Feb 24 2015
OZ COMIC-CON has announced that Tom Taylor is coming to a city near you (assuming you live in Australia) in 2015. The writer of Injustice: Gods Among Us, The Deep and currently Superior Iron Man will be coming to the Oz Comic-Cons in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. In other words, all of them. Taylor is …
Jan 07 2015
After compiling a list of the comics and graphic novels that excited us in 2015, we noted a handful of Australian comics that had been on the horizon for a while. However, we knew that we’d missed a few Australians in the process, and wanted to capture the sheer amount of work that goes into …
Sep 10 2014
Gestalt Comics (via their website) reports that France’sTechnicolor, Canadian Nerd Corps Entertainment and Australia-based A Stark Production have reach final agreements over the partnership for the production of the CG adaptation of The Deep graphic novel series. The 26-episode The Deep TV Series is based on the award-winning books written by Australia’s Tom Taylor (Injustice, Earth …
Jul 17 2014
Australia’s own superstar writer Tom Taylor has been announced as the scribe on the brand-new Superior Iron Man. He and artist Yildiray Cinar will move Tony Stark from New York to San Francisco this “fall”, says IGN. It’s part of the new Avengers NOW! initiative from Marvel, which will be a Avengers line-wide series of high-profile relaunches …
Jul 14 2014
Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 100, the comic book show that’s had to come up with a hundred of these introductions. In this issue, we celebrate saying “in this issue” for the 100th time. THEN we report back live(ish) from Oz Comic-Con with an exclusive interview with Wolfgang Bylsma, Editor of Gestalt Publishing. AND David …
Jul 11 2014
If there are three DC titles that we have been consistently praising in the last year, it’s been Gail Simone‘s Batgirl, Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott’s Earth 2 and Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino’s Green Arrow. In a slew of announcements this week, DC has indicated that new creative teams will be coming onboard for …
Jul 10 2014
At Oz Comic-Con in Melbourne over the weekend (5-6 July), Gestalt Comics took to the stage to announce a slew of new comics and projects for the coming year, including a prequel to The Deep, a new volume of Justin Randall’s Changing Ways and a second volume of the best-selling Flinch anthology. The announcements were …
Dec 09 2013
Don’t have time for long 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. Last week (4 December 2013), Marvel’s Infinity has finished, but oh the Inhumanity! Then the Avengers get their first Marvel NOW! annual. Over at DC (where all …
Nov 07 2013
Don’t have time for long 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 (6 November 2013), DC Comics brings an all-new, all-Australian team aboard for Earth 2 #17! THEN the Bamfs attack in Amazing X-Men #1 (Marvel), …
Oct 15 2013
Springing off the back of the New York Comic-Con announcements, DC Comics have pulled out their solicitations for January 2014. In addition to launching tie-properties for The Vampire Diaries and Scribblenauts in the comic book world, there’s some strange things afoot in the land that the Bat built… Frank Miller and “Gothtopia” No, it’s not …
Sep 13 2013
Gestalt Comics has announced that Technicolor has partnered with ABC Television Australia and Australian Producer Avrill Stark‘s A Stark Production to develop their graphic novel series The Deep as a CG animated series. Creators Tom Taylor and James Brouwer are reportedly “heavily involved” with the production of the TV series. When we spoke with Taylor at Supanova this year, he elaborated on this. “I’ve written the …
