Author: Stephen Schleicher

While Masquerade is the costume event for the fans, Marvel is teaming up with Disguise to put on a fashion show at the Marvel booth.  Instead of models wearing traditional costumes, the ladies will be walking down the catwalk in a different interpretation of the favorites. Disguise has tossed this old and unflattering cartoonish concept and instead made fashionable, wearable and fun costumes that not only fit great but look fabulous.  These costumes are inspired by some of the hottest and most iconic heroes to grace the pages of Marvel, and this will be your first chance to see them…

Marvel Comics has unveled the covers to Astonishing X-Men #26 and Astonishing X-Men #27 by artist Simone Bianchi.

Image Comics has sent Major Spoilers its rundown of booth signings, comic exclusives, and panels at this year’s San Diego Comic Con International.

Boom! Studios has announced director Walt Becker has created a new comic book for the company.  Written by Michael Alan Nelson, and created by Becker, Last Reign: Kings of War is a four issue mini-series of futuristic knights in a bleak world of tomorrow. “I love comics in the same way I love films – they both tell stories visually,” said Becker.  “I also love the loyal fan base, and with an idea this big, I wanted to not only conceptualize the world through pictures but also to build a grass-roots following for this entirely new universe.” LAST REIGN: KINGS…

If you loved Dustin Nguyen’s take on the Marvel characters, be prepared to be blown away with this mini version of the Batman Universe. im sure the costumes are all way off and some are more deformed than others. but for some reason, i have no problem improvising costumes and features for Gotham characters. i figure if they looked cool to me, that was fun enough. unlike the marvel one i did here, where i actually had to go out to look for costumes and ref what they kinda look like. Very very cool.  You can see more of Dustin’s…

I think everyone saw this coming after the spectacular opening night the Dark Knight had in theaters.  It’s official now, The Dark Knight has officially pwned Spider-Man in the box office, taking in an estimated $155.3 million over the weekend.  Even at two hours and forty-one minutes, the Dark Knight was able to best the third installment of the wall crawler series by $4 million. “This is a career-capper for anybody who works on a film like this in our business,” Warners distribution president Dan Fellman said. “It’s a great ride, and it’s just beginning, Most of the big summer…

Entertainment Weekly has an interesting interview with Alan Moore on comics and motion media. Do you think that any good can come of comics movies? I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that’s sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. We all know that Alan Moore has never been a fan of his work being translated into motion picture or television form.  I just thought this was a good summation of his overall argument.…

Man What A Day!  And it ain’t even over yet.  The first half of the My Extra Life Nerdtacular II was a huge success.  Everyone in the theater loved the Dark Knight.  There were prizes given away, a fountain of glow sticks pouring down on the audience, a chance to meet people from all over North America, and even the Dark Knigh his bad self showed up. And yes, some of them actually know about Major Spoilers. So without further adieu, here’s a portion of the photos taken at today’s event.

The second installment of the 30 Days of Night web series has hit the net, and you can see it here. via Blog@Newsarama

Calling all X-Men!  Calling all X-Men!  Skrull are attacking!  Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Secret Invasion #1 that gets your favorite mutants battling Skrulls.

This trailer reveals more about what is happening in the third season of NBC’s Heroes.  Welcome to Level 5 indeed…

Nerdtacular II: The Dark Knight! Check out my fat face in this diary entry. [quicktime]http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07a/nerdtaculardiary1.mov[/quicktime] I’ve got my HD camera with me today, and I plan on capturing a lot of the festivities, we’ll see if I get around to posting that video – I promise I won’t be in it the next time (wink). Did you attend the Nerdtacular event?  Did you see Dark Knight?  What are your thoughts.

Yesterday the Emmy nominations were announced with the incredibly awesome HBO series John Adams receiving the most nominations (23).  Further down the list, DC’s New Frontier made it on the Animated Program (One hour or more) list alongside Family Guy’s Blue Harvest and South Park’s Imaginationland episodes. Hands down New Frontier should get the award, but everyone in H’wood seems to be in love with Seth MacFarlane, so don’t be surprised if the Star Wars parody walks away with the award. via Variety

Boom! Studios has announced the first issues of the company’s High Roller #1 and Station #1 have sold out at the distributor level. “It’s not surprising to me that both titles have been such hits,” said Ross Richie, Publisher and Co-Founder of BOOM! Studios.  “BOOM! prides itself on giving top talent a chance to tell compelling stories with the help of fantastic artists.  With an aggressive marketing campaign designed to expose the traditional comic crowd to non-traditional comic stories, HIGH ROLLERS and STATION were almost guaranteed to sell out.” If you had hopes of getting your hands on a copy,…