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San Diego Comic-Con International: Day One

July 27th, 2007 - There is so much to report and it's only the first day of San Diego Comic-Con International. Thursday is a wrap and today we offer our look back on all the fun that was the first 24 hours. We should open by saying that we're not in attendance at the convention this year. We hope to be there in 2008, but for this year we can only share our thoughts on the rumblings emanating from the show and ride the information currents as they ripples across the wide world of comics as only Comic-Con can.

Watchmen Film: One of the biggest stories yesterday had to be the announcement of the full Watchmen cast [link]. Billy Crudup was a masterful choice we already knew, but I almost fell out of my chair when presented with Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. The more I think about this choice, the more prefect it seems. He has the look of Walter Kovacs, he proved in Little Children that he has the creepy yet human factor needed for the role down pat and he's a comeback story (you might remember him as a child actor from the Bad News Bears movies or the film Breaking Away) the likes of which only Hollyweird can produce.

DC's Final Crisis Panel: Dan Didio, Paul Dini, Tony Bedard, Adam Beechen, Sean Mckeever, Mike Martz, Dan Jurgens, Jim Califiore, Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti hosted the DC Countdown panel yesterday. During the panel the team worked to hint at the answer to the question "What are we counting down to?" That answer hinged on counting down to Final Crisis. What is Final Crisis? That doesn't seem to have a completely clear answer yet. There was interesting discussion of the evolution of the Red Robin, the various versions of the Legion, Smallville making it into DCU continuity, Darkseid's impact, DC One Million and much more. Great coverage of the panel can be found over on Newsarama [link], Pulse News [link], Wizard [link] and Comic Book Resources [link].

Mondo Marvel Panel: Always a crowd pleaser, Mondo Marvel was back again this year! This was the kickoff panel for the Con and promised a solid look at "all things Marvel". Some breaking news included the announcement that Brian Reed and Lee Weeks will be taking on the new Captain Marvel title. The presentation promised that World War Hulk #3 will be mind blowing. It was revealed that there is a big bad behind the Phalanx's drive in Annihilation: Conquest. One of the bigger announcements from this panel was the coming debut of the The 12. J. Michael Straczynski and Chris Weston explained that the series, starting in January, will focus on Golden Age characters like Dynamic Man and Fiery Mask. In other news, current Iron Man film director Jon Favreau will be taking on an Iron Man comic tentatively called Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas. Great coverage of the panel can be found at Newsarama [link], Wizard [link] and Comic Book Resources [link].

In Other News: Jeff Smith unveiled details of his new series RASL. Plans for the Conan relaunch were unveiled. The Superman/Doomsday movie premiered. Boom! Studios announced its new Godfather series. IDW discussed more Star Trek. Star Wars Social Networking Cards were unveiled. Neil Gaiman showed off some great Beowulf footage. Matt Wagner covered the new Vertigo Madame Xanadu series and looked back on Grendel. DC discussed winning the NBC Heroes license and their upcoming graphic novel. The new Marvel postage stamps were discussed. A series of retooled G.I. Joe action figures were unveiled. Dreamworks announced snapping up Oni's The Damned and Courtney Crumrin for films. Yes, it was a loaded day filled with these stories and much, much more!

News Links for Thursday 7/26/07

San Diego Comic-Con: Day One

Since we couldn't be there this year, here's all the news from around the web for Saturday at San Diego's Comic-Con International

San Diego Comic-Con Con News: Countdown to the Final Crisis
Con News: Photos from "Heroes" Season 2, Episode 1
Con News: Jeff Smith Talks, Shows RASL

Con News: Conan Relaunches - Truman and Giorello Talk
Con News: Superman Doomsday premieres at SDCC

Con News: Boom! Studios new Godfather Comics
Con News: IDW Boldly Goes Again

Con News: Social networking With Star Wars
Con News: In-Between the Cracks at Comic-Con

