Stephen Mooney

'Penny Dreadful' #1 Emerges From The Night With Six Covers
'Penny Dreadful' #1 Emerges From The Night With Six Covers
'Penny Dreadful' #1 Emerges From The Night With Six Covers
Penny Dreadful, as the name implies, is one of those deliberately pulpy genre shows that really lends itself to a comics adaptation. That adaptation comes to light on April 5 with the release of Penny Dreadful #1, written by Chris King with art by Jesús Hervás. We don't know much about what happens in the comic yet, except that it involves cowboy werewolf Ethan Chandler fighting supernatural threats as he adjusts to the absence of Vanessa Ives. In short, it sounds a lot like the TV show. But we do now know that Penny Dreadful #1 will be released with six variant covers.
Weekender: Creators for Creators, Comic Book Women, and Alternate FCBD
Weekender: Creators for Creators, Comic Book Women, and Alternate FCBD
Weekender: Creators for Creators, Comic Book Women, and Alternate FCBD
What a week! I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to sit back and read some comics. The weekend is finally here, and the world can relax and rest once more - but the comics industry has been busy too, you know, and the last seven days have seen a flurry of comics-based news and announcements fly past at high speed. ComicsAlliance have got your back, though: when it comes to comics, we never slow down, and so here’s a look back and just what’s been going on. New comics, new stories, new hirings, new podcasts, new art being made - it’s all part of the ComicsAlliance Weekender!
Man Of The Year: Celebrating Dick Grayson's Handsomest Moments
Man Of The Year: Celebrating Dick Grayson's Handsomest Moments
Man Of The Year: Celebrating Dick Grayson's Handsomest Moments
In his 75-year career as a superhero, Dick Grayson has been a lot of things. He's been a circus acrobat, Robin, Nightwing, Batman, a Teen Titan, a member of the Justice League, Batman again, and he's been a world-traveling super-spy charged with bringing down some of the strangest threats that the DC Universe. But more than that, today's Dick Grayson is something else. Something more. Something that inspires us all in a way that few other super-heroes do. He is an exceptionally good-looking man. That, more than anything else, came to define him over the past year, and now, before we move inexorably into the future, we look back at how Dick Grayson had the handsomest year ever.
'Grayson' & KGBeast Make A 'Future's End' Tie-In Great
'Grayson' & KGBeast Make A 'Future's End' Tie-In Great
'Grayson' & KGBeast Make A 'Future's End' Tie-In Great
I'll be honest, folks: I have very little interest in Future's End as a line-wide crossover. DC Comics' tactic of derailing their books into weird tangents every September, a tradition that goes back to the relaunch of the "New 52" universe, never quite works as well as I want it to, and when you throw in the fact that we're peering into the dim and distant future of a world that we've only actually had for three years, and, well, no thanks, I'm good. What really had me worried, though, was Grayson. I've really been enjoying what Tom King, Tim Seeley and Stephen Mooney have been doing with this book over the first few issues, but as I think we all know, there's no faster way to derail a brand new comic's momentum than to drop it into a crossover after two months. I almost didn't bother to read it, but I'm glad I did. It turns out that King, Seeley and Mooney have taken their Future's End tie-in as an opportunity to produce one of the most enjoyable single issues I've read in a long while.
Best Art Ever (This Week)
Best Art Ever (This Week)
Best Art Ever (This Week)
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwor