top ten box office champs of 2025 – The Direct
What they are predicting will happen, for example:
Avatar: Fire and Ash: global earnings of $1.9 billion
Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning: global earnings of $850 million
Superman: global earnings of $650 million
The big coming films of 2025: Superman, Fantastic Four, Frankenstein, – MSN UK Independent
The last few years of regular disasters with superhero films has culminated in this:
...Marvel and DC, by the way, are no longer dominating the release schedule, which is a bit of a relief..."
New York Times entertainment resolutions for 2025 "stop superhero movies" – MSN NY Times
Why did Kraven and Madame Web fail in 2024? "It was not a bad film, and it did great on Netflix... critics crucified Madame Web" says Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra
Story at Yahoo News
According to Box Office Mojo, "Madame Web" just broke $100 million worldwide, and "Kraven the Hunter" has made $43 million at the time of writing. "Madame Web" had a budget of $80 million per Forbes, and Variety reported that "Kraven the Hunter" had a budget of more than $100 million, marking both as uninspiring returns on investment..."
Obviously Vinciquerra believed in these two films, but Madame Web is considered a poor film for a number of reasons having to do with legitimate questions about quality, and Kraven (which CBB hasn't seen yet) came along after a whole year of mostly flops so the tide was well against it with or without any quality evaluation.
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Story at Bleeding Cool
The best of 2024 list from the Comics Journal – The Comics Journal
The Pattinson Batman sequel film moves from Oct 2026 to Oct 2027 – Superherohype
"Ultimate Goth Christmas Movie" is Batman Returns with Michael Keaton – Digital Fix
The whole thing is like a Shakespearean tragedy performed by Cirque Du Soleil. Oswald Cobblepot was born to socialites just like master Bruce, except his parents abandoned him due to his webbed fingers. Forced to live underground, he gradually amasses an army of former circus performers and penguins in order to one day re-insert himself into Gotham’s upper echelons ..."
"Here's How One of Batman's Best Stories Taught Me Everything I Know About Comic Books" – Screenrant
Seeing the way [Walt] Simonson illustrated this moment taught me that comic book storytelling relies on how the artist controls where the reader’s eye should go. Simonson’s technique on the Batman: Black & White page starts with a clear series of left-to-right panels, expertly taking the reader along the top of the page before bringing them to the first symbol, which then opens up the page to the large image beneath, of the police force controlling Gotham. The visual storytelling is clear and precise, and there is never any confusion as to where the reader’s eye should go next..."
DC Universe 10th Anniversary collection (BD) [Blu-ray]
"Over 20 Hours of Special Features (Including over 2 Hours of All-new Content), Exclusive Collectible Coins, and an Exclusive 40-page Adult Coloring Book featuring key art from all DC Universe Animated Movies."
Apparently the sets are limited editions and are numbered with a certificate with only 20,000 total sets made?
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AI Challenge #11: Heavy Superman and Heavy Rescue
The Grok AI has a real "challenge" understanding the anatomy of a woman and what is involved in keeping such a woman aloft while soaring over the city.
Apparently velcro is employed in the Grok AI consciousness. As for Chat GPT, no matter which way the prompt was phrased, it refused any description in which a blond woman is described as "fat," "heavy," or "overweight."
The 10-episode animated Spider-Man coming in January – Comicsbeat
Christmas in the comic strips – Daily Cartoonist
Calling Rogue of the X-Men for Christmas – Bleeding Cool
The Far Side comic strip and Christmas – MSN CBR
List of DC Comics March 2025 Books – Comicsbeat
Big round-up list of comics related news and links – The Comics Journal - and nicely illustrated
Get into the Public Domain archives that are online at Graphic Chatter
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Original page December 18, 2024