Con News: Johnny Delgado Trailer
Con News: Preview: Fantastic Four Legends

Con News: Feast of the Seven Fishes Movie

Con News: Brian Reed talks Captain Marvel

Con News: Josh Dysart's Hellboy Futures
Con News: San Diego's Mondo Marvel Panel

Con News: DC Countdown...to the End?
Con News: Favreau / Granov team again for Iron Man comic

Con News: Matt Wagner on Zorro and Madame Xanadua
Con News: CB Cebulski on Chester Quest and Compass Zero

Con News: DC To Publish Heroes Graphic Novel Based on NBC Series
Con News: JMS Reveals Marvel's The Twelve

Con News: An alternate look at One More Day

Con News: Mondo Marvel Panel
Con News: Adi Granov Paints the Town Red and Gold

Con News: Matt Wagner and Madame Xanadu

Con News: Screenwriters Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary unveil Beowulf footage

Con News: Movie Team Forges Fun in Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas
Con News: Tom Brevoort gets nostalgic about reviving 1940s characters in The 12

Con News: Matt Wagner / Grendel Spotlight

Con News: Preview Marvel Minimates

Con News: Mystery Men's Dozen: Brevoort Talks The Twelve

Con News: Preview: Spider-Man Movie Legends

Con News: The Gold, the Bad, and the Ugly: Weston Talks The Twelve
Con News: Preview: Marvel Legends Series 4

Con News: Mail Mine Marvel
Con News: DC Direct unveils toys from the classic Perez/Wolfman Teen Titans series

Con News: DC Comics to announce Heroes
Con News: Captain Marvel has been busy since his return in Civil War

Con News: Dark Horse Launches New Indiana Jones, Creepy & Eerie
Con News: Diamond Select Battlestar Galactica Toys

Con News: Preview: Uncanny X-Men #489
Con News: Dan DiDio, Paul Dini and the Countdown crew answer burning questions

Con News: NBC's Heroes Online Comics To Be Collected by DC Comics
Con News: G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary

Con News: Dreamworks Snaps Up Oni's The Dammed & Courtney Crumrin
Con News: Mezco revisits the classic movie Warriors with new toys and more Orphans

Con News: NBC's Heroes Comics and Toys Coming
Con News: Gears of War Toy Line Announced

Con News: A Mar-Vellous Mystery: Reed Talks Captain Marvel

Con News: Castlevania, God of War and Assassin's Creed

Con News: DC's Crossing Over

Con News: Names and faces from Zack Snyder’s official Watchmen cast

Con News: Wrightson Animation Premiere at Comic Con

Thursday Coverage: Wizard News Clips of the Day

Thursday Coverage: Wizard Rundown of Everything Con Related

Thursday Coverage: Comic-Con sold out for Friday
Thursday Coverage: Figures.Com Thursday Coverage

Thursday Coverage: Comics Continuum Thursday Rundown

Wednesday Coverage: Preview Night Photos From The Floor
Wednesday Coverage: Comic-Con's Preview Night Coverage

Wednesday Coverage: Preview Night Podcast

Wednesday Coverage: Preview Night - Attack of the Clowns
Pre-Con Coverage: Bam! Pow! You'll be seeing stars at Comic-Con International
Pre-Con Coverage: Comic convention a formidable force
Pre-Con Coverage: Convention Crowds
Pre-Con Coverage: Marvel Comics Event Schedule
Pre-Con Coverage: Marvel Comics Signing Schedule
Pre-Con Coverage: Marvel Comics Panel Schedule
Pre-Con Coverage: Comic-Con Opens Thursday
Pre-Con Coverage: Join the CBLDF Auction In San Diego

San Diego Comic-Con International: Day Two

July 28th, 2007 - Comic-Con, there are few words that can describe it. That said, I really liked one line from the G4 coverage [link]. During last night's two hour live show (the second such show since the con began) host Olivia Munn [link] explained that Comic-Con was "like a mensa meeting on acid". That hit just a little too close to the truth.

We'll talk more about the G4 coverage during tomorrow's Con update. For today, here's what we thought rose above the rest in terms of announcements from Friday at Comic-Con...

