ZACK SNYDER IS THE NEXT SUPERDIRECTOR. There were three Christopher Reeves Superman movies and one with Brandon Routh, making four so far.  (I refuse to recognize “Quest for Peace.”)  Get ready for yet another reboot of the most all-American, least cynical hero in comicdom.  Zack Snyder, who lensed “300″ and “Watchmen,” will take the helm, [...]

It’s been a few weeks—I’ve been busy—so some of this may be old . . . But at least there’s a lot of it! 1. WALKING DEAD. Of course this is the lead story . . . AMC released a 4-minute trailer, and confirmed that the show will launch on Halloween for a special 90-minute [...]

1.  COMICS LEARN FROM TUPAC. It’s good to be dead!  The Top 10 bestselling single comics of the month of 2010, according to Diamond distributors, all had to do with characters who are recently dead, “dead,” or back from the dead: 1. Avengers #1 (Steve Rogers—and Iron Man, if you count being a vegetable as [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve bifurcated my usual discussion of spandex and superpowers into a two-day extravaganza this week.  Please, drop me some comments.  My blog isn’t taken seriously by the comic book blogworld, and I’d like to change that!  I know I’m usually about tunes and funny pictures, but who says a [...]

I decided to bust out my weekly musings on superdoings into print and moving media this week, because there’s just so darn much I wanna talk about! Please, give me comments if you like these features—I enjoy writing them, but I know that most of my regular readers come here for music . . . [...]

Yeah, I ran a chronological “Best Comics of the Decade” post already, and tons of bloggers have done a decade retrospective, but I haven’t seen one that focuses exclusively on Marvel. Marvel is the most important comic book publisher out there, and not just because it controls the market share. When it comes to superhero [...]

1. The lead story has to be the indefinite hold put on Spider-Man 4. Various reports indicate that Sam Raimi wanted to use The Vulture as the lead villain, but Sony wanted to young it up and was foisting a Black Cat storyline on the project. You may remember that Raimi had also sought to [...]

This will be the last news feature of the year.  If you want to see more of these in 2010, please drop a comment! 1. DEADPOOL.  The potty-mouthed lunatic assassin gets lots of mentions on this page, but deservedly so.  Unlike Spider-Man in the late 1970s, or Wolverine now, Deadpool’s appearances in 4+ books per [...]

1.  Thor and Avengers Movies. According to Ain’t It Cool News, Dr. Donald Blake will not be in the movie.  I guess they’re going for more of an “ultimates” thing than a classic Avengers thing.  I’m not too sad about that.  I never understood why a guy like Thor would ever bother reverting to another [...]