Comics

Kurtis Wiebe has revealed that he will be turning his Image series into a motion comic, with an eye to then getting picked up by the BBC for a full television run.

Back in the 90s, Evil Ernie was hot book for awhile. Brian Pulido and Stephen Hughes had a hot run with the Chaos! Comics imprint, which also featured Lady Death (yes, that was when Bad Girls were at their peak). Dynamite acquired most of the Chaos! intellectual property, back in 2010 (Lady Death is over at Avatar). This looks to be the first book to come out from that IP family.

While crowdfunding is definitely more of the headline grabber, iVerse has a couple other announcement that warrant examination with an eye of the future of digital comics. The topic of DRM was a very important one to the development of the digital music industry. It's also a topic that comics have been lagging far behind on.

Well, somebody's upping their game today. iVerse, known for their Comics+ app and partnership with Diamond Digital has just announced "Comics Accelerator" -- a comics-specific crowdfunding platform. "Crowdfunding" is the technical term for sites like Kickstarter and IndieGogo.

Archaia is another company that's throwing its hat in the growing category of "digital release, then print." Certainly, digital comics are an increasingly common thing, but the relationship between digital and print is still evolving. They're taking a direction with a couple titles that I think will end up being fairly common. They're also adapting/remaking a classic manga title.

We got a chance to look at Cryptozoic's latest project, the DC Comics Deck Building Game on Thursday morning. Cryptozoic has been a strong presence building geek culture games, adopting Penny Arcade, The Walking Dead, and The Big Bang Theory. Now their aim is to adopt DC's comic universe into the next big game.

Props to Jimmy Fallon for bringing us this delightfully odd version of Batman. All he had to do was take a recent trailer for The Dark Knight Rises and let Paul Reubens re-dub the dialogue in his Pee Wee Herman persona. The results are... well, see for yourself.

Get ready to bray in delight! IDW have announced a new My Little Pony series from Katie Cook and Andy Price!

KaBoom, the All-Ages section of Boom! Studios, have announced a new comic tie-in to a Pendleton Ward series, in the form of a six-issue "Bravest Warriors" miniseries.

That's according to a Variety story which suggests that Fangirls are the new golden girls for marketers at Con:

So, what did I find while I waited for Comic-Con to gather up steam for warp speed? LEGOs! Star Trek! Walking Dead! Margaret Atwood!

J. Michael Straczynski has announced the formation of a new studio which will create comics, films, TV, video games, more; also announces revival of his 'Joe's Comics' imprint for Image; next will create world peace before flying off into space, searching for more worlds to conquer.