His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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CalendarWatch: Marvel are calling May 19th Avengers Day. Participating retailers can get exclusive limited edition prints, posters, door hangers, mini-posters and the very-customisable AVENGERS #1 “I Am An Avenger” Blank Variant – enabling you to officially put any character of your choice in the team. Oh and an exclusive advance copy of Avengers #1 with a letter from writer Brian Bendis…
PenisWatch: LionsGate are handing out keychains with penis-wing emblems to promote Kick-Ass. Look for yours in liberal-minded comic stores such as Deadpool-cover-ripping Florida store, A Comic Shop.
FilmWatch: Dana Valentine: Brains, Beauty and Bullets by Daniel Cooney published by Red Eye Press has been picked up by C2 Entertainment according to Variety.
DinosaurWatch: Bob Schreck, a bit of a comics dinosaur himself, is writing a new Jurassic Park mini-series for IDW, who are also reprinting the old Topps series. Art is by Nate Van Dyke provides interior art, and Tom Yeates, Frank Miller, Arthur Adams, Paul Pope, and Bernie Wrightson will be providing variant covers.
BoysWatch: While the Clash Of The Titans writers talk about the screenplay to The Boys...
What we’ve come up with is something that is really, really faithful to the tone and the story of “The Boys,” and… we’re excited about it. This kind of take on superheroes is actually — despite the rough edges — much more accessible to people these days. It’s much more understood by even the non-fans [of comic books], because you’ve got movies like “Iron Man” and “The Dark Knight” where you have characters who are so flawed and yet they’re heroes. So now you understand the concept of questioning who these heroes are.
…it looks like Rob Cordry wants to be in it.
FreeComicsWatch: Si Spurrier and Christopher Mitten’s short story In Fetu from upcoming Dark Horse Presents on Myspace is run in full, for free, here.
GameWatch: The Kick-Ass game trailer has very poor voice-acting...
FreeComicsWatch2: Newsarama run Haunt #1 for free.
AvatarWatch: James Cameron goes to war with Glenn Beck. Watch out for draagons Glenn!
WarnerWatch: Looks like announcements of a new Warner games company in Montreal to develop games based on DC Comics properties had a little leakage in the days leading up to announcement.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
