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With their comic Minor Threats, actor and comedian Patton Oswalt and TV writer Jordan Blum found unexpected success with their title focused on the travails of underappreciated and overlooked D-list villains. Now, a background character in the comic that is about background villains is getting his moment in the spotlight. From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly teams up the duo, who created Hulu’s stop-motion Marvel series M.O.D.O.K., with comics author Kyle Starks and artist Ryan Browne, the…

THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2023 12:30-1:30 PM Neurodiversity and Comics – The creative community contains a neurodiverse population, but it can be a challenge to understand how to approach working in comics while managing ND. Panelists Christie Porter (The Color of Always), Blake Howard (Punchline), Connor Goldsmith (Cerebro Podcast), Jana Tropper (Animal Rescue Friends), and Konner Knudsen (editor, Dark Horse Comics) offer a frank and helpful conversation. Moderated by Phillip Sevy (X-Men Unlimited), as they discuss navigating…

Posted in: Comics, Dark Horse Comics, san diego comic con | Tagged: James Tynuon IV, jeff lemire, jordan blum, mike mignola, patton oswalt, sdcc, stan sakaiDark Horse Comics booth #2615 at San Diego Comic-Con will be giving away free swag, such as comics, pins, posters, and more.Dark Horse Comics booth #2615 at San Diego Comic-Con will be giving away free swag, such as comics, pins, posters, and more, with a communal colouring wall featuring artwork from Critical Role, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, and …

Last year, M.O.D.O.K. showrunners Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum launched Minor Threats, a creator-owned series about a team of b-list supervillains published by Dark Horse. Today the publisher announced that Oswalt and Blum are returning to the world of Minor Threats with a followup 4-issue miniseries, The Alternates. The twist this time however is that the new series will explore ” b-list superheroes who struggle to reclaim their mediocre lives in a support group.” Joining Oswalt and Blum along for the ride as a…

Vault Comics is announcing their second annual Pride Charity Auction on Whatnot where 100% of money raised will be donated to Trans Lifeline.Vault Comics is announcing their second annual Pride Charity Auction in partnership with Gatecrashers, taking place on June 28th, on Vault's Whatnot streaming sales platform, where 100% of money raised will be donated to Trans Lifeline. Auction items will include original art, rare signed comics, exclusive editions, and pop culture finds from the likes of Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum,…

Like a marshmallow roasted by a God, the plot thickens for the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Actors Kumail Nanjiani and Patton Oswalt have joined the cast of what’s being referred to as Ghostbusters: Firehouse, along with Gossip Girl’s Emily Alyn Lind and comedian James Acaster. Deadline broke the news and though there’s no official word on who these new additions are playing, you can’t help but dream that they’ll be playing Ghostbusters. What little we know of the film—that it picks up after the events of…

One thing I love about you is that you look like a “normal” guy, instead of a model. Why do you think Hollywood is so obsessed with casting beautiful people? AzzaazzaI think it’s the sunlight out here. It’s very harsh and unforgiving. So you’ve gotta have an unforgiving level of beauty to exist. Whereas England has that wonderful gloom which lights up the crevices and the crags on people’s faces. So you end up valuing the acting way more than the look.Reviews say that I Love My Dad is “cringe comedy”. I find films like…

With a name like that, you’d expect Patton Oswalt to be ordering US army tank divisions across the Rhine, or at the very least directing zero-budget mumblecore features for the super-hip market – but no, Oswalt is in fact an amazingly hardworking comic who has been in scores of films and TV shows since the early 1990s, as well asmaking a bunch of HBO and Netflix comedy specials – very popular and very funny.You’d certainly recognise him if you saw him: from his first walk-on TV part as a video store clerk in an episode of…

Recently, a new trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania revealed Cory Stoll is returning to the franchise as the Mental/Mobile/Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing, or M.O.D.O.K. Several were surprised and while it remains to be seen how it will be received, a previous portrayer of the character has been completely silent about it on his social media channels. As of this story’s filing, actor and comedian Patton Oswalt has not weighed in on the new take with even one of his trademark jokes. The 53-year-old…

Image: Geraldo Borges and Mark Englert/Image ComicsRadiant Black has become a smash hit for Image Comics, now playing host to a whole rainbow of Radiant heroes and villains. But its next big thing isn’t bright lights and big superheroics—it’s a multimedia thriller about murder in a world of heroes, and io9 has your first details.The latest addition to the “Massive-verse” series is NO/ONE, a 10-part thriller penned by Radiant Black’s Kyle Higgins and former Detective Comics scribe Brian Buccellato, with art from…