With the Awards Season well under way here’s one that you comic fans may have missed. Introduced in 1976, the Eagle Comic Awards are the comic industry’s longest established awards, acknowledged as the pre-eminent international accolades. The Eagles have been featured on the covers of leading US and UK titles across the last 30 years, unique in...

With The Avengers movie just a few months away (27 April 2012 UK) we are seeing what I imagine will be the start of a flurry of activity to make sure nobody on the planet isn’t aware of this movie. This week saw the Super Bowl Teaser and here we have a couple of new banners showing the Avengers ready for some action. Synopsis (like you don’t...

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons made comic book magic with Watchmen. There have long been rumours and talk that DC would be returning to the characters in some kind of prequel format. According to THR this summer, the company will publish seven prequel comic book mini-series called Before Watchmen, each week unleashing a new title focusing on the characters’...

The CW show Arrow has found it’s Oli Queen. The archer will be played by Stephen Amell. He has played Jason in the HBO’s Hung and has also appeared in The Vampire Diaries, 90210 and Private Practive. This is the character breakdown that was posted a few weeks back. Oliver Queen: A 27-year-old reformed bad boy, who after having spent five years...

This 10 second preview of a 30 second TV spot for The Avengers that will feature during Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday, February 5. There is a tease of new footage, but hard to make out what it is. Mind you we do get to see some of Loki’s army who appear to be on flying motorbike things. It just goes by too fast to see it. Source: Bleeding...

This new photo of Karl Urban as Judge Dredd in Dredd is from Total Film. It gives us a good view of the badge and helmet. Hopefully we will be seeing some footage from the film soon. Pete Travis directs the film that is out on 21st September. Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey star in the film which was written by Alex Garland. Does Urban look like...

He has said in the past that he would probably not be directing a sequel to X-Men: First Class but it looks as if Matthew Vaughn has changed his mind. Fox has just closed a deal with Matthew Vaughn to come back and direct the sequel to X-Men: First Class, with Simon Kinberg writing the script and Bryan Singer back as producer according to Deadline. No word...

Is good, yes? Alan Davis, one of my favourite comic artists, draws some of my favourite comic book characters. If only it could be a full comic. Source: Bleeding...

Will we ever get to see Black Cat in a Spider-Man movie? Who knows. Until then we can see Gabriella cosplaying as Black Cat. Source:...

I love the super fine detail in this amazing piece of art by Frank Quitely. It was for Star Wars Art: Comics. CBR had an interview with him about the piece. How did you come to be approached to contribute to “Star Wars Art: Comics” art? I had just come back from a convention in America, and I had this big list of e-mails in my inbox, and there...