Best Art Ever (This Week) - 04.26.13 By Andy Khouri We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it’s new, some of it’s old, some of it’s created by working professionals, some of it’s created by future stars, some of it’s created by talented fans, and some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it’s awesome. Check out this week’s Best Art Ever on ComicsAlliance! ABOVE: Daenerys Targaryen, by Craig Drake
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Best Art Ever (This Week) - 04.26.13

By Andy Khouri

We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it’s new, some of it’s old, some of it’s created by working professionals, some of it’s created by future stars, some of it’s created by talented fans, and some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it’s awesome.

Check out this week’s Best Art Ever on ComicsAlliance!

ABOVE: Daenerys Targaryen, by Craig Drake
Best Art Ever (This Week) - Superman 75th Anniversary Edition By Andy Khouri We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it’s new, some of it’s old, some of it’s created by working professionals, some of it’s created by future stars, some of it’s created by talented fans, and some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it’s awesome.This week, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman, a compilation of some of the coolest portraits of the Man of Steel that we’ve highlighted over the last few years. Check out this week’s Best Art Ever on ComicsAlliance! ABOVE: Superman, by Vincent Carrozza
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Best Art Ever (This Week) - Superman 75th Anniversary Edition

By Andy Khouri

We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it’s new, some of it’s old, some of it’s created by working professionals, some of it’s created by future stars, some of it’s created by talented fans, and some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it’s awesome.

This week, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman, a compilation of some of the coolest portraits of the Man of Steel that we’ve highlighted over the last few years.

Check out this week’s Best Art Ever on ComicsAlliance!

ABOVE: Superman, by Vincent Carrozza

Boston Comic Con Postponed Over Area Security Concerns By Andy Khouri As a consequence of the ongoing security concerns in the area as law enforcement officials pursue a suspect in this week’s tragic Boston Marathon bombings and violence in nearby Watertown and at MIT, the Hynes Convention Center has suspended all events. Among those is of course the Boston Comic Con, scheduled for this weekend but now postponed until further notice. READ MORE
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Boston Comic Con Postponed Over Area Security Concerns

By Andy Khouri

As a consequence of the ongoing security concerns in the area as law enforcement officials pursue a suspect in this week’s tragic Boston Marathon bombings and violence in nearby Watertown and at MIT, the Hynes Convention Center has suspended all events. Among those is of course the Boston Comic Con, scheduled for this weekend but now postponed until further notice.

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Parting Shot: The Dark Knight Vs. Patton Oswalt’s Penguin

By Andy Khouri

Viral video makers Front Page Films have been mining Christopher Nolan’s ultra-serious Dark Knight trilogy for comedy for a while now in an ongoing series of “Badman” shorts that have parodied everything from Batman Vs. the Scarecrow to Batman vs. Two-Face, Batman Vs. The Riddler, Batman Vs. an Innocent Clown, Batman Vs. Sex and Batman Vs. Suicide. Their latest effort casts comedian Patton Oswalt as a real-world, sort of Nolan-esque version of The Penguin, who confronts the Dark Knight with some compelling questions about his “no killing” rule. 

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New ‘Man of Steel’ Trailer Puts the (It’s Not An) ‘S’ In Superman

By Andy Khouri

The Kryptonian countdown clock running on I Will Find Him hit zero Tuesday night and revealed a new theatrical trailer for Man of Steel. Promoting the new Zack Snyder film based on the DC Comics superhero created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the clip answers the dour tone of the earlier presentations with some rousing, heroic business. Included are some tantalizing action shots and an exchange between Lois Lane and Superman that for many skeptical ComicsAlliance readers will earn the film more than the benefit of the doubt.
Best Art Ever (This Week) - 04.12.13 By Andy Khouri We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it’s new, some of it’s old, some of it’s created by working professionals, some of it’s created by future stars, some of it’s created by talented fans, and some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it’s awesome. Check out this week’s Best Art Ever on ComicsAlliance! ABOVE: Etrigan the Demon, by Tyler Parker
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Best Art Ever (This Week) - 04.12.13

By Andy Khouri

We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it’s new, some of it’s old, some of it’s created by working professionals, some of it’s created by future stars, some of it’s created by talented fans, and some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it’s awesome.

Check out this week’s Best Art Ever on ComicsAlliance!

ABOVE: Etrigan the Demon, by Tyler Parker

TWIST: Apple Didn’t Ban ‘Saga’ #12 from App Store, ComiXology Never Submitted It By Andy Khouri Earlier this week writer Brian K. Vaughan transmitted a press release stating that the latest issue of his andFiona Staples sci-fi comic Saga would not be available for in-app purchase via ComXology or anything else in Apple’s App Store for iOS devices, citing ”two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex.” Specifically, the artwork depicted graphic oral sex between men, including several ejaculations. While ComicsAlliance chalked the apparent banning up to the App Store’s consistently inconsistant policies concerning explicit sexual imagery of any kind — which were not applied to previous issues of Saga that depicted graphic heterosexual sex — other outlets and commentators argued the move constituted a distinctly homophobic sentiment on the part of Apple. As such, information proliferated on how to purchase the issue from ComiXology directly, thereby denying Apple its standard commission and awarding more of the purchase price to Vaughan, Staples, their publisher Image Comics, and presumably ComiXology itself.As it turns out, Vaughan’s statement was inaccurate. ComiXology CEO David Steinberger confirmed Wednesday that not only did Apple not ban Saga #12 from sales within its iOS marketplace, ComiXology never actually offered the issue in the first place. READ MORE
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TWIST: Apple Didn’t Ban ‘Saga’ #12 from App Store, ComiXology Never Submitted It

