In these days of transmedia entertainment, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a wold-be summer blockbuster movie is getting a video game to go with it. Still, since it’s Comic-Con, Warner Bothers Interactive Entertainment’s seen fit to release teaser art for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters.
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
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The news from DC Comics at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con is that there won’t be any news from DC Comics at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. DC co-publisher Dan Didio opened the publisher’s first panel of the convention with the following announcement:
Actually, there is no big announcement from DC this year. We think DC is big enough
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If Watchmen co-creator – and famously irascible bastard – Alan Moore is to be believed, DC Comics has plans for sequels to the classic superhero series that changed the genre forever, and DC co-publisher Dan Didio’s own comments on the subject aren’t exactly as neutral as he probably intended. Talking to Wired’s Underwire blog, Moore …
If it’s San Diego Comic-Con, then it’s time for another promotional image from DC Comics teasing events in upcoming months for various titles. Unlike previous attempts, however, this latest image comes with a tagline – “Sometimes the light reveals the darkest secrets” – and seems… well, almost understandable.
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In brightest day, in blackest night, no Entertainment Weekly cover shall escape our sight – especially not one that features the first look at Ryan Reynolds in full Green Lantern get-up. The cover story for this week’s magazine is an exclusive look behind the scenes of the first DC Entertainment movie, heading up a Comic-Con preview …
More rumors are leaking out about 2012’s Superman movie, and this time it’s not just a new (and somewhat unlikely) name being added to the list of possible directors. This time around, it’s a surprising choice for potential Man of Steel himself: Chuck star Zachary Levi.
The Geek Tyrant website is claiming that Christopher Nolan’s …
DC Comics announced the closure today of its online Zuda Comics imprint, with “select titles” moving over onto their new comiXology/PSP Network digitial platforms. On the official Zuda blog, editor Ron Perazza wrote,
[F]rom here on out, Zuda Comics will be folded into DC Comics’ exciting, new Digital Publishing initiative. Expect more
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So, DC Comics have declared this Wonder Woman Week. We’re getting an anniversary issue, a new creative team and a bold new direction for the character. In his comments about taking on Princess Diana’s legacy, incoming writer J. Michael Stracynski talks about wanting to modernize Wonder Woman. For a character created in the 1930s
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With today’s release of Wonder Woman #600, writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist (and DC Comics co-publisher) Jim Lee have given Diana Prince her first major makeover in decades. The new look for Wonder Woman comes as a result of a storyline that sees the character’s history rewritten by divine intervention in a move sure to anger …
New comics Wednesday is two short days away. Are you ready? Do you know what big hitters are having milestone issues this week? Do you know what brand new titles are debuting? Get your act together, reader. Here is the list of titles shipping on Wednesday. Unbelievable.
(♠ Denotes the projected pull list)
Marvel
Age of Heroes #1 …
Presented without comment since I haven’t read Red. Thoughts?
Buried – although not deeply enough, it seems – in the press release about DC Comics’ new digital strategy is this quote from co-publisher Jim Lee:
As both a comic book creator and Co-Publisher, it was incredibly important that our plan includes not only creator incentive payments, but also an innovative component that supports comic
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