Comics

Where’s my Borderlands Comic?

With all the recent comic book adaptations of top selling video games out there, you’d expect that 2K would jump on board. After all, the stories are basically already written and the characters flushed out with hours of gameplay. So here’s my proposal for what should be their first comic book adaptation… Borderlands

The Setting

Borderlands happens to be one big set piece that has the potential of being a dumping ground for stories. Since there are only mentions of Pandora’s history, it leaves the back story for the world widely untapped. What would work the best to capture Pandora and all of its locations, would be a series of one shots featuring different characters (new or old) to explain the world. Of course they would need to be narrated by Marcus Kincaid to give it the feel and narrative that the game already has.

Preview Time – Artifacts #1

Coming to us from Top Cow comics is the first five pages of Artifacts #1. This is their event five years in the making and spans across their entire universe and is sure to be ground breaking. 

Thirteen mystical Artifacts, including the Witchblade, the Darkness and others, guide the fate of the Top Cow Universe. For centuries, it’s been whispered that bringing together all 13 Artifacts would herald mankind’s destruction. But a mysterious figure has been manipulating events, laying plans to put Armageddon into motion. The final phase begins here, with the abduction of Hope, the daughter of Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado. What ensues will remake the entirety of the Top Cow Universe, from the Witchblade and the Darkness, to the Angelus, Magdalena, and countless others. Artifacts #1 is the perfect place for faithful readers to see their loyalty pay off, and for new readers to experience the Top Cow Universe.

Marvel Promotes Jeph Loeb to VP of TV

That’s right, the Godfather of the Cliffy-Loeb, the man responsible for turning General Thunderbolt Ross in the Rulk has just been given the keys to the empire! Today Marvel Entertainment announced that Jeph Loeb has been promoted to the newly created position of Executive Vice President in charge of Television. This puts him in charge of adapting Marvel’s properties to not only live action television shows but also animation.

I can’t pretend to be excited by this news for it sounds like a horrible idea. Jeph Loeb is notorious for creating controversy for the sake of controversy. If he was actually going to approach this position with the intent of putting out the best product possible it might be interesting. As it stands he’s more than likely to shake the tree until the monkey falls out. Seriously this is the man responsible for killing the Ultimate Line, creating the Red Hulk a.k.a. Rulk and going as far as to defend Rob Liefeld as a creator, has now been put in charge of every Marvel cartoon that might be. No, this is a sad day indeed.

Velocity #1 – Review

The wait is over and the fastest woman in comic books has finally arrived with her own series! Pilot Season winner Velocity returns with a brand new first issue from writer Ron Marz (Magdalena, Witchblade) and artist Kenneth Rocafort (Madam Mirage, The Core). I’d say that art is what has made this issue so highly anticipated. A beautiful female Speedster is great idea but the art seals the deal.

The story begins with Velocity, a.k.a. Carin, escaping from some killer robots. She explains that she’s fast… very fast. In a way it’s a tutorial on her powers and weaknesses. Ever since she was enhanced by the Cyberdata Corporation she’s been able to run at mach 7. No she can’t shake her molecules to run through walks or travel through time, but she can move fast enough to create contained whirlwinds and bounce off walls.

You Missed That Issue! Booster Gold 1,000,000

Welcome to another “You Missed That Issue!” This time we have Booster Gold’s addition to DC’s 1.000.000 series. If you’re unfamiliar with the “million” concept, it was DC’s experiment to show what the comics we know and love now might look like when they reach the million issue. It was also their way of saying that they plan on being here and making comics until they get to that point and beyond. When Booster Gold was announced after 52 wrapped up, Geoff Johns and company thought it would be funny to give Booster a million issue so as to say that the character is strong enough and important enough to make it that far.

So why this issue? Why not any of the great issues before this issue? It’s simple… the last line of the book. It’s a single moment that caps off the story and makes the strongest statement about the title and its importance. But we can’t simply jump to the end, for the ending means nothing taken out of context.

Making The Panel – Comic Con International

Comic Con is the largest convention for comics in the country, but year after year there are hundreds of new attendees that have never gone to a con in general. Consequently, there are hundreds of people that A) have no idea what to do or expect and B) still have no idea what to do even after attending the year before.

This article is designed to help you see the Panels and Speakers that you so need to see.

A Panel is when a company or person has a time blocked out in a room to promote their work or answer questions from the audience. Some big reveals happen at Comic Con in the form of Comics, Movies, TV Shows and Video Games, making it a once in a lifetime experience.

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