FearItself

Gaming: DC Universe Online will release a new Lantern-centric "Fight for the Light" downloadable content pack this summer that will add a light construct powers and missions rooted in GL lore to the title. Animation: Paramount plans to release a film from its new animation studio by 2014, potentially drawing from outlets across Viacom like Nickelodeon...

Fear Itself started out with a fairly straightforward premise: An ancient power was transforming chosen villains (and a few anti-heroes) into "The Worthy," a hammer-empowered force evil enough to wipe humanity from the face of the Earth...

Conventions: The official map for the San Diego Comic-Con International has surfaced at last. The Beat's annotations may help attendees spot a few of their future line hangouts and/or plan quick escape routes. Upcoming: October's Savage Dragon #177 will see the Dragon face down an undead Osama bin Laden...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Bat-ears ^ Racketeers % Ruby-Spears ^ 15 LOVE #2 The first issue of this long-mothballed Andi Watson/Tommy Ohtsuka miniseries (about Millie Collins as a teenage tennis not-quite-prodigy realizing that her future title is probably not going to be Millie the Tennis Player, and that modelin

This week, ComicsAlliance's War Rocket Ajax podcast welcomes Fear Itself writer Matt Fraction to the show! Our very first guest returns as the first guest of the all-new era to discuss convention experiences from both sides of the table, what he learned from reading every single event comic in preparation for writing his own, and the incredibly strange premise of TV's My Two Dads...

Diamond Comic Distributor's May 2011 sales figures hit this morning, and DC's week-long reboot news cycle is probably working in their favor here, since they got their butt kicked. How bad? They lost market share. In the first month of Flashpoint...

On sale this week is the third issue of Fear Itself, the latest event miniseries from Marvel Comics. Written by Matt Fraction (The Mighty Thor, Invincible Iron Man) with artwork by Stuart Immonen (New Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man), Wade von Grawbadger (New Avengers, Starman) and Laura Martin (The Authority, The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures) the series finds Sin, daughter of the legendary vi

Even if it's a sweeping generalization, Canadians have been doing pretty okay with the "nice" label for awhile. This summer even the friendliest Great White Northerners will be faced with the influence of Fear Itself, however, pitting the latest incarnation of Alpha Flight against its own government...

On sale now is the second chapter of Fear Itself, the latest event miniseries from Marvel Comics. Written by Matt Fraction (The Mighty Thor, Invincible Iron Man) with artwork by Stuart Immonen (New Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man) and Wade von Grawbadger (New Avengers, Starman), the series finds Sin, the daughter of the legendary villain Red Skull, unleashing the god of fear, a serpent who will conf

One of the ways comics publishers promote upcoming products is to release "unlettered" preview pages, which consist of finished artwork without any dialogue, sound effects or credits. While enjoyed by hardcore fans and very helpful for various journalistic endeavors (you'd be surprised how often we wish a piece of artwork didn't have some word balloons covering it up), ComicsAlliance doe