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Diamond Gem Awards winners announced

January 8, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Gem Awards are run by Diamond Comic Distributors in the States, working with comic book speciality retailers and recognised across the industry. It’s not just comic book retailers that are in the running – the Gem Awards looks at toy manufacturers and game makers.…

Superheroes from comic books to live-action 1930 to 2014 [infographic]

December 21, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you think there’s been a lot of superhero movies and TV shows this year? Dave Columbus took a host of data and transported it all into one mighty infographic. Up to date as of July 2014, the visual shows how individual superheroes moved from comic books to live action.…

At long last – Spider-Woman gets a new costume

December 18, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spider-Woman’s not changed her costume in a while and after the drama around the Milo Manara alternative cover which had the wall-crawling superhero in a rather awkward pose it feels like a change is long overdue.…

50 Free Comic Book Day 2015 titles announced

December 18, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Saturday the 2nd of May will be the 2015 Free Comic Book Day. Anyone popping into a participating comic book shop. Come April the FCBD store locator will update to show which shops are taking part this time around.…

Hasbro and Diamond design Star Wars cover with action figures

December 8, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Star Wars #1 PREVIEWS exclusive limited variant edition will be an interesting one. I think the clue is in the name! This will be a Toy Fair edition and limited to just 10,000 copies.…

Marvel heroes as Bond Girls

November 24, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Did you enjoy the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall? If you’re a comic fan but still to go then perhaps this set of clever art from Bill Walko will encourage you.…

Buy the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Basic Game

February 26, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It was back in August of 2011 that we covered news of Margaret Weis Productions landing the Marvel RPG license. At the time we were told there would be some 16 books in total, the first coming out in February as the basic game.…

Thor trailer

December 13, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Just in case you missed it this weekend – we’ve now got our eyes on the juicy juicy Thor trailer. As with so many hero movies we’re picking a big story for Thor.…

Idris Elba Deserves To Be An Asgardian!

April 30, 2010 by Paul Leave a Comment

Apparently there are people out there who don't think Idris Elba (Ultraviolet, The Wire) should be playing the Norse God Heimdall in Kenneth Brannagh's adaptation of Marvel Comic's Thor.

Deadpool vs the Watchmen

April 10, 2010 by Paul Leave a Comment

Rorschach and Deadpool! A Nut and a Fool!