Tag: Todd McFarlane

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.

courtesy Image Comics

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

IMAGE EXPO Announcements

Image Expo is on.

Can you feel the comics industry shaking?

Image revealed multiple new series from legendary and best-selling writers and artists at their one-day Image Expo in San Francisco.

A brand new number one and milestone for Image Comics co-founding father Todd McFarlane.

Here’s the rundown of today’s announcements:

 

AD After Death courtesy Image Comics
AD After Death courtesy Image Comics

AD: After Death
New York Times bestselling writer Scott Snyder (WYTCHES, Batman) and artist Jeff Lemire (Trillium, Sweet Tooth) come together to for AD: AFTER DEATH, from Image Comics this November 2015. “Set in a near future where death has been cured and one man must come to grips with what comes next.”

 

BLACK ROAD

Writer Brian Wood’s (Star Wars, DMZ, Northlanders) first return to the Viking genre since the acclaimed Northlanders series and his and Garry Brown’s first project together since The Massive. Continue reading IMAGE EXPO Announcements

Jamie Foxx “Aggresively Pursuing” SPAWN

Spawn #232 courtesy Todd McFarlane and Image Comics
Spawn #232 courtesy Todd McFarlane and Image Comics

Jamie Foxx as Spawn?

 

The Oscar winner plays Spidey villain Electro in Amazing Spider-Man 2 next year but has an Image hero on his wish list.

 

“Spawn is one, yeah. And Mike Tyson. Those are two roles I would just love to do. I’m aggressively pursuing them,” Foxx told Movies.com.

 

Spawn is the creation of Todd McFarlane. Al Simmons was a soldier turned assassin who was betrayed and killed. Al became a “Hellspawn” in a deal with a demonic force order to see his wife again. Continue reading Jamie Foxx “Aggresively Pursuing” SPAWN

Neil Gaiman and “Angela” Join Marvel!

Age of Ultron #10 courtesy Marvel
Age of Ultron #10 courtesy Marvel

Neil Gaiman returns to Marvel! It’s part of the star-studded Age of Ultron finale! Legendary Joe Quesada returns to pencil the final pages of Age of Ultron #10. Marvel revealed Quesada will create art for a special epilogue written by Brian Michael Bendis that features the introduction of Gaiman’s Angela into the Marvel Universe! Angela will have a new look created by Quesada and have “an immediate impact” that continues in Guardians of the Galaxy #5 which will be written by Bendis and Gaiman.

Angela is a warrior angel Gaiman created by Gaiman and artist Todd McFarlane during their run on Spawn published by Image Comics.

Preparing the way for Continue reading Neil Gaiman and “Angela” Join Marvel!