Shooting has now begun on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the studio has released the first photo from the set, seen above. With production underway, Marvel Entertainment has announced the final cast for the film, including Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson reprising their roles, and confirming a previously reported role for legendary actor Robert Redford.
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.
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.
DC’s ‘Trinity War’ To Pit Three Justice Leagues Against One Another This Summer
Three flavors of Justice League — plain, Dark, and of America — will battle it out in Trinity War, a six-issue crossover event spanning all three Justice League titles in July and August, USA Today reports.
DC is promoting the event, written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Lemire and with art by Ivan Reis, Doug Mahnke and Mikel Janin, as the first meetings of lots of the heroes involved. The story revolves around the so-called “Trinity of Sin”: Phantom Stranger, the Question, and the mysterious Pandora, the hooded woman who was present in the universe-changing Flashpoint and every New 52 #1 issue when the reboot started up in September 2011.
DC is promoting the event, written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Lemire and with art by Ivan Reis, Doug Mahnke and Mikel Janin, as the first meetings of lots of the heroes involved. The story revolves around the so-called “Trinity of Sin”: Phantom Stranger, the Question, and the mysterious Pandora, the hooded woman who was present in the universe-changing Flashpoint and every New 52 #1 issue when the reboot started up in September 2011.
![Dark Horse To Collect Sam Humphries & Dalton Rose’s ‘Sacrifice’ In Deluxe Hardcover [Exclusive Preview]
By Andy Khouri
Dark Horse Comics has announced that it will collect Sacrifice, the critically acclaimed six-issue miniseries by Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose, in a deluxe hardcover this September. Following the story of Hector, an epileptic young man with a fondness for post-punk music hurled back in time to play a crucial role in a psychedelic adventure inspired by the Aztec empire, the first five issues of Sacrifice were self-published by Humphries prior to his rise as one of Marvel Comics’ most prolific new writers on such books as Ultimate Comics Ultimates, John Carter: Gods of Mars and Uncanny X-Force. Much of the book’s success with readers is also due to the eye-catching, wild artwork of Dalton Rose (not to mention art direction by occasional ComicsAlliance contributor/designer Dylan Todd, and a distinct color palette by Pete Toms), who’s since gone on to create the extremely beautiful Phabula for Monkeybrain Comics. Sacrifice was also supported by limited edition variant covers by talents like Bryan Lee O’Malley, Cliff Chiang, Emma Ríos, Paul Azaceta, and Lacey Micallef.
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By Andy Khouri
Dark Horse Comics has announced that it will collect Sacrifice, the critically acclaimed six-issue miniseries by Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose, in a deluxe hardcover this September. Following the story of Hector, an epileptic young man with a fondness for post-punk music hurled back in time to play a crucial role in a psychedelic adventure inspired by the Aztec empire, the first five issues of Sacrifice were self-published by Humphries prior to his rise as one of Marvel Comics’ most prolific new writers on such books as Ultimate Comics Ultimates, John Carter: Gods of Mars and Uncanny X-Force. Much of the book’s success with readers is also due to the eye-catching, wild artwork of Dalton Rose (not to mention art direction by occasional ComicsAlliance contributor/designer Dylan Todd, and a distinct color palette by Pete Toms), who’s since gone on to create the extremely beautiful Phabula for Monkeybrain Comics. Sacrifice was also supported by limited edition variant covers by talents like Bryan Lee O’Malley, Cliff Chiang, Emma Ríos, Paul Azaceta, and Lacey Micallef.
TopatoCo Rolling Out ‘Make That Thing’ Crowdfunding Fullfillment Service
A partner to creators looking for help producing, distributing and monetizing comics and related merchandise for almost a decade, TopatoCo has rolled out a similar new service focused on crowdfunding projects dubbedMake That Thing. The spin-off service’s mission is to “help artists and creators design, print, store, and ship this things they make” so said creators can focus on executing their successfully funded projects.
Nicolas Cage ‘Done’ With Ghost Rider Movies, Marvel Left to Pick Up the Pieces
By Andy Khouri
In what is truly disastrous news for cinephiles around the world, actor Nicolas Cage has made it plain that hewill not reprise the role of Johnny Blaze in any future films based on the Marvel Comics antihero Ghost Rider, the character who all right thinking people agree Cage was truly born to play. “Personally, I’m done,” the actor told MTV. “I’ve done what I had to do with that part. You never say never, but right now, today, I would say that I’m done.”
Snyder And Capullo To Tell The New 52 Origin Of The Dark Knight In ‘Batman: Zero Year’
This was seemingly inevitable. When DC Comics relaunched its entire universe under the New 52 initiative, specifically stating that their major heroes had only been active for about five years, updated origins for their core characters were almost certainly coming. As such, the biggest question for long-time readers wasn’t “if,” but rather “who” and “when.” As of this morning those questions have been answered for at least one iconic DC hero, and fans of the current creative team on Batman received good news, as the publisher announced that Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo will be updating the Dark Knight’s origin with an 11 issue story titledBatman: Zero Year, which chronicles the details of the earliest adventure of Batman within the New 52 universe.
Fantagraphics Co-Publisher Kim Thompson Diagnosed With Cancer
Late yesterday afternoon Fantagraphics released a statement on behalf of co-publisher Kim Thompson, revealing that the longtime editor has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, and will be taking a leave of absence from his post. You can read the full statement below.
Warner Bros. Wins Decisive Victory in Superman Copyright Case
From The Hollywood Reporter comes news that a court of appeals has made a decision that will likely empower DC Comics and its parent company Warner Bros. to retain control of the Superman franchise without legal challenge from the heirs of original creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that a 2008 decision by a federal judge to grant the heirs of Jerry Siegel to reclaim half the copyright of Superman was wrongful, determining that a binding deal between the Siegel heirs and DC had been struck in 2001.
Today’s appeals court’s decision follows a federal judge’s ruling in October that denied the heirs of Joe Shuster to recapture his half of the same.
We’re communicating with our legal consultant on this matter and we will update this story as more information becomes available. But at the moment it would seem that after years of litigation, these two decisions leave the estates of the Superman creators with few options but to live with the terms of previous agreements, and DC Comics with unfettered authority over the entire Superman enterprise going forward.
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