Comic-Con: Everything (We Care About)
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Beware The Bat Chin
The folks at DC Entertainment snuck an exclusive image of Ben Affleck's Batman into the world by hiding it in plain sight at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
ComiXology: DRM-Free Backups
Leading digital comics provider Comixology, which operates on a cloud model, announced today at their SDCC panel that--at long last--they're going DRM-free.
Photos: The Creators of SDCC
We hit the show floor to catch the men and women who tell our favorite stories in sequential art at one of the biggest conventions of the year.
Image Expo: News + Commentary
Patrick A. Reed brings you the play-by-play from the floor at Image Expo at San Diego Comic-Con, with news of 12 new title from some fan-favorite creative teams.
LEGO San Diego Exclusives Include Adorable Batmobile, Collectible Collector, And More
LEGO, the world's greatest toy, has now officially revealed all the ways it intends to drive fans and collectors into fury, anguish, and despair at this year's San Diego Comic-Con with its range of exclusive sets and minifigures only available on the con floor.
The main draw this year will surely be the ridiculously cute Batmobile set, which comes with Batman and Robin minifigs and an innate sense of joy and delight.
Marvel’s Spider-Verse Event Launches ‘Scarlet Spiders’ And ‘Spider-Verse Team-Up’ Minis
Marvel's Spider-Verse panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday saw the announcement of two new mini series spinning out of the multi-dimensional event. In Scarlet Spiders, a trio of spider-clones come together for a potential suicide mission, while Spider-Verse Team Up features multiple Spider-Men from multiple Spider-Man creators.
Watch The Ridiculous (In A Good Way) Trailer For Larime Taylor’s ‘A Voice In The Dark’
Larime Taylor is an extraordinary talent. He has a condition, Arthrogryposis , that requires him to hold a Cintiq pen in his mouth in order to draw. Working in this way he's managed to produce seven monthly issues of his Top Cow series A Voice In The Dark, and now the first collected volume of the series is available for purchase. In order to promote the collection, Taylor has released this enjoyably bombastic trailer, complete with a Don LaFontaine soundalike.
A Voice In The Dark is the story of Zoey Aarons, a college freshman who killed once and fears she'll kill again. Unfortunately for Zoe, she's picked a college in a town with the highest population of serial killers in America.
New Captain America’s First Adventure Will Drop As Digital Comic, ‘Captain America: Fear Him’
Sam Wilson makes his first appearance as the new Captain America at the end of Rick Remender's current run on the book, Captain America #25, in October. Sam gets his own book in All-New Captain America #1 in November, by Remender and Stuart Immonen. But another story will bridge the gap between those two titles, and it will be released as a digital mini series.
Moore And Kamerer’s Beautiful ‘Assassin’s Creed: Unity’ Poster Exclusive At San Diego
Fear Agent artist Tony Moore and illustrator Justin Kamerer, aka Angryblue, have produced a stunning promotional poster for the Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed: Unity that's exclusively available at San Diego Comic-Con and on the artists' respective websites. 500 posters are being given away at the show -- which means they're probably all gone already. A further 200 prints will be distributed via tonymoore.tumblr.com and Angryblue.com.
Eric Stephenson’s Keynote Speech From Image Expo 2014: Diversity, Originality, Grave-Robbing [Video]
Image Comics held another one-day Image Expo in San Diego this week just ahead of San Diego Comic-Con, to shine a spotlight on a slate of upcoming titles, including new work from Rick Remender, Ray Fawkes, Marian Churchland, Jeff Lemire, and Becky Cloonan.
It was also a chance for Image publisher Eric Stephenson to talk about Image's position in the comics market. In his keynote speech he called out his competitors for their reliance on "grave robbing the past," hailed the importance of diversity, and derided the term "creator-driven".
Photo Gallery: The Cosplay Of San Diego Comic-Con 2014, Part 1
As you know from our weekly Best Cosplay Ever feature, we are big fans of cosplay at ComicsAlliance. The comics, sci-fi, gaming and fantasy communities’ talents for homemade disguises, craftsmanship, and sartorial superheroics are definitely on display this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, and you’d better believe our own Pat Loika is on hand to document as much as he can. Scroll down for some exceptional examples of superheroic cosplaying talent that we spotted in San Diego!
Remender And Opena Team For ‘Avengers: Rage Of Ultron’ Original Graphic Novel
Marvel unveiled its next original graphic novel at the All-AXIS panel at San Diego Comic-Con this afternoon; Avengers: Rage of Ultron, by Uncanny Avengers writer Rick Remender and former lead Avengers artist Jerome Opeña. It promises to be... all the rage. Ho ho.
The story pits a mixed bag of Avengers against a "Planet Ultron" formed when Ultron takes over the computer core in Saturn's moon of Titan (which is a thing that exists in the Marvel Universe and, who knows, maybe in ours as well). Ultron creator Hank Pym may be able to save the day... but at what cost?
Master Storyteller Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez To Draw Harlan Ellison’s Lost Batman ’66 Episode For DC Digital
The hits keep coming out of DC Comics' west coast digital comics division, whose senior editor Jim Chadwick announced at Comic-Con International that the next release from his Batman '66 line will be The Lost Episode. What makes this a big is twofold: the lost episode is indeed a lost episode of the classic 1960s television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward, and it was written by none other than Harlan Ellison; award-winning television, writer, novelist, comics scribe, and notorious litigant. Secondly, the special issue will be drawn by José Luis García-López, one of the best comic book artists of all time. Adapting the script for comics will be Len Wein, a legendary comics figure in his own right.
DC hasn't released clean images from the project yet, but we know that Ellison's unproduced script would have introduced Harvey "Two-Face" Dent into the television series.
New Portrait Of Ben Affleck’s Glorious Bat Chin Sighted In San Diego
The cunning folks at DC Entertainment snuck an exclusive new image of Ben Affleck's Batman out into the world by hiding it in plain sight at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. The DC booth features a montage of Batman images celebrating the Dark Knight's 75th anniversary -- and in among those images is a never-before-seen picture of Batfleck's impressive Bat chin in profile.
We already saw a fuzzy glimpse of Batfleck from Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder earlier this year -- and we noticed at the time how very Frank Millery it looks. Earlier today we also gawked at Batfleck's cape and cowl on the convention floor -- and it was but a spectral apparition without a meaty Ben Affleck to fill it.
