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Joshua Stone is attending Wondercon for Bleeding Cool WonderCon is known for launching policy that will be followed up by the larger San Diego Comic Con. He writes, A first look at the press badges… and what to expect at San Diego Comic Con These are hard plastic coated badges that you will need scan through machines[...]

In advance of this weekend's WonderCon convention in Los Angeles, Valiant just dropped a major piece of news for the character and series that spearheaded their hugely successful 2012 relaunch… Later this year, after 56 issues, writer Robert Venditti's long-standing run on X-O Manowar will conclude with a massive issue #50 milestone that will also double[...]

DC Comics' June solicitations are being hidden from view until WonderCon But they are not the only publisher playing peekaboo. Boom! Studios have a listing for June for something they are calling "To Be Announced At Wondercon" shipping with the first of the DC Rebirth titles on the 1st June for $3.99. And that, right now, is[...]

Image Comics has announced what they'll be up to at WonderCon this year, and the good news is, that includes two special variants One for Circuit Breaker #1 cover by Kyle Baker ($10) and another for Tokyo Ghost by Sean Gordon Murphy ($35).   Here's what else is going on…   PANELS HOSTED BY IMAGE COMICS: Image Comics: Where[...]

This is the official poster show art for Wondercon 2016, the comic book show in Los Angeles later this month brought to you by CCI, the folk that also put on San Diego Comic Con. And apparently there's a movie coming out soon, which Jason Fabok's artwork might just tie into. Oh yes, and there's a T-shirt as well… [...]

The Class of '85 was honored at WonderCon with media members discussing the best movies of that year. Besides The Breakfast Club there was also another iconic movie that has stood the test of time: Back to the Future. "When people talk about greatest screenplays of all time they are now using Back to the Future as[...]

The CW has released the "red carpet" moments from the casts of iZombie and The Flash at Wondercon last weekend Representing the Flash are Danielle Panabaker (Caitlin Snow) Carlos Valdes (Cisco Ramon), Candice Patton (Iris West) and executive producer Andrew Kreisberg For iZombie there are Rose McIver (Liv Moore), David Anders (Blaine DeBeers), Robert Buckley[...]

We chat Star Wars going straight up digital, WonderCon moving to LA, what Kevin Smith's next movie will NOW be and how retailers can get an exclusive variant of Barb Wire #1…and whether it's actually worth it for them… Subscribe today on iTunes and Stitcher and leave a 5 star review Leave a voice mail on[...]

Dave Davenport has received the 2015 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant towards the production of his upcoming graphic novel Stray Bullet. Announced at the It's A Queer, Queer World panel by Prism president Ted Abenheim at Wondercon, the grant is awarded to "assist comics creators in self publishing comics with LGBT characters or themes Entries are judged[...]

Prior to their panel at WonderCon on Sunday, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg and a handful of the cast answered questions from the press, ranging from battling the Rogues, accidentally traveling in time, and hinting at what's to come next season. First up was actress Danielle Panabaker (Caitlin Snow) "When you look at it from the perspective[...]

At Wondercon over the weekend, attendees got to see a teaser trailer for the rest of the season and not the one that aired on the CW already This one features a few new things like the Red Bee and a glimpse of Harrison Wells locked inside the particle accelerator prison It looks like they[...]

By Jason Strangis Star Trek icons Leonard Nimoy and Harve Bennett passed away at the end of February, but their lives and the Trek legacy were celebrated during WonderCon in Anaheim in early April. A panel called They're Not Really Dead As Long As We Remember Them was hosted by longtime Trekkie and Access Hollywood movie reviewer[...]

The wuvable creator was on hand at WonderCon this past weekend and was nice enough to sit down and answer a few of my oafish questions. Cameron Hatheway: Tell me all about Wuvable Oaf How did it all begin? What makes him so wuvable? Ed Luce: Well he started out actually as a paper doll design[...]

At the Flash panel at Wondercon this weekend, one of the big reveals was by actress Danielle Panabaker who not only confirmed that her character of Caitlin Snow will become her comic book alter ego Killer Frost, but that it happen as soon as the end of this season. It was also revealed that some of[...]

Big week, what with Wondercon and on… and the lesson we have learned, is don't mess with CB Cebulski I wonder how many artist alley tables were empty on Sunday morning…? Your Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. Your First Look At Marvel Comics After Secret Wars 2. CB Cebulski Tells Marvel Artist At Wondercon 'Go Home Before You[...]

