There’s no doubt about it: Jeff Bridges is a really nice guy. In the eye of the Comic-Con hurricane, attached to the most popular property of the year, he has nothing but smiles and thoughtful answers for journalists. And after learning a little bit more about the project, and all that was involved in bringing the TRON universe back to …
Police, Comic-Con Speak About Hall H Attack
Details have been released about the stabbing in Comic-Con International’s Hall H on Saturday afternoon, with both the San Diego Police Department and Comic-Con International’s David Glanzer issuing statements about the incident. Comic Book Resources quotes SDPD Sergeant Gary Mondesir:
Basically, inside of Hall H during Comic-Con,
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The Rocketeer Flies Again With Help From New Creators
Two years after the death of its creator, Dave Stevens’ celebrated comic character The Rocketeer is set to reappear next year in four issues of all-new stories from some of the comic industry’s favorite creators, including Darwyn Cooke, Bruce Timm, Gene Ha and John Cassaday. Announced yesterday by IDW, who published the Eisner-Award …
Comic-Con: First Look At Sucker Punch
There have already been a lot of movie screenings at Comic-Con – a lot of big cheers for Harry Potter and sneers each and every time the trailer for Devil, bearing the name of one M. Night Shyamalan, screens.
But I think it’s pretty safe to say that the most heads cocked to one side, and the most jaws dropped in disbelief, during …
Comic-Con: 3 Lessons From the Comi-Tron Party
Will TRON: Legacy live up to all the hype? Who knows. But I learned three big things from the packed TRON party Friday night inside Flynn’s Arcade on Sixth Avenue in downtown San Diego. For starters, Disney is banking some major coin on the TRON future. Second, even if the movie is a disappointment we’ll have at the very least five …
Comic-Con: Harry Potter and Co. Return, With Blood on Their Hands
“How about Harry F’in Potter!”
That was how Zack Snyder put it a couple minutes after thousands of the Comic-Con faithful checked out the very first footage from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Saturday afternoon. Potter was the lead-in to Snyder’s hallucinogenic Sucker Punch screening (a whole lot more about that later), and …
Favreau Delivers the Goods With Cowboys & Aliens
Our friends at io9 caught the Universal panel that included footage from Jon Favreau’s upcoming Cowboys & Aliens and they’re pretty enthusiastic about it claiming it to be the “best thing you’ll see next summer.” Head on over for an overview of what was shown earlier today.
Pointing at Zeke, Woodrow says, “That’s the son
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SDCC: Techland Presents: Comics And Digital Piracy panel begings at 10 a.m. PT (Room 25ABC)
New episode of Leverage airs on TNT at 9 p.m.
Series premiere of Being Human airs on Syfy at 9 p.m.
Avengers Unite! Euphoric Notes From The Marvel Studios Panel, Surprises Abound
After being delayed 45 minutes due to a face stabbing, the Marvel Studios panel opened with a teaser trailer from Captain America: The First Avenger. The crowd in Hall H then erupted when Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Joe Johnston took the stage.
Johnston remarked that the film will focus on the origin of Captain America and Evans …
Fantagraphics Announces “Mickey Mouse” Reprints
One surprise announcement that broke this afternoon at Comic-Con–because, apparently, it had been finalized barely hours before–is that Fantagraphics Books has made an agreement with Disney to publish the complete run of Floyd Gottfredson’s “Mickey Mouse.” Gottfredson drew the “Mickey Mouse” daily comic strip from 1930 (a few months …