Wizard World Chicago is in full swing, and everyone has some kind of news to report. Here’s your rapid-fire rundown of the announcements and comments made by Marvel at the show so far.
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Top Cow has released its schedule of panels and booth signings for this weekend’s Wizard World Chicago. “Chicago brings out some of the best comics fans in the word and we are excited to be able to present them with the best Top Cow has to offer, especially during opening weekend of the Wanted movie in theaters,†pronounced Mel Caylo, VP-Sales and Marketing, referring to the film based on the Top Cow comic mini-series by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones. “Not only are we bringing CEO and Founder Marc Silvestri to the show, we’ve also invited Puerto-Rico based Madame Mirage…
Archie Comics has announced Dan Parent will make an appearance at Wizard World Chicago taking place this weekend in the windy city (June 26-29). Dan will sketching and signing in the Artist Alley, table #4008B. via Archie Comics
Jon, from Double Dumbass On You.com attended Wizard World Philly this past weekend, and ran into any number of Skrulls running around the show floor. If there was this much Skrull cosplay on the show floor this year, I can’t wait until Marvel Apes hits store shelves. Take the jump for Jon’s complete report and a better look at ol’ green chin.
Do we really need another zombie tale set in the Marvel Universe? According to Fred Van Lente, the answer is yes. In the next installment, one of the zombies escapes from zombie world and stumbles into Marvel 616 territory, thus making Marvel Zombies an in continuity title. “Marvel Zombies 3†will focus on a different group of zombies than Kirkman and Phillips’ books. “This is partly because ‘MZ3’ is set in a very specific period of ‘MZ’ continuity,†Van Lente explained. “For fear of giving away too much, I’m going to tell you when, exactly. But let’s just say the…
Peter Bickford from Human Computing, the makers of that awesome ComicBase comic inventory system, sent us a quick note letting everyone know about the company’s Wizard World LA schedule. In a matter of hours, we’re heading down to the fabulous Los Angeles Convention center where we’ll be showing off both ComicBase 12 and Atomic Avenue under a giant rocket ship at Booth #335 (right next to Artist Alley). Come on by and say “Hi!†to Joe, Mark, me, and the rest of the crew. We’ll be running some very cool Show Specials on both new and upgrade versions of ComicBase…
If you are heading out to Wizard World LA this weekend, we’ve got the rundown from Top Cow of what they have going on at the show. Marc Silvestri, Seth Green, Paul Dini, and Joe Casey, are just some of the guests scheduled for the show. Take the jump for the complete run down and show exclusive issues. If you are attending the show, please contact me!
Platinum Studios and AT&T have announced the field of aspiring comic creators have been narrowed to three. This means the online voting is on for the second annual Platinum Studios’ Comic Book Challenge. The Finalists Jorge Vega from Brockton, Mass., for “Gunplay” Shawn Granger from La Verne, Calif., for “Grey Shades” Josiah Grahn from Richmond, Ky., for “Banana Barry” Between now and Sunday August 26, you can visit the AT&T Blue Room (www.attblueroom.com) to check out the work by the creators, view the live pitch, and cast your vote. “The level of competition has been intense this year,” said Scott…
Here’s something to ponder – Storm Trooper in a Bikini. You can see the rest of the set at the Flickr site. Speaking of pictures, did you go to Wizard World Chicago? We’re looking for readers to share their photo diary of the convention. Drop me an email at schleicher.at.mindspring.com, and I’ll get them on the site.
We mentioned the writing team of Millar and Hitch will be working on Fantastic Four in 2008 yesterday, now we have the trailer Marvel showed at its panel to announce the event.
Just a hint – someone escapes the carnage. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=-tGTLeuBQH0[/youtube]
Alex Ross is coming back to Marvel, and guess what project he is working on? According to Ross, this project has been in the works for two years. In an interview with Newsarama, Alex said he would be the designer, cover artist, and co-storyteller with Jim Krueger. It could mean many things. It implies as much a return of Captain America, sure, as it also implies my return to Marvel – and maybe some other things. But I can tell you that my ego wasn’t fueling the design of that image… Of course he is being very cryptic in his…
From DC’s perspective every running series (Amazon’s Attack, Sinestro Corps., Countdown, and so on) is going to end with big suprises. Take the jump for other highlights from the panel including the announcement of new kids titles.
Word out of Chicago is artist Dustin Nguyen will make a return to the Batman universe taking on the art duties for Detective Comics. This is not the first time Nguyen has drawn Batman, he is currently doing work on Superman/Batman, and this fall, you’ll see his Batman work in DC’s Halloween Special, in a story written by Paul Dini that features – surprise – Zatanna. Dustin Nguyen joins Paul Dini’s Detective Comics in early 2008.