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As anyone who's seen enough crappy '70s horror movies can tell you, it's apparently very hard to kill a Virgin. How else to explain that fact that, less than a month after Virgin Comics closed their doors, the company is reopening after a buy-out from its own management? And, given that the only difference in the people in charge seems to be Richard Branson's lack of involement, what does that mean for the newly-renamed Liquid Comics? More »
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Remember Superbia, the Virgin comic we mentioned back in April about superheroes living in the suburbs? The one that was sort of a mash-up of Justice League and Desperate Housewives, which the Sci Fi Channel was developing into a TV show? Turns out a Chicago independent comics creator has been doing his own comic, with the same title and concept, since 2003. What happened when Superbia creator Matt Kubinski brought his creation to the attention of a media giant with Deepak Chopra on its side? The answer may surprise you. More »
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It's official - Publishers Weekly confirmed the rumors yesterday that Virgin Comics is, indeed, dead. Amongst the casualties of the cancelled comic line are Garth Ennis' Dan Dare, Grant Morrison's MBX web animation and, according to rumormeister Rich Johnston, Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits II. More than a decade after it was first suggested, is that last project cursed? We look at the evidence under the jump. More »
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Ever since Virgin Comics launched in 2006, the company has waged a not-so-stealthy campaign to create an Indian comic book tradition. Unlike Japan and the U.S., which have established manga and comic book audiences, the Asian subcontinent's comic book readers are embracing a relatively young medium. With a cash infusion from Virgin's Richard Branson, and talent drawn from India's Gotham Entertainment Group, the company has come out with some cool titles like Ramayan 3392 (pictured), a post-apocalyptic, scifi retelling of the traditional Indian story of Rama. Now Current TV has a great segment on Virgin, as well as the growing Indian comic book and animation industry, which you can check out below. More »
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Dear Sir Richard Branson and Gotham Chopra: I think we need to talk about your superhero habit. I was reading that your company, Virgin Comics, has just employed aging icon Stan Lee to create a new line of superhero books, just days after the publisher announced that it would be releasing Superbia, a series about superheroes in suburbia, and... well, two thoughts come to mind. First off, between this and the other Stan Lee announcement last week, is everyone just giving Stan this much work right now because they're worried that, otherwise, he might die before they can cash in on his name? Secondly, I think it's time we staged an intervention for the two of you. More »
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One can only surmise that Hugh Jackman is tired of starring in other people's science fiction movies and hearing comments like "Wait, did The Fountain make any sense at all?" So he's following in the footsteps of Jenna Jameson and Deepak Chopra. That's right — he's teaming up with Virgin Comics to create his own, easily-adaptable-into-a-movie-franchise, scifi odyssey, Nowhere Man. More »
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Time travel becomes a reality this week for comic book fans everywhere, with last week's holiday bumping the traditional New Release Wednesday to Thursday. The post-holiday blues also affect the books themselves, as the usual focus on the single issues begins to shift towards pricier collections. But of all the hundreds of things arriving this week, which ones should you be spending money on? Glad you asked. More »
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Richard Branson and Deepak Chopra's Virgin Comics are reviving Dan Dare, and the first issue hits shelves Thursday. Dare, Britain's longest-running science-fiction character (created in 1950, he's thirteen years older than Doctor Who) is returning to print courtesy of Garth Ennis, creator of Vertigo Comics' Preacher series, ahead of a rumored movie adaptation. Image courtesy of Virgin Comics [Newsarama] More »
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