Sep 10 2013
It’s now September, which means we have to start thinking about what we’re saving up for in December. DC Comics has released their full list of solicitations for the final month of the year. Will they rest on their laurels just because Santa is on his way? We hope so, because the spending frenzy of …
Sep 10 2013
While it was previously announced that December would see the launch of Inhuman in the wake of the current Infinity arc, Marvel has (NOW!) announced that the second phase of the Marvel NOW! “relaunch” will be kicking off at the end of the year as well. Along with new .NOW #1 jump-on issues, which does …
Sep 09 2013
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. Last week (4 September 2013) was a huge week for debut issues. Avengers maestro Jonathan Hickman determines God is Dead (Avatar), a plethora of writers and …
Sep 08 2013
The winners of the 2013 Harvey Awards were announced at the Baltimore Comic-Con, with Saga the big winner with a whopping 6 awards. Other winners include Hawkeye and the most recent volume of Blacksad: A Silent Hell. Saga‘s six awards made Image the big winner on the night as well, but three creators on Marvel …
Sep 07 2013
After a week of of teasing readers with vague images labelled “Are we…?”, “Is she…?” and so on, Marvel has finally revealed that it relates to their Inhumanity event in December. The event will follow Infinity, giving us the new status quo in the Marvel Universe and a whole lot more Inhumans walking the Earth. …
Sep 06 2013
J.H. Williams III and Haden Blackman have announced that they will exit Batwoman after issue #26, citing last-minute “editorial decisions” as the cause of their frustration. One of the more publicised changes was DC Comics’ decision to disallow the lead character Kate Kane to marry her girlfriend Maggie Sawyer “after a year or more of planning …
Sep 05 2013
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 (4 September 2013), Marvel comes at us with not one but two events in X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1 and Infinity #2, things …
Sep 05 2013
For years, fans have been clamouring for the original unedited version of Star Wars. This comic may be more than they bargained for. It is difficult to imagine the pop-culture landscape without Star Wars at the heart of it, so ubiquitous and accepted is its eternal existence. When writer/director George Lucas first decided to tinker …
Sep 04 2013
The Australian Federal Election is being held this weekend across this big, brown land that we here at Behind the Panels call home. While most of the DC and Marvel characters will be ineligible to vote – a combination of their (mostly) US citizenship and fictional status as far as the electoral role is concerned …
Sep 04 2013
Forever Evil and the villains month may only be kicking off this week, but DC Comics has announced (via its blog) that it is collecting all the issues together (minus the main Forever Evil mini-series) as one giant omnibus for December. If that isn’t enough, they’ll continue the 3D motion cover motif that will be …
Sep 03 2013
Image Comics’ Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, has taken out the award for Best Graphic Story at the 2013 Hugo Awards. The World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Awards were announced for the year at a ceremony LoneStarCon 3 in San Antonio, Texas. The toastmaster was Paul Cornell, himself a Hugo winner for his work on …
