Seems like a comic news kind of day.  Then again I added several comic blogs to my rss reader today.  So looks like I’ll be mentioning quite a bit more about one of my favorite mediums since childhood.  So all of you out there, go and read some damn comic books.

I’m writing about something something I just just read over at the New York Times that really perked my interest.  Invincible by Robert Kirkman is getting the small screen treatment.  It’s definitely a fun comic and happens to be written by one of my favorite writers for the past year and half or so.  It’s really the technology that has me stoked.

But it’s not quite animation in the traditional sense. “I like to think of it as cinematic comics — digital cinematic comics,” said David Gale, executive vice president of MTV New Media, which is producing the episodes in partnership with Gain Enterprises.

I’ll be honest here I didn’t see the animation that was recently done of Astonishing X-Men #1, but it definitely sounds cool.  I may have to pop over to Marvel.com and check it out so I know what’s what with this style of animation.  The fact that they’re going to have up to issue #36 by september makes it awesome.  Perhaps when they catch up to #50 they will release new "episodes" as the issues are released monthly.  How cool would that be?

One of my favorite comic publishers Boom! Studios has started to release more of their catalog for free according to Newsarama.  They already released Northwind like this on Myspace (which I don’t have anymore, they should add facebook) and I assume that it helped them push some sales else they wouldn’t be releasing more.

For those that don’t know, the image I use in my header is from a Fall of Cthulhu comic from them.  I forget which number off the top of my head, but it seemed fitting with the theme I found for wordpress.  Too bad they’re not releasing that one for free, but they are releasing Cthulhu Tales.  I always figured anything with Cthulhu should be given out for free since it’s based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

In other comic news the full trailer for The Spirit has been leaked.  I know I’ll probably see this but it does look over the top.  Then again a lot of trailers seem to look that way and the film can be very good.  Then again will this end up like the latter two Matrix films?  Or is it going to be as awesome as Sin City?  Only time will tell.