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Nominees Announced For First Dwayne McDuffie Award
Feb 18th
Earlier today the five nominees for the first ever Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity were announced, and they come from both independent and mainstream comics. The nominees are:
• “Hex11” by Lisa K. Weber and Kelly Sue Milano (HexComics)
• “M.F.K.” by Nilah Magruder (http://www.mfkcomic.com/)
• “Ms. Marvel” by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona (Marvel Comics)
• “The Shadow Hero” by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew (First Second Books)
• “Shaft” by writer David F. Walker and artist Bilquis Evely (Dynamite)
The award is named after Dwayne McDuffie, a comic and television writer who co-founded Milestone Media with Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. More >
DC Retailer Roadshow, A Perspective From Convergence Fest
Feb 7th
Yesterday night was the DC Retailer Roadshow in Burbank, CA, the future home of DC Comics starting this May. The event is a semi-regular gathering of comic Retailers with the head of Sales, Publishing, and a few other admin/creative types from DC Comics to discuss upcoming events, sales tactics, incentives, and generally share ideas with one another. Great things like the popular Harley Quinn on-going that is currently being published by DC have spun out of these meetings, as well as some great and extraordinarily rare exclusive variant covers offered only to participants. Notable hosts on hand this time were More >
Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX Get Release Dates
Jan 30th
Disney has confirmed that Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX have a release dates. In the annual shareholders letter, CEO Bob Iger had this to say on the subject:
“As one of the few people allowed to visit the set during filming… and one of the fewer who’s seen most of the footage… I can assure the millions of ‘Star Wars’ fans who have spent the last decade hoping for a new movie this one will be worth the wait. And it’s only the beginning of a new era of exceptional ‘Star Wars’ storytelling; next year we’ll release our first standalone More >
Play Oregon Trail In Space With FTL: Faster Than Light
Dec 13th
Remember the devastation of trying to ford the river and watching your loved ones drown as a result? How about rationing food until everybody except for one had starved to death? Have you ever wanted to experience the same heart wrenching regret and morbid joy of Oregon Trail…but in space? Well, now you can! Thanks to the folks at Subset Games, you can live through your own Battlestar Galactica-type nightmare over and over again with FTL: Faster Than Light.
FTL: Faster Than Light is a PC game that was created by two men, Matthew Davis and Justin Ma, and was released in More >
Cadaver Dogs of Winter – Indie Review
Nov 30th
The major comic companies get enough reviews and press, it’s time for the creator-owned and indie series to get some love and judgment. Indie review takes up-and-coming indie and creator-owned series and puts them through the review process so you can confidently support the best of the small press and passion driven projects in the comic industry.
Title: Cadaver Dogs of Winter
Genre/s: Crime/Drama
Writer: Matthew Fillbach & Shawn Fillbach (SW: Clone Wars Adventures, Broken Heroes)
Penciler: Matthew Fillbach & Shawn Fillbach
Letterer: Matthew Fillbach & Shawn Fillbach
Publisher: First Comics
Number of Issues: 1 (OGN)
Page Count: 161
Price: $19.99
The Review Bit
It is rare that you More >
What Really Is Happening To Games Workshop?
Nov 25th
For those of you that are unfamiliar with Games Workshop (GW), it is the powerhouse of the tabletop wargaming industry. They developed and published games such as Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000. GW has always had the industry firmly in its grasp, but recently things seem much less stable and there has been more uncertainty than ever before surrounding the company. But the question echoing in every wargamer’s head still remains. Is Games Workshop digging its own grave or is there something we are missing?
Games Workshop was founded in 1975 in London and was originally a generic board game developer, but More >
Celebrating 10 Years Of World Of Warcraft!
Nov 23rd
A very happy birthday to World of Warcraft! World of Warcraft(WoW) was released ten years ago on November 23, 2004 to the gaming community by Blizzard Entertainment and what a ten years it has been. Whether or not you have played or even care for World of Warcraft, there is no denying its enormity and impact on the gaming world. Spawned from the Warcraft Trilogy, World of Warcraft is undoubtedly the most successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game(MMORPG) out there. Not only did it set the standard for subscription-based MMORPGs, but it also created a massive footprint in the gaming world. More >
What Are “The Five Armies” In The New Hobbit Film?
Nov 20th
With the third and final installment of The Hobbit just around the corner, many fans of Tolkien and Middle-earth are both anxious to see and dreading the events to come. With the cliffhanger we were left with at the end of The Desolation Of Smaug, there is no doubt the next movie will be filled with death and destruction. As if to emphasize this, the title of the final film is The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies. However, most people are unfamiliar with what exactly “The Battle Of The Five Armies” is or what the “Five Armies” are. Before More >
Aspen Comics Makes Deal With Big Dog Ink
Oct 8th
We have a lot of love for Aspen Comics here at SG2M, so we were thrilled when they announced earlier today that they have acquired the exclusive publishing rights for the entire library of fellow Indy comic publisher Big Dog Ink. Owner/publishers Tom and Kim Hutchinson will continue to be the creative backbone for Big Dog Ink’s original titles. In addition to BDI’s catalogue of past titles, BDI will be moving forward as an exclusive imprint of Aspen Comics. With this deal, BDI will have access to a broader customer base at retail and digital levels and will also have More >
Marvel Cancels Upcoming Covers By Milo Manara.
Sep 23rd
In this Tuesday’s edition of Diamond Comic Distributors “Product & Shipping Updates” it seems that 2 upcoming variant covers originally solicited to be drawn by the legendary Italian artist would now be drawn by someone else. Siya Oum (Aspen’s Lola XOXO) will be providing the art for October’s Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1, and the artist for November’s Thor #2 has yet to be announced. While Marvel has not given any statement regarding the change, the internet is, of course, aflutter with speculation as to why, and attributing the change due to all the controversy surrounding November’s highly debated Spider-Woman More >
