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IMAGE COMICS EMERALD CITY COMICON Stars, Panels and More

Image Comics return to Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con this week to celebrate the past and future with a stellar roster of creators, exclusives and a major panel event.

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Original Image Comics company founders Todd McFarlane, Jim Valentino, Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvestri, and Whilce Portacio will reunite at ECCC to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary milestone. The panel will be moderated by The Walking Dead creator and Image Comics partner, Robert Kirkman.

The publisher released new details (with official descriptions) on panels featuring Image artists and writers plus exclusives to buy at the booth. Here’s the latest what, who and where for Image fans to plan their con: Continue reading IMAGE COMICS EMERALD CITY COMICON Stars, Panels and More

Top 10 Comics for June 25, 2014

Batman #32 courtesy DC Comics
Batman #32 courtesy DC Comics

Batman #32  The Dark Knight vs. the Riddler for control of Gotham City. The fight that shaped the future of Batman, Jim Gordon and their crusade. The next to the last chapter of Bruce Wayne’s Zero Year by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.

 

C.O.W.L. #2 A union of fallen super heroes fights to recapture their power, status and love of the public. What are they willing to sacrifice to win back their glory. A retro tale of 1960’s heroes with edge, guts and themes right out of our world today by  Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel and Rod Reis

 

New Avengers #30 & New Avengers Annual #1 Marvel is conjuring a Dr. Strange movie and here are two intertwined tales of the Master of the Mystic Arts. How far is Dr. Strange willing to go to stop the heroes of a rival universe to save our Earth? Then in the Annual, Strange must return to the Himalayas to settle a debt with a sect of monks unlike any you’ve seen.  The Sorcerer Supreme already bargained in Hell for the power to save the planet -but will he lose his soul? Continue reading Top 10 Comics for June 25, 2014

THE WALKING DEAD Spin-Off Series

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AMC photo by Gene Page courtesy TWD Productions

The zombie outbreak is spreading…into a new television series.

 

AMC announced it’s in the initial stages of developing a companion series to its original drama series The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert are on board as executive producers, with AMC Studios set to produce. The companion series has a target on-air date of 2015. Continue reading THE WALKING DEAD Spin-Off Series

Black History Month and Zombies?

Danai Guriri as Michone in The Walking Dead courtesy AMC
Danai Guriri as Michone in The Walking Dead courtesy AMC

I had a thought about Black History Month and zombie fiction. Books and movies about the undead are horrific escapism but serve as social commentaries reflecting the times in which they are created. If you want to find groundbreaking actors and characters of all colors look in the fictional fights against the undead.

George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead filmed in stark black and white arrived in 1968 and reflected the horrors of the Vietnam war and racial unrest in the United States. Romero made an African-American man the hero of his film. Duane Jones played Ben, one of five people trapped in a farmhouse as the undead rise and attack.  This was 1968. A black man portrayed as the hero and doing such things Continue reading Black History Month and Zombies?

Inside the Prison of The Walking Dead Season Three

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  Robert Kirkman takes you inside “The PRISON!” AMC shared this new video of creator Kirkman touring the prison set. Rick and his band of survivors think they have found a safe refuge inside this fortress but soon learn the living can be just as dangerous as the dead.

The Walking Dead Season Three with the prison, The Governor and Michonne begins October 14, 2012.

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The Walking Dead Michonne Cast!

Danai Gurira courtesy IMDB

  Creator/Executive Producer Robert Kirkman announced that Danai Gurira has been cast as fan favorite character Michonne in Season Three of The Walking Dead. Kirkman made the announcement on last night’s Talking Dead.

  Kirkman told The Hollywood Reporter that the series was “transitioning into a new world” where the survivors are “faced with more adversaries, danger and different kinds of threats” and that Michonne is a “big part of that.”

  Michonne was introduced in issue 19 of the comic book and became a trusted ally of Rick.