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Link Ink: Axe Cop Gets a Cover, ‘Super’ Gets a Release Date and Spider-Man Keeps Turning Off the Dark
Link Ink: Axe Cop Gets a Cover, ‘Super’ Gets a Release Date and Spider-Man Keeps Turning Off the Dark
Link Ink: Axe Cop Gets a Cover, ‘Super’ Gets a Release Date and Spider-Man Keeps Turning Off the Dark
Webcomics: Behold! The cover to Dark Horse Comics' debut volume of Axe Cop has arrived. History: As one of comics' most prolific creators, Osamu Tezuka had to have some way to decompress. Enter his "secret room." Movies: James Gunn's Super, starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon on April 1, 2011...
Osamu Tezuka Illustrates Fire Safety With Astro Boy and Black Jack
Osamu Tezuka Illustrates Fire Safety With Astro Boy and Black Jack
Osamu Tezuka Illustrates Fire Safety With Astro Boy and Black Jack
Between the regular Daylight Savings Time reminders to change the battery in your smoke detector to Spider-Man taking time out of his busy schedule of web-slinging and Goblin-punching to talk to the kids, the very important topic of Fire Safety has been on my mind quite a bit lately...
Osamu Tezuka’s X-Rated ‘Cleopatra’ Movie
Osamu Tezuka’s X-Rated ‘Cleopatra’ Movie
Osamu Tezuka’s X-Rated ‘Cleopatra’ Movie
One of the great all-time masters of manga, "Astro Boy" creator Osamu Tezuka has certainly helped create his share of legendary anime series as well. But until Dash Shaw pointed it out at Comics Comics, I was unaware that Tezuka had made an X-Rated animated film about Cleopatra ( a...
Manga and Comics: What’s in a Name?
Manga and Comics: What’s in a Name?
Manga and Comics: What’s in a Name?
Manga, comics, it's all the same right? After all, Japanese comics encompass just as many styles, genres and formats as sequential art found elsewhere in the world. So why do we make the distinction as if every manga were "Naruto" and every American comic were "Wolverine...
Link Ink — Jackie Brown in Smallville, Count Chocula vs. Dracula, Spider-Man Arrested
Link Ink — Jackie Brown in Smallville, Count Chocula vs. Dracula, Spider-Man Arrested
Link Ink — Jackie Brown in Smallville, Count Chocula vs. Dracula, Spider-Man Arrested
Crossover: Still reeling from the "Mad Men" finale? Check out yet another Don Draper mashup with comics -- this time of the Batman variety. (Newsarama) TV: Jackie Brown makes her way to Smallville with the arrival of Pam Grier in a recurring role as Amanda Waller in the 9th season of the Superman show in episodes scripted by DC Comics writer Geoff Johns...
‘Astro Boy’ Spin-Offs: The Movie vs. ‘Pluto’
‘Astro Boy’ Spin-Offs: The Movie vs. ‘Pluto’
‘Astro Boy’ Spin-Offs: The Movie vs. ‘Pluto’
Since its creation in 1952, Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy" manga has become a certified worldwide phenomenon, featured in multiple television series, movies, and books. 2009 alone saw the introduction of two new takes on the "Astro Boy" mythos: a CGI "Astro Boy" movie aimed squarely at the brainpans of American children, and "Pluto," a new manga for adults who w
The Real Astro Boy Story: Depressing as Hell
The Real Astro Boy Story: Depressing as Hell
The Real Astro Boy Story: Depressing as Hell
With the new Hollywood CGI Astro Boy now out in theaters, the usual question comes to mind: how close will it be to the original comic? And the answer for most US comic fans is..."who the heck actually read Astro Boy?" Well, we did. And we're betting the movie's changed a lot of this sad story of one robot's struggle against anti-robot racism...
‘Astro Boy’ Director David Bowers Talks Butt Guns, Robot Class Struggles, and Sequel Rumors
‘Astro Boy’ Director David Bowers Talks Butt Guns, Robot Class Struggles, and Sequel Rumors
‘Astro Boy’ Director David Bowers Talks Butt Guns, Robot Class Struggles, and Sequel Rumors
With the new 3-D computer-animated "Astro Boy" movie hitting theaters this week, American audiences will once again be introduced to one of the founding characters of Japanese manga and anime. But will they take the bait this time around? Are the dulcet tones of Kristen Bell, Eugene Levy, Samuel L...

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