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DC Announces “New” Gay Character: Alan Scott

By Brian Salvatore | Jun 1, 2012 | News

After much speculation (including some creative choices from our staff), DC has announced which character is being rebranded as a homosexual: Alan Scott, the Green Lantern of Earth 2. Over at The Source, James Robinson and Nicola Scott discussed how and why this change went down, in a post subtly titled “The Mystery Is Over”: […]

DC’s Heroes Prepare For A Punch-Fest In New Video Game

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 31, 2012 | News

Announced earlier today on DC’s blog and via press releases sent out, it looks like DC has announced a brand new game called Injustice: Gods Among Us right before E3 hits. Starring the DCnU versions of all your favorite heroes, the game is designed by the folks who did Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe as well as […]

Witchblade Gets a Third Compendium

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 31, 2012 | News

Like Ron Marz? Like “Witchblade”? Well, have we got news for you. Collecting issues #101-150, the new Witchblade Compendium out in June collects the majority of Ron Marz’s seminal run on the book (which started with #80). Featuring tons of great art by folks like Stjepan Sejic, Adrian Melo, Sami Basri and Matthew Dow Smith, the 1280-page […]

IDW to Share the Creativity of Steve Ditko

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 31, 2012 | News

You guys all know of Steve Ditko, right? Legendary creator, responsible for co-creating characters like Spider-Man (who has a new big movie coming out) and Doctor Strange (who should have a big new movie coming out) for Marvel and the Question and Hawk and Dove for DC? Of course you do. Well, it looks like just […]

Help Oliver Nome Pay For Health Insurance

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 30, 2012 | News

While you may not instantly recognize the name, Oliver Nome is a talented and established freelancing artist who has worked for DC/Wildstorm (such as “Flashpoint: Kid Flash” and issues of “Superman/Batman”) and Aspen (“Kiani”), and is one of the artists who worked on the DC Universe Online videogame. He’s a talented guy, but unfortunately as revealed […]

Cerebus Comes To Kickstarter As Well [UPDATED]

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 30, 2012 | News

Hot off the heels of the success of books like “Sullivan’s Sluggers” on Kickstarter, Dave Sim’s seminal work “Cerebus” is now being put on Kickstarter as well to help bring the 300-issue long epic graphic novel to a new and digital audience. Oh, and it’s already fully funded. It was fully funded in less than […]

Sullivan’s Sluggers Gets The Movie Treatment

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 30, 2012 | News

Well this is certainly an excellent turn of events: it appears Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe’s “Sullivan’s Sluggers,” a comic that currently isn’t even out yet and is only available for those who contribute to a Kickstarter campaign, has been optioned for a feature film according to a report from Heat Vision. The Kickstarter currently […]

Alpha Girl Goes To The Movies

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 29, 2012 | News

One of the neat things that the Image book “Alpha Girl” has had going on is that every comic pays tribute to a film. Given that the creators, Jeff Roenning and Jean-Paul Bonjour, this should really be a surprise to absolutely no one, and yet it’s not something often discussed. Today, to celebrate this unsung aspect […]

Marvel Preps For Upcoming Lizard-Mania With a J Scott Campbell Variant

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 29, 2012 | News

The next arc of “Amazing Spider-Man” is entitled ‘No Turning Back’ and is, admittedly, an arc to somewhat tie into the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man film. Not only will it bring some resolution to the lingering Morbius storyline, but it will also feature the film’s villain, the Lizard, front and center in the story. So how do […]

Who Is Going To Be The Thor 2 Villain?

