Category: Books

EMERALD CITY COMICON Joins REEDPOP

Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon’s record growth leads to a big partnership just months before the big comic book event. ReedPOP is the world’s largest producer of pop culture events and is getting bigger with the biggest comic book show in the Pacific Northwest.

The company announces that Emerald City Comicon the ‘premiere comic book and pop culture convention in the Pacific Northwest’ has joined its family of leading experiential fan events. The partnership will take effect for the eagerly anticipated 2015 event taking place March 27-29 in downtown Seattle, Washington. Continue reading EMERALD CITY COMICON Joins REEDPOP

Top Comics Picks for January 14, 2015

Star Wars #1 courtesy Marvel
Star Wars #1 courtesy Marvel

Star Wars #1

The Death Star is destroyed but the battle with the Empire is far from over! The most beloved sci-fi saga returns to Marvel in a brand new series by Jason Aaron and John Cassaday.

S.H.I.E.L.D. #2

Guest starring breakout Ms. Marvel! Simmons goes back to school to investigate a mystery leading to Kamala Khan.

Grayson #6

The battle building since the first issue and Dick Grayson’s new undercover mission: Continue reading Top Comics Picks for January 14, 2015

SABRETOOTH in WOLVERINES

Wolverines #1 courtesy Marvel
Wolverines #1 courtesy Marvel

Wolverines is a villain-lovers dream comic book.

Sabretooth, Mystique and Daken are forced to work with X-23 and the survivors of the new Weapon X project dealing with the fallout of the X-Man’s death.

Ray Fawkes (Batman Eternal) is working with Charles Soule (Death of Wolverine) on the new weekly ongoing. Fawkes script The Logan Legacy chapter starring Daken but one fan is eager for answers on the future of Victor Creed.

Sabretooth is Logan’s greatest enemy often portrayed as a ruthless killer but sometimes easy to beat opponent. Creed is one of the characters still affected by the inversion spell from Avengers and X-Men: AXIS. Continue reading SABRETOOTH in WOLVERINES

NEW AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Trailer

Avengers: Age of Ultron courtesy Marvel
Avengers: Age of Ultron courtesy Marvel

Marvel unleashed the new trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes vs. their most relentless enemy!

More of the Hulkbuster Armor!

More (“I’m angry all the time”) Hulk!

More of Black Widow’s past revealed?

More of the Scarlet Witch’s wrath.

And more Ultron punishing our heroes.

Plus a mystery character?

Watch and enjoy: Continue reading NEW AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Trailer

NEW ANT-MAN Movie Photos, YELLOWJACKET Design

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang in Ant-Man courtesy Marvel
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang in Ant-Man courtesy Marvel

Ant-Man buzz keeps getting bigger following the first trailer.

Marvel revealed new images of Paul Rudd as hero Scott Lang with the famous uniform and helmet, Michael Douglas as his mentor Hank Pym, Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne plus concept art of the shrinking superhero in action and a first look at the Yellowjacket suit to be worn by Darren Cross (Corey Stoll.) Continue reading NEW ANT-MAN Movie Photos, YELLOWJACKET Design

KYLE MacLACHLAN Joins New TWIN PEAKS Series

Kyle MacLachlan on Agents of SHIELD courtesy Marvel
Kyle MacLachlan on Agents of SHIELD courtesy Marvel

Start making the cherry pie and fire up the “damn fine and hot” coffee!

Showtime announced Kyle MacLachlan has officially signed on to headline the Twin Peaks revival. The new nine-episode series will start production in 2015 and is scheduled to premiere in 2016 on the 25th anniversary of the original series finale on ABC.

Original creators David Lynch and Mark Frost are back to executive produce the follow-up series set 25 years later.

MacLachlan played FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper who came to the Pacific Northwest town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of Laura Palmer.

Fans of the beloved series will remember Cooper’s dream  in which Laura said, “I’ll see you again in 25 years” and they were together again 25 years in the future.

MacLachlan hinted at his possible return to the lead role in the cult classic series. Continue reading KYLE MacLACHLAN Joins New TWIN PEAKS Series

PLANET ULTRON In AVENGERS: RAGE OF ULTRON

Avengers: Rage of Ultron courtesy Marvel
Avengers: Rage of Ultron courtesy Marvel

The Avengers greatest enemy as they’ve never faced him before?

Marvel revealed an ominous teaser with chilling new art for Avengers: Rage of Ultron, an original graphic novel by Rick Remender, Jerome Opena and Dean White.

This time Ultron plots against the Avengers other greatest villain: Thanos!

The evil A.I. targets Saturn’s moon and takes over Titan’s computer core and Planet Ultron is born.

It will take two generations and maybe some super-powered Eternals to stop Ultron’s rage this time. Continue reading PLANET ULTRON In AVENGERS: RAGE OF ULTRON

VALIANT IMPERIUM Reveals HARADA’s RISE

Imperium Prelude courtesy Valiant Entertainment
Imperium Prelude courtesy Valiant Entertainment

The VALIANT NEXT initiative is introducing its latest milestone ongoing series on February 4th in IMPERIUM #1 by Joshua Dysart and artist Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS), and now Valiant is giving fans a chance to discover the next essential series of 2015 with the IMPERIUM: PRELUDE – an exclusive, never-before-seen prologue sequence by the ongoing creative team of Dysart & Braithwaite that will make its print debut in Valiant’s February books.

“Bridging the gap between Valiant’s hit series HARBINGER and Toyo Harada’s rise in IMPERIUM #1, the spiritual successor to HARBINGER starts here with a fresh start for new readers in the IMPERIUM: PRELUDE. A psychic dictator, an inhuman robot, a mad scientist, a murderous alien, and a super-powered terrorist are about to try and take over the world…and you’re going to be rooting for them every step of the way.” Continue reading VALIANT IMPERIUM Reveals HARADA’s RISE