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The LEGO Movie Trailer Hits the Internet!
Posted on June 18, 2013 | No CommentsHighly anticipated by everyone who ever played a LEGO game, the LEGO Movie trailer has been released by Warner Brothers...
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Man of Steel: $125.1 Million, New June Record!
Posted on June 17, 2013 | No CommentsThrough Sunday, Man of Steel earned a fantastic estimated $125.1 million—$113.1 million during the traditional Friday-to-Sunday period, and another $12...
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Marvel Entertainment & Disney-ABC Television Unveil Your New Look At The “Once Upon a Time” Hardcover Graphic Novel
Posted on June 17, 2013 | No CommentsDive into the immersive world of ABC’s Once Upon a Time like never before as Marvel Entertainment and Disney-ABC Television Group are...
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Man of Steel Review
Posted on June 16, 2013 | No CommentsUnlike recent super hero movies like the Avengers and Iron man 3, Man of Steel has divided comic book fans...
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Man of Steel: Thursday and Midnight Pre-Screenings bring in $21 million
Posted on June 14, 2013 | No CommentsMan of Steel has already taken in an estimated $21 million. It earned $12 million from Thursday night’s Wal-Mart screening program,...
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Todd & the Book of Pure Evil – Season Two DVD Review
Posted on June 13, 2013 | No CommentsTodd and the Book of Pure Evil is a canadian produced comedy about a high school metal head who stumbles...
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Power Rangers Seasons 4-7 Coming on DVD in July
Posted on June 12, 2013 | No CommentsLord Zedd and Rita Repulsa have been defeated once again — but the Command Center is in ruins, and King...
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Warner Bros Making Movie Based on Famous Archie Comics Characters
Posted on June 6, 2013 | No CommentsWarner Bros Pictures last night just closed all deals for a WME-packaged live action movie based on the Archie Comics books. Producing are Roy Lee...
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Star Trek: Deception – A Fan Film
Posted on June 2, 2013 | No CommentsStar Trek: Deception is a short fan-film being created by a group of friends whom all have one thing in...
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Man of Steel – “Fate of Your Planet” Official Trailer
Posted on May 21, 2013 | No CommentsIn theaters June 14th. From Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures comes “Man of Steel”, starring Henry Cavill, directed by Zach...
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Sherman on SOCOM: Seal Team Seven
You start with a submarine downed in the Persian Gulf, and a string of mystifying attacks and you end up…
A Quick Nightwing Chat with Bruce Jones
In March, as part of the creative shuffle that accompanies the “One Year Later” shift of all the DC Universe…
Who’s That Bug?: Hamner on the Blue Beetle
Cully Hamner has been the go to guy for specials, one-shots and miniseries for the last ten years now he…
Comicbook Biography: Adam Hughes
Adam Hughes is one the the most sought after cover artist in comics today, especially if there is a pretty…
Joshua and Jonathan Luna: Ultra, Girls and Spider-Woman
There aren’t many brother teams in comics, Joshua and Jonathan Luna are part of that unique brotherhood. They have…
Catching up with Jim Balent
Jim Balent has worked on everything for War Comics to Horror with a long run in Super Hero Comics too….
