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Archive for January, 2014
King Conan: The Conqueror #1 Preview
Jan 31st
King Conan is back, all hail the king! Yes, Dark Horse is bringing back King Conan for a new mini-series starting this February. In the port city of Messantia, the deposed, fugitive Conan could uncover the key to regaining his throne—or he could get a knife in the back! Conan follows a lead to a lost relic, revisits an old friend, and finds that he’s not alone in his risky hunt for a missing, magical gem. This storyline, entitled King Conan: The Conqueror, continues Dark Horse’s adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon, which is sometimes referred More >
Tomb Raider #1 Preview
Jan 29th
Tomb Raider is back in comics after 9 long years without. We last saw Lara Croft as older fans might remember her from the early video games, being published through Top Cow for 50 great issues and several fun mini-series from 1999 through 2005. During that era we saw her drawn by greats like Michael Turner, Adam Hughes, Francis Manapul, Tony Daniel, Andy Park, Billy Tan, and more. But since that period, Lara has went through quite the make over in 2013 video game reboot. Now the comics will catch up to the console with a brand new comic series More >
The Son Of Batman Gets A Trailer
Jan 20th
This spring DC’s newest animated direct to DVD feature film will be Son of Batman, the origin of Damian Wayne as originally told by Grant Morrison. As with most of the DC animated films, this movie doesn’t look like it follows Morrison’s story that closely…but for some that might be all for the better. Grant Morrison wrote the original Batman & Son story arc, introducing the character of Damian Wayne, back during 2006 in Batman #655-658. A somewhat disjointed tale, the story bases itself off the concepts of the 1987 Batman: Son of the Demon graphic novel, where Talia Al Ghul gave birth More >
Watch Black Sails Episode 1 A Week Early
Jan 18th
Black Sails are on the horizon ahead of schedule it would appear, as the menacing new pirate series peeks out over the waters a week before it would premiere on Starz. Thanks to Machinima Prime, who also helped bring you Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome months ahead of schedule, you can watch the first episode of Michael Bay’s Black Sails today. Admittedly this is a censored version, showing less than what the press and those at 2013′s San Diego Comic Con got, this is still quite the free treat to be had ahead of schedule. But if anything, perhaps this is More >
How To Scare Norman Reedus - A Walking Dead Prank
Jan 17th
The second half of The Walking Dead season 4 begins airing on AMC February 9th. To help promote this, actors like Norman Reedus have been traveling around the world promoting the show for its international broadcaster, Fox. Apparently Fox determined this was the perfect time to help promote their new social media driven advertising campaign “#getFOXed.” How were they going to do this? What better way than to scare the most beloved zombie killer on television with a taste of real life zombies. For that they turned to Nick Santonastasso, a 17-year old Walking Dead fan with a rare syndrome More >
Entourage The Movie Begins Filming
Jan 16th
The last episode of HBO’s beloved TV series about an actor and his friends, Entourage, aired on September 11th 2011. While that series finale was confirmed in 2010, it was also expressed by the cast and creators that a film follow it. Over the past few years we heard little hints from the cast and Executive Producer Mark Wahlberg that the script was being written by creator Doug Ellin and the film would be made. A year after the final episode aired, Ellin confirmed he had finished the film’s script in September of 2012. January of last year saw the More >
Comparing Miracleman
Jan 15th
It has been almost 30 years since Miracleman #1 has been in print, with a short period of epic story telling published in the issues that followed and a long period of controversy in the discussion of right of ownership after issue #24 was released. Thankfully the publisher Marvel has stepped up and solved all this with a lot of money and great people organizing to bring Miracleman back to print today. I’ve picked up my copies and truly enjoyed rereading one of comic’s greatest tales under Marvel publishing, but then I thought about how this comic has changed since More >
Numbercruncher Hits Stores In Hardcover Format Tomorrow With A Trailer Today
Jan 13th
Si Spurrier and P.J. Holden brilliant noir tale of afterlife and mathematics, Numbercruncher, is getting a mass market release in hardcover tomorrow from Titan Comics. The story tells the tale of the ultimate bureaucracy: Heaven. Surprisingly the head chief of heaven is not a white-haired anthropomorphic deity with a harp and a throne like many might’ve thought, but rather a wizened, weaseling old man with bad breath and a worse attitude. At his right hand, Bastard Zane, a surly civil servant with a big gun whose job it is to stop those who think they can buck karma. These two More >
First Trailer For Game Of Thrones Season 4
Jan 12th
Game of Thrones 4th season has a trailer now and damn does it look good! We were first told about tonight’s trailer when the official release date of Game of Thrones Season 4, April 6th 2014, was announced earlier this week. Then we were heavily teased when short little ads announcing the trailer began airing on HBO throughout the week. Tiny snippets that informed fans that Sunday at 8:58PM they’d be treated to the full first trailer for the fourth season just seemed to pop up in every HBO commercial break. Those on the East Coast undoubtedly exploded with happiness More >
SDCC To Move To Single Day Badge Only System This Year
Jan 10th
It was announced earlier today that when SDCC tickets go on sale in the next couple months that there will no longer be 4day badges. Hopeful attendees will need to buy individual day passes. As you can imagine there has been massive uproar over this announcement. Which I understand…to a point. The fact is as of last year, you no longer receive a discount for going every day, and so if last year you purchased a 4 day badge, you really purchased 4 single badges.
“The decision to move from a 4-Day badge option to single day badge options was to More >
