Month: February 2020

Credit: DC UNIVERSE Press Release Highlighted by surprise guests, breaking news and a peek at the forthcoming season of Harley Quinn, today’s DC UNIVERSE panel at C2E2 also outlined a robust schedule of real-world experiences and exciting rewards to celebrate and engage with members of the digital subscription service, including an opportunity for a member to win

Credit: DC DC’s superhero line covers a broad swath of comic shelves, and that is represented in the C2E2 2020 Saturday panel “Super Heroes of DC.” Batman writer James Tynion IV is scheduled to be joined by Sean Gordon Murphy, Mike Perkins, Gail Simone, Doug Mahnke, and Daniel Warren Johnson for this hour-long panel looking

Credit: DC Universe Writer/DC Daily co-host Sam Humphries and DC Chief Creative Officer/Publisher Jim Lee are here at C2E2 to talk about DC’s streaming service DC Universe. As it goes into its second year, DC Universe is prepping for the return of TV shows like Doom Patrol and the debut of Stargirl, while it continues

Credit: Jim Lee/Scott Williams/Alex Sinclair (DC) Friday’s panel with DC’s co-publishers was canceled due to last week’s exit of Dan DiDio, but Saturday now-lone publisher and Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee is keeping his solo spotlight panel date to talk about the art side of things. Lee has primarily been doing covers for DC’s various

Marvel Comics has released an extensive gallery of art from its ‘Next Big Thing’ panel at C2E2 2020, including art from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ final issue of Black Panther, promotional art for Marvel’s just-announced Ultraman series, and more. Included in the gallery is art from, Amazing Spider-Man #42, Amazing Spider-Man #47, Black Panther #22, Black Panther #25,

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics has announced a five-issue Ultraman limited series by writers Kyle Higgins and Mat Groom and artist Francesco Manna.  Ultraman was announced during Marvel’s ‘Next Big Thing’ panel at C2E2 2020 . Marvel’s partnership with Ultraman’s owners Tsuburaya Productions was announced in November . Ultraman #1 will be

Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics foreshadowed a new story arc beginning in Thor #7 in which Thor will face some issues with his mighty hammer Mjolnir. Written by Donny Cates with art from Aaron Kuder and a cover by Olivier Coipel, the new arc was previewed in Marvel’s ‘Next Big Thing’ panel at C2E2 2020 . 

Credit: Daniel Acuña (Marvel Comics) Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates will conclude his four year Black Panther run with June’s Black Panther #25, as announced during Marvel’s ‘Next Big Thing’ panel at C2E2 2020 . Coates began writing Black Panther in 2016, launching a new volume of the series alongside artist Brian Stelfreeze. That volume ran for 16

Credit: Marvel Comics Saturday ends with a bang with C2E2 2020’s “Marvel’s Next Big Thing” panel. Venom‘s Donny Cates, Immortal Hulk‘s Al Ewing, Strange Academy‘s Skottie Young, and Champions‘ Eve L. Ewing are scheduled to be here – talking aboout their individual books, as well as company-wide crossovers like Empyre. And as part of Newsarama’s

Credit: DC Credit: DC DC has revealed new details and art for its upcoming Dark Nights: Death Metal crossover from Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. The series, a sequel to Snyder and Capullo’s Dark Nights: Metal, will run for six issues starting in May, and will include a series of “Metalverse” tie-in one-shots to be

Credit: David Finch (Marvel Comics) Marvel’s next big event is Empyre, pitting the eons-long enemy alien empires, the Kree and the Skrull, uniting to strike back against Earth – with the Avengers and Fantastic Four stepping up to stop them. Here at C2E2, Marvel’s longtime big event editor Tom Brevoort is here, along with E-i-C

Marvel Comics has unveiled a whole host of new art from upcoming summer crossover Empyre and some of its various tie-in series and stories during a panel focusing on the event at C2E2 2020. Included in the gallery is art from Captain Marvel #18, Captain Marvel #20, Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling #1, Empyre #4,

Credit: Mark Brooks (Marvel Comics) Marvel Comics has announced its long teased summer 2020 X-Men event as X of Swords. The announcement was made at Marvel’s X-Men panel during C2E2 2020, following yesterday’s teaser . The 15-part event’s full plot is not yet revealed, but in the story 10 mutants will wield legendary swords from the Marvel

Credit: DC DC makes its C2E2 2020 debut with its returning DC Nation panel. With an announced guest list of Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Evan “Doc” Shaner, Amanda Conner, Joe Hill, Kami Garcia, Gabriele Piccolo, and Joe Hill, this DC Nation panel looks to cover the breadth of all of DC’s lines. Follow along with

