comic book movies

Donate to Charity While People Watch All The Marvel Movies
Donate to Charity While People Watch All The Marvel Movies
Donate to Charity While People Watch All The Marvel Movies
Swell dudes Rob and Eric are going to run a marathon, sort of. They're going to watch all eleven Marvel Studios movies --- including the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron --- back-to-back, and live-stream the experience, and just like the best marathon runners, they're going to raise funds for charity along the way. Watching a lot of good movies isn't exactly hard work, of course, but that's not the point. The point is to encourage donations to Capes4Heroes, an organization that helps inspire sick kids to be brave and strong by turning them into superheroes. Rob and Eric's marathon is a way to take something that a fair number of comics fans will be doing anyway and give it positive consequences for people in need.
The Batman '89 Comic Adaptation: As Gorgeous As It Is Flawed
The Batman '89 Comic Adaptation: As Gorgeous As It Is Flawed
The Batman '89 Comic Adaptation: As Gorgeous As It Is Flawed
As part of the marketing blitz for the movie, the comic version of Batman naturally sold batloads [Editor's note: we apologize for nothing] and is a fixture of many a 30-something's comics collection. In an effort to extort as much as they could from the fanbase, DC Comics made the book available in two formats: a newsstand-friendly comic that set readers back a mere $2.50 and a prestige format version) with a painted cover and spine) that retailed for $4.95. Personally, the cheaper version’s cover has always appealed to me more, but I’ll admit that Batman kicking a clown has a visceral appeal to me than Batman standing on a gargoyle, even if it's nicely rendered. No matter what version you bought though, the interiors were the same, and they were among the best drawings of Jerry Ordway's already distinguished career. Unfortunately, even with scripter Denny O'Neil's bonafides as one of the people behind the 1980s version of the caped crusader that inspired the film and Ordway's extraordinary ability to render likenesses, the comic is inert and suffers from a complete inability to be compelling on its own. That's something that can't be said about Burton's movie, as scattershot and disorderly as the final product is. Even if you're not a fan of the movie (and I'm not), if it's on a screen, you're going to watch its weirdness unfold — you can't say that about the comic version, no matter how pretty it is.
Link Ink: Charting Comics’ Hollywood Takeover, ASM2’s ‘Patient Zero’ And Mr. Thortato Head
Link Ink: Charting Comics’ Hollywood Takeover, ASM2’s ‘Patient Zero’ And Mr. Thortato Head
Link Ink: Charting Comics’ Hollywood Takeover, ASM2’s ‘Patient Zero’ And Mr. Thortato Head
Infographics: Friend of CA Tim Leong's new interactive infographic "Plotting Comic Books' Rapid Takeover of Hollywood" examines the continued rise of comic book films. Movies: Director Marc Webb has tweeted an image of "Patient Zero" from The Amazing Spider-Man 2...
The ComicsAlliance Guide To Comic Book Movie Casting Redundancies
The ComicsAlliance Guide To Comic Book Movie Casting Redundancies
The ComicsAlliance Guide To Comic Book Movie Casting Redundancies
How many comicbook movies are on your gift list for Christmas or Hanukkah? Does it already include The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, and The Amazing Spider-Man? Are you chuffed enough to request the The Dark Knight Trilogy on Blu-Ray, or are you nervously holding your wad for April 2013, when the 10-disc Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One drops like a ton of bricks...
2011 Year-End Infographics: Comic Book Movie Box Office and Reviews
2011 Year-End Infographics: Comic Book Movie Box Office and Reviews
2011 Year-End Infographics: Comic Book Movie Box Office and Reviews
As the final days of the year wind inexorably down, ComicsAlliance continues its year-end wrapup with a series of infographics about comics in 2011 by Wired Art Director (and former Comic Foundry Editor-in-Chief) Tim Leong, who previously graced ComicsAlliance with his charts summing up Comic-Con 2011...
PSAs From Panels: How to Discuss Comic Book Movies [Comic]
PSAs From Panels: How to Discuss Comic Book Movies [Comic]
PSAs From Panels: How to Discuss Comic Book Movies [Comic]
In this week's PSA From Panels, the cast of The Rack talks about comic book movies like Green Lantern and the best way to go about discussing them at your local comics shop. To read the continuing adventures of the cast of Panels, check out The Rack, written by Kevin Church and drawn by Benjamin Birdie at therackcomic...