Dark Knight Teaser Trailer: As the next Batman film [link] inches closer, Comic-Con treated fans to the first teaser trailed from the film. No visuals yet (beyond the bat sign being blown away and a joker card), but here it is in all it's audio glory thanks to the good folks at G4 for sharing the embedded link...

Marvel's Cup O' Joe Panel: It's was a wide open question and answer session with Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada during the now traditional Cup O' Joe panel. Laced with announcements and exploration of all things Marvel, Quesada fielded questions along with Jim McCann, David Gabriel, C.B. Cebulski, Phil Jimenez, Charles Knauf and Matt Hawkins. During the panel, here are some of the big stories...

Chester Quest: Cebulski will be visiting conventions & comic ships looking for 12 artists who will be guaranteed to be hired following the search

Runaways: Strangers in Paradise writer Terry Moore will follow Joss Whedon's run

Eternals: Charles and Daniel Knauf will be taking on a new Eternals monthly title
Marvel and Top Cow: More sharing of characters in the months ahead

Joe, as always, was very willing to take on all comes with questions and gave a real air of openness during the Q&A. He wasn't willing to spill the beans on big stories like Hulks rule in the Marvel Universe once World War Hulk is done, but was very straight forward when it came to the issues of under performing titles, how to break into working for Marvel, which DC character would best fit at Marvel and criticism of cross-over events. A solid panel from the mighty Marvel bullpen.

For us, the revelations regarding Runaways was the jaw drop moment of the presentation. Terry Moore's work on Strangers In Paradise is near legend status in my book and I couldn't have placed his talent with a title better suited to his writing style. If Joss had to leave the series, Terry is a great man for the job.

For more on this panel, please check out the Wizard [link], Newsarama [link] and Comic Book Resources [link] stories. Great coverage all around.

DC's Crossing Over Panel: This was an interesting panel where representatives of DC discussed "crossing over" to other career paths beyond comics. Paul Dini, Greg Rucka, Christos Gage, Mark Verheiden, Gregory Noveck, Steve Niles and others were on hand for this exchange. Probably the best line out of this presentation was made by Gregory Noveck when he asked...

“When did Comic-Con become Sundance? The studios are shutting down for the week and coming to San Diego.”

He brings up a really good point. There is talk that Comic-Con might actually move to Los Angles in the near future to accommodate the film industry. Is this a good thing? I mean I really geek out when a film with a comic tie-in is featured at Comic-Con, but it seems increasingly common for Comic-Con to feature non-comic related films. This fan thinks that's an inappropriate watering down of the Comic-Con experience. Hollywood is welcome at our show of shows, but they do need to play by our rules if they want to hang out with the big geeks. Okay, stepping off my soap box... For great blow-by-blow coverage of the Crossing Over panel, be sure to visit Wizard [link], Pulse News [link] and Comic Book Resources [link].

Simone Bianchi and Warren Ellis on Astonishing X-Men: Two words... Can't wait! This announcement ranks right up there with Terry Moore taking on Runaways. Ellis writing with Bianchi's art makes this title a no-miss, must-buy, man-that's-going-to-be-great comic. Announced during Marvel Comics' booth presentation, this was a show stopping moment. It didn't quite break the internet in half, but it was a good one. As far as commitments go, Ellis is set for 24 issues with Bianchi looking at 6 to 12 issues. For all the details, look here [link], here [link], here [link], here [link] and here [link].

DC's Group Therapy Panel: This DC panel featured Dan DiDio, Gail Simone, Geoff Johns, Sean McKeever, Eddie Berganza, Duncan Rouleau, Dwayne McDuffie, Tony Bedard and Michael Siglain and focused on DC team titles. Big announcements breaking from this chat were a bit few and far between as the presenters were a bit more tight lipped than the Marvel panel we discussed earlier. There seemed to be more joke or non-answers here. We did learn that the Sinestro Corps storyline will run through, at least, Green Lantern #25. Also, in Teen Titans things are going to get darker before they lighten and there was a hint at a Rogue's Gallery comic. Let's hope Saturday's DC Nation panel is a bit more forthcoming with the DCU info. You can find more on this panel at Newsarama [link], CBGtxra [link], Comic Book Resources [link] and Pulse News [link].

