Month: July 2019

Press Release Soar through Comic-Con 2019 with Gotham City’s new vigilante on your back, arm yourself with arrows, or go forth with Archie and the gang! Warner Bros. Television Group celebrates its 10th year as the official bag sponsor of Comic-Con with 23 new designs. The collectible carriers have you covered as you stash your swag

Check out a preview of this week’s Lucifer #10. LUCIFER #10written by DAN WATTERSart by MAX FIUMARAcover by TIFFANY TURRILLLucifer is legion. The Devil and Caliban’s search for an agreeable afterlife continues—this time taking them to the subterranean realms of Naraka, where the gods wear many faces and the ocean is infinite. Meanwhile: an angel

A hero returns – and is reborn in a preview of July 17’s The Pride: Season Two #2 – a comiXology Originals title, exclusive to the digital comics platform. THE PRIDE SEASON TWO #2 (of 6)Writer: Joe GlassArtist: Cem IrozColorist: Mark DaleLetterer: Mike StockThe Pride are heading out into the world to expand in a

Credit: Eugene Powers / Shutterstock.com New details have emerged about Storyboards, a Marvel-branded documentary travel series hosted by Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada that will debut at launch on the Disney+ streaming service, as announced via Wired. The series, which will consist of 12 10-15 minute episodes in its first season, follows Quesada and a

Credit: DC Credit: DC DC’s Metal Men are returning in a new 12-issue maxi-series fueled by Nth Metal. Avowed Metal Men fan Dan DiDio (DC’s co-Publisher) is writing a story with artist Shane Davis that will tie the characters in with Nth Metal – which was recently retconned in the Dark Knights: Metal event. “I’m

Credit: Hasbro Credit: Hasbro Credit: Hasbro Hasbro has unveiled its largest Transformers toy ever – a 27″ tall fully-poseable Unicron figure that is screen accurate to the character’s debut in 1986’s animated Transformers: The Movie. The figure is fully poseable with 50-points of articulation, down to its jaw and fingers, and can convert into a

Credit: comiXology Press Release ComiXology, Amazon’s premier digital comics service, will kick off Comic-Con International San Diego 2019 on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 with an invite-only press event showcasing comiXology Originals debuts, news and creators, as well as providing data-backed insight on comics industry trends and more. ComiXology Co-founder and CEO and Head of Digital

Credit: Gilbert Shelton Underground cartoonist Gilbert Shelton’s long-running Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers will be adapted to an eight-episode animated series from WTG Enterprises, according to Deadline. Workaholics’s Adam Devine and Blake Anderson will voice two of the show’s four leads – a trio of stoner ‘freaks’ named Freewheelin’ Franklin Freek, Phineas T. Phreak and Fat Freddy Frekowtski and

Credit: DC Credit: DC Press Release TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE INFECTS SOME OF THE BIGGEST EVENTS IN DC HISTORY THIS OCTOBER BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL and THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN Debut This New Line of One-Shot Prestige Format Stories  Credit: DC Future Titles to Include Twisted Takes on INFINITE CRISIS, BLACKEST NIGHT and THE JUDAS CONTRACT

Credit: Dynamite Entertainment Credit: Dynamite Entertainment Press Release Dynamite announces a new Vengeance of Vampirella ongoing series to continue the iconic heroine’s 50th anniversary celebration! Swooping in on bat wings in time for Halloween, this series is quite special. Prolific Vampirella writer Tom Sniegoski (Punisher, Angel) returns once more to the Daughter of Drakulon –

Credit: Industrial Light & Magic Press Release Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the visual effects division of Lucasfilm Ltd., announced today that the company would be expanding its global footprint to Australia. The studio is opening a new studio in Sydney to better serve its clients and complement its current operations in San Francisco, where

Credit: Shutterstock.com The UK’s the Daily Mail is reporting Sunday that actor Lashana Lynch – Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel – will play 007 in the next, currently-in-production 25th James Bond film. Although she won’t be playing James Bond.  According to the report, Lynch will play a character who takes over as 007 after Bond retires

Credit: Mark Brooks/Christina Strain (Marvel Comics) Spider-Man: Far From Home writers Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna brought the Skrulls Talos and Soren back in the recent sequel, posing as Nick Fury and Maria Hill throughout the film. And according to the writers, they’d like to see even more Skrulls in the MCU – specifically a

Credit: Taito Credit: Taito Greg Russo has signed on to write New Line Cinema’s Space Invaders film, according to Deadline. Warner Bros. optioned Space Invaders in 2014, and has moved it to New Line for development. Russo wrote the script for upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot, which is also being produced by New Line. Back in

