Jim Ottaviani, esteemed publisher of science comics as GT-Labs (and now writer for other publishers such as TOR), is finally wading into the webloggy waters with his new blog that appears to have no proper name. Go see how like other new bloggers he’s horribly self-conscious about starting one, even though it’s practically expected of [...]

At NEWSARAMA today, Zack Smith and I talk about MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE so you can start to figure out what this odd book is about. Looking through the article, you might find a link to another site that will be shedding some light on the series, acting as a companion to it. But mainly, look [...]

Just in time to get all Halloweeny, the Monster Size Hulk issue comes out this week. Go see that appropriately dark Gabriel Hardman art over at Marvel Noise.com.

You may have seen the news that Virgin Comics has folded up like a Transformer and driven away. The only interruption for me is that it kills a short Gamekeeper prequel I had written and Ron Randall and Ron Chan were working on, other than that I was done with all my Virgin work. I’d [...]

I meant to blog a little more about those last two days, but didn’t get back around wifi the rest of the time. Yes, I know there was wifi in the Convention Center, but I couldn’t risk taking in my laptop, loaded as it is with secret plans for the Marvel Universe in 2009, you [...]

Well dadburn! I thought my quick hotel ramble was lost to the ether, but Steven Gettis performed an autopsy on WordPress and fished it out. So here’s what I rambled… You know, there are no flights back to Portland from Charlotte until late in the day, so I’ve been cooling my heels in the Westin [...]

Racing across to the East Coast and back over the weekend left me a little loopy, but I’m ready to start blogging again. Free Comic Book Day at SuperVillains Inc. in Nottingham, Maryland was packed and busy all day, just like FCBD should be- thanks to my good hosts Michael and Charley. I tooled around [...]

Spring finally remembered where Portland was this weekend, just in time for the Stumptown Comics Fest. That’s right, it wasn’t a CON, it was a FEST. And it was full of great work. What I liked best is that artists don’t try to mug you to look at their work like when you walk through [...]

Hey people who can get to the Northwest, this weekend is the Stumptown Comics Fest! Tomorrow and Sunday at the Lloyd Center Doubletree Hotel in Portland, Oregon from 10am to 6pm; $6 each day. I will be cruising the floor incognito. Spot and identify me and you’ll get a no-prize. I might sometimes sit for [...]

Batroc Ze Leapair! And that’s just ONE of many reasons that will make XFC #11 the most important Marvel Comic you could possibly pick up next week. I’ll be giving you more every day until then.

EISNER NOMINEE Best Graphic Album—Reprint Agents of Atlas Hardcover, by Jeff Parker, Leonard Kirk, and Kris Justice (Marvel)

In 1991 I drove across country to stay with my friend Matt’s family in San Diego, and attended a whole day of the San Diego Comicon. With only a few hours I achieved my main goals- to find two of my art heroes, Dave Stevens and Steve Rude and see if I could visit them [...]

I’ve wanted to talk about this for a while- my final project with Mike Wieringo was a What If? story picking up from the classic Walt Simonson/Art Adams Fantastic Four storyline that created the alternate FF with Spider-Man, Hulk, Wolverine and Ghost Rider. Marvel has donated the work done to the Hero Initiative and we [...]

I’ve shot the morning running coaxial cable around my house, but Marvel Noise has mercifully thrown me a preview to share, of next week’s X-Men First Class. It’s the Cyclops solo story, drawn by special guest artist Craig Rousseau! Strangely enough, when the rest of the team jumps out of the action, things get all [...]

That was supposed to sound like “Hogan’s Heroes.” Anyway. Over at Newsarama, Paul Tobin is talking to Zack Smith about his work leading off the newest Adventures title, MARVEL ADVENTURES: SUPER HEROES. Let’s all line up in an orderly fashion and go listen. And then I’ll go back to working on my basement.