Guggenheim’s Nowhere Man is somewhere again, three years later

4 Comments POSTED ON Jun 16 2011 AT 9:51 am BY The Beat

The week before a big movie release is the traditional time for announcements of new projects for those involved; it's a magical time when the entertainment world's attention is turned to you, but before possible tankage or bad news, when there's a world of opportunity for those with vision. Thus it is that Deadline today announced that GREEN LANTERN writer Marc Guggenheim was launching his comics series NOWHERE MAN:

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SD08: Virgin

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 21 2008 AT 7:55 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetVirgin is having portfolio reviews, exclusives and lots and lots of Grant Morrison, plus a contest to get drawn into Hugh Jackman’s comic NOWHERE MAN: Kicking off the Con on Thursday morning (July 24) is our first panel, Stan Lee and Grant Morrison talk Virgin Comics, at 10:45-11:45am in Ballroom 20. [...]

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We cannot hope to stop Stan Lee; we can only hope to contain him

5 Comments POSTED ON Apr 19 2008 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetIn a week in which he announced a new superhero, announced a new manga deal and was awarded the first ever New York Comics Legend Award, Stan Lee just had to ramp it up a notch with news of a new line of superhero comics from Virgin: “It will be a team [...]

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NYCC: Virgin Comics — #1415

0 Comments POSTED ON Apr 15 2008 AT 9:48 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetDan Dare, Jenna Jameson, and Grant Morrison – Can you imagine the buddy pic? Morrison teams up with Virginonce more to announce an animation project with the company. More details in the jump. Here’s a taste of how you can experience Virgin Comics first-hand at the Con. Be sure to check out [...]

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Jackman and Guggenheim are Virginized

4 Comments POSTED ON Mar 25 2008 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetNow here is the interview we have been waiting for! Hugh Jackman and Marc Guggenheim are teaming up on the latest Virgin Comics panel-to-screen project, Nowhere Man. Is it about a guy who doesn’t have a point of view and knows not where he’s going to? Not really, but he [...]

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Tis the Season

0 Comments POSTED ON Dec 22 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Here at Stately Beat Manor we’ve been getting many holiday cards, both physical and electronic, and each and every one brightens our mailbox with tidings of joy. By far the most unusual, however, was the Virgin Comics holiday card, above. At first we thought “Kaliiiiiiiiii!” but’s it’s actually a character from [...]

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Z to pen Jameson tales

0 Comments POSTED ON Aug 15 2007 AT 11:13 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia PR come the word that Witchblade co-creator Christina Z., long MIA from the comics scene, will be writing Virgin’s upcoming Jenna Jameson comic which is not called what you think it is, but instead SHADOW HUNTER. You can read all about it in the jump, but for the moment we’d [...]

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Virgin teams with Sony for MMORG

0 Comments POSTED ON Aug 10 2007 AT 8:04 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAnother massive multiplayer online role playing game is in the works, this one based on the Indian-based Ramayan universe published by Virgin Comics. The Kama Sutra has GOT to figure in there somehow. Sony Online Entertainment has announced it is teaming up with Virgin comics to create an MMORPG based on the [...]

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Ed Burns and Palmiotti take on DOCK WALLOPER

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 26 2007 AT 12:19 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet New York filmmaker and actor, Ed Burns (Brothers McMullen, Saving Private Ryan) is creating a new series of comic books, it was announced today by Burns at Comic-Con, the industry’s annual super-festival in San Diego. The series, entitled Dock Walloper, debuts in comic shops and online comic retailers in November. The [...]

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Jenna Jameson at Virgin

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 25 2007 AT 3:14 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs always, the jokes write themselves. Former porn superstar Jameson’s previous comics connections include working with Bernard Chang on illustrated portions of HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE A PORN STAR, the book she co-wrote with Neil Straus. World-famous entrepreneur, adult entertainment icon and New York Times best-selling author Jenna Jameson is creating [...]

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Virgin and MySpace launch Coalition

3 Comments POSTED ON Jul 20 2007 AT 2:00 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetMySpace’s influence on the comcis industry seems to be growing and growing, as Virgin is the latest entity to pact with the social networking giant. This time it’s bringing reader participation to a new level. Read on. Virgin Comics and MySpace have teamed up to launch Coalition Comix (http://www.myspace.com/coalitioncomix), a new online [...]

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