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 29, 2012 | News

With the success of Avengers already well established, Marvel is beginning to point their sites on their next set of films. Given the amount of media coverage going around, you can rest assured that the next two films from Marvel you’ll be seeing are Iron Man 3 and Thor 2. With all the reports of Iron Man […]

Dark Horse “Does Vampires Right,” Gives Free Digital Sampler to Prove It

By Brian Salvatore | May 29, 2012 | News

Dark Horse Comics has been one of the most consistent purveyors of horror comics over the past 20 years, and lately they have been featuring vampires in a variety of books, and in a variety of ways. To show you that they, in fact, do vampires right, the good folks at Dark Horse have released […]

This Week In Comics

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 29, 2012 | News

We figure it might help to let you guys know what’s coming out this week in comics, so welcome to our weekly feature! Our reviews come out Thursday (with perhaps some advances for tomorrow if you’re lucky), so be sure to look over this list to get a preview of what we may or may […]

One Million Moms Hate Super-Gay Weddings

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 25, 2012 | News

That’s a lot of moms who don’t realize their opinions are outdated, isn’t it? As seen by those wonderful folks at Robot 6, it looks like One Million Moms, a conservative Christian group who hate when other people try and live their lives — especially when they’re fictional characters! — have posted up a new article lambasting […]

Good Guy Marvel Introduces A Deaf Hero For A Young Boy

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 25, 2012 | News

The story goes like this: Christina Smith, mother of 4 year old Anthony, was having trouble convincing her son to wear his “Blue Ear,” a hearing aid he wears on his left ear to help him hear after having masoaic trisomy 22, a rare genetic disorder which has left him completely deaf in his right […]

Prepare for the Battle of Blackwater With a New Game Of Thrones Song by the National

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 25, 2012 | News

The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, “Blackwater”, airs this Sunday. It’s directed by Neil Marshall (!!!) of Centurion and Doomsday fame, and it is written by George RR Martin (!!!!!!!). It will most likely be the biggest episode of the entire season, and the fanboy excitement is palpable. So what better way to get […]

Marvel Debuts New Marvel Heroes MMO Trailer

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 22, 2012 | News

It’s been in the works for some time now, but it looks like Marvel’s big MMO is finally ready to be shown off a bit. Originally developed by Cryptic Studios and being cancelled in 2008, Marvel’s MMO plans saw a resurrgence a year later when Gazillion Entertainment signed a deal with Marvel to produce games […]

Spoiler Alert: Somebody’s Getting Married In “Astonishing X-Men” #51

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 22, 2012 | News

Spoilers for an issue on stands tomorrow follow: Back in March, Marvel sent out the above teaser announcing that wedding bells were in the air for someone in “Astonishing X-Men,” and yesterday, Marvel teased that an announcement would be given on The View that would reveal who. Given that the book only featured only one […]

Christopher Nolan Likes Lighting Buildings On Fire

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 22, 2012 | News

As posted on the official Facebook page and spied by the folks at Spin-Off is a new poster for The Dark Knight Rises (above). Not only does it continue the trend that Christopher Nolan hates buildings, but now — in what is assumedly an homage to The Dark Knight poster — we now have a trend in which he […]

This Week In Comics!

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 22, 2012 | News

We figure it might help to let you guys know what’s coming out this week in comics, so welcome to our weekly feature! Our reviews come out Thursday (with perhaps some advances for tomorrow if you’re lucky), so be sure to look over this list to get a preview of what we may or may […]

BOOM! Goes For More Avengers With Mark Waid

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 21, 2012 | News

This year, BOOM! Studios has been republishing an old Grant Morrison Avengers comic serialized over six issues (the original version story was three prestige format issues). Starring the original Avengers, who got the name two years before Marvel’s characters did, the story told a short but entertaining mystery starring Steed and Mrs. Peel in a […]

Kapow ’12: Serafinowicz, Jock Team-Up for “Nelson”

By David Harper | May 21, 2012 | News

This past weekend at Mark Millar’s con Kapow, it was announced that actor/comedian Peter Serafinowicz (the voice of Darth Maul, Pete from Shaun of the Dead) is going to be working on his first ever comic project with none other than superstar artist Jock (you know, Snyder’s “Detective,” “The Losers”). This project is titled “Nelson” […]

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