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 …
Aug 14 2013
Writer and artist Mike Grell, arguably best known for his seminal work on Green Arrow during the 1980s/1990s and more recently on Arrow, has announced via his blog that he has been hospitalised with cellulitis. Along with Green Arrow, who he defined with The Longbow Hunters in 1988 and continued to do so throughout a …
Aug 14 2013
Telltale Games (via IGN) has released the first trailer for the upcoming serial game Fables: The Wolf Among Us, based on the long-running Vertigo Comics series Fables. Using a similar choice-based system to Telltale’s The Walking Dead game series, the game focuses on Bigby Wolf, the human form of the Big Bad Wolf who is trying …
Aug 14 2013
Image Comics are certainly not slackening off in the last part of the year, with no less than seven new #1 titles on the shelves throughout the ninth month of the Roman calendar, but the eleventh for those of us working under the Julian and Gregorian systems. BLACK SCIENCE #1 Originally announced back in July …
Aug 14 2013
The way the comics cookie crumbles means that we’re already looking ahead to the stuff that will be hitting shelves in November. At least it gives us an excuse to start saving our valuable pennies. Speaking of pennies, what do people do to get rid of them? Put them in a jar? Stack them up …
Aug 13 2013
The official poster has been released for the New York Comic Con, held at the Javits Center in New York on 10-13 October. Revealed today by the New York Daily News, it features Superman and Wonder Woman hovering near the completed One World Trade Center building, as depicted by artist Stephane Roux. Confirmed comics guests at …
Aug 13 2013
Sites such as Nerd Bastards, Guard the Galaxy, MTV and Coming Soon are posting set photos from the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy, currently being shot in London by director James Gunn. Shot on the Millennium Bridge on August 11, we get our first look at Glenn Close under heavy special effects makeup, several alien creatures, …
Aug 12 2013
Kick-Ass 2 hits cinemas in Australia next week, and thanks to Universal Pictures International Australia, we have 10 double in-season passes to give away to our lucky readers and listeners. All you have to do is answer the question below and you’ll be in the running for a free ticket to the next big comic …
Aug 10 2013
The SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show was held in Sydney today for its seventh year, bringing with it lovers of pop culture from all over Australia. Once again, Behind the Panels was there snapping away and talking to organisers, guests and lots of cosplayers. It was an amazing crop of costumes in and around the …
Aug 09 2013
J. Michael Straczynski launches another book in the Joe’s Comics line, although it is one that might just live up to its title. The deconstruction of the superhero genre in the pages of comic books continues unabated, with several titles this year already posing the question of ‘what happens when the thrill is gone?’ Following the …
Aug 09 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 (7 August 2013) we get sophomore efforts from Avengers A.I. (Marvel), Hunger (Marvel) and Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s truly brilliant Satellite Sam (Image …