In Other News: Comic-Con was sold out for the weekend by mid-day Friday. The Joker sent fans on a scavenger hunt. Dr. Who is setting up shop at IDW. Boom! Studios has Mark Waid as it's new Editor-In-Chief. Dark Horse Comics is teaming up with Myspace. The Image Founders Panel was held reuniting all the original founders of Image Comics. The Watchmen film saw it's release date set and kicked off an official website. There was Iron Man and Indiana Jones 4 news and much, much more. You can catch all the details on these and many more stories on our news page [link].

News Links for Friday 7/27/07

San Diego Comic-Con: Day Two

Since we couldn't be there this year, here's all the news from around the web for Saturday at San Diego's Comic-Con International

San Diego Comic-Con Con News: Yep folks, it's a completely sold out show

Con News: Joe Quesada and friends held court with panel
Con News: The Joker is Recruiting In San Diego!
Con News: Marvel, Maxum and Demons of Mercy
Con News: Talking Dr. Who with IDW

Con News: Marvel Comics Cup O' Joe
Con News: Boom! Studios Mark Waid now Editor-In-Chief
Con News: Dark Horse Presents returns
Con News: Terry Moore is on The Run(aways)
Con News: Spotlight on Christos Gage

Con News: Ellis gets Astonishing
Con News: Image Comics Founders Panel
Con News: Go, IDW, Go! Speed Racer Returns to Comics
Con News: Superman Doomsday Review
Con News: Cup o' Joe Panel
Con News: Mondo Marvel at San Diego: Will Loki be an Okie?

Con News: Turning the spotlight on Neil Gaiman

Con News: Joe Hill's supernatural thriller Locke & Key
Con News: Marvel signs Jimenez, Guggenheim
Con News: DC's Group Therapy Panel
Con News: IDW stands for "It's Doctor Who"

Con News: The Dark Knight gets a teaser trailer
Con News: Doomsday is today: Superman: Doomsday movie premieres
Con News: Terry Moore and Humberto Ramos join Runaways
Con News: World Of Warcraft Comic Officially Announced
Con News: Cory Doctorow about his upcoming miniseries at IDW
Con News: Pilgrims explores WWII espionage
Con News: CGC will be on hand at the San Diego Comic-Con International

Con News: Watchmen, Whiteout and Warner Brothers

Con News: Eisner Award-nominated Feast of the Seven Fishes web comic
Con News: Marvel's at it again with another nondescript preview image
Con News: Eternals back for a new ongoing series
Con News: Image Comics: The Founders
Con News: Dark Sector Comic Book
Con News: Robert Kirkman explains things are getting worse for the Walking Dead

Con News: Boom! joins the Godfather family
Con News: DC holds Group Therapy in San Diego

Con News: Bruce Timm Talks About DC Animated Features
Con News: Exclusive Comic-Con toys
Con News: Power Rangers Celebrate 15th Anniversary
Con News: Paramount: 2 Spocks, Indiana Jones, Iron Man and more

Con News: IDW Publishing panel
Con News: Stan Lee, CGC Raise $6,000 for Hero Initiative

Con News: Marvel Legends two packs and Icons
Con News: The Unknown Soldier returns
Con News: Brian Reed on Image's The Circle
Con News: Screams, Scares, and Spike TV at the San Diego Comic Convention
Con News: Matt Wagner and 25 Years of Grendel
Con News: Dark Knight Teaser Online

Con News: DC writers crossing over

Con News: Vertigo revisits the House of M (Mystery that is)
Con News: Warner Brothers Movie Panel
Con News: Whiteout Coverage From Comic-Con
Con News: Watchmen release date announced

