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Sony in legal challenge with DC Comics over ‘Zero Hour’ Trademark

Written by DG Stewart, March 31, 2019

Long-standing readers of DC Comics’ superhero fare will remember the publisher’s 1994 comic book series Zero Hour. This was a limited series designed to reboot DC Comics’ superhero continuity. It was creatively remarkable in that some of the last pages of various issues were intentionally blank, to demonstrate erasure of the existing continuity. In 1995, DC…

George Perez Announces Retirement

Written by DG Stewart, January 22, 2019

From George Perez’s Facebook page: DATE : JANUARY 19, 2019FROM : George Pérez To all my loyal and kind fans who have supported me throughout the decades,In recent months, there has been a great deal of speculation as to the future of my career, my health, my ability to draw and my future convention appearances….

Vale Stan Lee 1922-2018

Written by DG Stewart, November 13, 2018

As most readers of American comic books will now be aware, writer / creator / media celebrity Stan Lee passed away yesterday at the age of 95. “I used to think what I did was not very important,” Mr Lee pondered to the Chicago Tribune in an interview in April 2014. “People are building bridges…

Alas for me! I am dead!: Roman-era comics discovered in a tomb in Jordan

Written by DG Stewart, September 29, 2018

The medium we critique is often trivialised, and so we take smug delight whenever we come across evidence of the historical pedigree of comics. Pictures on a tomb, with dialogue in adjacent speech balloons, have been unearthed in a tomb in Jordan. The tomb was discovered in 2016 in the town of Beyt Ras, which…