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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 >
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 >
Geoff Johns On Leave Superman
Feb 5th
It’s just one month until Geoff Johns final issue of Superman, as the creator once more readies to walk away from the near omnipotent Kryptonian he’s written so well. This time, however, he leaves us with a few parting words right after the penultimate issue that has left Superman with a new power! Read his thoughts below and see if you can catch some of the more interesting tidbits hidden throughout:
Superman #38 came out yesterday and JR and I wanted to say thank you, because the issue sold out!
I have to admit, it’s a little bittersweet, because not only is More >
See Daredevil In Costume In The Newest Trailer
Feb 4th
The interest in Netflix’s new Marvel TV series has been building up as we get closer and closer to the April 10th release of all of Daredevil season 1. With just a few short months standing between us and 13 episodes, its about time we saw actor Charlie Cox in action as the Daredevil, fighting crime in Hell’s Kitchen. Thankfully Marvel and Netflix have brought us a trailer today that actually gives us a real glimpse at what we should expect:
Though Daredevil in no way dons the red leather outfit we saw him in back in 2003, that isn’t to More >
Important To Read Before This Week’s Spider-Verse; A Reading Order
Jan 21st
The popular Spider-Man event, Spider-Verse, is very reliant on what would traditionally be peripheral crossover books in most major Marvel events. Rather than using the Spider-Verse tie-ins as a cheap ploy to sell additional books or up the sales numbers on lower selling series, the Spider-Verse tie-ins have all played an integral part in telling the story of Spider-Men from every universe coming together to fight the deadly Inheritors. Almost every issue of the main Spider-Man title, Amazing Spider-Man, has been filled with captions serving as cliff notes that point the reader off in different directions where subplots continue and More >
Marvel’s Secret Wars Press Conference - The End of the Marvel Universe As We Know It?
Jan 20th
“There is nothing wrong with typical Stan Lee hyperbole“. That was the line I’ll remember most from Executive Editor Tom Brevoort as far as today’s press conference goes. Why? Because today they officially announced and detailed the upcoming Marvel mega event, Secret Wars. In a press conference that took place at New York City’s infamous Midtown Comics, Brevoort and Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso attempted to break the internet with plans for the upcoming event and the future of the Marvel Universe. Immediately afterwards I spoke to several other journalists, retailers, and fans. Immediately after the video below, showing the entirety More >
