Month: September 2019

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Kitty Pryde will lead a crew of mutant pirates in the upcoming Marauders series, coming as part of the “Dawn of X” X-Men relaunch – and what appear to be interior images from Marauders #1 seem to show how Kitty is recruited by Emma Frost. The teaser, seen here,

Credit: HBO HBO has revealed the characters names of key members of Watchmen‘s cast as part of their promotion of a New York Comic Con panel devoted to the new series.  Check out the tweet below.  HBO’s Watchmen debuts Oct 20. It’s time. @NY_Comic_Con #WatchmenHBO pic.twitter.com/NQPGc4k61c — Watchmen (@watchmen) September 26, 2019

Check out images from DC’s Tales from the Dark Multiverse: The Death of Superman #1 on sale in October. “In a broken world much like our own, Lois Lane, twisted by rage and grief, becomes the Eradicator and takes revenge on those who let Superman die, and the corrupt world he could never defeat. Now,

Credit: Antarctic Press B.A.D.A.S.S. #2 (monthly series, full color, 32 pgs., $3.99 U.S.)Story/Art: Adrian NelsonParasites, elderly zombies and Sam, oh my!  A day at the office go sideways for B.A.D.A.S.S. (Bureau of Alien Detection And Supernatural Sightings) when a battle is waged inside their own headquarters!   Coaraptor (one-shot. full color, 32 pgs., $4.99 U.S.)Story/Art:

Press Release The Marvel Universe is revisiting everyone’s favorite dystopian future this November, and we’re gearing up with these stunning 2099 variants!  AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #34 2099 VARIANT by PASQUAL FERRY AVENGERS #27 2099 VARIANT by NICK BRADSHAW BLACK CAT #6 2099 VARIANT by PHIL NOTO BLACK PANTHER & THE AGENTS OF WAKANDA 2099 VARIANT by

Credit: Harvey Awards Press Release The Harvey Awards Steering Committee is proud to announce the 2019 inductees into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame before the annual event held at New York Comic Con. With seven recipients being honored, this group represents the largest of all Hall of Fame induction classes in the 31-year history

Credit: Alison Bechdel Merriam-Webster has added “Bechdel Test” to its dictionary in September. Defined as “a set of criteria used to evaluate a movie or other work of fiction on the basis of its inclusion and representation of female characters,” cartoonist Alison Bechdel introduced it in a 1985 Dykes To Watch Out For strip. “The

Credit: Warner Bros. Press Release New York Comic-Con is about to get sassy as DC and Warner Bros. bring Harley Quinn to Gotham City in a big way! In celebration of the much-anticipated release of the new DC UNIVERSE original animated series Harley Quinn, as well as her upcoming feature in which she teams up

Credit: ABC Hulu’s planned Marvel TV series Ghost Rider has been canceled during development, according to Deadline. The Hollywood trade reports that the show, which would have starred Gabriel Luna as Robbie Reyes, will not move forward over unspecified creative differences. Luna previously played a version of Reyes in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., though this new series would

Credit: FandangoNOW The FandangoNOW movie and TV streaming service is moving into the realm of VR with a new app available on Oculus Go and Oculus Quest headset devices. The VR app launches with 90,000 movies and TV shows available to rent and stream – including the now-on-digital home video Spider-Man: Far From Home, one

Credit: Sony Pictures Sony isn’t letting home video first-time watchers discover the return of J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson in the post-credits sequence of Spider-Man: Far From Home like moviegoers did. The actor is fron and center of the studios’s promotion of the release of the film this week on digital and home video

Barbara Gordon is on her own in this first look at October 23’s Batman: Curse of the White Knight #4 by Sean Murphy. BATMAN: CURSE OF THE WHITE KNIGHT #4written by SEAN MURPHYart and cover by SEAN MURPHYvariant cover by SEAN MURPHYAfter a shocking tragedy strikes the Bat-Family and Montoya takes the reins, Babs defies the

Credit: Image Comics Credit: Image Comics Press Release New York Comic Con will be the first stop for Todd McFarlane as he celebrates SPAWN becoming the Longest-Running Creator Owned Superhero Comic! The Guinness World Record holder himself will be attending as a special guest from Thursday, October 3rd through Sunday, October 6th.  To commemorate this moment in history, the SPAWN Merchandise program will be coming to New York

