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#OrbitalComicsWorldTour2015 – The Road To SDCC!
By Chris Thompson The Orbital Comics World Tour begins here! Along the aerial pathway that leads to San Diego, adventure is to be had at every turn, and many fantastic characters to be met along the way Join Orbital Comics staff members Chris Thompson, James Wilson and Liz Jordan (me) as we journey to the Big Kahuna[...]
The State Of Batman's Mental Health, Today
I'd tell him to chill out, but that would just be poor choice of wording. So while in Batman, even Jim Gordon knows…. In JLA, he can still use a poor health service system to do his work for him. Comics courtesy of Yesteryear Comics, San Diego, currently hosting a signing by Johnnie Christmas.   [...]
4 Writers And 5 Artists Make Up The Grumpy Cat Creative Team
Dynamite, as their final Pre-SDCC announcement, has sent out the list of the creators involved in the new Grumpy Cat comic book series. The series writers include Ben Fisher (Smuggling Spirits), Ben McCool (Captain America and the Korvac Saga), Royal McGraw (Detective Comics), and Elliott R Serrano (Army of Darkness) The interior artists will be Ken[...]
The Walking Dead Just Did Its Game Of Thrones Finale (SPOILER UPDATE)
Here's your Jon Snow moment… Comics courtesy of Yesteryear Comics, San Diego, with Johnnie Christmas doing a signing today. The most recent Game Of Thrones season saw death from all sides, including that of a major character. Today's Walking Dead #144 by Robert Kirkman and Charles Adlard does the same, and there will be lots of shock and[...]
Dean Koontz Returns To Dynamite For More Frankenstein
Koontz has written five novels featuring his re-imagined version of the classic Mary Shelley tale and this will be his second time bringing the world to comics The first series adapted the novel Prodigal Son, but Storm Surge is an original story in the Koontz created universe The new series will be co-written by Chuck[...]
Gendercrunching Special Edition – #DCYou
And when you're talking about women in comics statistics, "not too bad" is practically "good". The chart below shows the percentages of female creators in every category for all of June's #DCYou titles There are no Vertigo books, no digital first, no kid's titles; just the main line #DCYou books We'll do June's full numbers down[...]
Lady Death: Apocalypse Gets Over-sized Finale
Boundless Comics series Lady Death: Apocalypse wraps up with an over-sized finale that includes a special pin-up and behind-the-scenes gallery Lady Death: Apocalypse #6 will be in comic shops on Wednesday July 8th. Lady Death: Apocalypse #6 Apocalypse wraps up in this stunning oversized final issue!  All stands revealed as we see that Satyricon has been pulling[...]
San Diego Impossibly Calm Before The Storm
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,[...]
A Comic Show – Invader Zim, Conman Lando & All New Archie!
First, my comic shop got shorted two boxes of comics today (we'll get them tomorrow), so there's a few books I don't cover But damn there are some great issues Invader Zim #1 by Vasquez doesn't miss a beat If you liked the show and don't like this comic, it's you that's changed Archie #1[...]
Christmas Comes But Once A Yesteryear…
It's time for comic book creator Johnnie Christmas' annual appearance at Yesteryear Comics of San Diego tomorrow, signing copies of Sheltered or his new comic Pisces, with its third issue out that day… he'll be signing from 9am to 1am, before the show starts… Maybe some folk could take that opportunity to pick up their pull list!         [...]
AfterShock Comics Initial Writers Include: Garth Ennis, Jimmy Palmiotti, Paul Jenkins
AfterShock Comics, the start-up publisher that Mike Marts left Marvel for, has announced its first group of writers They include Garth Ennis (Preacher, Punisher), Jimmy Palmiotti (Power Girl, Jonah Hex), Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn), Paul Jenkins (Batman: The Dark Knight), Justin Jordan (Shadowman), Phil Hester (Ant-Man), Frank Barbiere (Avengers) and Marguerite Bennett (Batgirl). "When we launched[...]
Webcomic Spotlight – Inhibit By Eve G. And Song Of The Outcasts By Van Weasel
By Jason Karlson Once again we have two more fantastic, recently launched webcomics to discuss. Inhibit by Eve G Picture the brochure for Charles Xavier's safe haven for mutants You might be fearing for your life, but look what's on offer Holographic training rooms, alien technology, a blackbird jet under the basketball court and, of course, the frequent[...]