By Jason Strangis What makes a good "bad girl?" How are female villains different than male antagonists? And why aren't there more femme fatales in fantasy roles and superhero films? Those questions and more were explored during a panel called The Most Dangerous Women at WonderCon: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly Fittingly, the all-female panel[...]

During the follow up "Talk Back" discussion after WonderCon Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, California, the SDCC Blog is reporting that the announcement was made that WonderCon 2016 will be moving to Los Angeles Convention Center This is rumored not to be due to any particular dissatisfaction with the location, but because of renovation work on[...]

For an Easter Sunday, WonderCon today was kicking You might expect that the holiday would mean things were a bit more subdued, but if you've been to WonderCon before on an Easter Sunday, you know that locally it's kind of a tradition to bring the family to the convention in the afternoon Panels were full[...]

Valiant sent out teases and had their panels this weekend at Wondercon and we did a write up on the panel here But for those who weren't able to attend the show, here are the images they were showing off this weekend The images come from The Book Of Death, Bloodshot Reborn, Dead Drop, Divinity,[...]

At the Modern Superheroines panel at Wondercon (read it all here, courtesy of BC EIC Hannah Means-Shannon) we learnt a couple of interesting things about the recent Batgirl revamp, Firstly that the run by Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher and Babs Tarr was originally thoght of as a six issue experiment that was only approved because it was[...]

For a Marvel show without superheroes, it also played with the concept of identity remarkably. Anyway, apparently I should have said something. At the Making Of The Modern Superheroine panel at Wondercon, (reported in full by BC EIC Hannah Means-Shannon here), writer Jose Molina talked about the reception the show had gotten. And said that he wished he could[...]

Andrea Letamendi rounded off Sunday afternoon at WonderCon this year. Molina, a TV writer, recently finished writing on Agent Carter Castellucci writes young adult novels and recently did a Sensation Comics Wonderwoman story Kuhn is writing a fantasy series about Asian-American superheroines and is writing a romance comic for an anthology Letamendi is a psychologist, educator,[...]

Hardwick talked to me about the dangers of getting his phone wet. Then today I just sat through a panel at Wondercon with Allison Baker, Chip Mosher, Jamal Igle, Molly Mahan,, Arune Singh and Dirk Wood as they talked about how they broke into comics into jobs without being a writer or an artist, and asked a question. It's Periscope,[...]

Fashion In Superhero Comics With Babs Tarr (Batgirl), started a little early on Sunday morning following our Saturday nights out at WonderCon, but with everyone caffeinated, we were joined by Jake Wyatt (Ms Marvel, Edge of Spider-Verse), Brenden Fletcher, Kris Anka (designed Storm), Kevin Wada (She-Hulk, Catwoman). Brenden Fletcher called the con "Babscon" to applause since[...]

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent If you are reading BOOM! Studios titles you may have noticed that the publisher is celebrating

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent Crime creators Darwyn Cooke (Revengeance), James Robinson (Airboy), Ed Brubaker (Criminal),

The artist extraordinaire was on hand at WonderCon this past weekend and was nice enough to sit down and answer a few of my burning questions before melting into a pool of exhaustion. Cameron Hatheway: So the Kickstarter for Molly Danger Book 1 was funded back in 2012, and it was just announced that a Kickstarter[...]

Though he he moved more into international business development at the publisher, it seems, at Wondercon, he's still got the knack…. If you miss your Friday deadline & promise your editor you'll slave all weekend to finish, don't go to WonderCon & post commissions online. — C.B Cebulski (@CBCebulski) April 5, 2015 @GregCapullo And this after the same[...]

Saturday was a lively day–things occasionally got a bit crowded, but there was very little of the frustrating bottle-neck effect you get at some conventions because WonderCon seems to know very well how to use their space and it's not yet constraining for them Staff were helpful, panels ran smoothly, and the upbeat attitude I've[...]

Leanne Aguilera hosted the panel for the BBCA series Orphan Black at WonderCon on Saturday evening, and after a teaser peek at Season 3, she introduced Graeme Manson (co-creator), Kristian Bruun (Donny), Dylan Bruce (Paul), Evelyn Brochu, and Maria Doyle Kennedy, and lastly, to great fanfare, Jordan Gavaris Absent Tatiana Maslany filmed a special WonderCon[...]