McFarlane Talks Spawn
Todd McFarlane at the height of his popularity at Marvel left both Marvel and Spider-Man behind. He created his own…
From Avengers to Superman, Talking with Roger Stern
Roger Stern has done everything you can do in comics, from fanzines, to editing. From writing comics to writing novels…
Talking with Team Bad Planet
Thomas Jane, Steve Niles, Lewis LaRosa and Tim Bradstreet are working on a new comic, Bad Planet, jointly published by…
Talking Rock with Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert is the living legend of comics. He began his career at age 11 and is still a highly…
GROUND FLOOR: INFINITY UPRISING’S METRO
John DaCosta’s new mini-series Metro debuts this month, and it’s coming from a new publisher, Infinity Uprising. John took some…
A Quick Catch Up with Philip Tan
Philip Tan was at a store signing at Comic Madness, in Chino, Ca. last weekend, I met him there and…
A Quick Catch Up with Marv Wolfman
Speaking from a large-picture perspective, Crisis on Infinite Earths was the most important comic series for DC Comics in the…
Vigilante Justice with Bruce Jones
The Vigilante is one of those classic Golden Age DC heroes that keeps being reinvented for each generation. He’s gone…
Runes of Ty Gorton
Ty Gorton’s new comic Runes of Ragnan has just made the jump to Image comics. The story of Runes of…
Byrne on his and Simone’s Action Departure
There have been a lot of rumors and speculation about what happened with Gail Simone and John Byrne’s run on Action…
Comic Book Biography: Pasqual Ferry
Pasqual Ferry has come a long way from Plasmer to the Ultimate Universe. I contacted Pasqual in Spain and he…
Peter David: Catching Up with PAD
The last time I talked with Peter David he was writing Captain Marvel and Marvel was threatening the book’s existance….
One Last Time: Eric Powell on Devil Dinosaur
Devil Dinosaur has been a favorite of pros for years. He is a Jack Kirby creation that originally only lasted…
Catching up with Tom Derenick
Tom Derenick’s run on JLA starts in two weeks on October 12th with issue #120, the first part of “World…
A Quick Spider-Girl Chat With Tom DeFalco
Tom DeFalco has spent the last 8 years with Spider-Man’s daughter, Mayday Parker. Tom took some time out to chat with First…
Catching Up With Team ShadowHawk
Last moth it was announced that there was a new writer on Jim Valentino’s ShadowHawk. This month it is announced that…
Uniquely Original: Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison has always had an unusual and original perspective on what makes a good comic, and the fans agree….
Norm Breyfogle: Soul of the Bat
Norm Breyfogle, has done everything. From penciling, inking and lettering the Whisper, to Drawing Batman, Detective and Shadow of the…
Getting DOWN with Cully Hamner
For 14 years Cully Hamner has been bringing us his unique vision. From super heroes to the mob, Cully has…
Barbara Slate: Comics for Girls of All Ages
Barbara Slate has done it all from Greeting Cards, to television. She has worked for DC, Marvel and Archie creating…
Jeph Loeb: Scripting Icons
Jeph Loeb has worked on everything in comics from The Challengers of the Unknown to Superman and Batman. We caught up with him as he…
Charles Satterlee: Of Bitter Souls, Smoke & Mirrors
Charles Satterlee of Agony Acres fame has developed two new comics debuting from Speakeasy Comics; Of Bitter Soulsand Smoke & Mirror. He took some…
Dan Parent: Making Betty & Veronica Spectacular
Dan Parent is an eighteen-year Archie Comics veteran. In addition to Archie Comics, Dan has worked on Felix the Cat and Barbie as well…
Royden Lepp: Shepherding Comics
Royden Lepp is a recognized name in the world of video games. Now he is making the cross over to…
Adam Fortier: Speaking About Comics
Adam Fortier was the king of licensed comics. Six months ago he turned in his crown to start his own…
Tania del Rio: Spreading her Manga Magic
Tania started with a magical manga makeover of Sabrina, but the magic is spreading in the coming months to both Josie &…
Victor Gorelick: Running Riverdale
Victor Gorelick joined the Riverdale teens when he was just a teen himself. He has stayed with Archie and the…
Dan DiDio: DC Comics’ All Star
Dan DiDio joined DC Comics in January of 2002 with no prior comic experience; DC took a risk on Dan….
Michael Netzer’s New Comic Book of Life
Michael Netzer was one of the Rising Stars of the 70s. His work was stunning, almost immediately; he was working…
Rex Lindsey: A Man of Action and Comedy
Rex started is career working on War comics for DC, eventually he left action comics to produce laughs at Archie…










