NYCC 2012

Creators: Grant Morrison is on his way to knighthood after Queen Elizabeth II honored him as a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to film, literature, comics and plays. Movies: The Wolverine is officially a sequel, rather than a prequel, to the other X-Men films...

I'm not really a fan of MMORPGs. Nothing against the genre and its millions of fans, you understand, but I've checked, and it turns out that very few of them allow you to play as 50 Cent on a quest to recover his jewel-encrusted skull, and that sort of thing is very important to me when it comes time to make my entertainment choices...

If you've been following ComicsAlliance for a while, you may already know that we're devout fans of Trip Fantastic, the lurid tale of a renegade stuntman out for revenge by Jason Baxter and Derek Charm. There's something about those neon colors and boat chases that just speaks to all of us...

Dancing: Hugh Jackman and Psy recently kicked it Gangnam style while rocking adamantium claws on the set of The Wolverine. Conventions: Roughly 116,000 people attended New York Comic Con this year. Around half a dozen of them were your friendly neighborhood CA editors and contributors...

This weekend at New York Comic-Con, writer Ivan Brandon (Viking, 24Seven) announced a new publishing venture called Offset Comics that was met with a great deal of excitement, largely (for me, anyway) because of the amazing promo art for Deathface...

This January, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie are set to relaunch Marvel's Young Avengers, blending established characters from the original Allan Heinberg/Jim Cheung run with a few new faces and a direction featuring battles that Gillen has described as "superheroes clubbing...

While Hasbro didn't have a booth on the New York Comic-Con show floor this year, the toymaker didn't shy away from delivering a robust look at its Transformers toys for 2013 to the press digitally and at its pre-show party. The focus of the reveals are toys based on the upcoming third season of The Hub's CG animated Transformers Prime series (and corresponding comic book tie-ins form IDW), Transfo

Movies: Disney has announced that it will release Edgar Wright's live action Ant-Man movie on Nov. 6, 2015. Tech: Engadget goes hands-on with the new Wacom Cintiq 24HD touch and offers its impressions of the latest high end art tool. Art: Berk Senturk imagines the Justice League (and other comic book characters) of the Ottoman Empire...

Not content with the success of the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon (or the Marvel Universe block on Disney XD, which has seemingly managed to outlast DC Network on Cartoon Network judging by recent events), Marvel was talking about its next animated series this weekend at NYCC, revealing details about the casts of both Avengers Assemble and Hulk and the Agents of SMASH...

As much as I might gripe about comics taking a back seat to other media at the bigger comic book conventions, I won't lie: Of all the things to see and do at New York Comic-Con, trying out the upcoming Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage... Read More ... Read More ...