 GREETING
THE GUARDIANS: WARLOCK
Adam
Warlock that is. We continue our looks at the members of Marvel's Guardians
of the Galaxy with the magical mystical guy ... [full
story...]
 HEROES
GETS A SPEEDSTER
Literally
- that's what she calls herself. Described as the Joker to Hiro's Batman,
Daphne will be a new character to debut on Heroes
coming season ... [full
story...]
 FLASHBACK:
BATMAN R.I.P - THE FIRST TIME
Batman
dies! Magic is used to erase the memory of a hero's secret identity! No,
we're not talking about now - we're talking about 1979 ... [full
story...]
 WORD
BALLOON: MATT FRACTION
Matt
Fraction and John Siuntres talk about his ends and beginnings,
touching on Iron Man, Iron Fist, X-Men, Punisher and
more ... [full
story...]
 INDIANA
JONES: HE WEARS IT WELL
As
the man himself said, "It's not the years, it's the mileage."
But as David Germain writes, both Indy and Harrison
Ford wear it well ... [full
story...]
 SECRETS
AND TRUTHS: DC UNIVERSE #0
Geoff
Johns sits down with Newsarama to go through DC Universe
#0 and reveal some secrets and give that confirmation ... [full
story...]
 MARVEL
PREVIEWS FOR MAY 14th
Including
looks at: Guardians of the Galaxy #1, Captain Britain and MI:
13 #1, Secret Invasion: FF #1, Tbolts #120 and more ... [full
story...]
 UPDATING
WITH ACTI-I-VATE
Started
with a server and a prayer, the webcomics collective Act-I-Vate
is growing and growing. We get an update on the plans ... [full
story...]
 BRAD
MELTZER'S BACK IN THE DCU
Best-selling
author Brad Meltzer is coming back to the DC Universe this August to pen
a Final Crisis tie-in one-shot. Details inside ... [full
story...]
 VIDEO:
CHATTING WITH GREG PAK
Thought
we were done with video? Oh, no, no, no. We speak with the creator about
Hulk-ish things, Skaar, and more ...
[full
story...]
 GREETING
THE GUARDIANS: STAR-LORD
Marvel's
Guardians of the Galaxy series kicks off next week, and
we start with Abnett and Lanning telling us all about
Star-Lord ... [full
story...]
 WAR
HEROES: TOUR OF DUTY ANNOUNCED
Posters,
contests to get yourself drawn into the series, and now...Mark
Millar is heading to the US for a seven city signing tour ...
[full
story...]
 ANIMATED
SHORTS: A HISTORY OF SPEED
Steve
dips into the mists of animation history to look at the early days of
Speed Racer, and how it made it to the United
States ... [full
story...]
 JEFF
SMITH ON "BONE AND BEYOND"
Jeff
Smith and Bone enter rarified air as the Bone and Beyond
display has begun at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus,
Ohio ... [full
story...]
 BEST
SHOTS EXTRA: INVINCIBLE IRON MAN
Iron
Man-ia continued this week with the release of Invincible Iron
Man #1 from Marvel. Jeff hunkered down and took a look ... [full
story...]
 STRACZYNSKI
TO WRITE BRAVE & THE BOLD
We've
got the first official word on what J. Michael Straczynski
will be handling when he starts writing in the DCU ... [full
story...]
 MOVIE
REVIEW (2): SPEED RACER
Our
animation guy, Steve Fritz caught a screening of Speed Racer,
and offers up his view of the Wachowski Bros. adaptation of the anime
... [full
story...]
 RIDING
WITH JONAH HEX: PAULO SIQUEIRA
With
another issue of Jonah Hex out this week, we caught up
with artist Paulo Siqueira to talk about the issue, his
approach and more ... [full
story...]
 EMILE
HIRSCH: BECOMING SPEED
His
biggest film to date opens tomorrow, and we've got a brief chat with Speed
Racer himself, Emile Hirsch on his experiences
... [full
story...]
 THE
HIGH PRIESTESS OF THE BUFFYVERSE
Dark
Horse has provided Newsarama with a peek at a card from August's Buffy
the Vampire Slayer Tarot Deck by Pollack and Lee ... [full
story...]
 WAR
HEROES: GEAR UP 4 WAR HEROES
Seen
all the talk about Mark Millar and Tony Harris' War Heroes,
and want more? Like - want to be a part of it? We've got your way in ...
[full
story...]
 BEST
SHOTS EXTRA: KIRBY: KING OF COMICS
With
all the love Jack Kirby has been getting through the mainstream lately,
Tim takes a look at Mark Evanier's recent book about
the King ... [full
story...]
