Aug 16 2013
We’ve long held the belief that the current crossover Hunger, coming out of the events of Age of Ultron, will eventually mark the end of the Marvel Ultimate Universe. The solicitations now indicate that things are not looking good for that line with Cataclysm taking over all of the Ultimates books for the month. In …
Aug 16 2013
The second season of Arrow really seems to be expanding the DC television universe, with Black Canary, several villains and of course, The Flash added to the cast lineup. Now TV Line announces that Bex Taylor-Klaus has been added to the cast as Sin. Sin is a character first introduced during Gail Simone’s Birds of …
Aug 15 2013
Was the Collector’s Edition of Batman: Arkham Origins just not special enough for you? EB Games announced today that Australia and New Zealand will get the exclusive Definitive Collector’s Edition. You know: for definitive collectors. Containing a different LED statue and a whole bunch of other swag, the definitive collection will set you back a …
Aug 15 2013
Following the screening of the first episode of Comic Book Heroes, the Nick Dunlop documentary on the history of Australia’s Gestalt Comics, their early anthology Flinch has completely sold out at the publisher level. As such, Gestalt have announced that they are going back for a second printing, due out in September 2013. The new …
Aug 14 2013
Writer and artist Mike Grell, arguably best known for his seminal work on Green Arrow during the 1980s/1990s and more recently on Arrow, has announced via his blog that he has been hospitalised with cellulitis. Along with Green Arrow, who he defined with The Longbow Hunters in 1988 and continued to do so throughout a …
Aug 14 2013
Telltale Games (via IGN) has released the first trailer for the upcoming serial game Fables: The Wolf Among Us, based on the long-running Vertigo Comics series Fables. Using a similar choice-based system to Telltale’s The Walking Dead game series, the game focuses on Bigby Wolf, the human form of the Big Bad Wolf who is trying …
Aug 14 2013
Image Comics are certainly not slackening off in the last part of the year, with no less than seven new #1 titles on the shelves throughout the ninth month of the Roman calendar, but the eleventh for those of us working under the Julian and Gregorian systems. BLACK SCIENCE #1 Originally announced back in July …
Aug 14 2013
The way the comics cookie crumbles means that we’re already looking ahead to the stuff that will be hitting shelves in November. At least it gives us an excuse to start saving our valuable pennies. Speaking of pennies, what do people do to get rid of them? Put them in a jar? Stack them up …
Aug 13 2013
The official poster has been released for the New York Comic Con, held at the Javits Center in New York on 10-13 October. Revealed today by the New York Daily News, it features Superman and Wonder Woman hovering near the completed One World Trade Center building, as depicted by artist Stephane Roux. Confirmed comics guests at …
Aug 13 2013
Sites such as Nerd Bastards, Guard the Galaxy, MTV and Coming Soon are posting set photos from the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy, currently being shot in London by director James Gunn. Shot on the Millennium Bridge on August 11, we get our first look at Glenn Close under heavy special effects makeup, several alien creatures, …
Aug 09 2013
Dark Horse had previously announced that they would be producing The Star Wars, an 8-issue mini-series based on George Lucas’s original draft and treatment of what would eventually become Star Wars, and the set of films we’ve come to know and alternative love/despise over the years. Now thanks to USA Today, we get a trailer …
