SD10: Sunday in a nutshell
DC Peter David will be writing episodes of the upcoming cartoon Young Justice, which is based on the comic of the same name that he wrote for an almost five year run.
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Dark Horse Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae - which was sort of the point - people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at Comic-Con, the answer came out. The sequel, XERXES, will actually take place at exactly the same time on another battlefield of the same war.
Continue ReadingSD10: Dark Horse Presents returns! And more
Dark Horse's much beloved anthology DARK HORSE PRESENTS returns in a brand new print incarnation in March 2011 with all new work from Carla Speed McNeil, Harlan Ellison, Howard Chaykin, and Mike Mignola, among others. Axe Cop, the off the wall webcomic about an axe-wielding cop, written by five year old Malachai Nicolle and illustrated by his adult brother Ethan Nicolle, is coming to Dark Horse in a collected edition this December. It will be followed by a three-part full-color miniseries in the spring of 2011.
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Dark Horse's complete panel and portfolio schedule is up here, but here's their in booth signing schedule, with everyone from Denis Kitchen to Gerard Way to Milo Manara to Felicia Day.
Continue ReadingRead this complete BEASTS OF BURDEN story!
Dark Horse has made the entire Evan Dorkin/Jill Thompson BEASTS OF BURDEN story from The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings available in its entirety. We know this has been seen everywhere but if ever a comic deserved to be seen everywhere it’s this. The Beasts of Burden collection is on sale this week and it’s [...]
Continue ReadingDark Horse, Toshiba, and USA Today announce DH:HD
Via pr, a new initiative between publisher Dark Horse, electronics giant Toshiba, and newspaper USA Today called DH:HD (Dark Horse: High-Def), but it's not quite clear what it is. It will bring comics to multiple platforms -- desktop, digital and doorstep -- and be like Wednesday Comics (which ran a Superman page in the online USA Today after a print launch) and will be viewable on Toshiba's giant HD TVs. It will also involve Dark Horse top properties. Hm. The program kicked off today with a feature on Janet and Alex Evanovich's new graphic novel, TROUBLEMAKER, which appears to be a digital comic with some kind of Flash interface looming over a profile of the Evanovii. Okay then! PR below:
Continue ReadingMAY BEAT GIVEAWAY FRENZY #2: Giant-Sized Little Lulu #1
Yes, what would a Beat giveaway be without LITTLE LULU. This time we’re giving away Dark Horse’s GIANT-SIZE LITTLE LULU #1 by John Stanley and Irving Tripp, reprinting Lulu’s run in Four Color and the first five issues of LITTLE LULU. We don’t need to tell you we’re having a John Stanley renaissance these days, [...]
Continue ReadingNews: Scary Godmother returns from Dark Horse
Jill Thompson’s Scary Godnmother has become something of a Halloween classic, with two animated specials that are still shown on Caqrtoon Network, and a DVD. However, the original Eisner Award winning graphic novels have long been out of print — a series of graphic novels and several stand alone comics starting in 1998 — [...]
Continue ReadingPersonnel moves: Barton, Martinez, Cabardo, etc., etc., etc.
Lots and lots of personnel announcements over the last few days. ¶ Image has hired Todd Martinez as their new Sales & Licensing Coordinator. For 14 years, Martinez was manager of the pioneering Bay area comics shop Comics Relief. According to the PR: As manager, he worked extensively with other retailers, book market representatives and libraries. His [...]
Continue ReadingNews and notes from ALL over: Tuesday is comics day?
At last night’s presentations at the Diamond Retailer summit, some hints were dropped of bigger projects to be announced more fully during C2E2 panels. Here’s a bit of a roundup. We tried to snap some pictures of the slides, but they are awfully blurry…As Gilly might say: “Sorry!” • In Diamond news: the comics distribution giant [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Dark Horse
Dark Horse (Booth #459) hosts many creators, including Jim Shooter and Jill Thompson: FRIDAY, APRIL 16th: 12:00 – 1:00 Solomon Kane – Writer Scott Allie 2:00 – 3:00 Mass Effect/Star Wars – Writer John Jackson Miller 3:00 – 4:00 Beanworld – Writer/Artist/Creator Larry Marder  *Dark Horse Gold Key Comics Panel! 3:00 – 4:00 Room E353. Featuring Mike Richardson, Jim Shooter, [...]
Continue ReadingWeekend viewing: DARK KNIGHT and HELLBOY II
Well we survived Hell Week and got about 87% of what we had to get done, done, which is a good percentage. We even managed to sneak in the movies we had to see before Nerd Fest and everything got spoiled. Our enjoyment of THE DARK KNIGHT on Saturday was somewhat hampered by a few elements: 1) [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Dark Horse
Amano! Mignola! Sakai! Way! Nightow! BRUCE CAMPBELL! Dark Horse has an incredible list of signings, raffles to win exclusive Domo figures, a full day of WETA signings, a full day of Star Wars signings and panels galore. Details are all in the jump. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 (Preview Night) Domo raffle! Come to our booth to win one [...]
Continue ReadingHELLBOY II is #1
Another comic book movie has landed at #1 at the box office, as HELLBOY II led the way: Hellboy II: The Golden Army stormed onto approximately 4,400 screens at 3,204 theaters and grossed an estimated $35.9 million over the weekend, a significant bump over its predecessor’s $23.1 million start. That was the bar for Hellboy II’s [...]
Continue ReadingHELLBOY II nears
Of all this summer’s plentiful comic book movies, the one we’ve been looking forward to the most is HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY, because…well, it just looks so crazy and Guillermo del Toro is a true visionary. It’s currently at a laudable 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a big opening weekend is expected. There are a [...]
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