Con News: Play Naruto for Wii at San Diego Comic-Con
Con News: Battlestar Galactica: Inside the Hatch
Con News: Guggenheim Makes an Exclusive Move to Marvel
Con News: A Taste of the Lost Game at Comic-Con
Con News: Ellis and Bianchi on Astonishing X-Men

Con News: Graphic novel captures Heroes
Con News: Big Movie News from Comic-Con

Con News: Paramount Panel: Iron Man, Cloverfield, Indiana Jones 4
Con News: Superman Doomsday premiere details
Con News: New Promo Poster from The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Con News: Simone Bianchi shares his excitement on Astonishing X-Men
Con News: Dawson Talks O.C.T., Sin City 2
Con News: The Godfather Whacks Comics
Con News: Charles & Daniel Knauf: Waking Up from An Eternal Slumber
Con News: The Hero Initiative intends to make quite the impression
Con News: Snyder Talks Watchmen

Con News: Bianchi talks Astonishing X-Men
Con News: Warren Ellis talks Astonishing X-Men
Con News: Lost Season 4
Con News: Charlie and Daniel Knauf set to write new Etermals ongoing
Con News: Marvel beats DC in softball ... again

Con News: DC Group Therapy
Con News: Steve Niles re-imagines the superhero with The Sinner
Con News: Marvel's Cup of Joe: Phil Jimenez at Marvel
Con News: Phil Jimenez talks going Marvel Exclusive
Con News: The Joker Revealed, First Dark Knight Trailer Online
Con News: DC Universe toys
Con News: Checking in with Image Comics The Founders

Con News: Back into Hell: Jamie Delano returns to John Constantine's world
Con News: Moore takes off with Runaways
Con News: Get Smart News
Con News: Iron Man Footage Shown, Favreau Turns Camera On Audience
Con News: Hear Beowulf Writers Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery

Con News: SDCC DC's Group Therapy

Con News: Fotos expands Frazetta line of comics
Con News: Square-Enix Sets Up Shop At Comic Con
Con News: Mark Waid Named EiC of Boom! Studios
Con News: Listen to the Warner Bros. Panel

Con News: 40 Years of Star Trek Panel
Con News: Feast of Seven Fishes movie
Con News: Astonishing Evolution - Alonso Talks "Astonishing X-Men"
Con News: Warner Bros. Panel Report
Con News: Superman History Offered
Con News: Dark Horse Turns 21, Drinks with MySpace

Con News: United Nations of nerds
Con News: Comic books online?
Con News: Stan Lee Gets Stamp Of Approval At Comic-Con
Con News: Halloween Footage
Con News: Dark Horse + MySpace = MySpace Dark Horse Presents
Con News: SDCC Crossing Over panel
Con News: Comic-Con International Opens
Con News: Watchmen website launches
Con News: Live at Blade Runner
Con News: Lucasfilm presentation at Comic-Con today
Con News: One Fan's Opinion by Eric Larson

Con News: Today's, Saturday's events sold out
Con News: Whiteout Trailer Revealed at Comic-Con

Con News: Comics Continuum Friday Rundown
Photos: Scoop Faces of Comic-Con - Part 1
Photos: Scoop Faces of Comic-Con - Part 2

Looking back on Thursday: UGO updates from the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con!
Looking back on Thursday: Fanboy Planet Day 1 - Taking It To The Limit
Looking back on Thursday: Comixfan CCI 2007 Day 1 report
Looking back on Thursday: CNN offers up its own photo parade
Looking back on Thursday: CNN's look at Comic-Con '07 - Day 1
Looking back on Thursday: CBGxtra San Diego 2007 Day 1 Highlights

San Diego Comic-Con International: Day Three

July 29th, 2007 - Today we're looking back on Saturday in San Diego. This year's Comic-Con plays to a sell-out, packed house as comic royalty and those who ascribe to title geek sheik gather for the convention to end all conventions. It's Comic-Con baby! With this update, we've crossed the half-way point in our coverage. Today we'll cover another 24 period of announcements, breaking news and general comic goodness both here in summary form and our our news page [link].

