Comic Book news websites

mphil

What do you peeps use to get your comic book news? I want to stress comic book. Most of the sites have turned into mostly being about movies and TV shows -- and annoyingly not even about comic movies and tv shows, comicbook.com right now has its feature story as being about a Toy Story 4 casting. WTF does Toy Story 4 have to do with comic books at all!!?!?!

Arg, sorry. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

bralinator

First Comics News isn’t bad

Evening639

I would second @bralinator 's recommendation of First Comics News based on content. My only criticism of that site is it's occasional lack of proofreading. This is an actual excerpt from an article.

"Marriage is Spider-Man and Marry Jane Was didn’t have a happy end too, because of the deal that was made between Mephisto and Spider-Man. Famous Spider-Man asked Mephisto to change the reality and it happened so, that they have never been married."
https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/marvel-comics-is-planning-the-wedding-of-the-century/

This could, of course, be an extension of Mephisto's spell to further erase the Parker marriage from existence by making all references to said marriage read as utter gibberish. Or, perhaps Dan Slott finally figured out how to use a computer for something other than insulting his fans and hacked the website to keep people from growing too curious about the fabled marriage.

In any account, it's still better than anything you'll ever read on CBR.

fredzilla

I teach middle schoolers with slightly more coherent writing. In the bio, the author, "has a master’s degree in Literature and works as a copyreader and news writer." Not the top of her class methinks.

Evening639

fredzilla said:

I teach middle schoolers with slightly more coherent writing. In the bio, the author, "has a master’s degree in Literature and works as a copyreader and news writer." Not the top of her class methinks.

The most amusing thing about that author is that I read another article she wrote for Infosecurity Magazine and it reads perfectly coherently with very few spelling or grammatical errors.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/next-gen-infosec/blockchain-technology/

In addition to holding a master's degree in Literature, her bio also mentions she's interested in cybersecurity and technology.

Perhaps when she's writing about something she's more deeply interested in she's more careful with her words. Perhaps the First Comics News article was rushed to meet a deadline. Perhaps Infosecurity Magazine actually has editors on staff. Perhaps First Comics News also has editors on staff but they're just dicks like Bob Kahan and run articles exactly as they're written to make people look stupid. Perhaps @Adam_Murdough can enlighten me as to whether "Kitty pride" is simply a typo or an alternate reality doppelganger from an Excalibur issue I'm missing from my collection.

bralinator

fredzilla said:

I teach middle schoolers with slightly more coherent writing. In the bio, the author, "has a master’s degree in Literature and works as a copyreader and news writer." Not the top of her class methinks.

A few others here:

https://constantcollectible.com/
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/

All I can say is "Newsarama and CBR they ain't." I cannot speak for the veracity of their news, or the effectiveness of their spellcheckers/editors.