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Non-shocker: Peter Parker meets Miles Morales in SPIDER-MEN

04/11/2012 12:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Non-shocker: Peter Parker meets Miles Morales in SPIDER-MEN

Okay so everyone who figured out that that SPIDER-MEN project MArvel was teasing was a 616/Ultimate crossover—you are correct. Of course, Marvel wasn’t exactly making it hard to figure out. Marvel has been teasing a bigger crossover between the regular line of comics and the Ultimate line and this seems like a good way to kick it off.

Filed Under: Marvel Tagged With: Marvel

Out: DC Direct; In: DC Collectibles

04/11/2012 11:33 am by Heidi MacDonald

Out: DC Direct; In: DC Collectibles

“Not all of our fans have access to comic book retail locations, so by expanding our website to offer the entire product line, we’re adding an element of convenience and the ability for fans to collect every single product they’re interested in,” stated Hank Kanalz, senior vice president of digital, DC Entertainment. For fans attending C2E2 in Chicago this weekend (April 13-15) Geoff Johns will moderate a DC Collectibles panel that will showcase the new website and brand logo, and offer an exclusive sneak peak of never announced DC Collectibles products coming later in 2012.

Filed Under: DC, Toys Tagged With: DC, Toys

PREMIERE: Jim Lee and Geoff Johns talk about the Batman Arena Show

04/11/2012 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

PREMIERE: Jim Lee and Geoff Johns talk about the Batman Arena Show

We’ve written about the BATMAN LIVE stage show here a few times…Since October, it’s toured throughout Europe, leaving audiences gasping at the stunts, spectacle and just plain weirdness of a live action show about Batman. The BATMAN LIVE show is the result of a lot of work: four years of concepting and rehearsals. The 42-person cast includes Batman, Robin, Alfred and a rogues gallery including The Joker, Catwoman, The Riddler, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and The Penguin. Based on what we’ve seen, it’s quite the spectacle.

Well, now the show is coming to the Western Hemisphere for a two-year tout, with a September 5 premiere in Anaheim. And here’s a BRAND NEW video featuring Geoff Johns, Jim Lee and Allan Heinberg (who wrote the book) talking about how the show brings Batman to life and their own thoughts on the production.

Filed Under: The Stage Tagged With: I'm Batman

Marvel Advertising For Digital Edition of AVX

04/11/2012 9:00 am by Todd Allen

Marvel Advertising For Digital Edition of AVX

Marvel continues to pull out all the stops for promoting Avengers Vs. X-Men. If you’ve been on Facebook, particularly if you’ve been playing the Marvel: Avengers Alliance game, you may have noticed some comic book down the right hand side of the page. Ads that look like these:

Filed Under: Digital Comics, Marvel

Exclusive: About Comics will only offer new material via POD and digital

04/11/2012 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Exclusive: About Comics will only offer new material via POD and digital

Indie comics publisher About Comics is no publisher manqué: the company has published books by Gail Simone and Charles Schulz. But it’s also a small indie comics company in a world where the margins for that are getting tinier and tinier. To that end publisher Nat Gertler—who marks inventing 24 Hour Comics Day among his other achievements—has formulated a new publishing plan. Although About has a strong slate for the year with never before reprinted comics by Schulz and a new comic by MEN IN BLACK creators Lowell Cunningham, Gertler is no longer going to offer new products to the direct market. Instead About’s offerings will be available via print on demand…and of course electronically.

Filed Under: Business News, Indie Comics

PW Comics World covers Clowes, Pekar, Wildcat, and MORE

04/11/2012 8:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

We really don’t link to our comics coverage over at PW Comics World as much as we should, so we are here to remedy that, especially when an issue as jammed as this month’s comes out. Some highlights:

Filed Under: Comics Media, HYPE!, News Tagged With: HYPE!, News

New, brief news briefs: Muktuk, ShiftyLook, Fraction/Aja, NMA, skiing on lunch, etc., etc.

04/11/2012 8:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

New, brief news briefs: Muktuk, ShiftyLook, Fraction/Aja, NMA, skiing on lunch, etc., etc.

Classic parody video gone; e-re-issues continue; what are Fraction and Aja cooking up? And more.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: News

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