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Closing A Comic Shop, Eighteen Months On

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Mario Coleman writes fro Bleeding Cool; It has almost been a year and a half since Apocalypse Comics, the comic shop that I built from the ground up, closed its doors for the last time, and I miss it like crazy. We had moved into a new premises in the March of 2010 with hopes…

Forty-Three Thoughts About Forty-Three Free Comics

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Thank you to Diamond Comics for sending me all these Free Comic Book Day comics in advance. I now no longer need to take my children to Free Comic Book Day tomorrow. But I will. So what do we have? And can I mark them out of ten for desirability, newness, content and general appeal?…

Updates On Transformers 4, Top Gun 2, Mission: Impossible 5, The Ring, Noah, Jack Ryan, Micronauts… And More

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Everything Paramount, under one roof.

Hasbro Bans Non-Official Transformers Sketches At BotCon

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The Gary Friedrich situation caused much furor amongst comic book artists, wondering if they were at risk of any future action by any publisher for drawing and selling sketches of their chatracters at a comic convention. Marvel tried to placate such fears but without any blanket statements that Marvel or Disney would not legally target…

When Rob Ruffalo Pretended To Be Pat Lee

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Rich Johnston:This Silver Snail exclusive variant cover for Dreamwave’s Generation One (ongoing) issue 1 commissioned from you and credited to you. Who actually drew it? Pat Lee: I can confirm that it is not my artwork and I’m not quite sure who contracted or agreed that I would illustrate it.  I do not even recall…

Epic Mickey Sequel To Address The “Mistakes” Of The First – And Make Disney History With Frank Welker

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Warren Spector has been developing his new Mickey Mouse videogame, a sequel to the much-hyped Epic Mickey in relative secrecy, but the mouse is out of the bag now, with the first details appearing in The Washington Post today. Spector says that he made several mistakes with the first game, and has addressed them in…

IDW Solicitations For June 2012

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More Doctor Who/Star Trek, new KISS comics, Groo The Wanderer as an Artist’s Edition, there’s plenty to choose from, from IDW’s offerings in June. And then of course there are those 55 covers for Mars Attacks… and the box set if you’re a glutton for punishment. MARS ATTACKS #1 (W) John Layman (A) John McCrea…

Anthony Mackie Joins Mark Wahlberg, The Rock and More in Michael Bay’s “Little Film”

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Before he embarks on the next round of robot wars, Michael Bay is getting to realise one of his dream projects, the crime film Pain and Gain. The first casting had The Rock and Mark Wahlberg set as a pair of bodybuilders who hatch a kidnap scheme. John Turturro then entered negotiations for the role…

Transformers 4 To Be Stuffed With “Carnage, Military Badasses” And Not Full Of Jokes, Apparently

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According to an unnamed source with good working knowledge of the Transformers films, early plans for the upcoming fourth installment are set to shake up the tone and style of the series, yet still structure it as a sequel to the three previous pictures. So, while you can expect the same robots, and imagine they’ll…

Official Shooting Schedule And Details Released For Michael Bay’s Transformers 4 And Pain And Gain

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Michael Bay has decided how he’s going to spend the rest of his year. Brace yourselves, because he’s going to be … making action movies! A new press release from Paramount pictures states that action thriller Pain And Gain is first on the production schedule, with shooting commencing in the next couple of months. Then,…

Full Superbowl TV Spot For New Transformers Theme Park Ride

Full Superbowl TV Spot For New Transformers Theme Park Ride

No new Transformers movie this year (unless you count Battleship and I can see why you might be a touch confused) but there is a new theme park ride based on the franchise, and that got trailered instead.

Swipe File – Voltron Vs Transformers

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  On the left is the cover to Voltron #1 by Eagner Reis. And certain Transformers fans saw similarities with a certain representation of Optimus Prime as seen in the Transformers movies. And pointed out the highlighted bits below for comparison…   In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other…

New Transformers 3 Commercial Plays On Its Oscar Credentials

New Transformers 3 Commercial Plays On Its Oscar Credentials

Would you vote for Transformers: Dark of the Moon at the Oscars?

IDW Teases Digital Only Transformers Comic, Autocracy, With Apple Imagery

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  IDW are now advertising brand new series digital only Transformers series, Autocracy by featuring it on the iPad and iPhone. Tranformers: Autocracy will be published in a week’s time, a biweekly eight page comic written by Chris Metzen and Flint Dille and drawn by Livio Ramondelli. It will tie in with Transformers concepts such…

Hasbro Responds To Harsh Transformers Labour Allegations

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Before Christmas, the Institute For Global Labour And Human Rights made a number of allegations regarding shoddy labour conditions for a Chinese factory used by Hasbro to manufacture Transformers toys, quoting workers, and documenting photographs throughout. Today, Hasbro has responded to these allegations after what it describes as an unnanounced nine hour inspection of the…