Credit: Diamond Comic Distributors Press Release In a letter to employees, vendors, and key retailers, Steve Geppi, Chairman and CEO of Geppi Family Enterprises, the newly formed parent company of Diamond Comic Distributors, announced key appointments to the company’s new leadership team, as well as outlined his vision for the pop-culture companies it represents: “On

Credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is going to develop a Star Wars movie as part of Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy’s plans for a new wave of Star Wars projects, the Hollywood Reporter is reporting Wednesday evening.  According to the Hollywood trade, Feige had discussed a possible Star Wars project in a

Wait … what?? Credit: Marvel Studios Natalie Portman’s  surprise return as Jane Foster in Thor: Love & Thunder – which will make Jane Foster worthy of Mjolnir and transform her into Thor, as in comic books – follows her absence from the preceding Thor film, Ragnarok. And now, Portman has addressed Foster’s absence from that

Credit: Image Comics Credit: Image Comics If you miss the Deadly Class TV Show, don’t worry – the story lives on in the original Image Comics title. Co-creators Rick Remender and Wes Craig are returning after a brief hiatus this week with Deadly Class #40, as Marcus and Maria get ready for their sophomore year

Credit: DC Credit: DC When writer/artist Kirk Scroggs was approached by DC to do a graphic novel aimed at middle-grade audiences, his mixed two unlikely ideas — creepy DC character Swamp Thing and a teenager’s spiral ring notebook. What resulted was The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid, which Scroggs both wrote and illustrated in a

Credit: DC Credit: DC Chris Wildgoose realizes that drawing Bruce Wayne as a thin, awkward teenager might seem odd to some long-time Batman fans, but his new graphic novel, Batman: Nightwalker, is supposed to portray the teenage Bruce before he became the grown-up hero. Based on best-selling authoro Marie Lu’s prose novel by the same

Credit: Thomas Kinkade Studios There are several notable painters working in comics painting DC heroes, but this year is the beginning of a surprising new partnership – DC and Thomas Kinkade Studios. The studio of the late pastoral painter has partnered with DC to do a series of three paintings depicting DC heroes including Superman,

Credit: CW CW is developing an Arrow spin-off set in the future of Star City, which focuses on Mia Smoak taking up the mantle of the Green Arrow alongside Laurel Lance and Dinah Drake, as reported by ComicBook. The untitled show will reportedly feature actors Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy, and Juliana Harkavy reprising their ‘Canary’ characters as

Credit: Warner Bros. A group comprised of family members and friends of those who died in 2012’s mass shooting at a showing of The Dark Knight Rises at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater have come together to author a letter to Warner Bros. CEO Ann Sarnoff over concerns about the studio’s upcoming Joker film. This

Credit: Bill Sienkiewicz/Chris Sotomayor (Marvel Comics) Credit: Marvel Comics Next to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, perhaps no other singular creator is more identified with a Marvel Comics franchise than Chris Claremont. For decades Clarement guided the X-Men as the comic book industry’s dominant family of titles, including not only the core Uncanny X-Men series,

Check out a preview of October 9’s Dead Legends #1 from A Wave Blue World. Dead Legends is part of AWBW’s Premiere #1 Program, where the first issue will be released in print then segue to digital serialization before a print collection two months later. DEAD LEGENDS #1(W) James Maddox (A) Gavin Smith (CA) Leonardo

Credit: Shawn Moll/John Livesay/JD Smith (Image Comics) Credit: Yasmine Putri (Image Comics) Iconic editor Jim Shooter returns to the world of comic books in 2020, ushering in a unique crime noir (with a side of talking animals) called Slow City Blues through Image Comics. “Slow City Blues is an ongoing, genre bending series that brings

Credit: Dave Johnson (Valiant Entertainment) Credit: Tula Lotay (Image Comics) SFSX #1Written by Tina HornArt by Michael DowlingLettering by Steve WandsPublished by Image ComicsReview by Justin Partridge‘Rama Rating: 9 out of 10 “I remember when I was free to scream.” The heir apparent to Bitch Plane and Sex Criminals reveals itself in the harrowing, titiallating

Credit: Warner Bros. Warner Bros. has responded to a letter from family members and friends of the victims of 2012’s mass shooting at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. The initial letter was inspired by WB’s upcoming Joker film, which centers on a version of the Joker’s descent into violence, and calls