Richard "Grass[hopper]" Green was a man of firsts. Pioneer comic book fan, comics artist and writer, and musician, "Grass" Green died on August 5, 2002. To commemorate his talent and life, a new comic book titled “Forever Green” will be published in November by Main Enterprises. “Forever Green” will re-release comic strip and book material...
Troy has fallen after 10 years of battle and now Greece has emerged triumphant in the Trojan War! Traveling back home, Odysseus, Greece’s mightiest warrior, finds himself lost out at see after being blown off course by the ruthless sea god, Poseidon! Homer’s classic epic poem about the hero, Odysseus, finally receives the grand treatment...
Updated shipping information for comics and products being released beyond the week of 08/20/2008, provided by Diamond Distribution and our friends at Things From Another World. View a dynamic version of this list, updated several times each week, leading up to its Friday release. Please let me know if any of the names...
Everyone’s favorite spunky, redheaded Spider-Man love interest is BACK! The beautiful Mary Jane Watson swings off the pages of her new five-issue limited series, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, and onto the computer screen! Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited is proud to present Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #1 (of 5) available right here for free: http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/Spider-Man_Loves_Mary_Jane.2008.1...
A Farewell Message From Michael Vance I grew up in the 1950s in a small town of about 12,000 to 15,000 people named Seminole in Oklahoma. Among the first things I began to read on my own were comic strips and comic books. I have loved the...
Per Donna Barr, An Insupportable Light will ship one month late. She says "The new revised "An Insupportable Light" will ship in December, not in November. So you have one more month to get those copies ordered. Since Diamond sends out orders in November, and I hit Lulu.com for books as soon as I get...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 - DC: THE NEW FRONTIER author Darwyn Cooke will collaborate with writer J. Bone this November for an all-new story featuring Mike Allred's seminal creation, Madman, in MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #14! "Darwyn and I are like twins separated at birth," Allred said. "We dig all the same things and get...
Per the New York Times, the print run of the Watchmen graphic novel since the movie trailer was released has hit 900,000
ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 20, 2008, by Charles LePage. This is the *preliminary* list and is not complete. The complete, and much more accurate, list will be published next week. This information is compiled from a variety of sources including Diamond Distribution and our friends at Things From Another...
Marvel is proud to unveil the all-new variant covers to Hulk #6 and Hulk #7, in memory of beloved superstar artist Michael Turner. “Living in a world without Mike is something I could never imagine,” said Hulk scribe Jeph Loeb. “He was the greatest guy. The. Greatest. I wanted some way to...
Marvel is proud to announce that Amazing Spider-Man Family #1 has sold out at Diamond! Not getting your dose of web-slinging fun, thricely? Check out Amazing Spider-Man Family #1 for the latest scoop on your friendly neighborhood super hero and the rest of the Brand New Day cast! Everyone knows Spider-Man’s origin –...
He’s the Golden Guardian of Good. He’s got the power of a million exploding suns. He is -- The Sentry! Coming to you before issue #1 of The Age Of The Sentry flies out of comic shops, Sentry fans everywhere are in for a special treat! Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited is proud to present...
Brandon Borzelli's Geek Goggle Weekly Rankings For 08/13/08 Here are this week’s comics (last week's actually, posted late due to a well deserved vacation for Brandon) ranked prior to reading them, based upon past performance and advance information released on each issue: 8. Secret Invasion: X-Men...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - This holiday season Silverline Books, the all-ages book division of Image Comics' Shadowline, presents Kristen Koerner Simon and Jim Valentino's all-ages story of a little blue tree without a home, but not without hope; BRUCE: THE LITTLE BLUE SPRUCE. "One of my unattained career goals was to do a...
Our friends at MangaCast write Ah my love for Shogakukan cannot be measured by science! And this week the NCRL gives me two titles that remind me why the love affair continues… Black Lagoon is easily the best action title of the year. 10 times better than Gantz with one-tenth the hype machine. And Takahashi...
LOS ANGELES (August 13, 2008) -- The wit and wisdom of the caliph of comics is on display for all to see in one mighty volume! For the first time ever, ALL of Stan Lee's groundbreaking, legendary “Stan's Soapbox” columns from 1967 to 1980 are collected in one edition, published by The Hero Initiative. Stan’s...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eidos Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on behalf of DC Comics announce Batman: Arkham Asylum, a dark, action-packed videogame adventure for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows in 2009. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, developed by Rocksteady Studios, the player...
(San Diego, August 13, 2008) -- What is Fubear? Fubear is the schism that exists between "funny ha-ha” and “funny-strange.” At least that’s what creator David Slade tells us. Coming this August from IDW Publishing, Fubear is a nice, small, square hardcover collection of the illustrations which served as inspiration for the animated comic/horror short...
Artist Pete Roberts has announced he is leaving Marvel to work exclusively at DC Comics.
Toronto (August 11, 2008) -- Author Blake Bell (Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko – the first critical retrospective of Steve Ditko, the co-creator and original artist of the Amazing Spider-Man) is proud to announce his partnering with The Hero Initiative for his next book, Bill Everett: Fire and Water. The book will...
