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SDCC '15: A Look At The Manga Announcements – A Look! It Moves! Special
Ryoko Ikeda's manga series is considered a classic in Japan, and hugely influential in its mix of historical fiction, gender-bending, lesbian comics and tragic romance Set in the pre-revolutionary French court with a young Marie Antoinette, the series follows Oscar, a woman raised as a man to succeed her father as Captain of the Palace[...]
Thor's Comic Review Column – Civil War #1, Star Wars: Lando #1, Invader Zim #1, Justice League United #1, Archie #1, Invader Zim #1, Secret Wars, And More
There's both independence from the larger Marvel U that the Secret Wars event affords it, as well as the extrapolation of ideas that failed to be properly utilized the first time around. Star Wars: Lando #1 (Marvel, $3.99) by Graig Kent The all-new, all-real, keepin'-it-in-the-Disney-family Marvel Star Wars comics have been a mixed bag so far, with Darth[...]
Darin Henry's New Comic Company Advertises During Big Bang Theory
His current series, a spy family sitcom called KC Undercover for the Disney Channel. And, because this is Bleeding Cool, he also write the Big Finish Doctor Who audio, The Game. We've just had Comic Con week, he's launching a new comic book publisher, called Sitcomics Which he describes as attempting to be "a creative pipeline, providing new and established[...]
Swag! SDCC '15 Edition – From Secret Wars To House Of Lannister
Based in Nigeria, the writer has reviewed comics, novels, movies and music for a variety of platforms He is currently the Editor of the Saturday edition of the Daily Trust, one of the most influential newspapers in his country Last year, he survived The Walking Dead Escape, photobombed the cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron,[...]
SDCC '15: The Fight Club 2 Scratch-And-Sniff Bookmark Contest
Yes, here are the details for the Fight Club 2 Scratch-and-Sniff Bookmark Contest. The contest is in support of the Fight Club 2 mini-series, which is written by Palahniuk, illustrated by Cameron Stewart and colored by Dave Stewart, with covers by David Mack. Dark Horse Comics has provided 10,000 scratch-and-sniff bookmarks, numbered to correspond to a clue in the[...]
SDCC '15: Chip Zdarsky – A Life
The anarchism of Chip Zdarsky is alive and well in this panel. Chip starts at the beginning, talking how he liked comics and he liked to draw, but school ruined any hopes of making money doing it after getting a C- in art….he has since been back to that school to lecture about art. He joked about[...]
SDCC'15: Spotlight on Jonathan Hickman
Issue five was sent to press this week. Hickman openly theorized that the next five years will see the best comics in years coming out, as more and more creators make the move to creator-owned work and the growing success of Image He also frequently praised Image for being a place where creators are getting the[...]
SDCC '15: DC Developing Programmes For New Writers And Artists
Dan DiDio and Jim Lee have been holding court on Sunday morning of San Diego Comic Con and had plenty to say. When asked about Scott Snyder's note on his Batpanel the other day that he is working with new writers for DC Comics, Dan and Jim talked about Bobbie Chase, VP Talent Development working with[...]
SDCC '15: Hasbro Shows Marvel Is Where Their Head Is At
With the movies firing on all cylinders, the comics relaunching with All-New All–Different Marvel, and the success of their primetime and Netflix shows, they have a unique opportunity to give us action figure collectors figures we never dreamed of getting. They started off the panel by showing the first build a figure for 2016: Red Skull[...]
SDCC '15: Marvel – Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends
Alonso says it will dive headfirst into noir – if you like the Netflix show you're gonna like this. We then are treated to some slides and videos of upcoming games, including Spider-Man Unlimited, which will have new skins featuring the redesigned costumes and also bringing Spider-Verse and Spider-Island into the game. Fan questions section now: Spider-Men comes[...]