Month: November 2019

Credit: Alex Ross (Marvel Comics) Matías Bergara and Tom Reilly have stepped in as guest artists of December 4’s Immortal Hulk #28. The duo are replacing series artist Joe Bennett on this issue. Bennett is slated to return for #29. Credit: Tom Reilly/Chris O’Halloran (Marvel Comics) Credit: Matías Bergara/Chris O’Halloran (Marvel Comics) Credit: Matías Bergara/Chris

Credit: Gurihiru (IDW Publishing) Credit: Nicoletta Baldari (IDW Publishing) IDW Publishing’s Big Hero 6: The Series #1 is finally set to come out November 13 – after a 15-month delay. “Out next week! Big Hero 6: The Series #1!” tweeted IDW associate editor Elizabeth Brei. “It’s got jokes and fun, and Nicoletta Baldari killed it

Jim Lee (along with Tom King) during their USO tour Credit: DC Teen Titans Go! Giant #1 Credit: Marcelo DiChiara (DC) DC has canceled orders for DC War Giant #1 and Teen Titans Go! Giant #2. The publisher informed retailers that all orders have been canceled, but that they plan to resolicit both at “a

Credit: Jack Kirby/Vince Colletta Press Release Profiles in History is proud to announce, Comic & Illustration Art: The Property of a Distinguished American Collector. This is an important and private collection of comic and illustration art that has been locked away for decades. The auction will be December 12th in Los Angeles. Highlights include: Credit:

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics We’ll have to wait a few days to find out how many copies of Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu’s X-Men #1 from Marvel sold in October, but the month’s bestselling comic book helped the Direct Market to its fourth-highest dollar total in ten years and highest in three

Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics have informed retailers that X-Men #4 – #6 have been postponed by the publisher. This comes two weeks after retailers were told that X-Men #4 will feature a different story than originally solicited. December 18’s X-Men #4 has been pushed back to January 1, leading January 1’s X-Men #5 to

Credit: Lucasfilm Credit: Lucasfilm Carrie Fisher’s Leia Organa Solo was intended to be the actual last Jedi in Disney’s Star Wars saga, according to the late actor’s brother Todd Fisher. “She was going to be the big payoff in the final film,” Fisher told Yahoo. “She was going to be the last Jedi, so to

Credit: Christian Dibari/Simon Gough (Action Lab Entertainment / Danger Zone) Credit: Francesco Laquinta/Marco Pagnotta (Action Lab Entertainment / Danger Zone) This March, Action Lab Entertainment’s Danger Zone imprint will publish Sweet Heart – a horror story inspired by the writer’s own personal struggle with diabetes. “This story serves as both a vessel for my own

Credit: BOOM! Studios/Archaia Press Credit: BOOM! Studios/Archaia Press Cecil Castellucci, the mind behind Young Animal’s Shade the Changing Girl and DC’s Female Furies, takes a deep dive into her own adolescence with BOOM! Studios/Archaia Press’ upcoming autobiographical graphic novel, Girl on Film, which hits comic book stores November 13. The series takes a look at

Credit: BOOM! Studios Credit: BOOM! Studios Shazam! director David F. Sandberg is set to direct a film adaptation of Cullen Bunn and Jack Cole’s BOOM! Studios comic book Unsound for Netflix, according to Deadline. Netflix reportedly nabbed the rights for the film after a heated bidding process. Unsound will be written by Skylar Jones and will be

Credit: Pixar The first teaser for Pixar’s Soul has arrived – and be warned, it looks like a bit of a tearjerker. Check it out: [embedded content] Here’s the official synopsis for the film: “Soul introduces Joe Gardner, a middle-school band teacher whose true passion is playing jazz. In the film, just when Joe thinks

Credit: TMS Entertainment Credit: TMS Entertainment The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Scienceswill be hosting a special event centered on Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic anime Akira later this year. On Monday, December 2, Akira will be screened at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California as part of its annual Marc Davis Celebration

Credit: Chris Arrant (Newsarama) Credit: DC DC has posted a job opening for a “Director, Publicity & Communications.” Working inside the DC department of the same name, this person in this role would be in charge of “global publicity strategy” for DC both externally and within the WarnerMedia umbrella. “This role will develop strategic executive

Credit: Yusuke Kozaki Yusuke Kozaki Credit: Gallery Nucleus The first U.S. solo artist exhibition by manga-ka Yusuke Kozaki will open November 16 at the Los Angeles-area Gallery Nucleus. Kozaki will be exhibiting several new digital and ink illustrations, as well as work from his commercial projects. Kozaki is best known for his manga Donyatsu, and

