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Lego At ECCC – Brick Nation
Alyssa Pack writes, At Emerald City Comicon 2016 Brick Nation took up a whole floor of the convention center with Legos galore.  This drew all the kids
David Anders Announces He'll Play Loki On TV, At ECCC
George Tramountanas, writing for Bleeding Cool from ECCC at the iZombie panel, let us know that David Anders revealed to the crowd that he recently played Loki for something on TV. He wouldn't say what but said we'd find out soon enough. Good evil grin for a good of mischief,  wouldn't you say?  Tom Hiddleston smackdown anyone? [...]
50 Artists To Draw X-O Manowar As Title Ends – The Valiant ECCC Panel
Ian Melton is texting Bleeding Cool from the Valiant panel at ECCC, with Dinesh Shamdasani, Jody Houser, Clayton Crain, Robert Vendetti and Warren Simmons, For which we also seem to have a tonne of artwork.    So they are celebrating that Faith got herself an ongoing series after the performance of the mini-series.   Ian tells us that[...]
How Did Astro City Get Its Name? The Vertigo Panel At ECCC
Ian Melton spent a leisurely hour in the Vertigo panel at ECCC for Bleeding Cool. Panellists included Shelly Bond, Gail Simone, Kurt Busiek, Mitch Gerards and Shaun Aldridge. Gail Simone began talking about her Vertigo series Clean Room, in which people come face to face with their deepest fears and worst moments She has decided that fans of[...]
CB Cebulski Tells Marvel Artist At Wondercon 'Go Home Before You Get Fired' (UPDATE)
Cebulski (@CBCebulski) April 5, 2015 @GregCapullo And this after the same artist ducked his editor and went to ECCC LAST weekend too! Without having turned in a single page!! — C.B Cebulski (@CBCebulski) April 5, 2015 Now this artist is deleting/hiding his posts from WonderCon! How about you get in your car, go home and get to work[...]
The People Behind Darth Vader, Spider-Gwen And Princess Leia Comics At ECCC
Ian Melton went to ECCC for Bleeding Cool where he learnt a few things from a few comic book creators, mostly of a Marvel bent… Kieron Gillen would not let any spoilers loose for Darth Vader, but commented that creating hot new Star Wars character Doctor Aphra came from a source most expect.  "At the Star[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 30th March 2015 – All-New, All-Different
It's the little story that could… last week's story on the not-so-fast death of Donatello is still the most read story one week later… but much has been gearing up for ECCC and you can see full coverage of this below. Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. The Death Of Donatello? Not So Fast… 2. Supergirl Adds Maxima To[...]
ECCC '15: Mouse Guard Celebrates 10 Years With A Foot Squared Hardcover Of Art
Announced at ECCC at the 10 Years of Mouse Guard panel came the news that in July, Archaia will publish through Boom! Studios, an oversized hardcover collecting ten years of Mouse Guard art by David Petersen, including work by Mike Mignola, Stan Sakai, Bill Willingham and more, in The Art Of Mouse Guard 2005-2015. One foot by one[...]
ECCC '15: Gamora Solo Comic Scheduled For After Secret Wars…
But of Gamora's own book? Not a peep. Well, at the Marvel panel today at ECCC in Seattle, editor Mike Marts confirmed that the series is happening, but will be published after Secret Wars, so as not to get lost in the event. Basically, it's late But is coming. Kieron Gillen also stated that he has a Secret[...]
ECCC '15: Valiant Announces Animated Web-Series Valiant Origins
Announced today at ECCC, Valiant has launched a new web animated series, Valiant Origins, running every fortnight, each spotlighting one of Valiant's main characters. Look, they've got to spend their Chinese money somehow. We begin with Valiant Origins: Bloodshot, then continuing with X-O Manowar Ninjak Livewire Quantum & Woody and Divinity. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H6absvEnLg[/youtube] [...]
