DeviantArt

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 has 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 events, new podcasts, new projects being made --- it’s all part of the ComicsAlliance Weekender!

Movies: Robert Redford has confirmed that he'll be playing the head of SHIELD in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, although his character's name is yet to be revealed. Gaming: Activision reportedly laid off almost the entire Deadpool video game team (around 40 employees) this week, after they completed work on the game...

East meets West in the pinup art of the Japan-based artist on deviantART who goes by the name of "Kit." Kit's Oracle and Power Girl poses pack the dynamism of an artist like J.H. Williams with the manga infusion and emotion of a Takeshi Miyazawa, with versions of Spider-Man and the Hulk that are right at home with vintage concert posters...

There's a weird sort of magic to rage comics. Using just a few dozen crudely drawn faces, even the most novice cartoonist can transform their ordinary anecdotes into sequential nuggets of funny. Now, some people who can actually draw have decided to get in on the rage comic fun, illustrating their own characters displaying the full range of rage face emotions...

Coran Stone cartoons only exist on our fantasy lineup of animation channels. But you probably already know that. Last year, Stone's ThunderCats and Super Mario Bros. art had us hooked with his soft color palette and happy facial expressions...

The characters of Futurama fuse with the cast of the classic Super Nintendo RPG Chrono Trigger in the latest mashup by Nina Matsumoto, the Japanese-Canadian artist whose popular Deviantart drawing of The Simpsons as manga characters later led to professional illustration work on the official Simpsons comics published by Bongo...

No, we know what you're thinking. That image of Beaker and Animal as Cyclops and Wolverine from Grant Morrison's famous New X-Men run is not in fact a photo. It is in reality the work of The Rahzzah, an artist whose name sounds like it might belong to one of Jim Henson's characters...

Fans of David Petersen's all ages Archaia series Mouse Guard have come to count on the artist's skilled balance of luscious detail, cartoonish cuteness and sword-swinging action. Mice have a tough life out in he wild, but in his world, they've got the anthropomorphic means to build a more proactive society...

The texture and shading that Skullkickers artist Chris Stevens is able to articulate on Bristol board can look almost inhuman. Most of his sketches that he shares online are in black and white, but the surfaces he renders on Captain America's costume and Hellboy's Right Hand of Doom look real enough that you can almost reach out and touch them...

It's tough to discern the gender of deviantART user Seoro.O based on profile info alone, but you can bet the holiday cards this artist sends out are the bomb. Seoro's currently serving in the military, according to the minimal amount of info there...