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Oct 18 2013
Highlights from Dark Horse January 2014 solicitations – Serenity, Hellboy, Skyman, Juice Squeezers and more!
Dark Horse are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hellboy in a big way come 2014, with variant covers across many of their titles and a Hellboy: The First 20 Years hardcover due out in March. There’s also a stack of new titles coming out, many of which were announced at NYCC or prior, but they …
Oct 17 2013
NYCC 2013: All-New Marvel NOW! titles for January through April 2014
Marvel has issued a press release containing a full list of the titles announced at NYCC this year, including the new and relaunched titles we can expect between January and April 2014. Marvel Entertainment’s Editor in Chief Axel Alonso claims that the “NYCC announcements were only the tip of the iceberg — we’ve plenty more to …
Oct 16 2013
Marvel Studios plans four TV drama series and a mini-series
With Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. an apparent success, Deadline reveals that Marvel Studios is developing “a package of four drama series and a miniseries — a total of some 60 episodes — that would be taken out to the VOD and cable space, with Netflix, Amazon and WGN America rumored as potential candidates“. This comes …
Oct 15 2013
Highlights from DC Comics January 2014 solicitations – ‘Gothtopia’, ‘The Green Team’ cancelled and ‘Injustice: Year Two’
Springing off the back of the New York Comic-Con announcements, DC Comics have pulled out their solicitations for January 2014. In addition to launching tie-properties for The Vampire Diaries and Scribblenauts in the comic book world, there’s some strange things afoot in the land that the Bat built… Frank Miller and “Gothtopia” No, it’s not …
Oct 15 2013
Editions Dargaud releases trailer for ‘Blacksad: Amarillo’
French publisher Editions Dargaud, one of the biggest publishers of Franco-Belgian bande dessinée in Europe, have released a new trailer showcasing the hotly anticipated fifth volume of the Blacksad series. Simply titled Blacksad: Amarillo, it gives us a terrific sampling of the artwork by Juanjo Guarnido Dark Horse has published the first four volumes in English, but there …
Oct 09 2013
Review: Superman/Wonder Woman #1
Superman and Wonder Woman are the New 52’s hottest couple, but does that make them the hottest title as well? When Superman/Wonder Woman was first announced, many expressed legitimate concern over Wonder Woman’s potential relegation to the role of “Superman’s girlfriend”. This argument seemed somewhat alarmist, as few people expressed similar concerns over the release …
Oct 09 2013
Review: The Private Eye #4
The Panel Syndicate return with another great glimpse into the future of comic book publishing, and thirty pages worth of reasons to continue investing in tomorrow. It seemed like a very long wait between the third and fourth issues, broken up by a wonderful 85-page The Making of The Private Eye last month, but as …
Oct 08 2013
Iron Man Experience coming to Hong Kong Disneyland in 2016
With Disney now the multimedia empire behind the Marvel franchises, it was only a matter of time before a theme park ride turned up in one of the resorts. Today, the Disney Parks Blog announced that the gradually expanding Hong Kong Disneyland will host the “very first Disney attraction based on a Marvel character experience”. …
Oct 08 2013
Oz Comic-Con 2014: Kevin Sorbo, Daniel Cudmore, Michael Hurst, Nicola Scott, Tristan Jones and more join line-up
Oz Comic-Con will expand to five states around Australia in 2014, and they are certainly bringing some top shelf geek guests to the country to celebrate. Just this month, Oz Comic-Con has announced a mini Hercules reunion with Kevin Sorbo and Michael Hurst joining the ‘Con for its kick-off in Perth/Adelaide. Sorbo is best known for …
Oct 07 2013
Local Focus: Milk Shadow Books launches ‘Da ‘n’ Dill’ and ‘Plump Oyster’ collections
Australian comics have come back into focus with the success of the ABC documentary Comic Book Heroes, highlighting local publishing house Gestalt Comics. While they seem to be determined to take over the world, another local outfit, Milk Shadow Books, simply “aims to publish the weirdest trips, strangest journeys, and assorted stories that make you …
Oct 03 2013
Samuel L. Jackson confirms Elizabeth Olsen for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
He may have made a surprise cameo at the end of this week’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but Nick Fury himself (Samuel L. Jackson) has shown he’d make a terrible spy by leaking some casting news from the forthcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jackson discussed filming schedules and …