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All heading home from Chicago's C2E2 on United What could go wrong? Ryan Penagos: @paulwesley Hey! A bunch of us @Marvel Comics folks, who are fans of yours, just saw you at the airport Join us at Chilli's for a drink? Sana Amanat: Hey @paulwesley us @marvel folk spotted you at the airport Join us for a[...]

Patrick Reed writes for Bleeding Cool after returning from C2E2; C2E2 2012 was just about as low-stress and enjoyable as a convention could possibly be.  The main floor was full, but never overly crowded.  The panels were well attended, but you could almost always find a seat, even if you showed up a few minutes[...]

Geoffrey Wessel wrote for Bleeding Cool from C2E2. Two years ago, almost exactly, I went to C2E2, a brand new convention in Chicago, where Wizard World had reigned supreme since it bought out the old Chicago Comicon It was almost literally a last-minute decision, something I was talked into by An Editor I Can't Name Yet[...]

Good news and bad news. After reading the post on Bleeding Cool early this morning, about Sean Jurgens missing bag of original art and signed comics from the Hyatt after C2E2, Dennis Barger, owner of Wonderworld Comics and promoter of the Detroit Fanfare convention got in touch. He has Sean Berger's bag, still full of original art[...]

Alex Wilson begins our C2E2 cosplay journey with a TikiStormtrooper… Taylor Ramsey writes; This year's C2E2 had a really eclectic batch of costumes ranging from outstanding to outstandingly awful Zombies are big again and Time Lords too, with some really creative costumes While there were many that should really just get an A for effort, some of[...]

This was almost twenty years ago and it still hurts. Sean Jurgens, after attending C2E2, is going through similar pain today He tweets; The fucking idiots at the Hyatt have my bag away to someone else!!! I am fucking fuming All of my artwork, comics and clothes are gone. This is all the art work that I am[...]

Matthew Diener writes for Bleeding Cool from C2E2. This panel included Dan Slott, current writer of Amazing Spider-Man, Ryan Stegman, current artist on Scarlet Spider, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, editor Tom Brennan, Scarlet Spider artist Ryan Stegman, Marvel's Senior Vice President of Creative and Creator Development C B Cebulski, Venom writer Rick Remender, all moderated by[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit at Chicago, retailers met to judge the winners of the inaugural Best Practice Awards, given to retailers for the following

All told, Jeff and I did better yesterday alone than we did at last year's C2E2 combined Location location location And a bright orange banner. Saturday's going to be busier than Friday, I'm sure, as it's going to be open all hours, as opposed to the first 3 being "pro" hours like Friday So come by[...]

WatchWatch: A better shot of that Before Watchmen montage. CupWatch1: At Cup 'O Joe last night, Joe Quesada confirmed the Bleeding Cool story that Bendis

Yesterday's report on the DC All-Access panel at C2E2 from Bleeding Cooler John Bailey quickly focused on the Wally West question in the forum, on twitter, and through the BC tipline  Something tells me this one is going to keep coming up at DC panels for the foreseeable future. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Marvel's July 2012 Solicitations[...]

At the C2E2 panel that's just concluded in Chicago, this Japanese company looking to translate less well known video games into comics, with an eye to reviving the games as well have announced two more webcomics to join the party. The first is Wonder Momo: Battle Idol, based on the Japan-only 1987 beat 'em up classic[...]

Cody Walker writes for Bleeding Cool from C2E2. Here's the beauty of covering a convention with your charming and wonderful wife. It was early morning and my wife was cranky because she didn't have coffee, and she went on a rant in our hotel room about Wally  West and how upset she was that Wally had been[...]

 Sam Walker is tweeting from the Vertigo panel at C2E2 for Bleeding Cool We have separated her from her partner COdy Walker, currently covering the Valiant panel. I am separated from @popgunchaos so I can bring you updates from the @vertigo_comics panel. This is my third panel staring @Ssnyder1835 He is a popular guy. Sean Murphy is writing[...]

Cody Walker is tweeting from the Valiant panel at C2E2 for Bleeding Cool He have seperated him from Sam Walker, currently covering the Vertigo panel. Cary Nord is a Valiant exclusive artist "Didn't want to change the core concept of X-O Manowar" "reinventing the aliens so you can relate to them." The main idea is to keep the core[...]