DC Nation Panel: Everyone is asking, what is Final Crisis? We've seen Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Infinity Crisis and now we're counting down to Final Crisis. DC's littered us with teaser images [link and link to point to just a few], but what does it all mean? It was my hope that the DC Nation Panel would answer those questions or at least hint at an answer. Well, we learned that Grant Morrison is going to write Final Crisis with J.G. Jones (think 52 covers) doing the art. In an odd statement of fact, the panel unveiled that Kamandi will be featured on the last page of the first issue. Beyond that, we're still left to wonder what lays ahead for the 52 earths that now make up the DCU. While they were there, the panel also unveiled the first word on the new Salvation Run mini-series penned by Bill Willingham. It's set to star Flash's fan favorite Rogue's Gallery. You can learn more about the Rogue's Salvation Run here [link] and a little more about Final Crisis here [link] and here [link]. You can learn more about the entire panel at Pulse News [link], Wizard [link] and on Newsarama [link].

WB Unveils New Spidey Toon: Ah it's good to see Spider-Man back on the small screen and this latest rendition shows real promise. Here's one description of the con-exclusive preview footage unveiled today (thanks to CBG whose article is linked below)...

"The footage showed an obviously teenaged Spider-Man swinging through the city on his way to stop a robbery. The footage ends with a few 'off-screen' attacks by an assortment of classic villains. High-tech Dr. Octopus arms were seen creeping up behind the young hero, followed by a Lizard tail swipe and a few screaming pumpkin bombs. Sandman's arm swings and misses, Electro blasts and the Vulture's shadow were next, and the footage ended with the black symbiote oozing across the screen."

The new series is set to hit the Kid's WB in March of 2008. For all the details, please visit Comic Book Resources [link], Wizard Universe [link] and Newsarama [link].

Marvel Ultimate Universe Panel: The panel kicked off with word that Butch Guise is now exclusive to Marvel! Nice move by the house of ideas. During the panel we also learned that there will be an Ultimates interpretation of the Age of Apocalypse (Jeph Loeb at the helm), Ultimate Spidey's going to see the return of Norm Osborne and that Ultimate Power will sson have big implications for the entire Ultimate Universe. Chief among the announcements from the panel was the fact that Ultimates 3 is due to hit stores this December and will have a more fluid line-up than seen previously. A new series (slated for May 2008) titled Ultimatum promises to follow in the footsteps of the primary comics trend of this modern age... it will change everything. Given the fact that the Ultimate Universe really isn't tied to some of the same restrictions as the main Marvel Universe, this series promises to be one to watch. For all the details, please visit Pulse News [link], Wizard [link], Comic Book Resources [link] and Newsarama [link].

In Other News: There was so much taking place today that it's hard to sum it up here. In the space that follows, we're going to touch on the high points then direct you to our news page for all the detailed story links.

In other news today, DC's Vertigo line will take a look at Madame Xanadu, the House of Secrets and the Unknown Soldier among others in a growing line-up of titles. Boom! Studios discussed a host of new projects. During the Image Show, Robert Kirkman unveiled plans to kill many if not all the characters in the Walking Dead by issue #50. This was just one of a host of Image announcements. Marvel's new MMORPG will be set in actual Marvel geography and may allow for time travel missions taking players to key points in Marvel's history. Fans got a look at the highly anticipated Dr. Strange animated film. The 2007 Eisner Awards were handed out. Fans got to see, live and in person, one of the Iron Man suits used in the film (Mark 1). Aspen comic unveiled a new Showcase series highlighting individual characters from the Aspen Universe. Kevin Smith will be writing and directing the first episode of Heroes: Origins. The full pilot of the Bionic Woman series was shown. Angel: After the Fall will pick up right after the last episode of the final season of Angel continuing his television story in comic form. T op Cow Productions showed off anime, comics, statues and even t-shirt projects in the works. Judd Winick will soon take on Titans East for DC and much, much more. We're just touching on things here in a shotgun fashion. For all the details, please visit our news page [link]

