Archive Page 2239
May 2025
Wal-Mart superhero stuff - April 28, 2025
The "mysterious" status of the Diamond Distributors auction sale – The Comics Journal
A comic strip history starting with The Yellow Kid – South Florida Reporter - A nice outline of the highlights in a time line list
Thunderbolts* kicks off with strong $162 million worldwide haul over weekend – Hollywood Reporter
May 4th, 2025
Celebrities who want to make comic books – Uproxx
Frankel is a comics guy, through and through, who discovered that there’s an overlooked niche in the medium: comics by folks who may well be just as big fans of the hobby who have for years been hamstrung by low expectations from gatekeepers within the industry. ... The end result has been stories and books that feel more like cash grabs than actual comics from musicians who love comics. Josh’s plan is simple: Becoming a one-stop shop for those artists looking to put their ideas to a different kind of page, pairing them with writers and artists who can bring those ideas to life, and making the process pleasant for everybody involved...."
The 2025 Minicomic Awards – Comicsbeat
The Nib & Ink Fest is a month-long online comics fest hosted by the Cartoonist Cooperative. The judges for the 2025 Minicomic Awards were Barbara Benas, Ashanti Fortson, Gigi Murakami, Cam Marshall, Evan Dahm, Arpad Okay, and Madeline McGrane..."
At the Free Comic Book Day in London – Bleedingcool
Thunderbolts* has strong start – MSN Variety
Marvel's "Thunderbolts*" will easily top the weekend box office after cracking a $31.5 million gross across Friday and preview screenings from 4,330 theaters...The hope for Marvel is that "Thunderbolts*" may open smaller, but will hold much stronger."
"Promising" start to Thunderbolts* run – Hollywood Reporter MSN
The star-studded movie, led by Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan, kicks off the summer box office in what's become a tradition for Kevin Feige‘s studio. The pic is winning over critics and audiences alike; as of Friday morning, Thunderbolts* boasted a 95 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the top four scores for a title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe..."
Movie Reviews Thunderbolts*
"Maybe... Thunderbolts* rescues Marvel from slump" – MSN Business Insider
'"Florence Pugh can't rescue this flop" – Mashable MSN
"Best Marvel in years" – Indie Wire
"‘Thunderbolts’ is Marvel, and Florence Pugh, in high gear"... "a return to form for Marvel" – AP News
One reason the Avengers movies and their spin-offs were successful — before they became hopelessly mired in their own mythos — was their willingness to not take themselves all that seriously. “Thunderbolts*” demonstrates both the strengths and weaknesses of that strategy as a movie that includes some genuine wit but also a tiresome amount of what has become the series’s signature in-jokey sarcasm...." – "Another Marvel widget" – Washington Post
Sounds awful, but no. The original formulaic Marvel screenplay was rewritten by Lee Sung Jin, creator of TV’s Beef, and then again by Joanna Calo, the co-showrunner of The Bear. Between them they’ve found the sweet spot that allows a powerhouse performer such as Pugh to hold a drama together with tear-jerking scenes of ache and regret while nonetheless adhering to the nominal structural demands of a superhero movie..." – "Thunderbolts* review — we needed this Marvel film with Florence Pugh" – UK The Times
Black Hammer One-Shot for Free Comic Book Day
Story at Forbes
Whether you’re a newcomer to the Black Hammer series or a longtime fan of the Eisner Award-winning title, you won’t want to miss acclaimed writer Jeff Lemire’s one-shot yarn featured in Dark Horse’s Free Comic Book Day issue (out this Saturday, May 3)..."
Butch Guice has died – Bleedingcool
Saturday is Free Comic Book Day 2025 – freecomicbookday
X-Men - Deadpool movie in the works from Ryan Reynolds – Comicsbeat
Almost $12 million box office for Thunderbolts* start on Thursday night – Deadline Hollywood
As noted in the article, that's a pretty good start. If Friday holds up then the whole weekend might be a (much needed) "win" for Disney.
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Original page May 3, 2025