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Mind of Mirrors Book 1 - Indie Review
Feb 25th
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.
The Info Bit
Title: Mind of Mirrors
Genre/s: Drama
Writer: Leland Jackness and Dan Franklin
Penciler: Tom Hodges (Star Wars: Tales from the Clone Wars)
Colorist: Brianna Garcia
Letterer: Dan Franklin
Publisher: Self
Number of Issues: Book One (of Three)
Page Count: 96
Price: $29.99 (includes 10 track original soundtrack CD by Dan & More >
SG2M Travels: Long Beach Comic Expo 2015
Feb 24th
It has been a chain of never ending conventions these past few months, with comic cons, anime expos, retailer roadshows, and more! But this weekend is a rather fun highlight as Long Beach Comic Expo returns to sunny Long Beach, California for it’s 7th annual spring expo. This year they seem bigger than ever before, with a huge jump in the number of guests and exhibitors attending the rather large show. Gone are the days where this was a teaser show for the fall event of Long Beach Comic Con, because now this is a notable venture all on its More >
Invader Zim Comes To Comics This July
Feb 20th
Officially announced today at ComicsPro Portland, and shortly after via Twitter, Oni Press will be publishing an Invader Zim comic this July! Yes, the now classic cult cartoon from Nickelodeon and Jhonen Vasquez is making its way to sequential art format. We still don’t know much of the details, such as the level of Vasquez’ involvement or who the creative team will be, but that information will undoubtedly be forthcoming. Check out the press release below for more:
Oni Press, Portland’s premier independent comic book publisher, announced today it is collaborating with Jhonen Vasquez and Nickelodeon in producing an ongoing comic More >
Zack Snyder Shows Us Jason Mamoa As Aquaman
Feb 19th
Ditching the golden scale armor for black ink scales, Jason Mamoa has donned the costume of Aquaman for 2016′s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Director Zack Snyder tweeted this image just a short while ago via twitter, with the hash tag #UniteTheSeven. This film just keeps adding heroes to the cast, and you’ll note that while Aquaman is the king of Atlantis and the Seven Seas, there also happen to be 7 core members of the Justice League (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern, and currently Cyborg of the New 52). I wonder which connotation Snyder was More >
Could There Be An Invader Zim Comic In The Works From Oni?
Feb 17th
Oni Press, the brilliant publishing company behind titles like Sixth Gun, White Out, and Scott Pilgrim, has just made a very ominous post on Twitter this week. The post claims Doom is coming, with a date marking this Friday, February 20th. Now normally such a post would be a simple hint at some upcoming comic announcement or release that we would wait to report on until more information was available. However, this story is building quick with a notable font and a more notable comic figure re-tweeting it. Creator Jhonen Vasquez, a writer and artist known popularly for his Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and More >
Comic-Con International’s 2015 Open Online Registration Begins February 21st!
Feb 16th
San Diego’s Comic Con International is a world renowned event that draws roughly a quarter of a million people out to San Diego annually for a 5 day long festival of comics and pop cultures. Big Hollywood studios and comic publishers sit alongside video game companies and all sorts of manufacturers looking to advertise to a geek crowd that far exceeds the measly 130,000 official attendees of the event. Culturally speaking you could say San Diego Comic Con is the largest event of its kind, even more so than the significantly higher attended Angoulême, Lucca Comics & Games, or Comiket which More >
The Evolution of Howard The Duck Variant
Feb 15th
Howard the Duck is a goofy and unexpected Marvel character, on par with Deadpool in many ways, created by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik. He first appeared in 1973, saw an unexpected movie in 1986, and surprised many in the after credit scene of last years Guardians of the Galaxy film. Now the character will continue to surprise all in a brand new on-going comic series by Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones this March. Marvel is looking for big success with this series, as seen by the large number of variants and ordering incentives offered to retailers. But perhaps the most More >
A Look At Seaon 3 of Frank Cho’s Jungle Girl
Feb 11th
This April, the sexy queen of the Jungle is back at Dynamite Comics! That’s right, Frank Cho’s answer to characters like Shanna, Jana, and Sheena is back to fight dinosaurs in a skimpy leopard print bikini. We first saw Frank Cho’s Jungle Girl, Jana Sky-Born, back in the summer of 2007 when Cho had recently finished his 2005 Shanna, the She-Devil series up at Marvel and ventured over to Dynamite to work on Red Sonja. Obviously not over his classic Jungle Girl kick, he created a title very bluntly named after the century old archetype of buxom feminine jungle warriors (who 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 >
DC Comics In June, New Titles and Creative Teams
Feb 6th
Just a few short hours before today’s big DC Retailer Roadshow (the first of several) in Burbank, CA, DC has dropped the bombshell of June’s post-Convergence plans. What are they? Well, they involve 24 brand new comic series, a dropping of the New 52 branding, and some major creative team shake ups. This is certainly some interesting and, in a few cases, unexpected twists to the stories currently unfolding at DC. Not all currently sound super exciting, but many seem like they’re the right direction for the company. Below we have a list of all 49 of DC’s upcoming series More >