 EARLY
PEEK: BATMAN #676
The
tough times start for Batman in a big way next week with the start of
Batman: RIP. DC Comics has given us an early look ... [full
story...]
 AMBIDEXTROUS:
THE C-WORD
Brandon
recounts his FCBD adventures, as well as takes a look at the seismic effects
of Iron Man and DC Universe #0
on the community ... [full
story...]
 GREVIOUX
TALKS YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS
Writer
Kevin Grevioux stops by to talk about his upcoming issue
of Young Avengers Presents, which focuses on Stature
... [full
story...]
 SUPERHEROES
TAKE THE MET
Superheroes
get their own display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Superheroes:
Fashion and Fantasy. We visited ... [full
story...]
 FIRST
LOOK: ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #11
Not
a dream! not an imaginary story! Action Comics Annual #11
finally hits today, and wraps up "Last Son." We've got a look
inside ... [full
story...]
 IDW
PREVIEWS FOR MAY 7th
IDW
has hit us with previews of this week's titles including The Reign
of Starscream #1, Angel #7, The Mummy, Dr. Who and more ... [full
story...]
 MOVIE
REVIEW: SPEED RACER
Dizzying
speed, brighter than life colors, and the Mach 5 doing
some quite outrageous things. Does it all make for a good movie though?
[full
story...]
 FINAL
CRISIS #1 - A NEW GOD DYING...
Coming
off defeating his father, Orion now lies dying in the opening pages of
Final Crisis #1. EW.com has a five page preview of the
issue ... [full
story...]
 WAR
HEROES: THE POSTER CAMPAIGN
As
he did with Kick-Ass, Mark Millar is tossing a free plug
out to retailers with War Heroes. He tells us about that
and how War Heroes is doing ... [full
story...]
 BLOG@:
PAUL GOES TO THE MET
Regular
Blog@'er Paul Levitz checked out the Met's Fashion
and Fantasy exhibit yesterday, and shares his experiences among the
costumes ... [full
story...]
 COMIC
BOOK TATTOO'S CREATORS
Along
with new exclusive preview art, Image has provided
us with the full creator list for Comic Book Tattoo based
on Tori Amos songs ... [full
story...]
 WOLVERINE
& THE X-MEN TRAILER RELEASED
Marvel
has released the new trailer for Wolverine and the X-Men,
a new animated series slated to debut in Spring of 2009 ... [full
story...]
 TALKING
HERCULES WITH STEVE MOORE
Retell
the mythical story of Hercules so that it's accurate
and appeals to modern readers? If you're Steve Moore,
that's no sweat ... [full
story...]
 THE
STACK: THE SURROGATES, LIFE SUCKS
The
Stack's back and the guys review Jessica Abel's latest and The
Surrogates, currently in-production as a feature starring Bruce
Willis ... [full
story...]
 PREVIEW:
CONAN #50
It's
the end of an age for the Cimmerian as Dark Horse's Conan
series comes to a close with issue #50. We've got a look inside ... [full
story...]
 JON
BULLER: EXPLORING THE FOG MOUND
A hybrid
between prose and illustration, The Fog Mound v3: Simon's Dream
hits bookstores this week, and we spoke with its illustrator ... [full
story...]
 1ST
LOOK: FINAL CRISIS #1's TRADE DRESS
It hits
at the end of the month, and we've got your first look at what you'll
be eyeing up on the stands - Final Crisis #1's trade
dress by Chip Kidd ... [full
story...]
 ANIMATED
SHORTS: THE ORIGINAL SPEED
You know
his voice, but do you know Peter Fernandez' story? Steve
sits down with the original Speed Racer to talk about
his long career ... [full
story...]
 BEST
SHOTS EXTRA: AVENGERS/INVADERS
The teams
kick off their 12 part meeting this week courtesy of Ross, Krueger,
and Sadowski, and Troy takes a look at the first
issue ... [full
story...]
 DC
PREVIEW: RANN/ THANAGAR HOLY WAR #1
The two
planets are at it again, and we've got your first look inside
Rann/Thanagar: Holy War #1 by Jim Starlin and Ron Lim ... [full
story...]
 NYCC
'08 VIDEO: THE SPIRIT PRODUCERS
Slated
for a 2009 release, Newsarama spoke with the producers of Frank Miller's
adaptation of The Spirit for a production update ...
[full
story...]
