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Monday Morning Music: Gillen and McKelvie’s iFanboy Playlists

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 24, 2011 | News

Photo by Andy Khouri Last weekend at NYCC, iFanboy held a party co-hosted by Shirts For A Cure in which comic darlings Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (i.e. the duo behind Phonogram, a comic about.. you know.. music) DJ’d at the Idle Hands Bar. While not everyone was able to make it, those that were […]

Alpha Flight Ending With Issue 8 After All

By Joshua Mocle | Oct 23, 2011 | News

In what can only be described as an epic “lol jk” moment, Marvel’s January 2012 solicitations have confirmed that Alpha Flight, originally conceived and released as an 8 issue mini-series and then, with much fanfare, upgraded to ongoing series status, WOULD in fact be ending with its 8th issue after all. One could assume that […]

Iron Man 2.0 Cancelled With Issue 12

By Joshua Mocle | Oct 21, 2011 | News

While viewed as an inevitability to some, the folks over at Bleeding Cool have the confirmed that Nick Spencer’s high stakes military thriller Iron Man 2.0, which has been chronicling the adventures of former War Machine James Rhodes over the last year, will be ending with December’s issue 12. Despite the book’s unique take on […]

Gillen and Elson Bring the Terrorism Myth to Journey Into Mystery

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 21, 2011 | News

Now that Fear Itself is over, all of the books that had been tied into it are going to have to start finding new ground to cover, including Journey Into Mystery — a title that launched as an offshoot of Fear Itself. With Loki’s plan to save Thor now somewhat proven useless against the forces […]

Is the DCnU Shazam Actually the Flashpoint Shazam?

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 21, 2011 | News

In Flashpoint, Geoff Johns re-introduced Captain Marvel in the alternate universe with a bit of twist: instead of just being Billy Batson magically transformed, Shazam was made up of several children who each represented one of his core elements (wisdom of Solomon, strength of Hercules, stamina of Atlas, power of Zeus, courage of Achilles, speed […]

The Big Bang Theory Continues To Go Full On DC

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 21, 2011 | News

Just a few days ago, we told you about how the Big Bang Theory went full on DC last week. This week is absolutely no different, as during a quiet moment between Sheldon and his mother as she cares for him while he’s ill you can spy Static Shock, OMAC, Swamp Thing and Men Of […]

"Carol" Returns In Batman #2

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 20, 2011 | News

Our favorite new DCnU character is Carol, aka the Mysterious Hooded Lady that appeared in every book all four weeks of the DC relaunch. Carol failed to appear in the first two weeks worth of books in the DC relaunch for October (including no appearances in three new #1’s), but now it appears she has […]

Slott Brings Doc Ock Back To Spider-Man For The "End times"

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 20, 2011 | News

In the first issue of Dan Slott’s solo run on The Amazing Spider-Man, Slott began his run by having Doc Ock and Spidey near the end of a battle with the Avengers helping out and Doc Ock running off into the distance, only to be seen again in Invincible Iron Man torturing Tony right before […]

Liefeld’s NYCC Extreme 2012 Preview Book Now Online

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 20, 2011 | News

We jumped the gun on this a bit yesterday, but now we’re sharing this with you again — just with one minor tweak. At this year’s NYCC, Image announced that they would be relaunching properties from Rob Liefeld’s Extreme Studios with a bevy of new talent including Joe Keatinge, Tim Seeley and Brandon Graham, as […]

Remender, Williams, Parker and Moore Team For A Venom Event

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 19, 2011 | News

Marvel announced today in a liveblog press conference that Rick Remender, Jeff Parker and Rob Williams will be teaming up to write a six-part Venom-centric event in February, featuring Red Hulk, Ghost Rider and X-23. The book will be illustrated by Tony Moore, and for that alone should already be in your pre-orders. The book […]

Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons Team Up For The Secret Service

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 19, 2011 | News

“In 1987, schoolboy Mark Millar asked Dave Gibbons to draw one of his stories. In 2012, that dream came true.” These are the words that read on a new ad released today in Superior #6 from Millarworld and Icon, teasing Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ new creator-owned title, The Secret Service. While little is known […]

Lobster Johnson Returns In 2012!

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 19, 2011 | News

Out of all the assembled Mignola-verse, it is without a doubt that Lobster Johnson is my favorite. Why? While he is certainly one of the more underdeveloped characters, his pulp action awesomeness and fantastic name more than make up for his general lack of appearance — and it looks like Mignola is finally going to […]

Galactus Brings A Warning For Fantastic Four #600

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 18, 2011 | News

Marvel has released a teaser for the upcoming Fantastic Four #600 featuring Galactus on the moon in an illustration by Francis Lenil Yu with the quote, “Very soon, your world is going to be broken.” What this is in reference to is up in the air at the moment; it could very well be in […]

Chip Kidd To Write Batman Graphic Novel

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 18, 2011 | News

When I was a young lad, someone handed me a copy of The Cheese Monkeys, a book written by an artist I was unfamiliar with named Chip Kidd. It was one of those books that spoke to me at the time as a growing lad with aspirations of an artistic-related degree. Of course, little did […]

Millar And Gibbons’ New Project To Be Revealed In Superior #6

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 18, 2011 | News

A year ago, before the first ever Kapow! Comic Con, Mark Millar teased that he and legendary artist Dave Gibbons would be teaming up together to be working on a creator owned title for Millarworld. Granted, Millar saying that he would be working with (insert insanely talented artist here) has become somewhat par for course […]

This Week In Comics!

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 18, 2011 | 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 […]

"The Walking Dead" Premiere Dominates Ratings, Sets Records

By David Harper | Oct 17, 2011 | News

Last year when “The Walking Dead” premiered, it opened with an all-time high for ratings on AMC. Then the ratings went up from there, culminating in a high for the show on the finale. Now, with last night’s premiere, those numbers have been killed. The initial look at it shows that: – 7.3 million people […]

NYCC: IDW To Release New Book By Costa and Browne, Smoke And Mirrors

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 17, 2011 | News

Announced right before NYCC (but we missed it up until now), IDW will be releasing a new book from Mike Costa (currently writing DC’s Blackhawks title) and Ryan Browne (writer/artist of MC favorites God Hates Astronauts and Blast Furnace), entitle Smoke And Mirrors. The five-issue series is Costa’s first creator owned title, and with Ryan […]

NYCC: Legendary To Reprint Paul Pope’s One Trick Rip-Off

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 17, 2011 | News

Announced this weekend at NYCC, Legendary Entertainment (the company most known for film but who have recently expanded into graphic novels, recently with Holy Terror) will be re-releasing one of Paul Pope’s earliest works, the One Trick Rip-Off. The book, which originally ran in Dark Horse Presents, stars Tubby, member of the One Trick gang […]

NYCC: Lemire Confirms Ray Palmer’s Role In The DCnU

By Brian Salvatore | Oct 17, 2011 | News

This past weekend at NYCC, we spoke to writer/artist Jeff Lemire about his current work with DC, and while discussing his Frankenstein title, Lemire clarified Ray Palmer in his current position. According to Lemire, Ray Palmer is the same character we once knew as the Atom, but he simply has not grown into that role yet. […]

NYCC: Green Wake To Wrap Around 25 Issues With All Questions Answered

By Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 17, 2011 | News

This past weekend at NYCC, we chatted with writer Kurtis Wiebe about his ongoing title from Image, Green Wake (among other things). While discussing the issue, Wiebe revealed that the book will run for five arcs of five issues each, for a total of twenty five issues before the book reaches its finale. Wiebe also […]

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