GOTHAM TRIBUNE: Get Ready for … BATAPALOOZA!
Either it was good planning or bad, but we have a TON of Batmaterial for you this week. Exclusive interviews and art! Comics reviews! Gift Guide items! You name it, we got it. So welcome to our first-ever BATAPALOOZA!
HOT PICKS Gift Guide #3: “The Fifth Beatle”
Brian Epstein takes center stage in this gorgeous original graphic novel.
Inside ‘Samurai Jack,’ a Dream Job, by JIM ZUB — Plus EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW of #2
Jim Zub‘s take on the modern classic cartoon continues with Samural Jack #2, out from IDW on Wednesday. Here’s an EXCLUSIVE preview — plus Jim returns to 13th Dimension to write about the project!
HOT PICKS Gift Guide #2: “Nao of Brown”
Holy crap, Black Friday is in less than two weeks! Get ready! Here’s our HOT PICKS Gift Guide #2!
Why You Need to Give ‘Agents of SHIELD’ a Break
Welcome writer Marc Buxton! Marc’s here to tell you why you need to give “Agents of SHIELD” a break. I’ve already been on record as not loving the show. But Marc has a good message for fans who aren’t giving the show a chance. Agree with him? Disagree? Comment below! Just keep it civil. Floor’s yours Marc!:
AMC Chief Told Me Net Has Purchased ‘Preacher,’ by MENACHEM LUCHINS
A member of our very own HOT PICKS team was stunned today when the head of AMC came into his shop, Escape Pod Comics, to buy a ‘Preacher’ collection — and effectively confirmed reports from Badass Digest that the net that brings you “The Walking Dead” is putting a show together. Bleeding Cool first noted the transaction but here’s Menachem Luchins’ EXCLUSIVE blow-by-blow:
Pete Holmes’ “Ex-Men”
Funny guy Pete Holmes continues his send-up of comic book characters. In this video as Dr. X, he grills Angel about his powers.
Batkid: The Most Important Story in Comics Today (UPDATED WITH OBAMA)
Today, the city of San Francisco turned itself into Gotham City for the benefit of a 5-year-old boy who has been fighting one of the worst childhood villains: leukemia. This is what superheroes are supposed to be all about.
The Coolest Variant Covers of the Week
Nothing speaks more to the collision of comics art and commerce quite like the variant cover. Cynical cash grab? Sure. But they can be oh, so pretty. Here are my faves this week.
HOT PICKS Gift Guide #1: SHIELD by Steranko
It’s two weeks before Black Friday, so we’re getting a head start by bringing you the HOT PICKS Gift Guide.
HEY KIDS, COMICS! by Rob Kelly and Doug Slack
We’re serializing Rob Kelly’s awesome book about the “secret origins” of comics creators and superfans, written by the folks themselves. This week, Part 1 of Doug Slack’s entry:
MIGHTY Q&A: Ed Catto, Comics Renaissance Man
The self-described “retropreneur”/PR maven/historian/comics superfan subjects himself to our withering interrogation: