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By Michele Brittany Perusing the Wondercon Anaheim program, I was very curious by one particular panel offered up to attendees last Friday, April 18th I'll be honest, I had not heard of the James Bonding podcast led by Matt Mira and Matt Gourley before, but I felt duty bound as an independent popular culture scholar focused[...]

Between the two creators, they have been nominated for the Eisner, Harvey, and Emmy awards, however none of the mainstream comic book publishers would take a chance on their creator-owned story. ComiXology VP of Communications and Marketing Chip Mosher was joined by Fialkov, writer of Elk's Run (Villard), and Tumor (Archaia), Echoes (Top Cow), at the[...]

At the "New Directions in LGBTQ Comics" panel at Wondercon bright and relatively early on Sunday morning, the room was entirely full and audience very attentive. Panelists included Tommy Kovac (Wonderland through Disney, Skelebunnies, Stitched from Slave Labor Graphics), Ed Luce (OA Fan Anthology, Cat Dandy) Roger Klorese, Shayna Why (Overshare Party) and Josh Trujillo (The[...]

At the "Spotlight on Kelly Sue DeConnick" panel at Wondercon, things erupted into more of a zany chat session than anything else, with DeConnick hosted by Ben Acker of The Thrilling Adventure Hour and My Little Pony The two were well-matched in sprightliness for a packed room of fans. Unsurprisingly, there was lots of Captain Marvel[...]

Michele Brittany is one of our West Coast correspondents and thankfully lent her services to Bleeding Cool at Wondercon, covering the ComiXology panels and more. But setting her estimable writing skills aside, she's also a semi-pro photographer with a lot of con experience She kindly shares these 25 of her top photos from Wondercon for our[...]

He also answered another audience member that asked which female character they would like to see rebooted, and he said he would like to see a few pounds put back on Amanda Waller, a belief that many in the audience clearly shared by the applause that followed. Overall, a very good panel that filled what was[...]

Top Cow kicked off their panel at Wondercon by spotlighting their new game Tales of Honor video game coming out in less than 2 weeks for IOS and continued to give out some free play access codes to audience members during the Q&A period. Marc Silvestri, Larime Taylor, and Matt Hawkins featured on the panel with[...]

Ground up and in the freezer". But then one was on sale at WonderCon…. And exposed to people who are blatantly intolerant of such hateful pig-ignorance And who have an internet. @LandryQWalker I also like my fangirls like I like my coffee: filled with sugar so they can make stay up all night watching Netflix. — Sleepy Adrian (@adrn_ls)[...]

Yanick Paquette sketch art from Wondercon… Announcements, reports, cosplay, there is still much coming in to Bleeding Cool to run, but here's a rundown of Bleeding Cool coverage over the Wondercon weekend So here's a special Lying In The Gutters Extra Edition ahead of the usual edition later today, to bring you up to speed. The announcements 'Catfights![...]

Thom Zahler hosted Katie Cook at Wondercon this year in a Spotlight panel on Sunday. Katie welcomed people by saying that she was grateful to see people who loved her since plenty of people do not, though that's hard to believe at this point The only thing her daughter wants is a Frozen Elsie dress, she[...]

Wondercon is full of cosplay But there is one cosplayer that got the internet a-twitter And that would be Baby Predator. Appearing with cosplaying parents as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, this miniscule purveyor of death under a strict moral code found quite a few fans… @FuMikechu @kkjordan @SizzlerKistler OMG Baby Predator is everything. — Drew McWeeny (@DrewAtHitFix) April[...]

Joshua Stone reports from Wondercon: IDW has announced their third Artist's Edition featuring art by Walt Simonson, Manhunter and Other Stories, to be released in September. It will include the Manhunter story from the classic 1973 Detective Comics backups, along with Simonson Batman, Dr Fate, Metal Men, and Captain Fear material IDW Special Projects Editior Scott Dunbier shared that IDW[...]

Here you go folks... and you can thank Darwyn Cooke when you're finished.

When she's not fighting flerken cats, Captain Marvel is whizzing around the galaxy lickety split at the moment. And at Kelly Sue DeConnick's panel at Wondercon, the question was asked as to whether a  certain Carol Danvers might find herself crossing paths with the Guardians Of The Galaxy any time soon Since the character is, you[...]

From the DC New 52 panel going on at Wondercon right now… As the Green Lantern books begin their Uprising crossover, continuing into July, the Green Lantern Corps comic will be expanding the cast Quite a lot. Bernard Chang lays claims to over one thousand three hundred Green Lanterns shown so far, but expresses a desire to[...]

The DC New 52 Panel at Wondercon is giving the lay of the land for the DC Universe in the months ahead. So that means that The Flash, Barry Allen will be tasked to bring Central City to its former glory Expect a little Rogue help in that And while we know Wally West is joining the[...]

Joshua Stone tells us, from Wondercon, At the IDW Publishing: The Greatest Panel in the Known Universe, Chris Ryall announced that for the first time ever, IDW is signing an artist to an exclusive contract, Gabriel Rodriguez, artist for Locke & Key and the upcoming Little Nemo: Return to Neverland IDW brought in Rodriguez to appear[...]

From Wondercon (and snapped by Andrew Sanford) it appears that Valiant Entertainment will cancel their Harbinger series with issue #25 in July, a 48 page double-sized issue. But that's okay, in a case of All New Valiant NOW, it will relaunch with a three issue mini-series, Harbinger Omegas #1 in August. That will be accompanied with the launch of[...]

Joel Gomez is a comic book artist with a history at Wildstorm, a big DeviantArt gallery and lots of followers and commission hunters. And today, at Wondercon, he met one of them. Met a guy @WonderCon who had my Gotham City backgrounds from a print I've done tattooed on his forearm #wow #comics pic.twitter.com/06HhmNc85E — Joel Gomez (@J0ELG)[...]

This article used to host a swipe file showing two images, one by Tom Bryski, exhibiting at Wondercon, and another by Josh Ellingson created in 2008, that looked fairly similar, sent in by a reader. Tom got rather upset about this, demanded we take it down and threatened legal action Swipe File has covered the work[...]

Once upon a time I poisoned Alex de Campi. Some dodgy sausages at a barbeque at our place. She threw up all over the patio. I spent the next day picking

It's still up in the air about whether this year's Wondercon attendance or events are bigger than last year's, and last year's show was a very strong one Saturday will tell Until then, photos from the opening of the show from publishers to cosplay, to crowds waiting for the first floor entrance The pace never[...]

But there was one thing very clear at the Wondercon ComiXology panel No one was saying anything. ComiXology boss David Steinberger said that since the sale to Amazon was still in progress, there were questions he couldn't answer And it seemed like that was every one of them. So for questions about if Amazon would deliver printed comics[...]

After a heavy traffic day at Wondercon (and things are just heating up really for the big day, Saturday), fans found it amenable to chill out with Yanick Paquette who definitely brings the cool with his long history in comics and what many fans may not know was a strange journey for him. Larry Ganem hosted[...]

It wasn't a bad first day when it comes to swag. There was even some free stuff at the con, including DC being uncharacteristically generous, Dark Horse

@wondercon #StarWarsRebels — Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 12, 2014 But reality is an even greater teacher It began with the vendors. Yep, they're still charging for "parking" just to load in for @wondercon (@ Anaheim Convention Center w/ 11 others) http://t.co/lSrLf4OeBw — Pj Perez (@PjPerez) April 18, 2014 And those picking up badges yesterday… A suggestion, @WonderCon ? If you want[...]

It was a full hall shortly after the opening of Wondercon and just as DC's booth at the con is front and center, DC snagged one of the earliest opening panel times for the show as well in their "all access" approach. Panelists included DC's Co-publisher, and penciller on Superman Unchained, Jim Lee, and 3 editors,[...]

At the IDW Hasbro Panel at Wondercon, IDW just announced a new Transformers series beginning in August, entitled Primacy This was the expected name of the sequel to their previous series, Monstrosity, to be written again by Flint Dillewhich rejigged much of the Cybertron scenes from the Transformers movie from all those years ago[...]

Coming out of Wondercon… the news that Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier have completed the long awaited Groo & Conan crossover series, the first issue of which is planned to make it out in July in time for San Diego Comic Con. But right after that we can expect a new twelve issue Groo The Wanderer[...]

Wondercon is about to get started here at Anaheim, with lines already forming, and this year Bleeding Cool's EIC, me, Hannah Means-Shannon, as well as several reporters are on the ground Look out for our trusty writers Dan Wickline, Joshua Stone, Michele Brittany, Jesse Criscone, and Bill Watters in panels and on the hunt for[...]