Month: December 2019

Dawn of X connecting variant Credit: Mark Bagley (Marvel Comics) Credit: Marvel Studios Greetings, ‘Rama readers! With 2019 in the rear view mirror, it’s time for our end-of-the-year tradition with the Best of Best Shots 2019! It’s been a big year for the comics industry, with Marvel wrapping up its long-running arc in the Marvel

Credit: Marvel Comics Just don’t call it a symbiote… During a recently concluded story arc set in space, writer Saladin Ahmed’s Ms. Marvel returned to Earth with a brand new nanotech costume of Kree origin designed by series artist Minkyu Jun. According to Marvel Comics, the costume “holds many secrets and seemingly has a life of its

Check out a preview of January 1’s James Bond: Live & Let Die. James Bond: Live & Let Die HCFC  |  168 pages  |  Action/Adventure  |  Standard Edition: $24.99  | Teen +  writers: Van Jensen, Ian Fleming  |  artist: Kewber Baal  |  cover: Fay DaltonIn this second adaptation of the Fleming novels… Bond is sent

Amanda Conner Credit: Paperfilms Merry Christmas! While many are settling down for their long winter’s nap and the go-go news cycle downshifts, Newsarama will keep you fires burning with fascinating anecdotes never before revealed. Enjoy! Amanda Conner is one of the top artists in comic books today, but in 1985, she was an aspiring artist…with

Credit: Fantagraphics PORTRAIT OF A DRUNK HC(W) Florent Ruppert, Jerome Mulot, Olivier SchrauwenGuy is a mediocre mariner, able enough, but also a lazy, thieving, lying drunkard. All of which makes him more real than the swashbuckling Hollywood heroes that grace most pirate narratives. This tour de force of sea-faring gallows humor is also an international

Credit: Syd Mead (Warner Bros.) Concept artist Syd Mead has died at the age of 86 due to lymphoma, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The U.S. Army veteran began his design career at Ford Motor Company, but after two years segued to becoming a freelance illustrator. After twenty  years designing for manufacturing and electronics companies,

Credit: DC Happy New Year! While many are pop a cork and the go-go news cycle downshifts, Newsarama will keep your fires burning with fascinating anecdotes never before revealed. Enjoy! Throughout the 1980s, a civil war raged in El Salvador, with citizens and peasant farmers trying to overthrow a military-led government officially supported by the

Credit: Naughty Dog Bumblebee director Travis Knight has exited the film adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted video game series, according to Deadline. Knight has reportedly departed the production over scheduling issues with co-star Tom Holland who is expected to begin filming a new Marvel/Sony Spider-Man film in Summer 2020, with Uncharted being pushed back on Sony’s schedule

Credit: Marvel Comics Press Release Just last week, INCOMING #1 planted the seeds for the earth-shattering event of 2020, EMPYRE! In this spectacular one-shot, readers witnessed the Kree and the Skrull unite under a new Emperor and set course for Earth. With a massive war fleet approaching, the Avengers and Fantastic Four team up for

Credit: DC Our three-part retrospective on DC’s Deathstroke series with writer Christopher Priest concludes today. Before you continue on here, we advise you to read Part One and Part Two beforehand. We’ll wait. … Got it? Good. Credit: DC In our final installment, Priest talks about why he ended the series, how he really wanted

Credit: Millarworld Merry Christmas! While many are settling down for their long winter’s nap and the go-go news cycle downshifts, Newsarama will keep you fires burning with fascinating anecdotes never before revealed. Enjoy! Credit: Daniel Vallely/Nigel Kitching (Trident Comics) Writer Mark Millar was a 19-year-old in 1989 in Glasgow, Scotland trying desperately to break into

Credit: HBO Former U.S. President Barack Obama has named HBO’s Watchmen among his favorite TV shows of 2019. Obama has released a list of his favorite movies, TV shows, and books of the year, and Damon Lindelof’s serialized drama was “as powerful as movies” according to Obama. Next up are my favorite movies and TV

Credit: John Lewis U.S. Representative John Lewis has announced that he’s undergoing treatment for Stage IV pancreatic cancer. Lewis serves as the representative for Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, and entered the comic industry with the March trilogy – an autiobiographical series about the civil rights movement. “I have been in some kind of fight –

