What’s SHOOT THE MESSENGER?
Well, AICN COMICS: SHOOT THE MESSENGER is your weekly one stop shop for comic book news that’s dropped in the previous week. Thanks to Newsarama, CBR, Wizard, etc. for reporting it as it breaks. Click on the links for the original stories. This column cuts the crap to run down all the vital information for those of you who don’t follow it as it comes in, and serves it all up with that special ingredient of @$$y goodness. It’s also the place for interviews, previews, and special reports.
It’s Stones Throw back again, rounding up the last of the comic book news from San Diego and also bringing to your attention a few other items of interest, like…
@ Details of the Eisner Award winners here, including victories for Ed Brubaker, Y: THE LAST MAN, THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, LAIKA and…Brad Meltzer’s JLA??@ Catching up on news from last week’s San Diego Comic Con, Mike Grell is back on a new WARLORD ongoing series in spring 2009, celebrating the character’s 35th anniversary! Read all about it here...
@ Steven Grant, of PUNISHER and CBR’s “Permanent Damage” fame, has sold the rights to his Boom! Studios graphic novel 2 GUNS to Universal. The book will be serialized one page a day, free at Boom! Studios’ website here…
@ Barzak’s cosmic skate-boarding saga SKATE FARM gets a reprinting and a second series at IDW in 2009…
@ Jai Nitz’s new Robin Hood-type superhero EL DIABLO gets a six-issue miniseries at DC in September, with art from Phil Hester and Ande Parks…
@ Los Bros Hernandez’ latest installment in the LOVE AND ROCKETS series debuted in its new book-length format at SDCC…
@ Well, huh. Looks like that UNDERWORLD series has a new movie in January. Oh, and there’s an IDW comic book adaptation by Raze the werewolf/screenwriter/writer of Marvel’s NEW WARRIORS Kevin Grievoux…
@ Grant Morrison and Deepak Chopra discuss the superhero at San Diego…
@ And, finally, DK puts out an encyclopedia all about the Vertigo imprint September. Foreword by Neil Gaiman, cover by Dave McKean…