As a lifetime Green Lantern fan, this is about the best time I’ve ever enjoyed. Geoff Johns is doing the most amazing work on the adventures of a resurrected Hal Jordan ever, there’s a major motion picture in the works and now an animated film is coming to our homes on DVD.
Green Lantern:First Flight is on its way from Warner Home Video and they’ve launched a site for you to get updates.
The success of Iron Man in 2008 proved you don’t have to be an A-list superhero to get top notch movie treatment. GL has never reached the popularity …read more

With the Batman film franchise completely reinvigorated and Superman, well, we won’t talk about Superman, Green Lantern could be the next DC Comics hero to hit the big screen. 
 Variety reports the project is moving forward with director Martin Campbell  (pictured here) at the helm.  Campbell directed Casino Royale and two Zorro films. Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green penned the script for the GL adaptation. Green Lantern is one of DC’s “legacy” heroes. While with brief exceptions, Superman has always been Clark Kent and Batman has always been Bruce Wayne, many men have held the title and powers …read more

This just in: it seems someone at Warner Bros. has realized well done comic book movies can make money. Writer/director David Goyer, who penned the script for The Dark Knight, told Inland Empire Strikes Back Warner has placed all DC Comics movie projects on hold.
Goyer said the company is taking time to figure out a better plan for the development of these movies. They are, after all, cash cows with huge potential. The year 2008 will be remembered as a landmark year for comic book projects. Marvel Comics became the first comic company to have its own studio and …read more

There are some crises even a superhero can’t get past and union strikes are high at the top of that list. At a presser promoting the upcoming Dark Knight movie you may have heard about, producer Charles Roven said Warner Bros. has not given up on The Flash.
But Roven admits the writers’ strike and the looming actors’ strike haven’t helped the process out. While The Flash can move at light speed, travel through time on a treadmill and perform other such feats, lengthy contract negotiation is not among his skills.
Until then, I guess we’ll have to be satisfied with …read more

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Wildstorm/DC Comics property Red is becoming a movie courtesy of Summit Entertainment. Red is the brainchild of acclaimed scribe Warren Ellis and is the first DC movie not done by Time Warner since they became DC’s parent company.
DC isn’t completely hands off, however. DC vice president of creative affairs Gregory Noveck will be an executive producer on the film. Red tells the story of a retired black ops CIA agent who has to reassemble his old team after someone tries to take them out. The older agent has to deal with younger assassins and …read more

That was one long run – but in the end, it cheated death. In a move certain to be controversial, DC Comics has revived The Flash, Barry Allen. Allen died during the acclaimed Crisis On Infinite Earths storyline, sacrificing himself to save the multiverse.
The act saw Allen come to be referred to as “DC’s first official saint.” In a genre of writing where death is about as permanent as the common cold, Allen’s 23-year demise seemed destined to stick. DC had teased his return in storylines throughout that period but they were usually either temporary or a trick.
In one …read more

Buy This Book!
No, I’m not kidding. Run, do not walk to your LCS and get your hands on the Sinestro Corps War Vol. 1. While comic lovers were supposed to be enthralled by Countdown, (snicker snicker) it was this tale of full-on decimation in the Green Lantern universe that stole the show.
That’s not unlike the year before when Marvel’s big deal was Civil War, but Annhilation’s high cosmic stakes were the better story. Don’t be surprised if writers start fighting each other to helm the company’s second-tier summer crossover. There’s something to being largely out of the way (like …read more

Smallville fans have a chance to determine the outcome of their own digital comic in a contest brought to you by Warner Bros. Television, the CW Network and Stride Gum.
The show’s writers have developed the comic’s beginning and end while contest participants decide what happens in the middle. Both the comic and this week’s episode of Smallville revolve around the return of Pete Ross, who has gained elastic powers after eating some kryptonite-infused Stride Gum.(We couldn’t make this stuff up, folks.) Fans can go to The CW site and read the opening pages of this comic, after which they’ll …read more

I want to start by thanking those of you who checked out the first part of our countdown. Some people even pulled me aside in the local comic and card shops and lobbied for their favorites. I suspect I’ll be hearing from some of them again. And no, for the numerous folks that suggested it, Barack Obama is not a superhero – yet. So without further ado here come Nos. 5-1 on SFUniverse’s countdown of the Top 10 Black Superheroes.
5. Blade- Created in 1973 by Marv Wolfman and Gene Nolan, Blade began as a supporting character in the Tomb …read more

Famed Babylon 5 and comic book scribe J. Michael Straczynski fielded an hour’s worth of questions at Wondercon ‘08, including the legacy of his acclaimed sci-fi show.
The award-winning writer said B5 (the TV show, not the awesome blog network) paved the way for current shows like Battlestar Galactica, Lost and The 4400. He believes his work allows today’s TV writers to craft long, complex story arcs with lasting consequences.
Wondercon attendees also got the announcement that JMS, no longer exclusive to Marvel Comics, will do some work for DC. He can’t yet announce what specific titles he’ll helm. His list …read more