During yesterday’s Lucasfilm publishing panel at San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Marvel Comics is set to launch an adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s acclaimed Star Wars: Thrawn novel from the creative team of writer Jody Houser (Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation) and artists Luke Ross and Nolan Woodard. SEE ALSO: Journey to Star Wars: […]
Doom Patrol/Justice League crossover coming in 2018
DC’s Young Animal imprint has gained a lot of traction since it began last year as an outlet for mature readers than the stories usually told in the regular DC Comics titles. The books – Doom Patrol, Mother Panic, Shade The Changing Girl and Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye – take place within the DCU, but are still relatively […]
Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larocca take over Marvel’s Star Wars from issue #38
Marvel has announced that the Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra creative team of writer Kieron Gillen and artist Salvador Larocca are set to take over the main ongoing Star Wars comic series this November from issue #38. “My aim’s simple – to do what Salva and I did with Darth Vader, but for Leia, Luke […]
SDCC: Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill announce The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Tempest
At the San Diego Comic-Con today, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill will conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series’ spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest. Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world’s […]
Marvel to publish Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War prelude comics
Bleeding Cool has revealed that Marvel Comics will set the stage for two of next year’s big superhero blockbusters by publishing prelude titles to Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War. As the site notes, we have seen prelude comics from Marvel before which simply adapt previous movies, such as Guardians of the Galaxy for Guardians […]
IDW announces Ghostbusters: Answer the Call limited series
We may not be seeing them back on the big screen any time soon, but IDW Publishing is reuniting the characters of last year’s Ghostbusters reboot for the new five-issue limited series Ghostbusters: Answer the Call from writer Kelly Thompson (Hawkeye, Ghostbusters: Deviations) and artist Corin Howell (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ghostbusters: International). In the […]
Gears of War returning to comic books in January 2018
IDW Publishing has announced that Gears of War is returning to the world of comic books in 2018, with a new series charting the story of humanity’s struggle against fearsome and brutal adversaries through a captivating tale of hope, comradery, and survival. “We are thrilled to be working with IDW Publishing to expand the Gears of […]
Comic Book Review – The X-Files #16
Tony Black reviews The X-Files #16… “Resistance,” Part 3 (of 4): With Scully under arrest, Mulder must partner with a hated enemy in order to bring down a corrupt official. Tensions are building to an absolute knife edge in the penultimate issue of The X-Files continuation run, part three of ‘Resistance’, as Joe Harris front […]
Preview of Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II #6
DC Comics and IDW’s Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II crossover comes to an end this Wednesday with the release of the sixth and final issue; check out a preview here… It’s the final battle as the Bat-family and the Turtles face off against Bane and the Foot Clan on Liberty Island. With America’s great symbol of […]
Boom! and Nickelodeon team up for new Rugrats series
Boom! Studios and Nickelodeon are teaming up for a series of comic books and graphic novels based upon the network’s original 90s animated shows, beginning with a brand new Rugrats series featuring more adventures of the most intrepid toddlers to ever bust out of a playpen. In Rugrats #1, from award-winning writer Box Brown and rising-star artist […]