Credit: Carey Pietsch (First Second) Credit: Carey Pietsch (First Second) The (Tres Horny) boys are back in town … and those wild-eyed boys haven’t changed that much, right down to the destruction that trails in their wake. It’s The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited, the second installment of the graphic novel series based

Credit: The CW Press Release “WONDER TWIN POWERS…ACTIVATE!” DC AND WARNER BROS. SUPER FRIENDS UNITE TO CREATE AN EPIC DIGITAL MEGA-BOOTH FOR COMIC-CON® 2019 Visit the World of Harley Quinn with an Exclusive Arkham Activation! Picture Yourself on the Friends Couch or in a Booth at Pop’s Diner from Riverdale! Plus, DCU Exclusives, Dark Knight

Credit: Saturn Awards Press Release The 45th annual Saturn Awards will take place on Friday, September 13, 2019 at the historic Avalon Theater in Hollywood, California. For the first time in its history, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, the organization that founded and owns the Saturn Awards, has made a multi-year partnership

Aya Cash Credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Credit: Darick Robertson after Frank Quitely (Dynamite Entertainment) You’re The Worst actor Aya Cash is in talks to play Stormfront in a prospective second season of Amazon’s adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys, according to Deadline. In comic books, Stormfront is one of the world’s most powerful

The ousted fairiei plots his re-crowning in a full first issue preview of August 28’s Oberon Vol. 1: The King of Lies TPB from AfterShock Comics. OBERON vol 1: THE KING OF LIES TPB / $14.99 / 120 pages / colorWriter: Ryan ParrottArtist: Milos SlavkovicLetterer: Charles PritchettMain cover: Milos SlavkovicBetrayed by his people and exiled

Credit: Dark Horse Comics Credit: Dark Horse Comics Press Release Dark Horse journeys under the sea with upcoming miniseries for fans of all ages, Disney The Little Mermaid! From the writer of Dark Horse’s recent Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cecil Castellucci, artist Zulema Scotto Lavina, and colorist Piky Hamilton, experience the unforgettable

Credit: CW Credit: CW A pair of long-gone Arrow characters will make their return for the show’s eight and final season, according to Entertainment Weekly. Colin Donnell’s Tommy Merlyn and Josh Segarra’s Adrian Chase will each appear in Arrow season 8, though according to showrunner Beth Schwartz and Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim, neither will be the character

Credit: Axe/Marvel Press Release Inspired by AXE’s new Ice Chill products, AXE and Marvel have joined forces to create a new set of super heroes, The Fresh-Men — a collective of seemingly normal high-school students with super abilities meant to inspire teens everywhere to stay chill. These new heroes show how young guys and girls are their most confident and attractive when they’re

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Flaviano Armentaro will pencil August’s Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors #1 instead of the previously announced artist Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque. The change was announced in Marvel’s latest news mailer. Alburquerque remains solicited to draw September’s Lethal Protectors #2. Lethal Protectors #3 has not yet been solicited. Here’s the full solicitation

Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics published more than twice the number of new comic book and graphic novels in June 2019 than DC, whose publishing volume more closely resembled Image Comics and IDW Publishing than its historic rival – but those numbers come with a caveat, according to figures released by Diamond Comic Distributors Friday

Credit: Cliff Chiang (Image Comics) Credit: Cliff Chiang/Matthew Wilson (Image Comics) Amazon Studios has ordered a live-action series based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s Paper Girls series in what was described as a “competitive” bidding situation, according to Deadline. The online streamer has ordered the show straight to series, with Legendary Television and

Credit: Philip Tan (DC) Credit: Philip Tan (DC) Seminal filmmaker John Carpenter and Borderlands 2 writer Anthony Burch are co-writing a 40-page Joker one-shot tying into DC’s “Year of the Villain” event. The Joker: Year of the Villain #1 is scheduled to be released October 2, and will be drawn by artists Philip Tan and

By Adrian Care, Best Shots Reviewer July 11, 2019 12:30pm ET Credit: Mikel Janin/Jordie Bellaire (DC) Credit: Mitch Gerads (DC) Batman #74Written by Tom KingArt by Mikel Janin and Jordie BellaireLettering by Clayton CowlesPublished by DC‘Rama Rating: 7 out of 10 Credit: Mikel Janin/Jordie Bellaire (DC) It’s taken plenty of twists and turns to get