Oct 23 2013
It seems that every week we are reporting back on a new guest or four that the wonderful people at Oz Comic-Con, expanding to five states around Australia in 2014. Now OCC are announcing the addition of several comic book artists and actors at the various events. The latest to join is artist Jon Sommariva, best known for …
Oct 23 2013
With a teaser trailer due out later in the week, Marvel has released the first poster for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the sequel to both Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers. The trailer due out this week is probably one of the more anticipated looks at what has been a pretty closely …
Oct 20 2013
In this issue, Frank Miller returns to Detective Comics #27. Yes, that’s right: a DC Comic made it to issue 27. Then Serenity gets a comic book sequel: we can’t wait to see it get cancelled and revived as a movie. THEN Marvel aims for more comics and television, we review all the latest books …
Oct 19 2013
It’s the crossover that had to happen! Or at least it already has on our bedroom floors and toy stores during the 80s and 90s. IDW has announced (via CBR) in their January 2014 solicitations that their big crossover will be The X-Files Conspiracy. The “event of the year sees characters from The X-Files interact …
Oct 18 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
