Aug 23 2013
We checked the calendar, and despite the Ben Affleck announcement today, it is not April. Coming off the back of that bombshell, Canadian writer Jeff Lemire told the The Star in Toronto today that Justice League of America will become Justice League of Canada in the North American spring. The move to Canada will come …
Aug 23 2013
Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (21 August 2013), it’s Infinity crossovers, Trinity wars and Superman punching things really hard. Plus Chin Music (Image Comics) finally gets a second issue! You …
Aug 21 2013
There are a lot of eyes on Australia’s Gestalt Comics right now, mostly thanks to the Comic Book Heroes documentary that finished airing on ABC1 last night (and is currently available on iView for Australian residents). The local publisher with eyes on the global market has taken the opportunity to annouce a slew of upcoming …
Aug 19 2013
Want to support local artists and the comic industry in Australia? The Australian Cartoonists’ Association Cartoons Galore! Exhibition is on from Saturday 24 August 2013 at Top Ryde City and will run through until the 7 September! The City of Ryde comes to life with an exciting arts and cultural festival transforming the region into …
Aug 17 2013
Green Arrow is now the star of a major TV show in the US now, shifting what was once a second-string character to the forefront of the public’s imagination. Yet he wasn’t always a star player, often taking a supporting role to other characters, or simply being unfavourably compared with a certain Dark Knight. When we …
Aug 16 2013
It’s time to start thinking about what Marvel books you’ll be buying in November! It’s the end of an era for several books, new starts for others and the return of some absolute legends: and we aren’t just talking about Longshot. These are the highlights from Marvel’s November 2013 solicitations. More X-Men books! There’s 11 …
Aug 16 2013
In our review for Infinity #1, which hit stores and digital devices this week, we remarked that the perpetual cycle of events were aimed at “short term gains in sales spikes as the Big Two go tit for tat on the advanced reorder lists”. It seems that there isn’t audience fatigue just yet, as Marvel …
Aug 16 2013
We’ve long held the belief that the current crossover Hunger, coming out of the events of Age of Ultron, will eventually mark the end of the Marvel Ultimate Universe. The solicitations now indicate that things are not looking good for that line with Cataclysm taking over all of the Ultimates books for the month. In …
Aug 15 2013
Following the screening of the first episode of Comic Book Heroes, the Nick Dunlop documentary on the history of Australia’s Gestalt Comics, their early anthology Flinch has completely sold out at the publisher level. As such, Gestalt have announced that they are going back for a second printing, due out in September 2013. The new …
Aug 15 2013
Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (14 August 2013), “Zero Year” continues in Batman #23, and it’s the Trinity War in Justice League of America #7. Then things get even …
Aug 15 2013
This is the big Marvel event of the year, the one that follows the other big events and promises to change everything – at least until the event after that one. Kind of infinite, isn’t it? Epic crossovers and events are a fact of life in the comic book world. We could complain about the …
