Comics

Archaia reveals the Return of the Dapper Men

Turning to one of the most well-respected designers in the comics industry to create an elaborate cover for one of 2010’s most anxiously awaited titles, Archaia revealed the final cover to RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN, designed by the award-winning Todd Klein (America’s Best Comics). RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN (with pre-order sales nearing 5,000 units even before official solicitation) is the highly anticipated all-ages title coming from writer Jim McCann (Hawkeye & Mockingbird) and critically acclaimed and award-winning visual artist Janet Lee.

Character Affinity: Deathstroke

In the world of comics you get the benefit of having cornucopia of characters. Some are fairly new but when dealing with Marvel and DC, some of them have been around for a very long time. As such they are subject to the hands and voices of different writers, editors and artists. Often times those said characters can take many different shapes and forms. Deathstroke: The Terminator, aka Slade Wilson, is one of those characters.

He was introduced in The New Teen Titans back in 1980. He showed up in the second issue to help his son Grant Wilson, aka the Ravager capture or kill the Titans. Thus he has been one of the Titans main antagonists ever since. After leaving the military he defied orders to rescue his friend Wintergreen, who had been sent on a suicide mission. Slade became a mercenary for hire but kept it a secret from his family until his son was kidnapped by a villain named The Jackal. Using his younger son Joseph as leverage, The Jackal demanded Slade to tell him the name of the person who hired him as an assassin. Slade refused because it’s against his code of honor. Joesph’s throat was slit destroying his vocal cords, leaving him a mute. Pissed that Slade let this happen to her son, Slade’s wife, Adeline who has some military traing of her own, takes Slade’s right eye.

Spiderman Swings Down Broadway This Winter

Listen up true-believers!  This Christmas, you’ll finally be able to buy your girlfriend tickets to a Broadway musical that both of you will want to see, because December 21^st is opening night for “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark“.

No, really; this is an actual thing that, in fact, does exist.  They even have a website.  Yes, that’s the real title.  I’m not making this up.

Okay, maybe you and your girlfriend will both hate this show. The project has been snared in a web of production problems for years, it was originally slated to open last winter, and the title sounds like it was written by Todd McFarlane in the mid-nineties when “Dark ‘n’ Edgy” was all the rage. It stars no-one-you’ve-ever-heard-of, and the story will be yet another retelling of Spidey’s iconic origin. 

Brightest Day #7 – Review

Brightest Day has been another experiment in the release schedule from DC Comics, it is okay at best and often times redundant and boring. With issue seven, finally, the story opens the front door and lets the readers in. No more mystery of what the hell is happening and how long can we jerk the reader and the characters around. No more recapping the same event over and over, no more veil over the eyes. The fact is there is a simple mystery going on: Why are the resurrected twelve back? The simple answer: To protect the world.

Top Cow’s New Pilot Season

LOS ANGELES, Calif., August 9, 2010 – Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that Pilot Season 2010 will debut next month with six new concepts and six different creative teams, and will adopt a 6-week event format. The 32-page preview book, Pilot Season 2010: Declassified, first made available at this year’s Comic-Con International: San Diego, will be available in stores later this month.

Since 2007, Top Cow has given fans the power to choose the next two Top Cow series based on a selection of one-shot Pilot Season “pilot” issues through online voting. The inaugural Pilot Season initiative garnered more than four million votes from fans across the globe.

8-Bit Mega Marvel

Like Marvel Heroes like we do? Enjoy the Mega Man series in all their 8-bit glory? Then you’re going to love the Marvel Megas. Brought to you by Deviant member Suzuran. They have taken 52 Marvel heroes and villains and given them the Mega Man treatment. Can you name them all? 

Comic Book Adaptations – Thunderbolts the Videogame

The Thunderbolts are a group of Villains attempting to reform their evil ways. What makes them interesting is that sometimes they resort to their villainous nature to get the task at hand finished. The team has had several rosters over the years of the comic book giving it an ample stable to pick through. The base of the team is that most of these villains no longer want to be villains. They’re tired of being on the losing side. While others on the team are using it to benefit themselves by playing the hero only to distract the world from their evil plots.