Archive Page 2217

December 2024

2024 was a bad year for Superhero Movies – MSN Collider

"Nearly Every Superhero Film in 2024 Failed Critically and Financially"

Some have said that directors on these films aren't allowed to really direct the films, they are instead "cast" as a director then given a lot of instruction from the higher-up executives (or from a "ghost director" who is the real director, but hidden). And then the edit cut is mauled by committee. This would explain some of the problems in films like Madame Webb, for example, but it doesn't explain the horrible bloat of something like Ant Man 3.

Comic artist Andrew Robinson loses home in Los Angeles fires – Bleedingcool

Andrew Robinson is a comic book cover artist for the likes of Batman, Detective Comics, Hawkman, Black Science, Spider-Gwen, Conan, Star Man, Superman Rebirth, Iron Man, Star Wars, Black Panther and JSA, as well as an artist for The Fifth Beatle, Batman Black and White, Gen 13, Dusty Star, Harley Quinn and Scumbag....."

Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez and his new spot at the Washington Post – Washington Post

The rebellion in the user comments from the Post readership is ferociously against Ramirez who is decidedly not from the left in politics.

An analysis of the sales charts and sales rankings for the comic book industry and for manga – Comic Book Revolution – "It is time to check out the November 2024 comic book sales rankings. Things are getting murkier in terms of actual unit numbers."

Example:

Detective Comics #1091 plummeted from the number 20 spot to the number 52 spot. Ouch. It looks like replacing Ram V with Tom Taylor only led to a single-issue sales bump. Evidently, many readers were not impressed with what Taylor brought to the table. Maybe this title will be able to rebound in the next few months..."

AI Challenge number 14 - superhero women on bicycles - click to enlarge

Index of all the AI Challenges on Comic Book Brain

Netflix bringing two manga shows onto TV – Gamesradar

Re: Sakamoto Days and Baban Baban Ban Vampire

One of the ongoing aspects of manga's success and world-spanning fame: if comic books falter, manga eats up the difference.

2024's Five best comics series according to Matt Morrison – Superherohype

The "Infinity Saga Concert Experience" is going to the Philippines – GMA Network

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Comic book business "is alive" – Star Beacon – "Tony Capo, the owner of Geneva’s Robot Zero Comics, tries to bring young people into comic books at a time of less paper media."

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.

Index of all the AI Challenges on Comic Book Brain

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."

Index of all the AI Challenges on Comic Book Brain

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

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Original page December 18, 2024 | Last updated January 26, 2025