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Rose City Comic Con 2025 Spotlight
The secret game Mike Flanagan's Flanaverse actors play each time he writes a new script for them
When a new Mike Flanagan project is announced, loves of the horror director like to fancast his frequent collaborators in the project's roles. Turns out, so do his frequent collaborators.
Grant DeArmitt
Captain Marvel & FML writer Kelly Sue DeConnick says what we're all thinking about comic stores and Amazon
Speaking at Rose City Comic Con 2025, the FML and Captain Marvel writer Kelly Sue DeConnick defends your local comic store because "Amazon can't make friends for you."
Graeme McMillan
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse offered the greatest gift to writers - and helped shape Matt Fraction's Batman
One particular moment in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has helped Matt Fraction deal with a problem of Batman comic book writing
Graeme McMillan
Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston didn't like Doctor Who as a kid - apart from one key part of the lore
Doctor Who wasn't a big show for Christopher Eccleston growing up, aside from one particular recurring feature that he had to check out
Graeme McMillan
Rose City Comic Con 2025 Feed
The secret game Mike Flanagan's Flanaverse actors play each time he writes a new script for them
When a new Mike Flanagan project is announced, loves of the horror director like to fancast his frequent collaborators in the project's roles. Turns out, so do his frequent collaborators.
Grant DeArmitt
Captain Marvel & FML writer Kelly Sue DeConnick says what we're all thinking about comic stores and Amazon
Speaking at Rose City Comic Con 2025, the FML and Captain Marvel writer Kelly Sue DeConnick defends your local comic store because "Amazon can't make friends for you."
Graeme McMillan
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse offered the greatest gift to writers - and helped shape Matt Fraction's Batman
One particular moment in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has helped Matt Fraction deal with a problem of Batman comic book writing
Graeme McMillan
Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston didn't like Doctor Who as a kid - apart from one key part of the lore
Doctor Who wasn't a big show for Christopher Eccleston growing up, aside from one particular recurring feature that he had to check out
Graeme McMillan
Batman is everything, and there are three movies and one TV show that prove it, argues new DC Batman comic writer Matt Fraction
Walt Whitman had no idea just how many multitudes Batman contains, as 2016 and 2017 ably demonstrate according to Matt Fraction
Graeme McMillan
What happened to Critical Role's fan-favorite Cerrit Agrupnin after Exandria Unlimited: Calamity? Liam O'Brien has some ideas
Travis Willingham's character Cerrit was one of the breakout heroes from Critical Role's prequel liveplay series - now, castmate O'Brien has revealed his head canon for what happened next
Grant DeArmitt
Corey Feldman says he was cast in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure as the main villain - but lost the part due a stigma with Goonies
Corey Feldman almost went from The Goonies' Mouth to Pee-Wee Herman's bike thief nemesis, thanks to a chance meeting in a studio cafeteria
Graeme McMillan
Mike Flanagan & the Hollywood Promise: Veteran actor Carl Lumbly explains on the quiet respect the writer/director gives his actors
Carl Lumbly, who's been working with Mike Flanagan since 2017's Doctor Sleep, says that the writer/director respects both his collaborators and fans alike
Graeme McMillan
New Batman writer aims to show why anyone would want to live in the worst city in the DCU
As the writer of DC's Batman series, Matt Fraction wants to show us that people live in Gotham for reasons beyond cheap rent
Jules Chin Greene
How Battlestar Galactica's cancer diagnosis for President Roslin wasn't the end but the beginning for actor Mary McDonnell
Mary McDonnell can remember the very moment she knew that she would star in Battlestar Galactica as embattled President Laura Roslin
Graeme McMillan
The death of Diamond is the death of the comics industry: the "phenomenal" fallacy Kelly Sue DeConnick is glad was proven wrong
It's been a rough year for the comics industry as Diamond Comic Distributors implodes, but it's harder to kill comics than anyone believed - even the people in the industry
Graeme McMillan
Critical Role star Sam Riegel didn't know FCG's fate before the moment happened - but he did know it was "a good way to go"
Sam Riegel was planning on taking a break from Critical Role for health reasons, but he didn't know what was going to happen to FCG - until just before the big moment happened
Graeme McMillan
"I got super emotional right in her face": Ultimate Spider-Man co-creator Brian Michael Bendis just surprise reconnected with one of the first people who supported him as a writer
"You mean the world to me because no one ever did that before," Brian Michael Bendis told the first person who ever bought his work - and all because she recognized him from the comic store
Graeme McMillan
Wednesday and Doctor Who star Billie Piper relishes keeping all the spoilers secret, especially from her own kids
Billie Piper knows better than to tell her kids what's going on in Wednesday or Doctor Who, because they'd just tell the internet
Graeme McMillan
Yes, Critical Role star Sam Riegel is definitely planning some special t-shirt trolling for new GM Brennan Lee Mulligan
Sam Riegel already has some t-shirts made to troll new Critical Role GM Brennan Lee Mulligan, but he's open for Critters to help make more
Graeme McMillan
DC Comics and AEW deepen their partnership for five-part Forbidden Door style variant cover faceoffs with wrestlers and superheroes in DC K.O.
Dan Mora will provide special covers for all five issues of DC K.O. featuring appearances by stars of AEW wrestling, DC has announced
Graeme McMillan
The subtle but seismic shift DC is making to its Batman family of comics, dubbed 'A New Day in Gotham'
Batman #1 launches an unofficial jumping-on point for DC's entire Batman line of DC titles running through September
Graeme McMillan
Do Goonies and Gremlins take place in the same universe? It's complicated, say Corey Feldman and Sean Astin
The Goonies and Gremlins share a producer, a writer, and a star - but do they take place in the same world? Corey Feldman isn't sure
Graeme McMillan
Why Warner Bros. threatened to shut down Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep movie based on the Stephen King story
Jacob Tremblay was far too convincing as a victim of the True Knot in Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep movie for some Warner Bros. executives
Graeme McMillan
Battlestar Galactica's Cylons are being created now by Elon Musk says Adama himself Edward James Olmos, calling it an "ugly reality"
Elon Musk is creating the Cylons of the future, according to Battlestar Galactica star Edward James Olmos (and that's a bad thing, to make it clear)
Graeme McMillan
DC is going to retell Batman's history - beginning with his first villain, Dr. Death - in special by Matt Fraction & Becky Cloonan
Matt Fraction and Becky Cloonan are collaborating on a special Batman project pitting the Dark Knight against Dr. Death one more time - and retelling the character's entire history in the process.
Graeme McMillan
DC is revamping Hawkman for the Absolute line this October - and other "heroes - or maybe anti-heroes" with him
Absolute Green Arrow is being joined by a fellow member of the Justice League as Hawkman flies into the Absolute universe this October
Graeme McMillan