Credit: DC Credit: DC DC has informed retailers that Shazam! #9 has once again been postponed, with the plan now for a December 18 release. Originally solicited for an August 21 release, the issue was pushed back four times before being canceled by the publisher. DC re-solicited the book with December 2019’s solicitations with a

Credit: Viktor Bogdanovic (DC) Credit: Viktor Bogdanovic (DC) DC has informed retailers of an artist change to December 4’s The Infected: Deathbringer #1. Originally solicited as drawn by Ben Oliver, “The Infected” tie-in will now be drawn by Brent Peeples. DC did not give a reason for the change, however a search of Peeples’ social

Press Release The Darkness of the Blackstars Continues! Next Target: Earth! “It’s my cruelest portrayal of Superman that I’ve ever done, that makes him out to be the worst he can possibly be. I’m hoping people will really dig it, because it’s almost a roast of modern comics, including my own.” –Grant Morrison Hal Jordan

Cara Niece Credit: Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Logo Credit: Dark Horse Dark Horse Comics’ Cara Niece has retired after 27 years as the company’s VP of Production and Scheduling. In that role, Niece was in charge of much of the comics company, including the Design, Scheduling, Routing, and Production departments. “I’ve spent 27 years

With Black Cat Annual #1 coming out November 13, Marvel has released all of its covers. In addition to the main cover by J. Scott Capmbell (and a virgin variant), there are covers by Todd Nauck and Gerardo Sandoval. BLACK CAT ANNUAL #1JED MACKAY (W) • Javier Pina (A) • Cover by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL•

Credit: Luca Pizzari (IDW Publishing) Credit: Luca Pizzari (IDW Publishing) IDW Publishing has pushed back its planned ROM: Dire Wraiths limited series three months. Originally solicited as a monthly series debuting in October, the first issue has now been rescheduled for a January 8, 2020 release date. The second issue has been rescheduled to come

Credit: Goran Parlov (Marvel Comics) Goran Parlov is recovering from a stroke he suffered on Monday, October 28. The artist revealed his status in a tweet, assuring fans he is recovering well. So, basically, 10 days ago on Monday evening, i had a stroke and finished in E.R. I am recovering well. Out of intensive

Daniel Cudmore Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Former Colossus actor Daniel Cudmore has joined the cast of Hulu’s Helstrom, according to Deadline. Cudmore will reportedly play Keith Spivey, a nurse working at St. Teresa – a medical institution where the Helstrom siblings’ mother, Victoria, has been living for 20 years. The Spivey role is seemingly

Read a 11-page preview of May 15, 2020’s The Stringbags OGN from Dead Reckoning. THE STRINGBAGS OGNWriter: Garth EnnisArtist: PJ Holden, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Rob SteenIf you do the incredible often enough, they’ll want you to do the impossible.Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy began World War II with torpedo bombers that could devastate enemy

Credit: George Perez/Dick Giordano (DC) Credit: George Perez/Dick Giordano (DC) DC has informed retailers that Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant #1 has been pushed back four weeks to a new January 15, 2020 release date. It was originally solicited for a December 18 release. The publisher didn’t specify a reason for the change, no give

Credit: Marvel Comics This week’s X-Force #1 from writer Benjamin Percy and artists Joshua Cassara and Dean White ramps up humanity’s resistance to Krakoan sovereignty, setting the stage for a new iteration of the mutant black-ops team. But the tragedy that sparks the chain of events here could change not just X-Force, but all mutants.

Credit: PJ Holden/Kelly Fitzpatrick/Rob Steen (Dead Reckoning) Garth Ennis returns to the frontlines of World War II with a focus on the England’s Royal Navy torpedo bombers in The Stringbags OGN. Scheduled to debut May 15, 2020, Stringbags reunites Ennis with his World of Tanks artist PJ Holden for an intense look at the pilots

By Scott Cederlund, Best Shots Reviewer November 6, 2019 01:00pm ET Credit: Michael Allred/Laura Allred/ Credit: Michael Allred/Laura Allred/ Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage DaydreamsWritten by Steve Horton and Michael AllredArt by Michael Allred, Laura Allred and Han AllredPublished by Insight ComicsReview by Scott Cederlund‘Rama Rating: 7 out of 10 David Bowie was never what