John Bailey is writing from C2E2 for Bleeding Cool; The panel starts right on time at 12: 15 On the panel are Michael DiPascale and Keith Davidsen. Michael's new project announced at C2E2 is Hero Worship which will premier in July Keith says that Avatar Press rarely does superhero comics, noting the exceptions by Warren Ellis, and[...]

At booth number 568 at C2E2, Threadless are selling a new comic book T-shirt line to follow previous examples. Written and designed by Jeffrey Brown with artwork across a series of shirts by Jeff Lemire, Anders Nilsen, and Paul Hornschemeier, they are on sale at C2E2 first, with online sales starting next week. "Space-Time!" began as a[...]

Printed version will be ONLY at C2E2 at the DC Booth. What were you and Jim Lee thinking? Dan: "How many like Watchmen?" Applause, but not loud "How many want more?" some applause. "Our belief is that (once you see this group of creators) that we'll match or exceed the original." Creative teams? These were the first choices[...]

Cody Walker writes for Bleeding Cool from C2E2. Panel list – Bob Harras, new editorial director of the New DC Group, Bobbie Chase, Brian Azzarello, Chris Burnham, Cliff Chiang, Tony Daniel, Kyle Higgins, Jimmy Palmiotti, Scott Snyder, and Geoff Johns Still no Gail Simone. We start with the second wave of the DC New 52. Batman Inc[...]

Scarlet Spider artist Ryan Stegman is off Scarlet Spider in July, replaced by Khoi Pham, according to Marvel's July solicitations. So what now for Ryan? Well, according to Bleeding Cool writer Matthew Diener embedded in the Amazing Spider-Man panel at C2E2, he will be moving to becoming the regular penciller for The Fantastic Four, currently drawn by[...]

Octavia De La Rosa is taking pictures at C2E2 for Bleeding Cool; Is it me… or is Rorschach smiling? Like in the Saturday Watchmen cartoon! "I'm nutty!" Keep on strutting, Strutting Rorschach! Octavia De La Rosa is taking pictures at C2E2 for Bleeding Cool; Is it me… or is Rorschach[...]

John Bailey is attending C2e2 for Bleeding Cool: The DC panelists were Bob Harras, Editor Bobbie Chase, Geoff Johns, JMS, Shane Davis, Scott Snyder, and additional guest Kevin Maguire. The panel opened with a shot of DC's Free Comic Book Day Special, and Geoff Johns said it was a must read and "critical" to DCU fans[...]

John Bailey writes for Bleeding Cool from C2E2 in Chicago. The panel on the social networking fundraising system that has fuelled the hopes and dreams of many a comic creator got off to a shaky start, in that panelist Matt Forebeck wasn't able to attend, but fellow panelists Will Hindmarch and Kenneth Hite tried to make[...]

  It's been a while coming certainly. But Punk Rock Jesus #1 by Sean Murphy is solicited by DC Vertigo for July. And while much attention at the show

It's a small amount. But considering the drops of the last decade and a half, any increase has to be seen as a good thing. Announced at the Diamond

Both will be announced at C2E2 this weekend. I've been hearing that Marvel has a new Hawkeye series on the cards And this teaser for a new series by Matt Fraction and David Aja does seem to indicate that's where we should be looking You know, what with the purple and black, the arrow and[...]

As it happens, DiPascale will be kicking off the promotion of Hero Worship with his appearance at this coming weekend's C2E2 convention If you're headed to the convention, be sure to stop by the Avatar booth (Booth #510) and chat him up, or to pick up his sexy C2E2 variant edition of Lady Death #15. [...]

This year's offiical poster for C2E2 in Chicago, by Olivier Coipel, will see X-Men and Avengers duking it out in the vicinity of Chicago's Buckingham Fountain Not sure exactly who is meant to be to scale here.   This year's offiical poster for C2E2 in Chicago, by Olivier Coipel, will see X-Men and Avengers duking it[...]

As in 2010 and 2011, Diamond Comic Distributors is holding its annual Retailer Summit at the Chicago McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago in the days before, and in the same building as, C2E2. But rather than the one day of programming, talks and presentations on the Thursday and a retailer breakfast on the Friday, this[...]

He's been in and out of jail for years posing as a variety of people from a marine, a laison to the White House, a TV producer, an events co-ordinator for Disney Comics, a theatre operator, and much more. He's currently claiming to have founded Reed Expo's C2E2 comic convention in Chicago, to be involved with[...]