Jul 11 2014
Oz Comic-Con has just announced that Marvel’s international talent scout, C.B. Cebulski, will be attending the Sydney show at the Harbour Expo in September. Aspiring creators: start getting those portfolios ready and form an orderly queue. As a writer and editor for Marvel, Cebulski is perhaps best known for his work on the Marvel Fairy Tales, and …
Jul 11 2014
If there are three DC titles that we have been consistently praising in the last year, it’s been Gail Simone‘s Batgirl, Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott’s Earth 2 and Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino’s Green Arrow. In a slew of announcements this week, DC has indicated that new creative teams will be coming onboard for …
Jul 10 2014
At Oz Comic-Con in Melbourne over the weekend (5-6 July), Gestalt Comics took to the stage to announce a slew of new comics and projects for the coming year, including a prequel to The Deep, a new volume of Justin Randall’s Changing Ways and a second volume of the best-selling Flinch anthology. The announcements were …
Jun 26 2014
There’s certainly no chance that Marvel are under-marketing the Guardians of the Galaxy at the moment, with the next Marvel Cinematic Universe film due out in August. While that film will be based on the current incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy, created by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning in 2008, a previous team …
Jun 17 2014
Disney has sent over the latest trailer for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the hotly anticipated adaptation of the strangest team you’ll ever have the pleasure of encountering. Do you need any more reasons to see this film? This trailer give you another two-and-a-half minutes worth of reasons to start lining up now. From Marvel, the studio …
Jun 12 2014
Coming off the back of his recent appearances in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Deathlok is returning to the comic book pages in October with an all-new series from the creative team of Nathan Edmondson (Black Widow, The Punisher) and Mike Perkins (Captain America, Stephen King’s The Stand)! From the press release: Henry Hayes is a veteran, …
Jun 11 2014
Marvel has announced that actor Vincent D’Onofrio will join the Netflix series Daredevil as the notorious crime boss Wilson Fisk (aka Kingpin). He joins the lead Charlie Cox in a 13-episode series premiering on Netflix in 2015. Jeph Loeb, Marvel’s Head of Television, commented “We’re incredibly proud to have an actor with the gravitas and versatility of Vincent joining …
Jun 10 2014
Powers has been announced as a new PlayStation exclusive series from December, while the new trailer for NBC’s Constantine reveals characters from the wider DC universe. At a special presentation during Sony’s E3 presentation in Los Angeles, writer Brian Michael Bendis took to the stage to announce that an adaptation of his Powers series will arrive …
Jun 08 2014
Following the reportedly amicable departure of Edgar Wright from Marvel’s Ant-Man, the studio has now reported that Peyton Reed will take over as director for the film. Writer Adam McKay will be “contributing to the film’s script”. Reed is best known for the cult-hits and comedies Bring It On, The Break Up and Jim Carey vehicle …
Jun 04 2014
Long rumoured to be on the list of upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe films, writer/director Scott Derrickson has announced (via Twitter) that his next film will be Doctor Strange. His previous credits include horror hits The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Sinister. Doctor Stephen Strange was originally created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for Marvel …
May 31 2014
Building on the brilliant Winter City series, Australia’s Winter City Productions is now taking submissions for creator owned projects. In addition to co-founder Patrick Purcell’s upcoming all-ages book Mechanical Knight, with Diego Toro and David Aravena, a brand new title called Left Hand Path will also be launched in June from Jason Franks, Paul Abstruse …
