“Baltimore is my home town, so I knew we had to participate in Marc Nathan’s show this year,” commented Filip Sablik, Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Top Cow, “It doesn’t hurt that it’s also one of the top comic shows in the country. To make the show really special we held back a BIG announcement for our panel in Baltimore and a super sweet Kenneth Rocafort cover for our show exclusive.” The panel in question will be Saturday at 3:00 PM in the “Batcave” (Rooms 318-320). The Top Cow panel will highlight upcoming titles as well as some…
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Stephen Schleicher
Stephen Schleicher began his career writing for the Digital Media Online community of sites, including Digital Producer and Creative Mac covering all aspects of the digital content creation industry. He then moved on to consumer technology, and began the Coolness Roundup podcast. A writing fool, Stephen has freelanced for Sci-Fi Channel's Technology Blog, and Gizmodo. Still longing for the good ol' days, Stephen launched Major Spoilers in July 2006, because he is a glutton for punishment. You can follow him on Twitter @MajorSpoilers and tell him your darkest secrets...
Image Comics has announced its panels for this weekend’s Baltimore Comic-Con. “Our next edition of the Image Comics Show will be a great one,” said PR & Marketing Coordinator and Image Comics Show host Joe Keatinge. “On tap for the panel will be Erik Larsen, Scott Kurtz, Dean Haspiel, CB Cebulski, Frank Cho and around half a dozen announcements I’m dying to reveal. We’re also doing a retrospective on the Mice Templar. Mike Oeming and Bryan J.L. Glass have been working on this book for around twenty years so we’ve dug into their archives to unearth never before seen conceptual…
Top Cow Productions has announced Angelus is getting the Pilot Season treatment this October. The Pilot Season series is a way for fans to vote on their favorite character who will then get their own series in 2008. “It’s been a pleasure and privilege to be invited to take part in Top Cow’s Pilot Season. To expand on the characters of The Angelus and Celestine, to contribute to the Top Cow canon and top it off by being team-up with the peerless Stjepan Sejic. It really doesn’t get any better than this!” stated writer Edgington in a prepared statement. Take…
Diamond Select Toys has announced an exclusive Season One William T. Riker action figure as part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation 25th 20th Anniversary. Holy crap, has it been 20 years since the debut of The Next Generation? I suddenly feel really really old. For those wanting to get their mitts on the figure head over to Suncoast and F.Y.E. Although with the recent troubles Suncoast has had, you better get there in the next 30 days before the company declares bankruptcy. via Diamond Select Toys
Next week fans who have been waiting to catch a glimpse of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man footage will get their chance. The official trailer airs on television beginning September 10th, with the HD trailer coming to the Apple Store on the 11th.
Virgin Comics has announce its original graphic novel Virulents will be turned into a feature film produced by New Regency Productions. Set in the Bermuda triangle-like hills of the Hindu Kush after 9/11, Virulents follows a motley crew consisting of American and Indian soldiers who must join forces as they respectively rove the Afghani hills in search of a lost platoon and missing weapon of mass destruction. But rather than stumble upon the militants they are expecting to find, they encounter a demon-like menace unlike the world has ever seen and must re-think their strategy and figure out a way…
You’ve already read about it in the DC Solicitations for November, and now the company has announced November 7, 2007 will be the official release date for the Heroes hardcover based on the NBC series. The stories, which mark the first printed graphic novel adaptation of the show, were originally created for the “Heroes” website at NBC.com (www.NBC.com/Heroes) where new chapters continue to be exclusively available. The collection spotlights the fluid artwork of legendary comic book artist Tim Sale (BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN), whose work was featured prominently during the first season of the series through the visuals created by…
WizKids, Inc. has announced the release of DC HeroClix: Justice League that features 60 individual characters. The booster packs now include five figures, character cards that add more powers and abilities, keywords that link heroes to their allies, background info on each character, feat cards, bystander tokens or battlefield condition cards. Take the jump for more info and an image gallery of the complete line!
Variety is reporting the Street Fighter videogame is set to make another appearance on the silver screen. One would think the horrible failure that was the Jean-Claude Van Damme Street Fighter (1994) would be a hint to proceed cautiously with any other film in the franchise. Instead of following te Jean Claude character, this script, penned by Justin Marks focuses on female fighter Chun Li on a campaign for justice. Justin Marks is also penning the Voltron movie for New Regency, Super Max and He-Man for Warner Bros. Street Fighter is set to go into production in 2008 with 20th…
Marvel Comics has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Punisher Max Annual #1 written by Mike Benson and artist Laurence Campbell.
Dynamite Entertainment has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of titles arriving this week (that’s Sept 6 for those in the US). Take the jump for Painkiller Jane, EVA: Daughter of the Dragon, The Boys, and the concluding chapter of Dark Xena.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=rLovIPz_MyY[/youtube] Well I didn’t think the series was that bad, but because it was strung out for so long, I did lose interest. The big reveal at the end did have me wondering “WTF?” After all, unless you knew there was a big New Gods story coming down the pipe, a reader could be seriously messed up. And there is the little matter of knowing who Granny Goodness is in the first place – something many new readers of DC comics might not know about. I give the series 2.5 out of 5 Stars, but that is nothing compared to…
Image Comics has recently released the first issue of Lucha Libre, originally from the European publisher Humanoids. That comic is soon to be turned into a motion picture called Luchadores 5, directed by Michael Olmos. Set in East Los Angeles, it’s a comedy about five Latino wrestlers who form a masked vigilante group to clean up their neighborhood. The film is expected to start shooting in 2008. This is the first in a 12 picture deal with Humanoids. via Variety
DC Comics has announced some scheduling issues with Superman Confidential. First up is issue #6 that was supposed to be the final chapter of the Kryptonite storyline, written by Darwyn Cooke and illustrated by Tim Sale, will now appear in a future issue of Superman Confidential. This also means the Kryptonite Hardcover has been canceled and will be resolicited at a later date. Take the jump for a break down of the next four issues of Confidential.