Credit: Leinil Francis Yu (Marvel Comics) Credit: Adi Granov (Marvel Comics) The masterminds behind Marvel Comics’ X-Men revival are here at C2E2, and ready to talk about what they’ve done – and what they’re doing next. X-Men writer / Head of X Jonathan Hickman is scheduled to be here, joined by Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski and

By Kat Calamia, Newsarama Contributor February 28, 2020 11:45am ET Credit: BOOM! Studios Credit: BOOM! Studios Credit: BOOM! Studios BOOM! Studios launches a new creator owned title on March 4 from writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist Tyler Jenkins’ King of Nowhere. Following a drunken night, Dennis awakens in Nowhere, an odd town filled with

Credit: Marvel Comics Spider-Man spin-off character Silk will return in a new ongoing series launching this July. The series, announced during Marvel’s ‘Artists Extravaganza’ panel at C2E2 202 , will be written by Maurene Goo with art from Takeshi Miyazawa, and features a cover from Stonehouse. Credit: Chris Arrant     Credit: Marvel Comics In the

Credit: Leinil Francis Yu (Marvel Comics) Marvel Comics’ Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski returns to Chicago’s C2E2 with his staple convention panel, “Marvel Fanfare.” In this installment, Cebulski is scheduled to be joined by X-Men‘s Jonathan Hickman and Immortal Hulk‘s Al Ewing about their individual origins as comics fans (and Marvel fans), as well as what they

Credit: Skottie Young (Marvel Comics) The first big panel of C2E2 2020 is Marvel’s Artists Extravaganza panel. This panel will feature writer/artist Skottie Young and other artists to be revealed talking about their work as artists within the proverbial House of Ideas. Expect reveals of new art, as well as new context to some of

Credit: Screen Gems Credit: Screen Gems Milla Jovovic and Tony Jaa take up appropriately enormous weapons in this pair of posters for director Paul W.S. Anderson’s adaptation of the Capcom video game Monster Hunter. Here’s studio Screen Gems’ synopsis for the film, which also stars Tip ‘T.I.’ Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta, Josh Helman, Jin

Here’s a look inside the Marvel Comics and DC booths at C2E2 2020, courtesy of Newsarama editor Chris Arrant who is on the scene reporting live. As may be expected, Marvel’s booth is primarily geared toward the publisher’s upcoming Empyre crossover, along with Disney+’s documentary series Marvel’s Heroes Project. Meanwhile, DC’s booth focuses on characters

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: DC Amethyst #1 (Published by DC; Review by C.K. Stewart; ‘Rama Rating: 9 out of 10): What’s worse than nobody turning up for your birthday gala? Nobody turning up because everybody has gone missing, and you have to figure out why. When Amy Winston returns to Gemworld for her 16th birthday,

Now a fortnight away from release, Sony has released 12 new behind-the-scenes and scene stills from Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot, based on the Valiant Entertainment character. “Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as the superhero Bloodshot by the RST corporation,” reads the official description. “With

Credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com FX has cast Ben Schnetzer as Yorick Brown in its TV adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Vertigo comic book Y: The Last Man, according to Variety. Schnetzer reportedly joins the cast following the departure of Barry Keoghan. Diane Lane, Imogen Poots, Lashana Lynch, Juliana

Credit: Jorge Jiménez/Tomeu Morey (DC) Credit: Jorge Jiménez/Tomeu Morey (DC) Press Release Batman #90 has sold out ahead of its March 4 on-sale date and is rushing back to press for a second printing! This marks the second straight pre-on sale sellout for the series, following Punchline’s debut in Batman #89.  Batman #90 Second Printing reprints part five of

Along with announcing summer X-Men event X of Swords, Marvel previewed a whole host of ‘Dawn of X’ line images during its ‘X-Men’ panel at C2E2 2020. Here’s a gallery of everything they showed, including images from X of Swords, Cable #4, Children of the Atom #3, Excalibur #12, Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler, Marauders #9, New

Credit: Marvel Comics Marvel Comics has released a cryptic teaser in advance of its X-Men panel at this weekend’s C2E2. The teaser, which went out on Twitter alongside the date and time of the panel, appears to resemble the vague shape of a sword. Friday 2/28 – 2:30PM CT – Room S401 – C2E2 #MarvelComics

Credit: Image Comics Credit: Martin Morazzo (Image Comics) Quibi, the short-form streaming platform set to debut April 6, will be the home to the adaptation of W. Maxwell Prince’s Image Comics horror-fantasy anthology series Ice Cream Man, according to Deadline.  Deadline first reported a TV adaptation of the series was being developed by Universal Content Productions