 WORD
BALLOON: P CRAIG RUSSELL
Hard
at work on Sandman: The Dream Hunters, P Craig Russell
took some time to talk to John Siuntres about his life and times ... [full
story...]
 WAR
HEROES WEEK: THE ART SIDE
We gave
you a taste last week, and today, we kick off a week's worth of looks
at Millar & Harris' War Heroes superhero comic from
Image ... [full
story...]
 NEW
DARK KNIGHT TRAILER HITS WEB
More
Batman. More Joker. More Alfred and more 'spolsions. Click on in and take
a gander at the video and tell us what ya think ... [full
story...]
 BEST
SHOTS: ACTION, CALIBER AND MORE
The Best
Shots crew takes a gander through the highlights of last week and more,
including Helen Killer, Haunted, Glamourpuss and more
... [full
story...]
 MARVEL:
AVENGERS MOVIES ANNOUNCED
Marvel
released its Q1 numbers, and plans for Captain America, Iron
Man II, Thor and Avengers
movies ... [full
story...]
 DRAWING
THE PIGEONS FROM HELL
We catch
up with Pigeons From Hell artist Nathan Fox
about the Dark Horse miniseries, and making things creepy ... [full
story...]
 SPIDER-MAN
GOES TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Announced
last week, an anonymous donor has given all of the original art to Amazing
Fantasy #15 to the Library of Congress ... [full
story...]
 IRON
MAN FLIES NORTH OF $100 MILLION
And the
news for Iron Man apparently gets even better,
with a full prediction-shattering $100m+ opening weekend
... [full
story...]
 GETTING
TO KNOW VIX!
As a
father of four girls, Rantz Hoseley saw more of the same,
so he made something different. He tells us about Image's Vix!
... [full
story...]
 BLOG@:
A REPORT FROM CAPE
It promotes
itself as the biggest FCBD event in the world, and Aron Head took a walk
around Texas' CAPE event with pros and deals aplenty ... [full
story...]
 FREE
COMIC BOOK DAY: LIVE FROM HEROES
Saturday was Free Comic Book Day, and once again, Newsarama was
live at Charlotte, NC's Heroes Aren't Hard to Find ...
[full
story...]
 IMAGE
COMICS PREVIEWS FOR MAY 7th
Previews looks at this week's issue of Image Comics Scud the Disposable
Assassin and the Dynamo 5 Annual ...
[full
story...]
 WILDSTORM
PREVIEWS FOR MAY 21st
Wait,
what's Power Girl doing in a Wildstorm preview headline? When she's in
DC/Wildstorm: Dream War #2, cool ..?. [full
story...]
 DC
PREVIEWS FOR MAY 7th
And we begin with two titles both from the Dark Knight side of the DC-scape
- Detective #844 and Nightwing #144
... [full
story...]
 STILL
DIVIDED, STILL STANDING
X-Men: Divided We Stand Book 1 has hit, so we now turn
our attention to Book 2 coming up later this month -
with a majikal return ...
[full
story...]
 WORD
BALLOON BARRY LEVINE
It was debut week for Radical Comics, and Barry Levine
sits in with John Siuntres to talk about it as well as the other pies
his fingers are in ... [full
story...]
 ANIMATED
SHORTS: HERE HE COMES...
No, you haven't slipped a year into the future, the live action movie
is next week, but tonight, Speed Racer: The Next Generation
debuts ...
[full
story...]
 VIDEO:
DIDIO & CARLIN TALK TRINITY
We've still got a couple video interviews from the DC Offices left, and
here's Dan DiDio with Mike Carlin, talking
about Trinity
... [full
story...]
 PREVIEW:
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #14
Dark Horse has hit us with a peek inside next week's issue of Buffy
Season 8 #14. Warning - there be spoilers ahead ...
[full
story...]
 RETAILING
101: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY
We kick off a new series of
articles focusing on the retail side of things today with a look at this
weekend's other comic book event: FCBD
... [full
story...]
 LA
FEST OF BOOKS: PAGE & SCREEN
Last week saw the LA Times Festival of Books, which included
comics panels like Loeb, Mignola and Niles
talking page to screen
... [full
story...]
 FLASHBACK:
SKRULLS VS. X-MEN
Skrulls posing as heroes from the '70s...in 1999? Lucas takes a look back
at an X-Men story that may or may not have Secret
Invasion ties
... [full
story...]
 SUMMER
OF SUPERMAN: A GO!
Mike San Giacomo reports that Cleveland's Summer of Superman
celebration has achieved a goal and a comics creator gets involved
... [full
story...]
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