Tag: Kelly Sue DeConnick

Dark Horse unveils trailer for ‘Prometheus: Fire and Stone’ crossover

Prometheus: Fire and Stone

Earlier in the year, it was announced that writers Chris Roberson, Joshua Williamson, Paul Tobin, Christopher Sebela and Kelly Sue DeConnick will join forces on a crossover between Dark Horse‘s 20th Century Fox licences Aliens, Predator and Prometheus. Now the publisher has released a trailer for the first issue of the series, Prometheus: Fire and …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Pretty Deadly #1, Velvet #1 and Rat Queens #2

Pretty Deadly #1

Don’t have time for long reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. While the major publishers are filling their pages with villains, battling atoms and infinite crises, Image Comics this week has largely concentrated on crafting some monthly …

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NYCC 2013: DeConnick and López get ‘Higher’, Soule and Barberi are ‘Sinners

SINNERS (Marvel Now)

For the last week or so, Marvel has been teasing some of the titles that they will be revealing at the New York Comic-Con this year. The latest two announcements tease a new series referred to as ‘Higher’ from Kelly Sue DeConnick and David López, along with the very teasing ‘Sinners’ from Charles Soule and Carlo Barberi. …

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Marvel Studios wants female-led superhero film

Captain Marvel

In an interview with ComingSoon, director/producer Louis D’Esposito, who has been involved with most of the Marvel One-Shots, confirmed that there were plans for a female-led superhero movie. While the films have certainly had their share of female characters, the leads have been rather boy-centric. It seems Marvel Studios are keen to change that. For a …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Captain Marvel #15, Lazarus #3, New Avengers #9, Sex #6 and Thanos Rising #5

Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (28 August 2013) at Captain Marvel #15 and New Avengers #9 (both Marvel) tie into Infinity, Image brings back Lazarus and Sex, and the …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Avengers Assemble #18, Bounce #4, Chin Music #2, Daredevil #30, Justice League Dark #23 and Superman Unchained #3

Daredevil and Silver Surfer - Daredevil #30

Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (21 August 2013), it’s Infinity crossovers, Trinity wars and Superman punching things really hard. Plus Chin Music (Image Comics) finally gets a second issue! You …

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Highlights from Marvel November 2013 solicitations – Amazing X-Men, X-Men Gold and the end of Avengers Arena

Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe

It’s time to start thinking about what Marvel books you’ll be buying in November! It’s the end of an era for several books, new starts for others and the return of some absolute legends: and we aren’t just talking about Longshot. These are the highlights from Marvel’s November 2013 solicitations. More X-Men books! There’s 11 …

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Highlights from Image Comics October 2013 Solicitations – Pretty Deadly, Velvet, Rocket Girl, Three, Bushido

Pretty Deadly #1 cover

Image Comics (via CBR) has released their full solicitations for October 2013, including five brand new titles for the month. The one we are perhaps looking forward to the most is Kelly Sue DeConnick‘s Pretty Deadly, which she described to us in detail a few months again. It sounds like the most interesting new release …

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DC/Vertigo releases details of 6 new titles, adds ‘Suiciders’, ‘Coffin Hill’, ‘The Witching Hour’

Coffin #1 (DC/Vertigo)

Following yesterday’s announcement via the New York Times of six new Vertigo titles coming up before the end of the year, the official DC Comics blog has now unveiled the remaining unannounced titles – Coffin Hill from Caitlin Kittredge and Inaki Miranda, Suiciders from Lee Bermejo and The Witching Hour, a new anthology that promises …

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Exclusive: Kelly Sue DeConnick talks about Pretty Deadly

Pretty Deadly (Emma Rios)

One of the titles that has us most excited this year is Pretty Deadly from writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble) and artist Emma Ríos (Doctor Strange: Season One). First announced by Image Comics back in July last year, the creator-owned book from the Osborn team promised to be a Sergio Leone inspired western …

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Review: Avengers – The Enemy Within #1

The Enemy Within #1

A tightly paced opening to one of Marvel’s mini-crossover brings humour and humanity to the superhuman.  This is how to do a crossover. Although this first issue is ostensibly a standalone title to introduce the 5-part “The Enemy Within” story arc, the seeds for this meeting of DeConnick’s Captain Marvel and Avengers Assemble have been sewn into …

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