2011 Archives

But the foreboding edifice has a dark past… Based on the acclaimed 1973 US TV movie and bearing del Toro's distinct touch of class, director Troy Nixey explores the demonic tooth fairy myth in a tense flight of terrifying fantasy orchestrated with stylish verve, commanding atmosphere and stunning sound design. 100 mins Director Troy Nixey Australia[...]

SanDiegoWatch: We're still updating the Updateable San Diego Programming List until the official list is released. Just added Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matt

Bleeding Cool has already told you that deviantART, the site that lets artists to showcase their work, is sponsoring Artists Alley at San Diego Comic Con

Attach your resume where indicated on your Artist's Bio page in the Portfolio. Applications are due July 8, 2011 at 6:00PM Los Angeles, CA time. Then submit your portfolio to this group via Note, stating in the subject line, "Comic-Con Sponsorship", then include the link to your Portfolio in the body of the message. The judge will[...]

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IS COMPLETE A lot of the studios have been announcing their programming for the San Diego Comic Con 2011 But one or two comic book panels are sneaking in there too Here's everything so far – add other ones you know in the comments and we'll update! Let's crowd source as much of[...]

Jill Thompson's Scary Godmother joins this year's batch of Halloween Mini-Comics, offered to retailers in bulk orders for $5 each, perfect for kids during

Black Panther, Thunderbolts, X-Factor and New Avengers gets a Point One issue and New Avengers also gets an Annual. As well as Dracula fighting Hulk, the Monkey King from Iron Man 2.0 gets his own Fear Itself spinoff, the Ultimate line relaunches, and as Spider-Man blossoms spinoffs of Spider-Island, my eye is drawn by the I[...]

Do check USA Today's feature on Army@Love's Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine's The Big Lie, a 9/11 comic timed to be published by Image Comics on the tenth

I don't know what Marvel are planning to announce at the LA Times Hero Complex Film Festival shortly... ...but here are a few Marvel covers that I haven't

Who are the Trench? What is the makeup of the JLI? Who is the Gotham Ripper and who is NoBody? Which books are 20 page $2.99 and which are 30 page $3.99?

September can't come too soon for 1700 Broadway. Good news for Avatar though, with Crossed 3D by David Lapham and Gianluca Pagliarani gained the best selling graphic novel of the month, quite an achievement for such a very very mature readers comic. Here are the stats; TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS PUBLISHER DOLLARSHARE UNITSHARE MARVEL COMICS 42.45% 46.35% DC COMICS 26.68% 28.37% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.89% 3.59% IMAGE COMICS 4.88% 5.35% IDW PUBLISHING 4.60% 4.26% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.83% 3.38% BOOM![...]

And Journey Into Mystery, Herc and X-Men get additional Point One issues too… August 2011: 96 comics – 56 at $2.99 (20 pages of story), 33 at $3.99 (22 pages of story), 1 at $3.99 (23 pages of story), 1 at $3.99 (30 pages of story), 2 at $3.99[...]

This is an artist's impression of what William Christensen may be planning for San Diego Comic Con 2011 Keeping Garth Ennis at the Avatar booth in a cage And supplying the odd Guinness to keep him pacified. Oh, okay, possibly not quite But Garth will be at San Diego, courtesy of Avatar The only place he'll[...]

Ten years after Jay Faerber launched Noble Causes at Image, his first creator owned comic, comes his new one. Near Death, by Faerber and Simone

Remember, all these comics were given away for free on Saturday. For free. And there have been tens and tens and in some cases hundreds of thousands of

Some people didn't make it. Some people's stores didn't participate. And even when they did, the grass is always greener. Here's a runaround the world to

So you want to get all 37 Free Comic Book Day comics but don't live near a comic shop? How much will it cost you to get a set? $65 apparently. That's if you want; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER / STAR WARS CLONE WARS FLIP BOOK PEP COMICS BETTY & VERONICA DARKWING DUCK / CHIP DALE RESCUE RANGERS FLIP[...]

It was a later start that we expected this morning. Anyone with kids will know what I'm talking about. So we missed the initial crowds in London for Free

What happens when I take a break to play a little Goldeneye of an evening? They announce the Eisner nominations for 2011 This was the year for Archaia's Return Of The Dapper Men from Jim McCann and Janet Lee With a good show for Jor Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez' Locke & Key and Nick Spender[...]

And try not to get the tears on our comics. Film Of 2011 That If It's Shit We Will Die A Bit Insideonline surveys Retweet the Vote! Who says you can only vote once? Campaign for your candidate and retweet the vote, tweet counts will figure as a component of final tally. [tweetvote vote="X-Men First Class"][...]

Okay, I think we know what many people will be queuing for at San Diego Comic Con 2011 Apart from tickets to San Diego Comic Con 2012, that is. The Revenge Of The Jedi Death Star See it here, along with everything else Hasbro has planned for the year so far… Okay, I think we know[...]

GI Joe-based Indiana Jones exclusive figures at San Diego Comic Con 2011? That raised a few eyebrows But here's a look at Hasbro's presentation at Toyfair 2011. GI Joe-based Indiana Jones exclusive figures at San Diego Comic Con 2011? That raised a few eyebrows But here's a look at Hasbro's presentation at Toyfair 2011. GI[...]

How could you fuck this up this bad? thatreenagirl Comic KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! And those that do manage to get through, despite TicketLeap's assurances, are finding there are no four day ticket passes available. Founder and CEO of TicketLeap Chris Stanchak has joined the fray telling people; @chrisstanchak @comic-con Keep trying we are going to bounce up and down for a[...]

4AM Sydney. Tomorrow is the big day when, fourth time lucky, you can buy your ticket for San Diego Comic Con 2011. Each time, so far, has proved disasterous With far more people wanting tickets than will ever be allowed through those doors, sites have crashed, crashed and crashed again But this time they have an expensive[...]

There were three mysterious TBA items on Marvel's retailer order form for February 2011. Yesterday, Marvel filled in two of these Herc #1 and #2, spinning out of the cosmic Chaos War storyline. But that still leaves one cuckoo in the nest One mysterious listing that's just a big TBA for February. Could it be Fear Itself-related? [...]

The San Diego Comic Con entrance passes use a specific coded entry system on badges, scanned on entrance and repeat scanned through the show. Forged

Go on then Little Bleeders, what is this? Thank you Little Bleeders! Mega Man it is! The Capcom character to get an Archie comic spinoff!

Here's the numbercrunching headlines, based on Marvel Comics solicitation information for March. At NYCC, Marvel announced they would be reducing the amount of monthly comics they would publish in 2011 And for January and February that was true, dropping from ninety-something new non-Icon/non-licensed titles, down into the seventies. But now we hit a five-week month, and we're[...]

Christos Gage tweeted, regarding upcoming issues of his Avengers Academy. Issue 13 is the Superhero Prom. And 14 has awesome high-profile villains &

But could they have been telling the first few chapters of the big 2011 event without labelling it as such? And are we looking at a Marvel war between Earth and Mars? At the end of Captain America Reborn we saw this apocalyptic future with heroes slain all over, written by Ed Brubaker. Nothing of this future since,[...]