Month: March 2019

Credit: Paul Pope (Image Comics) Credit: Paul Pope (Image Comics) Press Release Image Comics is pleased to celebrate two decades of Paul Pope’s (Battling Boy, Batman: Year 100) Eisner Award-nominated, science-fiction/cyberpunk classic Heavy Liquid with an exuberant, all-new, 20th anniversary trade paperback. This gorgeous new edition will collect issues #1-5 of the Heavy Liquid series

Credit: ReedPOP Press Release Lyte Inc. has partnered with ReedPOP – the world’s largest producer of pop culture events – to power fan-to-fan ticket exchanges for its portfolio of sought-after pop culture festivals, including the upcoming: Star Wars Celebration Chicago and Emerald City Comic Con. By partnering with Lyte, event producer ReedPOP is giving fans

Press Release Classic Stills, a Los Angeles and London-based publisher of rare and iconic photographs, has collaborated with Marvel Studios to release the official limited-edition fine art collection from the Marvel’s latest movie, Captain Marvel. The collection of 20 images includes rare on-set photography, publicity stills and iconic moments from the film, with only 100

Taika Waititi Credit: Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock.com Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi will write and direct the pilot for Apple TV’s reboot of Time Bandits, according to Deadline. The filmmaker has signed on for just the pilot, though the reboot of the 1981 Terry Gilliam surreal sci-fi film could go to series. Time Bandits focuses on the

Credit: Marvel Studios Spoilers for Captain Marvel. While there is a lot of discuss (and we will) for Captain Marvel’s first 120 minutes or so, it’s what happens to in about 90 seconds of post-credit action that raises a lot of questions and maybe … maybe suggests some answers about April’s Avengers: Endgame. So if

Credit: Dark Horse Credit: Dark Horse Press Release Dark Horse Comics and Critical Role are proud to announce three new projects set to release in 2019. Based on epic tales from the world of Exandria, these new comics, art books and more will explore this universe in new and original ways! The most popular digital

Credit: Kai-Ming Man & Yu-Kwok Lun Credit: Kai-Ming Man & Yu-Kwok Lun Internal Affairs director Andrew Lau has licensed the North American film rights for Teddy Boy, a Chinese comic book by Hong Kong artist Kai-Ming Man and inked by Yu-Kwok Lun, according to Deadline.  Lau previously adapted Teddy Boy in the 90s as his Young and Dangerous

Credit: Yancey Labat (DC Zoom/DC) Credit: Yancey Labat (DC Zoom/DC) Press Release DC announced today that the publisher will continue its critically acclaimed DC Super Hero Girls (DCSHG) graphic novel series with new stories told by animation and comics writer Amy Wolfram. Wolfram’s graphic novels will tell original stories starring Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Supergirl and

Adrian Martinez Credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Credit: Matthew Southworth (Oni Press) Adrian Martinez has been cast as Tookie in ABC’s Stumptown pilot, according to Deadline. Colbie Smulders was previously cast in the lead role of Dex Parios in this adaptation of the 2009 Oni Press limited series by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth. Martinez

Credit: Spicy Pulp Comics Credit: Spicy Pulp Comics Press Release Lady Redbeard, the Spicy Pulp launch character, an unapologetic OLD SCHOOL ESCAPIST FANTASY from a bygone era. The tale of a sexy swashbuckler and her salty crew of buccaneers trapped in the Bermuda Triangle where anything and everything is possible! Zombie Dinosaurs? A lost NASA

Credit: The CW Highlander alum Adrian Paul made a surprise debut on Monday’s Arrow episode as the shadowy villain Dante. Diggle (played by David Ramsey) and Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson) have been investigating the identity of the Dante character for several episodes now, as it had been realized he had been funding dozens of terrorists

Credit: Jorge Jiménez/ Alejandro Sanchez (DC) Credit: Jorge Jimenez/Alejandro Sanchez (DC) Spoilers ahead for March 6’s Justice League #19. This week’s Justice League #19 introduced a new “Justice League of Tomorrow,” and according to writer Scott Snyder, the team includes characters like a three-person Flash, White Lantern John Stewart, and Shane (the son of Martian

Credit: Erica Henderson (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment) Credit: Erica Henderson (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment) When the world’s best killer needs protection, who does he turn to? The twenty other best killers in the world, obviously. Writer Kyle Starks and artist Erica Henderson come together for hilarity and hitmen with Assassin Nation from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment.

