Wizards of the Coast has issued a press release to announce that they’ve signed R.A.Salvatore on a new six-book deal. No one will be surprised to discover that Drizzt Do’Urden from the D&D Forgotten Realms setting will be in each of the six books. R.A. Slavatore said in the press release; “I’ve always maintained that […]
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After the Blackest Night comes the Brightest Day
DC have pulled the curtain aside to let us see what comes after Blackest Night. In a “live blog” interview between The Source’s Alex Segura and Dan DiDio DC reveal that Brightest Day launches in April as a 26-issue biweekly. The interview is on the short side but confirms that Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi […]
Lisa McMann’s Wake
Publishers Simon and Schuster have published a short and simple video trailer for Lisa McMann‘s Wake. It’s the first in a series of three with Fade and Gone following on. “Not all dreams are sweet” is the tagline for the book. It features 17-year old Janie who has the strange ability to get sucked into […]
Who the heck is Ultimate-X?
With a new image from Marvel doing the rounds, we find ourselves wondering who Ultimate-X is. Those claws look awfully Wolverine. As usual, ComicVine does a good job of summing up thoughts; “Could this be Ultimate Daken? Has Wolverine somehow been transformed into a teenager? Could this perhaps be Ultimate X-23?”
Graphic.ly’s CEO, Micah Baldwin, talks about the awesome application
What a whirlwind! At the start of the week, Geek Native had news of Graphic.ly’s $1m funding and supersizing waiting list of comic fans. Just yesterday Mashable then had news that Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, yes – that Steve Ballmer, had raved about how awesome Graphic.ly was on stage at CES 2010. Yes – that CES […]
DC Comics not actually a nemesis to, er ‘Nemesis’
Yesterday, it was reported that Marvel Comic’s forthcoming ‘Nemesis’ series by ‘Kick-Ass’/’Wanted’ creator Mark Millar was being met with legal action by DC Comics. Apparently not according to comments Millar made over at Comic Book Resources: “There is no issue at all here. Someone simply saw that the image we had planned for the first cover […]
Solaris re-signs Eric Brown for Guardians of Phoenix series
Eric Brown’s first series (Necropath, Xenopath and Cosmopath) started life as Games Workshop books and concluded as Rebellion books. Judge Dredd fans know Rebellion as the publishers of 2000AD. The key to the deal is the imprint publisher – Solaris. It was a Games Workshop company when Necropath was published. Games Workshop got rid of […]
Iron Man stars in Cowboys & Aliens movie
The guys over at Whiskey Media’s ComicVine have noted that Cowboys & Aliens will start filming in July. It’ll be directed by Iron Man’s Jon Favreau. This is kinda cool because it had been rumoured for a while that the Iron Man duo of Robert Downey Jr and Iron Man would do another comic movie […]
Marvel and DC to re-start the Exclusivity Saga?
A few years back there was an all mighty tussle between Marvel and DC over talent. Each giant would try and sign an artist or writer in an exclusive deal. Work for us, they’d say, and no one else. David Finch has just signed an exclusive deal with DC Entertainment and their new management. It’s […]
Will the Fantastic Four Survive 2010?
Marvel’s latest news update on the Fantastic Four contains one line of text only. Will the Fantastic Four Survive 2010? The question accompanies this impressive panel from the current Hickman/Eaglesham run.
