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Stephen Mooney Comes To DC Comics
But, from my own research, I think we can expect an announcement shortly that Stephen Mooney, of Half Past Danger and the CSI: Dying In The Gutters comic that killed me off, is to work on a new project for DC Comics. Announced at the Las Vegas Diamond Retailer Summit maybe? He's not alone Other folk more[...]
Jesse James And Desert Wind To Open New Las Vegas Store, Celestial Comics
Jesse James, familiar to a number of Bleeding Cool writers I'm sure, and retailer of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona, is opening a new store in Las Vegas. In a deal with another Las Vegas store, Desert Wind, Jesse James Celestial Comics will be a 2000 sq foot based in the Neonopolis Center at the[...]
St Jude's And The Life After, A New Oni Comic From Joshua Fialkov And Gabo
At the Diamond Retailer Summit at Las Vegas in May, attending retailers will be getting a goodie bag full of stuff, as well as getting a package send to their stores. Their haul will include Star Wars: Darth Maul – Son of Dathomir #1, Futures End #1 Exclusive Variant, Amazing Spider-Man #1 Ross 75th Anniversary Variant,[...]
Leaving Las Vegas – Wax Cap's Days Are Numbered
Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas has been hosting an Avengers line-up that is a must-see Thor, Iron Man, Nick Fury and Captain America are currently on display at the famous wax museum but time is counting down before one of the members moves on. The figures went on display in November with an opening attended by[...]
Otakon 2013 Montage By Beat Down Boogie
and a second convention will be added in 2014 taking place in Las Vegas. Part One: [youtube]http://youtu.be/5DP-iC1dhfM[/youtube] Part Two: [youtube]http://youtu.be/ctAj-QNBKcY[/youtube]   And for those of you who like to look at still photos. Otakon 2013 took place last weekend and the fine folks over at Beat Down Boogie put together not one, but two video montages and posted a huge gallery of still photos[...]
MorrisonCon In Pictures
Thomas Allard writes for Bleeding Cool; A few months ago, I wouldn’t have entertained the possibility of a convention changing my life; It would have been
Las Vegas Comic Con Gets Jesse Jamesed
Morrisoncon and… Las Vegas Comic Con! I have spent much my life in Las Vegas The one thing you learn about the comic scene in this city is that comic conventions just don't work out As it happens, the mention of Vegas and a comic con is a can of worms with no worms in it[...]
A New Teen Titans Comic For 2013 And More At Las Vegas Comic Con
Jason Bentley reported from the DC Nation Panel at Las Vegas Comic Con this weekend; At the Las Vegas Comic Con – the second comic convention happening in Las Vegas this weekend – Scott Lobdell talked about a lot of things in the pipeline. Principally it seems, his plans to spin off a second Teen Titans book[...]
Las Vegas Comic Con No Longer Opposite MorrisonCon
The Las Vegas Comic Expo was to have taken place at the end of the month at the Alexis Park Resort, directly opposite where MorrisonCon was taking place It is the closest two simultaneous and rival comic conventions have ever been held. But sadly, that is no longer to be Flash flooding has damaged the hotel[...]
The Las Vegas Comic Con Across The Street From MorrisonCon
Two comic conventions. The first is MorrisonCon, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The second is Las Vegas Comics Expo Also in Las Vegas At Alexis Park All-Suite Resort, which is described in its very address as being opposite the Hard Rock. MorrisonCon costs $500 for three days, Las Vegas Comics Expo is $40 for two[...]
The 48 Foot Las Vegas Strip Billboard For A Comic Book
Since then it's been picked up by Diamond and gone all macro-distributed and is available in many more shops in two weeks time. And to help it on the way, the producers have booked 48 sheet billboard ads on the LAs Vegas strip Tagged as "X-Men Meets Oceans Eleven", it's a Supercrooks-style supervillain heist on a[...]
MorrisonCon Almost Here… But Still A SausageFest
But, as it was the previous year, by the time the actual show rolled out, there were many female guests at the show. While Mark Millar took a lot of flak for that, his previous colleague and now sworn nemesis Grant Morrison also has his own comic convention, in Las Vegas, MorrisonCon. Robert Kirkman, Darick Robertson, Jason[...]
John Romita Jr's Guinness World Record Attempt: The Press Conference
Vincent wrote; John Romita Jr, along with Jordan and her supporters and family, spoke about the effort to break his own Guiness Book of World Record at the Hard Rock Cafe on the Las Vegas strip.  But more importantly, they informed those in attendance that the focus for everyone's efforts was and will be little Jordan,[...]
Mr. Smylie Goes to Dubai: Reflections on Middle East Film & Comic-Con
Smylie and some gorgeous pictures (courtesy of Monika Broz) of a faraway land… I've been to a couple of pretty bad first conventions – the first Boston "National" shortly after 9/11 back in 2001, where I'm pretty sure the retailers outnumbered the attendees, and the first Las Vegas "Extrosion" Comic-Con back in, if I remember correctly,[...]
What Happens WIth Grant Morrison In Vegas, Stays In Vegas
So much for the San Francisco Bay Area… Grant Morrison's MorrisonCon with Isotope Comics is happening in Las Vegas at the end of September Grant, an assembled entourage of comic creators and a select group of comic fans. Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Siegfried And Roy and now… Grant Morrison It works, doesn't it? [...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Vegas, The Final Frontier
Hmm, what an interesting name for an author… Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: The Time They Almost Built A Full-Sized, Permanent Replica Of The Starship Enterprise In Las Vegas Back in the early 90s, when downtown Las Vegas was playing a distant second fiddle to the strip, the city were looking for a new attraction to draw people in[...]