Comic Book News
SDCC 08: ‘TV Writers of Marvel’ Panel Report
With the enormous success of comic-based properties in other media formats, comic book writers are finally getting their due among the mainstream markets of film and television. A number of writers who got their start in comics have been given opportunities elsewhere, while those who got their breaks in traditional media formats have been able [...]
Dark Horse Comics November Solicitations
Thanks to Dark Horse Comics for sending along their full list of November books.
Our first impressions?
Jeph Loeb joining the Buffy-verse will either be brilliant or tremendously confusing. Rick Remender’s End League looks to be continuing its brilliance with the addition of the new art team of Canete & Baker. Gigantic sounds amazing with it’s brilliant [...]
SDCC 08: Ryan’s Panel Rundown
Contributing writer Ryan Ingram gives us the skinny on a few of the panels you may have overlooked at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.
SPORE w/ Will Wright
The human idea-machine Will Wright made his first Comic-Con appearance to promote SPORE—a game that lets you play as George Lucas, instead of Luke Skywalker, creating everything [...]
SDCC 08: The Image Comics Panel
Robert Kirkman, Whilice Portacio, Jim Valentino, Marc Sylvestri, Rob Liefeld and Eric Larsen were all in attendance for the Image Comics panel on Friday.
Announcements were made that Darwyn Cook would be both writing and drawing a Madman comic.
Also announced was that that two Image comics would be made into cartoons. The first was Mice Templar, [...]
SDCC 08: The Dark Horse Comics Panel
The Dark Horse panel started off with a few technical difficulties somewhat reminiscent of Emerald City Comic Con, Scott Allie joked. After announcing how well Dark Horse did at the Eisner’s last night they quickly fixed their power point presentation and then moved into announcements.
A new BPRD story drawn by the brothers Gabriel Ba and [...]
SDCC 08: DC Nation Panel Report
A bat-bombshell was dropped in the first 15 minutes of Thursday’s DC Nation panel. Kevin Smith will be making his return to the DCU with a three-issue Batman run that will have guest appearances by Mr. Zsasz and Deadshot. The villain of the series is one familiar to Smith. Onomatopoeia, the silent killer from [...]
Robert Kirkman’s New Image
Image Comics announced today that the one and only Robert Kirkman has become a full-fledged partner of Image Comics. Congratulations to both Robert and Image Comics. More info on this will be forthcoming at the San Diego Comic Con this week as well as possibly another big announcement from Image. so stay tuned to Pop [...]
Dark Horse Comics October Solicitations
This fall is shaping up to be quite a season for Dark Horse Comics. Their October solicitations are the Pavlovian bell to which comic fans salivate. For starters, Mike Mignola is making his triumphant return to his Hellboy artwork in the book The Chapel of Moloch. Plus, Rick Remender’s End Leage continues [...]
Aspen Comics’ Michael Turner Dead At 37
Another terrible loss this weekend as Michael Turner died Friday night at 10:42 Pacific Time at Santa Monica Hospital in California. Comic Book Resources has reported that the 37 year old Aspen Comics artist unfortunately lost his long battle with cancer. His passing has cast a somber cloud over Wizard World Chicago and I’m [...]
Image Comics for September
The fine folks over at Image Comics were good enough to pass along their solicitations for this coming September. Fans will be excited to learn more details about the Mark Millar & Rob Liefeld return to Youngblood. Also of note is that Astonishing Wolf-Man will be going monthly starting September, something that Robert Kirkman confirmed [...]
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