Live from Ballroom H
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re sitting through the CHUCK panel right now. These TV casts are so funny and banter-y. Someone just asked if the two male leads would demonstrate a position between 68 and 70. They declined. We have never watched CHUCK and this panel will not persuade us to do so, but the [...]
Continue ReadingThe REAL Masters of Comic-Con
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAnne Thompson covers the Webmasters panel: When asked how Latinoreview got its hands on so many early scripts six months before they go into production, Kellvin Chavez said: “We clean your offices.” Today, these once unassuming fanboys are courted by studio flacks and granted early access to set visits, star interviews and marketing [...]
Continue ReadingPLUTO! URASAWA!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet More here. BTW, Viz has broken the comics industry wide open, debuting their incredible YELLOW BAGS at this show. Demand is high.
Continue ReadingKochman gets imprint at Abrams
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPW has the deets on Charlie Kochman’s new imprint at Abrams, Abrams ComicArts, which will publish a variety of comics and comics-related books: Kochman will direct the new imprint, which will launch with four new titles: The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle; [...]
Continue ReadingCON CRUD HITS B.L.A.R.D!!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDamn, it had to happen. We’ve been having so much good luck — great hotel rooms, fast cabs, money on the floor — that something bad was bound to happen and for the first time in our 20+ years of con going, we’ve caught con crud, a sore throat severely hampering [...]
Continue ReadingLive Blogging the Eisners!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWoot! We’re doing it again because we’re NUTS. Jackie Estrada is introducing Bill Morrison. This year’s theme is MAGIC and every table is covered with magic tricks. Maybe the big trick will be finding the comics at Comic-Con! Bill has introduced the keynote speaker, Frank Miller, who is folding a newspaper to [...]
Continue ReadingKeeping up with con: Butcher
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Have we linked to Chris Butcher’s Flickr Photostream yet? Well, now we have. Check often!
Continue ReadingWATCHMEN wows
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe keynote event of this year’s Comic-Con had to be the WATCHMEN panel. EW’s Jeff Jensen led director Zack Snyder, co-creator Dave Gibbons and the entire cast of WATCHMEN plus Carla Gugino through a Q&A. Snyder showed some re-edited footage expanded from the trailer with a bit more violence (Dr. Manhattan [...]
Continue ReadingHall H for Heck
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWell, here we are live blogging from Hall H. Although we never received our fabled pass to the hall, there also wasn’t any line to get in, either. So we’re stuck here for an hour listening to fans behind us quoting lines from Venture Bros. The Warner Bros. booth and its bag [...]
Continue ReadingKing goes Video with Marvel
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Wall Street Journal joins the parade of Comic-Con exclusives with Stephen King’s latest foray with Marvel: In a promotion expected to be announced Friday at Comic-Con, the big comic-book convention in San Diego, a previously unpublished story by Mr. King has been transformed by Marvel Comics into an animated video. The [...]
Continue ReadingYou people are not sending nearly enough stuff to SAN DIEGO DREAMING
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Continue ReadingHALL H A CARNAGE OF TWISTED METAL!!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Okay, so it was just the pipe and drape collapsing. Still…CONMAGEDDON LOOMS.
Continue ReadingCooke tackles PARKER
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Our con kicked off with a press conference for Darwyn Cooke where he announced a series of four graphic novels adapting the first four PARKER novels by Richard Stark, aka Donald Westlake. Publisher IDW gave out a series of sweet duo-tone promo cards by Cooke that look as hard-boiled and crime-tastic [...]
Continue ReadingOfficial: Comic-Con jumps the shark
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Over at THR, Borys Kit notes rampant shark jumping with a piece called Comic-Con’s geek chic fading? as he notes vacant socialite P**** H***** and starlet Kim Kardashian, who is known apparently just for having a big-ass ass, will be bringing their own special brand of magic to the show: There is [...]
Continue ReadingLive from B.L.A.R.D.
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re finally ensconced here at the Beat Local Action Rapid Deployment HQ, aka B.L.A.R.D., aka the Horton Grand. We’ve even managed to score a room with a balcony, excitingly enough. We were all set to enjoy a steaming cup of Vietnamese coffee out there when we realized the room comes with [...]
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