Tag: Ed Brubaker

Top Comics for August 20, 2014

Batman and Robin #34 courtesy DC Comics
Batman and Robin #34 courtesy DC Comics

Batman and Robin #34 Bruce Wayne’s mission to recover and resurrect Damian puts him on a collision course with Lex Luthor! The Dark Knight is going into the dreaded domain of Darkseid to recover Damian’s body. Before Bruce leaves, Batgirl, Red Hood and Red Robin join him the Batcave for a fateful meeting of the once and future Robins. Who will join Bruce on his against on all odds journey to Apokolips. Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason continue Robin Rising by pushing Batman into a showdown the Luthor and possibly Darkseid.

 

The Fade Out #1 A brand new mystery from the kings of crime noir comics! The first project from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s epic Image Comics agreement. A dead starlet, a noir film stuck in reshoot hell, a haunted screenwriter and a ruthless studio boss are the start of a the team’s ambitious new mystery set in old Hollywood. Continue reading Top Comics for August 20, 2014

Top Comics for July 30, 2014

Fatale #24 courtesy Image Comics
Fatale #24 courtesy Image Comics

Our top 5 picks of the week demands to be different so in part one we highlight four comic books with a finality theme.

Final issues, final chapters, final arcs by some of the biggest creators in comics!

Let’s start with….

 

Fatale #24 The sexy, violent, twisted epic of an immortal woman and men who love and die for her comes to a massive finale. Continue reading Top Comics for July 30, 2014

Director on New Costume in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

Captain America: The Winter Soldier courtesy Marvel
Captain America: The Winter Soldier courtesy Marvel

Steve Rogers is wearing a lot more blue in his red, white, and blue uniform in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

 

Co-director Joe Russo explains the changes to the Avenger’s classic costume in the upcoming sequel.

 

“It was about a real world grounding approach to the character, in the spirit of Ed Brubaker’s book, Continue reading Director on New Costume in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

IMAGE EXPO Announcements

 

The Fade Out courtesy Image Comics
The Fade Out courtesy Image Comics

Image Comics revealed a huge rundown of new creator-owned projects coming in 2014. At the Image Comics Expo – the publisher celebrated a year of creator-owned successes and huge sales while fans can celebrate the next wave of new projects from some of the biggest creators in comics.

 

The biggest announcement: Ed Brubaker (Fatale, Criminal, Velvet) and Sean Phillips (Incognito, Sleeper) and Image Comics signed an unprecedented deal in comics publishing, a five year deal to do anything they want with total freedom, total control, and total ownership over their projects. Continue reading IMAGE EXPO Announcements

Top 5 Comics for October 23, 2013

Pretty Deadly #1 courtesy Image Comics
Pretty Deadly #1 courtesy Image Comics

Beware the Batman #1 A brand-new all-ages comic based on the hit animated series. Alfred Pennyworth is no ordinary butler but has he prepared Master Bruce? The Dark Knight flies out of the cave to take on the Gotham City underworld.

 

Pretty Deadly #1 The daughter of Death rides a trail of retribution in a book that seems to mix Sandman, Preacher and the Wild West by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios. Here’s how the writer explained the concept to me at GeekGirlCon ’13.

 

Sex Criminals #2  If you could stop time Continue reading Top 5 Comics for October 23, 2013

VELVET #1 by Brubaker and Epting

Velvet #1 courtesy Image Comics
Velvet #1 courtesy Image Comics

A brand new heroine from one of the best teams in comics. Captain America, Winter Soldier creative team Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting reunite for a dark new espionage comic book.

Velvet #1 hits comic book shops this week and here’s the description courtesy Image Comics.

 

Velvet Templeton is supposed to be just a secretary, the personal assistant to the Director of a top secret Intelligence Agency, but when the world’s greatest spy is killed, she quickly finds herself caught in a web of mystery and murder, as her own secret past comes to light.

 

“The thing I’m most excited about with Velvet is, Continue reading VELVET #1 by Brubaker and Epting

Big Screen Dreams for Captain America Movies

 

Chris Evans as Captain America in Marvel's The Avengers courtesy Marvel Films
Chris Evans as Captain America in Marvel’s The Avengers courtesy Marvel Films

While Marvel and Disney negotiate the future of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man the future of Captain America is clear. Chris Evans revealed to Collider he has a 6-film deal with Marvel. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is underway and scheduled for April 2014. The First Avenger will definitely appear in Avengers 2 and 3 but what other Marvel films could include Steve Rogers and what classic tales could be the inspiration for these big screen dreams: Continue reading Big Screen Dreams for Captain America Movies

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER First Set Picture!

Captain America: The Winter Soldier courtesy Marvel Studios
Captain America: The Winter Soldier courtesy Marvel Studios

Cameras are rolling on Captain America: The Winter Soldier! Chris Evans reprises his role as Steve Rogers in Cap’s first solo movie mission in the modern age. Marvel shared this first photo from the set. The sequel is based on the storyline by Ed Brubaker. This is the story that made me a hardcore Cap fan all over again.

Here’s the official Marvel description:

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier will pick-up where Marvel’s The Avengers left off, as Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff , a.k.a. Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C.”

Cobie Smulders reprises her role as SHIELD agent Maria Hill.

Joining the Marvel cinematic universe are: Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon, Frank Grillo as Crossbones, Georges St. Piere as Batroc and Emily Van Camp as Agent 13 (in the comics this is Cap’s modern day girlfriend Sharon Carter.)

For the non-comic book reading fans: What is the Winter Soldier?

Spoiler: Continue reading CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER First Set Picture!