By Andy Khouri

Earlier this week writer Brian K. Vaughan transmitted a press release stating that the latest issue of his andFiona Staples sci-fi comic Saga would not be available for in-app purchase via ComXology or anything else in Apple’s App Store for iOS devices, citing ”two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex.” Specifically, the artwork depicted graphic oral sex between men, including several ejaculations. While ComicsAlliance chalked the apparent banning up to the App Store’s consistently inconsistant policies concerning explicit sexual imagery of any kind — which were not applied to previous issues of Saga that depicted graphic heterosexual sex — other outlets and commentators argued the move constituted a distinctly homophobic sentiment on the part of Apple. As such, information proliferated on how to purchase the issue from ComiXology directly, thereby denying Apple its standard commission and awarding more of the purchase price to Vaughan, Staples, their publisher Image Comics, and presumably ComiXology itself.

As it turns out, Vaughan’s statement was inaccurate. ComiXology CEO David Steinberger confirmed Wednesday that not only did Apple not ban Saga #12 from sales within its iOS marketplace, ComiXology never actually offered the issue in the first place.

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Apple App Store Bans ‘Saga’ #12 Over Graphic Sexual Imagery By Andy Khouri Brian K. Vaughan announced via press release on Tuesday that the latest issue of his and Fiona Staples’ popular comic book Saga will not be available to readers via ComiXology or other digital comics platforms for iOS devices such as iPad and iPhone; anything that’s purchased in-app through the Apple App Store. As is its contentious and often unpredictable tradition, Apple seems to have objected to graphic sexual content again. In the case of Saga #12, that content is two very small images depicting explicit oral sex between men. READ MORE
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Apple App Store Bans ‘Saga’ #12 Over Graphic Sexual Imagery

By Andy Khouri

Brian K. Vaughan announced via press release on Tuesday that the latest issue of his and Fiona Staples’ popular comic book Saga will not be available to readers via ComiXology or other digital comics platforms for iOS devices such as iPad and iPhone; anything that’s purchased in-app through the Apple App Store. As is its contentious and often unpredictable tradition, Apple seems to have objected to graphic sexual content again. In the case of Saga #12, that content is two very small images depicting explicit oral sex between men.

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You Should Read Seven Pages of ‘Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror’ #3 by Roger Langridge & J. Bone [Preview] By Andy Khouri On sale this week from IDW Publishing is The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror #3, continuing what is only the second-ever full-length Rocketeer story not written and drawn by the late, great Dave Stevens. Produced in full cooperation with Stevens’ estate, the new miniseries by ComicsAlliance favorites Roger Langridge (Thor: The Mighty Avenger, The Muppet Show) and J. Bone (The Spirit, Wolverine/Doop) takes the Rocketeer into both familiar and unfamiliar territory with a possibly supernatural mystery that draws influence from the Golden Age of Hollywood, where the plucky model/actress Betty runs up against a creepy Hollywood cult while her boyfriend, perennial hero/screw-up Cliff, loses track of his irreplaceable Rocketeer jetpack.Click on to sample seven pages from the new issue, which includes the color work of Jordie Bellaire and a cover by Walt Simonson. Check out the preview on ComicsAlliance!
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You Should Read Seven Pages of ‘Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror’ #3 by Roger Langridge & J. Bone [Preview]

By Andy Khouri

On sale this week from IDW Publishing is The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror #3, continuing what is only the second-ever full-length Rocketeer story not written and drawn by the late, great Dave Stevens. Produced in full cooperation with Stevens’ estate, the new miniseries by ComicsAlliance favorites Roger Langridge (Thor: The Mighty Avenger, The Muppet Show) and J. Bone (The Spirit, Wolverine/Doop) takes the Rocketeer into both familiar and unfamiliar territory with a possibly supernatural mystery that draws influence from the Golden Age of Hollywood, where the plucky model/actress Betty runs up against a creepy Hollywood cult while her boyfriend, perennial hero/screw-up Cliff, loses track of his irreplaceable Rocketeer jetpack.

Click on to sample seven pages from the new issue, which includes the color work of Jordie Bellaire and a cover by Walt Simonson.

Check out the preview on ComicsAlliance!

8-Bit ‘Avengers A.I.’ Cover by Matthew Waite By Andy Khouri Courtesy of the Marvel Comics Tumblr comes this thematically appropriate variant cover for Avengers A.I., the forthcoming series by Sam Humphries and Andrew Lima Araujo about an Avengers team that’s basically a bunch of robots. Created by Matthew Waite, the cover depicts the team — Hank Pym, the Vision, Victor Mancha, Alexis and Monica Chang — in combat with some Age of Ultron bots in an 8-bit graphics style that’s reminiscent of the great Nintendo games of the ancient world. Check out the full-rez pic below. READ MORE
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8-Bit ‘Avengers A.I.’ Cover by Matthew Waite

By Andy Khouri

Courtesy of the Marvel Comics Tumblr comes this thematically appropriate variant cover for Avengers A.I., the forthcoming series by Sam Humphries and Andrew Lima Araujo about an Avengers team that’s basically a bunch of robots. Created by Matthew Waite, the cover depicts the team — Hank Pym, the Vision, Victor Mancha, Alexis and Monica Chang — in combat with some Age of Ultron bots in an 8-bit graphics style that’s reminiscent of the great Nintendo games of the ancient world. Check out the full-rez pic below.