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What Is Marvel Announcing At SXSW?
Mar 6th
This weekend is Texas’ big Music, Film, and Interactive Media Expo colloquially referred to as SXSW. Once again the big comic company, Marvel, is planning on making news there. Last year we heard about Marvel Infinity and Marvel AR. This year they’re teasing us with 3 very interesting ads, with possibly more to come. The ads, shown below, show a large #1 with many major creator names, 52 scratch marks, and something called Project Gamma. Fans are discussing countless possibilities, including ideas that Marvel is going the route of DC’s New 52, creating 52 new #1 issues that reboot the More >
IT Came! - A Trailer For The New Series From Titan Comics
Mar 5th
They ran to the hills! They locked up their families! They stuck on the kettle and cowered in terror when… IT CAME!
It Came! is a new four issue comic series done in the style of a 1950′s B-Movie by creator Dan Boultwood. Set to release from Titan Comics this summer, fans of things like Mystery Science Theater 3000 will undoubtedly love this hilarious romp, a knowing throwback to the heyday of low-budget Sci-Fi cinema. Trundling through the 1950s British countryside, unthinkingly misogynistic space scientist, Dr. Boy Brett and the suitably chaperoned Doris Night pop into a quaint village pub for More >
Overtaken Over Takes Awaken Skies As Aspen’s Newest Title
Mar 5th
Following a month-long online fan voting process to choose Aspen Comics’ next series, the publisher has announced that Overtaken has won the contest and will debut on August 21st as their 7th release in their “10 for 10” initative. Created by Frank Mastromauro, this all new sci-fi, action adventure series is solicited as:
Journalist Will Harden is well equipped for most situations, but nothing can prepare him for what’s about to come. Relocating from the big city to a small mountain town with his wife, everything is turned upside-down the moment she goes missing. Are the rumors of alien abductions true or did More >
Iron Man 3 New Trailer
Mar 5th
Each time Iron Man 3 releases a new trailer it just seems to get better and better. In a time where comic movies are starting to be bemoaned by comic fans, Marvel is just doing an increasingly better job and Iron Man 3 looks like the hat trick pulled off as far as Tony Stark is concerned. Check out this incredible new trailer down below and make sure you’re ready to rock and roll with Iron Man this May 3rd!
Shrugged vol.2 #1 - Indie Review & Preview
Mar 4th
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: Shrugged vol.2 #1
Genre/s: Fantasy/Adventure
Writer: Frank Mastromauro (Dellec)
Penciler: Jonathan Marks (Soulfire: Despair) & Micah Gunnell (Idolized)
Colorist: Beth Sotelo (Fathom)
Letterer: Josh Reed (pretty much everything Aspen has ever released)
Publisher: Aspen MLT
Number of Issues: 1 (of 6)
Page Count: 21
Price: $1.00
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Cullen Bunn’s Helheim #1 Preview
Mar 4th
“Once the threshold of Helheim is crossed, not even gods can escape.”
This Wednesday Oni Press is releasing a brand new on-going series that should be worthy of your attention. Pitched as a gothic horror story of witchcraft, night creatures, and the undead during the age of Vikings, this new series by Cullen Bunn certainly has the makings of something great. Titled Helheim (Norwegian for Home of Hel), its name is based on one of the realms in Norse mythology where the Goddess Hel lives and the dead go after death. The official solicit goes a little something like “During the age More >
Sex #1 Preview (The Comic Might Be Dirty, But The Preview Is Safe For Work)
Mar 3rd
Finally, a good reason for you come into the comic book store — to buy SEX! Simon Cooke has retired from his own “alternative lifestyle” and returned to the city he’d previously sworn to protect. Now he’s just another average citizen — or is he? The term “adult” has never been so appropriate as it is when it applies to SEX. A new comic definitely aimed at Mature Readers, this is writer Joe Casey’s follow up to his popular adult superhero series, Butcher Baker Righteous Maker. Joe Casey (Wildcats 3.0, Haunt) is joined by artist Piotr Kowalski (Gail, Malignant Man) in More >
Age of Ultron #1 Preview
Mar 3rd
For years the heroes of the Marvel Universe have lived in fear that the artificial intelligence known as Ultron would one day evolve to fulfill its desire to wipe out all organic life and take over the Earth — and after years of solicitation, that day has finally arrived! This massive 10-part Marvel Universe-spanning event is brought to you by Eisner award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Spider-Man, All New X-men), comics legend Bryan Hitch (Ultimates, Captain America: Reborn), and the stunning colors of Paul Mounts (Avengers, Ultimate War). Sure, we were promised this some time ago, but Marvel is More >
Assassin’s Creed IV Trailer & Release Date
Mar 2nd
It’s still not May 4th, but the Assassin Creed IV news still comes in with the tide as more news leaks. Now we have a trailer that looks might fantastic and pirate-y that also confirms Thursday’s information like the new Assassin’s name and the game’s release date. Check out the trailer below:
As you can see, the trailer confirms the pirate theme, along with our new protagonist’s name: Captain Edward Kenway. It also gives us the games release date of October 29th, 2013. Extra bonus, it confirms a post made over at Kotaku earlier this week showing off an Assassin’s Creed poster done More >
ECCC ’13: DC Creates A Trinity Of Sin
Mar 2nd
In Seattle Washington today, at DC’s panel for Emerald City Comic Con, fans were finally given new news about the mysterious lady who first appeared in Flashpoint #5 and then subtly cameo’d in every #1 issue of DC’s New 52 titles. Yes, Pandora will be coming back to the DC universe, according to panelists, and she’s not alone. We first got Pandora’s name and a little bit more info about her in the New 52 Free Comic Book Day comic last year, where she appeared alongside the Question and the Phantom Stranger. This ‘Trinity of Sin’ was cursed by some More >
