Comics

Who Is Jake Ellis #1 – Review

A fast paced spy genre thriller that will leave you asking, “What and who is Jake Ellis?” This book reads like an action-thriller movie and even takes a few queues from the film genre as well. Basically if you want your heart pumping while reading a book, then check it out.

Jon has just botched a job for some very dangerous men. After explaining to them that he was unable to attain all of the information they required he makes a startling get-away that’s fit for any action-thriller in comics or movies. But then the story rewinds and we see Jon, being guided by a man only he can see. We can assume that this is none other than Jake Ellis and he can see briefly into the future to help Jon.

Movie Tells Shocking Tale of Comics History

Tentatively scheduled for an early 2012 release, Diagram for Delinquents: Fredric Wertham and the Evolution of Comic Books (directed by Robert A. Emmons Jr.) will study Fredric Wertham’s crusade to link comics with juvenile delinquency, which helped spur burnings of comics in the United States, Congressional hearings into the role of comics and juvenile delinquency, and the creation of the Comics Code Authority as a censoring body. The film will explore these events in light of comics’ subsequent evolution into more sophisticated material that is no longer primarily children’s fare. To illustrate this story, the film will use recreations and Wertham’s own files, almost none of which has ever been seen before.

My Top 20 Villains Of All Time – Part One

For every hero in the multiple comic book universes, there have always been villains. I believe some villains can be totally amazing whereas others, not so much. I have decided to make my own list. This is Part One of my countdown to the greatest villain of all time. I am going to span multiple companies and their respective characters. I am going to try and avoid using the many villains of a singular hero, so I will not do a massive chunk of one rogues gallery of say… Batman.

Top Ten Best Covers of 2010

This is a list of the best covers of 2010, limited to one issue per series so that books like Batgirl or Fables couldn’t hog up the entire list. You’ll find a mixture of Marvel, DC, Vertigo and Top Cow with books that included: New Mutants, Gotham City Sirens, Fables, Batgirl, Batman and Robin, Artifacts, Sweet Tooth, Batman: Streets of Gotham and we’ll leave you a few for a surprise. Think we missed some? Tell us your list in the comments below.

Villains Due For A Return

In comics, villains seem to nearly always return to terrorize people in whatever way that they see fit. Some of these law breaking criminals disappear into the shadow and never return, some because they were not popular, others because, well their purpose had finished, others still were once in the spotlight only to then be gone. This is a list of villains I believe should return to their respective comics to once again wreak havoc upon the nations.

His name is Two-Legged Rat. A mask wearing sniper whom harassed Speedball. He also really, really hated cats. So much so he used to shoot the poor little defenceless balls of fur, and he does it just for the attention. He was even a part of a Speedball Revenge Squad. Once again defeated and thrown into prison. I think he should come back as he is a funny character in a slightly disturbing way, and could really be developed as a mentally unstable character.

The Anchor Vol 1. Wins 2011’s Great Graphic Novel For Teens Award

BOOM! Studios is proud to announce that for the second year in a row the Young Adult Library Service Association (YALSA) has selected a BOOM! Studios original graphic novel, THE ANCHOR VOL. 1: FIVE FURIES, as one of their 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens.

This year, YALSA has compiled a list of 63 titles out of 89 official nominations presented annually at the ALA midwinter conference. These titles arerecommended for readers ages 12 to 18 and are chosen for their ability to “meet the criteria of both good quality literature and appealing reading for teens.”

Moonstone to Launch Neutral World

Moonstone Entertainment, Inc., a leading publisher of comics and books, has just signed a contract to publish an epic science fiction project called NEUTRAL WORLD, as created by well known comic and pulp writer Ron Fortier and comic superstar artist, Joe Bennett.

Bennett, a self-taught Brazilian artist, entered the field in the early 1990s and soon became one of the most sought after talents in comics. His fantastic pencils and inks have graced dozens of titles both at Marvel and DC and there are very few iconic superheroes he has not worked on in his amazing career. Today, along with his current assignments for the DC, he operates a studio in his hometown of Belem, which is where NEUTRAL WORLD was first conceived.