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The Return Of Firefly? Whedon Unleashes His Snark
From San Diego Comic Con today, courtesy of Kate Kotler. Question: Are you thinking of a Firefly reboot if the Science Channel special goes well? "Yes." -Joss Whedon "Opening sequence [of the Firefly reboot] is a conversation between Wash & Book" -Joss Whedon We get the message. From San Diego Comic Con today, courtesy of Kate Kotler. Question: Are you[...]
Comics Sales Up Over 20% In 2012 So Far
Live from the Diamond Retailer Lunch at the San Diego Comic Con, to which I was kindly allowed to attend, the first chart presented to the crowd spoke volumes, quite literally Sales for 2012 so far are up 20.9% on the same time at San Diego Comic Con last year. Diamond have also announced a series[...]
David Marquez On The Joy Of 3D
Alistair Philp writes for Bleeding Cool from San Diego Comic Con; I was lucky enough to meet up with David Marquez and R.J Ryan today at SDCC where they told me about their upcoming project together, titled The Joyners in 3D, to be published by Archaia You'll know David's art from the current run of Ultimate[...]
Buffy – Will There Be A Season Ten?
Buffy The Vampire Slayer has continued in comic book form in both Season Eight and Season Nine, kicking off a series of comic books that have continued TV series in a similar fashion, such as Smallville Season Eleven. But will there be a Buffy Season Ten? At the Dark Horse: Joss Whedon panel yesterday at San[...]
Talking To Thor About Comic Book Women
  Molly Jackson writes for Bleeding Cool; That's no typo kids, I got a chance to chat with Thor Parker, one of the stars of Comic Store Heroes!  That's
Skottie Young's A-Babies Vs X-Babies
It was possibly one of the more amusing spinoffs of Avengers VS X-Men, the Skottie Young variant cover for the first issue for Midtown Comics. Well, so
Talking To The Walking Dead Panel
Pictured: Robert Kirkman (left) and Charlie Adlard at a panel for their comic book The Walking Dead. Alistair Philp writes for Bleeding Cool from San Diego Comic Con; Today was a good day for Walking Dead fans After a ticket drawing in the morning, those lucky enough to be drawn were treated to a signing from writer[...]
My Faith In Frankie – The TV Series? The Mike Carey Spotlight Panel
The editor who brought him in on Sandman Presents Petrefax, left on maternity leave, handing him off to Bond who admitted to not being thrilled at being handed someone else's project and took it out on Carey the first time she met him, on his first trip to San Diego "I've got twenty minutes, you[...]
How To Beat The Walking Dead Escape – The Survivor's Guide
 Their gloves were coated with a black light reactive substance which FEMA aid workers would then use to determine who had been infected. As I lined up with my geekly compatriots, all sentiments regarding the utopia we had created in San Diego evaporated  Instead, It was every man for himself  No one survives a zombie apocalypse[...]
Kieron Gillen's Avengers Vs X-Men: Consequences
A week or so ago, I heard mention of a new big X-Men book with a different creative team each week, first issue written by Kieron Gillen, the second by Jason Aaron, but I wasn't sure enough on the source, so I put it on the back burner. Well, this is possibly what it was referring[...]
Now Mike Carey Wins An Inkpot Award
Louie Falcetti, reporting for Bleeding Cool from San Diego Comic Con tells us that Mike Carey, in his Spotlight panel at the show, has just been handed this year's writer's Inkpot Award, as Geoff Darrow was for the artist's award earlier today. He seems rather happy, don't you think? You can follow Louie on Twitter, here.   [...]
Ales Kot Announces Change, Ed Brisson Announces Comeback
It's Los Angeles Vs Atlantis folks! Quite literally! Wild Children's Ales Kot announced a new series from Image at their panel at the San Diego Comic Con, called Change, to be drawn by Morgan Jeske for later this year, with a bunch of unlikeable people living in LA who have to deal with the fact that[...]
"Black People Don't See Themselves In The Future"
The Dark Horse Comics panel has been running through a lot of their current and future projects at San Diego Comic Con, and we can expect a panel report from Keysha Couzens later in the show. But one quote stuck out about Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander talking about pitching a science fiction film which had[...]
Poyo Variant Cover Sells Out At San Diego Comic Con
John Layman printed hundreds of copies of the Secret Agent Poyo comic, a spinoff of Chew, for San Diego Comic Con, exclusively. They were to have had a pink metallic foil cover, but printer error turned it gold. Nevertheless, he has now almost sold out, and has put a block on selling any more today[...]
Books Of Magic Joins Justice League Dark
Dean Butters reports from San Diego Comic Con that it looks like the cast of the DC Vertigo comic Books Of Magic, Tim Hunter and friends, will be joining the DC New 52 title Justice League Dark Books creator Neil Gaiman has recently approved the addition. Man, it looks like DC and Neil Gaiman are getting[...]
Night Of The Living Dead Aftermath To Be Avatar's Big Hallowe'en Event
All this was news to me, straiught from the Avatar panel at San Diego Comic Con David Hine is to write Night Of The Living Dead: Aftermath, a major new series launching in October from Avatar Press set in the George Romero zombieverse, set in the life of one woman living in in Los Angeles in[...]
Geof Darrow Wins The Inkpot Award For 2012
Joshua Stone sends news, straight from the Geof Darrow panel at San Diego Comic Con, the word that Darrow received the Inkpot Award, much to his surprise, on his panel. As Wikipedia says; The Inkpot Award, bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International, is given to some of the professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science[...]
VIDEO: The Doors Of San Diego Comic Con 2012 Open
He is a happy man. Here's a little video from one of the smaller doors at San Diego Comic Con as it opened on Thursday… maybe I should run the Rise Of The Valkyries over it. Can you spot yourself? Anyone you know? Anyone you want to know? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypujQ3oTn_4[/youtube]       [...]
Is Season 6 Of The Guild Coming? Robin Thorsen Tells Us "Maybe Not" – And More
Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool. I have long maintained that one of the most exciting things about San Diego Comic Con -from a completely squeeing fangirl perspective- is that you never know who you're going to run into. For example, you could be sitting in a bar at the Omni having a pre-con cocktail and have[...]