July 25th, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA - Today BOOM! Studios and The Jim Henson Company revealed that Rockne S. O'Bannon, beloved creator of FARSCAPE, will be writing BOOM!'s recently announced FARSCAPE comic book series. Widely recognized as one of the greatest sci-fi series in television history, the multi-award-winning FARSCAPE will make the transition to...
ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 30, 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...
The WATCHMEN movie was previewed and discussed at the San Diego Comic Con 2008. Here are a sampling of the reactions. The first section is from "comiccon" on Twitter:
Recent Xeric Foundation grant recipient Gary Scott Beatty now offers his popular blog, the Aazurn Publishing Saga, on Aazurn.com, the site that carries information about his recent Xeric winning book "Jazz: Cool Birth." Into its third year, the blog details, step by step, Beatty's efforts to begin a comic book company. Beatty recently won...
New York, NY- July 25, 2008-- Electric Ant, Philip K. Dick’s seminal science fiction short story, will be adapted by Marvel Comics in the upcoming Electric Ant limited series to be released in 2009, it was announced by Marvel, and Electric Shepherd Productions. Dick’s work, which has revolutionized the world of science fiction, has...
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 25, 2008 – Top Cow Productions Inc. announced today that actors Jenna Dewan (“Step up,” “The Grudge 2”) and Luke Goss (“Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” “Blade II”), who were recently announced as starring in a movie based on The Magdalena comic series, will appear at the publisher’s panel on Saturday,...
NEW YORK, JULY 25, 2008 - Beginning Monday, July 28, mobile phone users and web surfers can enjoy Stephen King's latest work in a groundbreaking series of 25 original video episodes. The series of video episodes was created through a unique partnership between Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital, Marvel Entertainment, and CBS Mobile and...
A Kevin Smith Batman miniseries called CACOPHONY was announced at the San Diego Comic Con.
DC Comics Announced a Flash miniseries that will start in January titled THE FLASH: REBIRTH. It will feature Barry Allen, though it sounds like other Flashes will appear as well.
Stan Lee is going to partner with Disney to produce "exclusive digital content distributed online and via portable media devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPod." More details are to be released July 25 at the San Diego Comic Con.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ:ERTS), today announced that it is teaming up with WildStorm, an imprint of DC Comics, the largest English-language comic book publisher in the world, to create an exclusive, limited-edition Mirror’s Edge™ comic book. EA and DC Comics will distribute the first issue of the Mirror’s Edge...
Marvel announced their next X-Men crossover event at the San Diego Comic Con today. It will be called "Inferno II: X-Infernus."
Marvel is pleased to announce that Skrulls!, a special one-shot handbook tying into Secret Invasion, has sold out at Diamond. Exploring the secret history of the Skrull empire and all the major events that led to this summer’s number one comic, Secret Invasion, this special handbook follows in the tradition of sold out fan favorites...
Comic-Con 2008 – San Diego, CA (July 24, 2008) — Virgin Comics, an international comics publisher, and Perspective Studios, a leading producer of digital animation, announced today a groundbreaking collaboration with acclaimed comics scribe Grant Morrison on MBX, a new intellectual property and animation franchise based on India’s iconic myth The Mahabharata. Morrison’s re-imagining of...
SAN DIEGO, Jul 24, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today at the 2008 Comic-Con International, Glu Mobile Inc., a leading global publisher of mobile games, unveiled SUPERMAN/BATMAN, a new game coming to mobile phones around the world this winter. SUPERMAN/BATMAN, developed and published by Glu through its licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, is based...
The Palm Restaurant in San Diego is about to ratchet up the Comic-Con International x-citement with the appearance of artists Mark Brooks (Ultimate X-Men) and Mike Choi (Uncanny X-Men). They’ll be adding to the restaurant’s famous comic book mural (already featuring art by John Romita JR, Simone Bianchi and Leinil Yu) from 11:30 AM-1:00PM PST...
Rymer is currently filming the series finale of "Battlestar Galatica" and recently wrapped production on the 2-hour series pilot for "Revolution" for NBC Universal Media Studios and the SciFi Channel. The exact story line and nature of the script is being kept under wraps but will stay true to the "Witchblade" mythology which centers around...
LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2008 - Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, producer of Marvel Studios' Summer hit release "The Incredible Hulk" and Platinum Studios, Inc. (OTCBB: PDOS), an entertainment company that controls an international library of more than 5,600 comic book characters which it adapts, produces and licenses for all forms of media and...
The reports from the first night of the San Diego Comic Con are starting to trickle in.
Brandon Borzelli's Geek Goggle Weekly Rankings For 07/23/08 Here are this week’s comics ranked prior to reading them, based upon past performance and advance information released on each issue: 5. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic #31 4. Uncanny X-Men #500 3. Green...