Panel from “Avengers: Infinity War” adaptation Credit: Paco Diaz (Marvel Comics) Credit: Marvel Studios Marvel is releasing an Avengers sampler book for comic book stores, just in time for April 26’s Avengers: Endgame. The publisher has informed retailers they will be sending free 25-pack bundles of a new collection titled Avengers Start Here Sampler 2019.

Rocko’s Modern Life is about to get a lot more terrifying as tech-obsessed ‘zombies’ overrun his home of O-Town in April 3’s Rocko’s Modern Afterlife #1. But when Rocko himself unplugs, he’ll be the only one left to set things right.  “Anthony and Mattia bring a fresh and hilarious take to everyone’s favorite neurotic wallaby

Gahan Wilson Credit: Paul Winters Credit: Gahan Wilson A GoFundMe fundraiser to help cartoonist Gahan Wilson’s family to admit him into a specialised ‘memory care’ assisted living facility has been launched. Gahan is best known for his horror-filled fantasy comic strips which have appeared in The New Yorker, National Lampoon, Playboy, and Colliers. “Gahan is

Credit: Marvel Studios Captain Marvel earned $20.7 million Thursday in North America, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That figure makes it the seventh-largest superhero film in that frame, following Avengers: Infinity War ($39m), The Dark Knight Rises ($30.1m), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($27.7m), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($27.6m), Black Panther ($25.2m), and Captain

Check out the entire first issue of AfterShock’s Animosity: Evolution Vol. 2 TPB ahead of its March 27 release. ANIMOSITY: EVOLUTION VOL. 2 TRADE PAPERBACK$14.99 / 120 pages / Full Color / ON SALE 03.27.19Writer: Marguerite BennettArtist: Eric GapsturColorist: Rob SchwagerLetters: Marshall DillonCover: Eric Gapstur w/ Guy Major Will Wintermute be able to hold onto

Credit: Greg Land (Marvel Comics) Credit: Stanley “Artgerm” Lau (Marvel Comics) Iban Coello has been brought in as a second artist alongside Greg Land on Symbiote Spider-Man #1. The five-issue title, which debuts April 10, is a Peter David-written flashback story when the Venom symbiote was Spider-Man’s black costume. Marvel have not announced the reason

Credit: DC Credit: Ryan Sook (DC) Hawkman, Stargirl, and Atom Smahser have featured roles in the latest draft of New Line Cinema’s Black Adam film script, according to That Hashtag Show. Screenwriter Adam Sztykiel (Rampage) reportedly turned in the updated draft in February 2019. According to the website, New Line will be looking for a

Let’s face it, Marvel is a multi-media entertainment company in the truest sense of the word now. Yes, no doubt the comic book division still operates with a certain amount of autonomy and we’re not suggesting everything is developed as a comic book with eyes toward a feature film, live-action, or animated TV series in

Credit: Shutterstock.com Credit: David Peterson (BOOM! Studios / Archaia Press) According to the Hollywood Reporter, master of motion capture Andy Serkis and actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Maze Runner‘s Newt) have signed on as the leads of director Wes Ball’s adaptation of Archaia/Boom! Studios Mouse Guard comic books. Serkis is reportedly the story’s villain – the Guard’s blacksmith Midnight.

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics June’s batch of Marvel’s True Believers reprint comic books will grease the wheels for the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home in July, and the group of ten $1 titles includes some obvious selections … and some curious ones. Obvious: Spider-Man Fights in London #1 from 1963’s Amazing Spider-Man

Check out a preview of next week’s Age of X-Men: The Marvelous X-Men #2. AGE OF X-MAN: THE MARVELOUS X-MEN #2 (of 5)ZAC THOMPSON & LONNIE NADLER (W) • MARCO FAILLA (A) • Cover by PHIL NOTOVARIANT COVER BY Humberto RamosTHE AGE OF X-MAN CONTINUES!With the coming of Apocalypse and the X-Tracts, the world is