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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Aaron returns to A Comic Shop in Florida from San Diego Comic Con and Tri-Force Mike with plenty of San Diego swag and a chance to check through tomorrow’s comics today. But no store exclusive cover of Amazing Spider-Man #666, Aaron? For shame…
Weekly TOP PICKS: 7.27.2011
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #666
- DAN SLOTT!
SPIDER-ISLAND! For a very special evil issue number, a great tragedy infects New York, and suddenly everyone has spider powers! It’s like 9/11 with spiders!
UNCANNY X-FORCE #12
– RICK REMENDER!
What happens in the Age of Apocalypse stays in the Age of Apocalypse!
X-MEN SCHISM #2
– JASON AARON!
Frank Cho draws sexy ladies, Sentinels are WMDs, Quentin Quire is a revolutionary, Cyclops is a dic-tator! If Wolverine was my dad things would be different.
VENOM #5
– RICK REMENDER!
Everyone is taking shots at the new Venom! It’s tough being a paraplegic military espionage agent possessed by an evil alien symbiote. Spider-Man hates Venom, but Peter and Flash are BFF.
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #62
- TONY BEDARD!
WAR OF THE GL AFTERMATH! Romance in the workplace becomes an issue with Kyle and Natu when her father gets a job with them… and her dad is Sinestro.
GREEN LANTERN EMERALD WARRIORS #12
– TOMASI!
WAR OF THE GL AFTERMATH! Guy Gardner deals with his post traumatic stress like a man. By drinking.
ULTIMATE COMICS FALLOUT #3 (OF 6)
– NICK SPENCER & JONATHAN HICKMAN!
The new Ultimate X-Men mourn their best friend Spider-Man. Kitty Pryde, Johnny Storm and Iceman are Spencer’s new “Morning Glories” academy.
FLASHPOINT:
PROJECT SUPERMAN #2
– Plot by SCOTT SNYDER! Subject Zero is a real dick. Subject One is emo-bitch Superman. Subject Two is Krypto’s bones. Earth-FP is so screwed.
LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #2
- ABNETT & LANNING! GRIFTER of WildC.A.T.S. is using the Flashpoint Crisis to leave behind Wildstorm and join the DCU for the reboot in September!
KID FLASH LOST #2
- STERLING GATES! Is Bart Allen LOST in the 31st century so after Flashpoint, he can join the title Legion LOST, and be a much friendlier Psycho-Pirate who remembers the old continuity?
HAL JORDAN #2
He’s not a GL, but he’s still a badass pilot flying face first into a hydra.
Indy
JOE HILL THE CAPE #1 (OF 4)
– JOE “LOCKE & KEY” HILL!
This has nothing to do with that awful tv show, and EVERYTHING to do with ACS’ favorite ‘new-to-comics’ writer. If you didn’t read the amazing one-shot that preludes this. Do it. Money back guarantee. While you’re at it, Read Joe Hill’s Locke & Key. Its the best. Did we mention we absolutely love this guy?
CROSSED PSYCHOPATH #4 (OF 7)
– DAVID LAPHAM!
This book is gross.
Graphic Novel
ATOMIC ROBO VOL 05 DEADLY ART OF SCIENCE
- BRIAN CLEVINGER!
Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Buckaroo Banzai, and The Rocketeer cramed into Nikola Tesla’s robot with pants. THAT is Atomic Robo! This volume features a young Robo in the 1930s teaming up with badass vigilante Jack Tarot to stop a mad scientist from blowing-up Manhattan! This book is what happiness feels like.
NEXT WEEK…
GEOFF JOHNS! GREG RUCKA!
8.03.2011
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…