ECCC '15: Raffaele Ienco's Mechanism From Heavy Metal
On Friday at ECCC, Heavy Metal Comics announced their first original series launch for their new regular comics line– Mechanism by writer/artist Raffaele Ienco available in comic shops July 1st… MECHANISM In the aftermath of an alien invasion a prototype military robot is rushed into the field before it's combat-ready, before its artificial mind has matured enough[...]
ECCC '15: The Book Of Death, The Big Valiant Event For July
HARBINGER WARS UNITY ARMOR HUNTERS THE VALIANT BOOK OF DEATH SO LET IT BE WRITTEN. SO LET IT BE DONE. COMING JULY 2015 Artwork by Robert Gill… announcing at ECCC. The Book Of Death from Valiant in July. HARBINGER WARS UNITY ARMOR HUNTERS THE VALIANT BOOK OF DEATH SO LET IT BE WRITTEN. SO LET IT BE DONE. COMING JULY 2015 Artwork by Robert Gill… announcing at ECCC.[...]
ECCC '15: Marvel Official – It's Not A Reboot
More on that tomorrow. But as for a reboot? In the Marvel panel at ECCC in Seattle today, they made that clear. Marvel's CB Cebulski stated that what Marvel readers are getting is "not going to be a reboot, not going to be a revamp, not like everything's changing" while Captain Marvel writer Kelly Sue DeConnick reiterated[...]
ECCC '15: Jen Wang And Britt Wilson Bring Back Fionna & Cake To Adventure Time Comics
> Announced at ECCC, in July Boom! will publish Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake: Card Wars, a new miniseries spinning out of the Cartoon Network show. And it appears to be a bit of a gaming special… Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake: Card Wars #1 (of 6) Publisher: KaBOOM!, an imprint of BOOM! Studios Author: Jen Wang Artist: Britt Wilson Format:[...]
ECCC '15: Ten Dark Horse Comics Launch This Summer
We told you about the new Barb Wire a few weeks ago… but here are ten new Dark Horse comics announced at ECCC for the summer of 2015… from Aaron Lopresti to Scott Kolins to Pat Oliffe... Barb Wire #1 Chris Warner (W) Patrick Olliffe (A) On Sale in July Nail-hard tough and drop-dead gorgeous, Barb Wire is the baddest[...]
ECCC '15: Onyx, The New Series From Ryall And Rodriguez From IDW
Just announced at the IDW panel at ECCC, Chris Ryall and Gabriel Rodriguez, new series Onyx, for this summer But you'll get to see more of it a lot sooner, in May… It's also just one of five new comics that Marvel is debuting in July. Onyx tells the tale of a female metal-suited warrior who comes to[...]
ECCC '15: Talking To Joe Harris About X-Files Season 11 Comic From IDW
Their panel is happening at ECCC right now, maybe someone will ask them? X-Files Season 10 sees its final issues published in June But hot on its heels is X-Files Season 11, also written by Joe Harris I got the chance to ask him some questions… only to see this tweet go out. In the middle[...]
ECCC '15: The Doors Have Just Opened – Good Luck In There!
ECCC is two blocks from work All I can think is "If I walk by slowly with my 3DS, I will get SO MANY StreetPasses!!" — Reverend Mal (@ReverendMalcus) March 27, 2015 Photo by Jim Demanakos The doors to the Emerald City Comic Con have just opened Lots of comics, lots of publishers, lots of creators[...]
Cover Variance: ECCC, C2E2, Wondercon Exclusives And More Besides
We'll get to the conventions exclusives in a minute… But first, Doctor Who: Ninth Doctor #1 American Dream Comics variant cover by Brian Williamson and Luis Guerrero and the Pop Culture Paradise variant cover by Mariano Laclaustra. A couple more Christopher Action Figure variant covers for Secret Wars spinoffs… This is the part-finished Deadpool #250 Phantom Variant available to Phantom-affiliated stores, again[...]