Holy crap this is amazing! Skipping the pleasantries I am so prone to, this has to be one of the coolest attractions out there! For those lucky souls in San Diego, or those jawsome people attending Comic Con this year, make sure to head over to Petco Park for one of the coolest obstacle courses of all time, The Walking Dead Escape! Head over to their site to...
It’s coming up fast: Free Comic Book Day on May 5th– the one day of the year when comic shops across the nation offer FREE Comic Books to their customers, many who, hopefully, are venturing into their stores for the first time and becoming regulars. Most of those stores will also be holding sales and various events to make this the best day for...
Well, the news is starting to trickle out about the third season of AMC’s smash hit The Walking Dead. Though the first two season have seen some significant deviations from the ongoing comic by Robert Kirkman, this doesn’t seem to have blunted fans’ enthusiasm for the show, as the producers continue to weave new stories in a familiar framework. This...
The preliminary March comic sales numbers are out, and while DC and Marvel still dominate, for the first time in the Diamond Distribution exclusive stranglehold, five publishers have the managed to achieve market shares of over 5%. The individual retail numbers break down like this: Mavel (36.21%), DC Comics (30.95%) [Exclusively Marvel or DC fans, feel free to...
The following is from our friends at Image Comics: G-MAN creator gives classic Image characters a make-over! On April First at Emerald City Comicon, Robert Kirkman and Chris Giarusso revealed a new project: THE WALKING DEAD for Kids. A panel-by-panel recreation of the original issues using Kirkman’s scripts, THE WALKING DEAD for Kids would be drawn...
There’s a saying, “Strike while the fire’s hot”, and it seems Zenescope is doing just that. First, their comics sold out and went into second printings. Then they decided to make figures out of their popular Alice and Jurasssic Strike Force 5 series’. Not to mention the Kickstarter campaign they have running right now in order to...
I have to say that this one holds a special place in my heart. A few years ago we got the EC Sampler for Free Comic Book Day, a chance for new readers to experience that pure awesome that was EC Comics. Sadly, that was the only time EC had a presence on FCBD… until now. This year, Overstreet offers a book spotlighting some of the very best horror comics of...
Back in February the original illustrator for The Walking Dead comic series, Tony Moore, filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court against series writer Robert Kirkman. As I understand the situation, Moore claims that back in 2005 Kirkman informed him that the pending The Walking Dead TV series deal on the table would be unable to proceed until Moore...
Out of print for some time, Rock Bottom, the 2006 AiT/Planet Lar graphic novel from creators Joe Casey (Gødland, The Milkman Murders, Cable) and Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead) will be getting the Hard Cover treatment, Image announced at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend. The 102 page story was 4 years in the making. The story is about a Thomas Dare, a...
The first day of the Emerald City Comicon is in the books. The day started out with a soaking torrential downpour, but in a typical Seattle fashion, finally switched to to sunny skies and good times for everyone in attendance at the convention. Somehow it seems like there are even more vendors and attendees at ECCC then ever before. I was very encouraged by the...
For one weekend each year, Seattle becomes the epicenter of the comic world. That time is upon us, as the premier Pacific NW comic and pop culture event, the Emerald City Comicon, takes place this weekend (March 30th – April 1st). Writers, artists, actors, fans, gamers, and cosplayers will flood Seattle like a tsunami of all that is awesome. This will be the...
With Season two of The Walking Dead over and Halloween still months away, what are going to do to fill the zombie shaped voids in our life? Sure there’s “Zombie Walks” in cities across the US, but that’s only a day. There are conventions of all sorts, but those are special and rare events as well. There’s always online articles to...
I’ve been away from the comics Internet for two weeks. What did I miss? Superman gets the ever-loving S-word kicked out of him in the new trailer for Superman vs. The Elite, one of the few adaptations of a DC or Marvel comic that was published in the 21st century. Seriously, see if you can count the humiliations the poor guy goes through in the 75-second...
How about some news and pictures of the sweet stuff that’s going to be available at ECCC from our friends at Image Comics?! Exclusive covers, prints, and T-shirts at the March 30-April 1 conventionEmerald City Comicon (ECCC) is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2012, and Image Comics, commemorating its twentieth anniversary, is hitting the...