Credit: Lucasfilm There’s an unresolved moment in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker where Finn, thinking he’s about to die, tries to make a confession to Rey. The film never explains what he wanted to tell her – though it makes several light references as it goes on. Co-screenwriter Chris Terrio has now addressed the

Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel’s oversized one-shot Incoming! #1 has finally hit, and its mysteries stand at least partially revealed. While seeding most of Marvel’s early 2020 line, the one-shot also spills the beans on what the publisher’s big summer event Empyre is all about – confirming a prevailing theory about the story.  Spoilers ahead for

Credit: Disney+/Lucasfilm Jon Favreau didn’t waste any time.  The day the last episode of the first season of The Mandalorian began streaming on Disney+, the show’s creator announced on Twitter that season 2 of the series will debut in Fall 2020. Season 2 of #TheMandalorian coming Fall 2020 pic.twitter.com/8VQYLDMQ0V — Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) December 27,

John Romita Sr. self-portrait Credit: John Romita Sr. (Marvel Comics) Merry Christmas! While many are settling down for their long winter’s nap and the go-go news cycle downshifts, Newsarama will keep you fires burning with fascinating anecdotes never before revealed. Enjoy! Bill Willingham Credit: DC In 1980, artist Bill Willingham was working at TSR, doing

Ahead of Marvel’s third volume of Star Wars #1 debuting January 1, the publisher has released a host of variant covers for the issue. In addition to the main cover by R.B. Silva, there are variants by Arthur Adams, Mahmud Asrar, Jen Bartel, Adam Hughes, Chris Sprouse, a photo variant from Empire Strikes Back, and

Credit: Action Lab Entertainment ADVENTURE FINDERS VOL 3 #1(W) Rod Espinosa (A/CA) Rod EspinosaClariette de Artegnean has one dream: to be a great warrior and a servant of the realm. Together with her cousin Jolfe and friends Anana and newcomer Asogog, they set out to find their fortune. A cataclysmic ambush destroys the army they

Credit: Vault Comics FCBD 2020 BRANDON SANDERSON DARK ONE #1(W) Brandon SandersonFrom Hugo Award-winning bestselling author, Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn) with Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Nathan Gooden, comes The Dark One Free Comic Book Day Special, the first chapter of a new graphic novel series from Vault Comics! Visions of a twisted and fantastic world

Credit: Warner Bros. Sssshhhh, no one tell Martin Scorsese… Fandango has revealed the results of its annual ‘Most Anticipated Movies Survey’ for 2020, and superhero films dominate the top of their list. Wonder Woman 1984, Black Widow and The Eternals along with Mulan top the survey. It’s the first time since Fandango has conducted the survey that each of

Credit: 20th Century Fox Work is now underway on the first Marvel Studios’ Deadpool film, according to the film franchise’s star/co-writer/producer Ryan Reynolds. While appearing on ABC’s Live with Kelly and Ryan earlier this week, the actor was asked about progress on the film – and he answered in the affirmative. “Yeah yeah, we’re working

Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm Spoilers ahead  Last week’s episode certainly set up an exciting season finale and Disney didn’t disappoint with the concluding installment, which is also the longest so far. Rumors were floating around the outer rim territories of the internet over the festive period that perhaps the feet we saw walking around the motionless body of

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes the Avengers vs. Marvel’s ‘non-team’ the Defenders have had some classic battles in the past. The publisher will try to renew their decades-old rivalry in Tarot, which debuts next week.  Check out this preview of the first issue. TAROT #1 (of 4)ALAN DAVIS (W) • PAUL RENAUD (A/C) AUG199011Variant Cover by ALAN

Credit: Lucasfilm Movie-goers didn’t know what was waiting for them when Star Wars first opened in theaters on May 25, 1977. This Western in space showed dogfighting spacecraft, vehicles traveling at hyperspeed, and an array of colorful characters — even aliens — all locked in the classic battle of good and evil. In an era long

Credit: DC Credit: DC DC has informed retailers that Superman #19 has been postponed two weeks, now set to go on-sale January 22. Originally solicited to be released January 8, it will be the first issue since Superman revealed his secret identity as Clark Kent to the world. The two subsequent issues, #20 and #21,

Credit: J. Scott Campbell (DC/Black Label) Credit: DC Brian Azzarello and Emanuela Luppachino’s Birds of Prey #1 one-shot has been pushed back five weeks. Previously solicited to be released January 29, the one-shot is now set to go on sale March 4 – a month after the Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of