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Film Preveiw: The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn

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Batman& Robin Vintage Tee – Amazon

Original page July 28, 2021

"Once a colossus that stalked across theatre screens and earned billions upon billions of dollars in box office, the American superhero movie has now reached a point where years of failed big-budget offerings and being pecked at by maligning critics who call them "junk," or even "not movies at all" (so has said Martin Scorsese*) the genre is now running into a hard wall of growing indifference."

Are Superhero Movies Dying? – Graphic Chatter

Jack Kirby exhibition at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles – Orange County Register

The rooms of the exhibition are full of vibrant color and include all manner of treasures, including a variety of original artwork; a wall of comics featuring the first appearances of Kirby-created characters; a room depicting the evolution of his explosive style and much more..."

The Skirball Cultural Center web site page on the Kirby exhibit – May 1, 2025 thru March 1, 2026

The intense legal world of comic book pioneer Victor Fox, his many companies, the Blue Beetle origin, and an insight into the early comic book publishing system – The Comics Journal

Batman 1989, Captain America New World Order and how Hollywood knifed itself in the back

Long-time veteran comics writer Bill Barr facing significant medical issues – Comicbookmovie

...Barr is most famous for his DC work including Batman and the Outsiders, Green Arrow, Camelot 3000, Doc Savage and more. He also wrote for Marvel including Marvel Team-Up, Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, Star Wars, Star Trek and more..."

Top Earning Superhero Films of all time - list of 137 titles

Wendy and Richard Pini donate $500K to Columbia University for an endowment to "acquire, preserve, and make available comics and cartoons for study and teaching" – CBR MSN - March 2, 2025

Eisner Award 2025 Nominees – Comic Con – Follow the link to the page to see the Judges list and more info. Here's the nominee list:

Alfredo Alcala (1925–2000)
Kyle Baker (1965– )
Bob Bolling (1928– )
Eddie Campbell (1955– )
Roz Chast (1954– )
Dan Clowes (1961– )
Mark Evanier (1952– )
Mike Friedrich (1949– )
Don Heck (1929–1995)
Junji Ito (1963– )
Ben Katchor (1951– )
Todd Klein (1951– )
Peter Kuper (1958– )
Lee Marrs (1945– )
John Romita Jr. (1956– )
Posy Simmonds (1945– )
Leonard Starr (1925–2015)
Rick Veitch (1951– )

Remembering the No Pants edict of the New 52

Diamond files for bankruptcy protection

2024 was a bad year for Superhero Movies – MSN Collider

"Nearly Every Superhero Film in 2024 Failed Critically and Financially"

Some have said that directors on these films aren't allowed to really direct the films, they are instead "cast" as a director then given a lot of instruction from the higher-up executives (or from a "ghost director" who is the real director, but hidden). And then the edit cut is mauled by committee. This would explain some of the problems in films like Madame Webb, for example, but it doesn't explain the horrible bloat of something like Ant Man 3.

Articles

The Top Batman Runs

Batman's No Kill Rule

Review Brave and the Bold #131, DC Comics December 1976

Sea Monkeys, X-Ray Glasses, Cheap Nuclear Submarines: The Rip-off Toys from the Back Pages of Comic Books

Review: Supergirl in Adventure Comics #423, Sept 1972

Review: Knight Terrors First Blood #1, DC Comics July 2023

Review: Mission Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning

The Secret Life of Catwoman, Batman #62, Dec 1950–Jan 1951

Superhero movies on the ropes

Superhero Comics and the Freedom of Art

Roy Lichtenstein and the comic books he cribbed from

The classic three-act storytelling technique

Review: Weird Mystery #4, Jan-Feb 1973

The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team - review of World's Finest #94, May-June 1958, art by Dick Sprang

Alan Moore's Revenge – Deconstruction wrecks the DC Universe

Guide to collecting comic book art - Dec 1, 2021, MSN News

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