News Links for Saturday 7/28/07

San Diego Comic-Con: Day Three

Since we couldn't be there this year, here's all the news from around the web f San Diego Comic-Con or Saturday at San Diego's Comic-Con International

Con News: The Rogue's Salvation Run
Con News: DC Nation: Final Crisis and Salvation Run
Con News: Spidey Swings Onto Kids' WB
Con News: JG Jones Talks Final Crisis
Con News: Butch Guice exclusive to Marvel
Con News: Vertigo: I Am Legend
Con News: Vertigo: Looking over the Ledge
Con News: The Neil Gaiman Panel
Con News: DC Nation Panel
Con News: The Boom! Studios Panel

Con News: Spectacular Spider-Man Peek
Con News: The Image Comics Show
Con News: Spotlight on Roman Dirge

Con News: Spotlight on Ben Templesmith
Con News: More on the DC Nation Panel
Con News: Make Mine a Marvel Video Game
Con News: The Adam Hughes Panel

Con News: Against the Grain: SDCC '07 Edition

Con News: Stan Lee: True Believer Preview
Con News: NBC's Chuck Wows Comic-Con Crowd
Con News: Marvel's Ultimate Universe Panel
Con News: Dr. Strange DVD Reviewed
Con News: Spectacular Spider-Man
Con News: 25 Years of Swords and Cheese Dip with Groo
Con News: The 2007 Eisner Awards
Con News: Guice Goes Exclusive with Marvel
Con News: The Image Show Panel

Con News: The Amazing Spider-Man Squad is official
Con News: Aspen Showcase Announced
Con News: Iron Man Mark 1 Revealed

Con News: Warner Bros. Studios Presents ...
Con News: The Vertigo Panel
Con News: MTV Hangs With Watchmen Director Zack Snyder

Con News: Narnia’ Filmmakers Go The Distance, Plan For Seven Films

Con News: Quinto meets Nimoy at Spock, Watts gives birth

Con News: Rob Zombie and Halloween

Con News: Comic-Con convention celebrates comics, costumes, film, fantasy

Con News: Choices, you've got choices

Con News: Angelina Jolie Nude At Comic-Con For Beowulf

Con News: Gwyneth Paltrow Makes Surprise Appearance for Iron Man

Con News: Comic-Con Interview: Neil Gaiman

Con News: Raw deal for digital comics

Con News: Heroes Panel Report

Con News: Liveblogging the Marvel/Universal Panel

Con News: Hymie The Robot And Agent 13 Will Appear In Get Smart

Con News: 20 Minutes Of Beowulf Screened

Con News: Bionic Woman Debuts at Comic-Con

Con News: Comic books online?

Con News: Ton of NBC Heroes Updates

Con News: The Simpsons come to Comic-Con

Con News: Marvel's Ultimate Universe Panel

Con News: Marvel Ultimate Universe
Con News: Angel: After the Fall
Con News: Guice Goes Exclusive with Marvel
Con News: Chris Gage on the Lion of Rora

Con News: Superhero Squad

Con News: Top Cow Bares It All
Con News: The 2008 Ultimate crossover event that changes everything
Con News: The Ultimate Universe Panel
Con News: George A. Romero's Dead Diary

Con News: Boom! Studios Announces Explosive Plans
Con News: Warner Bros Animation: The Batman and Legion of Super-Heroes
Con News: Iron Man Unveiled! Favreau, Downey, Winston!
Con News: Butch Guice Recounts the Origin of his Exclusive
Con News: The Image Comics Panel
Con News: Green Hornet Not a Comedy
Con News: Green Hornet Update
Con News: The Art of Astonishment: Bianchi Talks Astonishing X-Men
Con News: Loeb and Finch Give Readers an Ultimatum
Con News: Joe Mad Gears Up for Ultimates 3 in December

Con News: Ortega Deals with Warriors and Demons
Con News: DC New Worlds Order Panel
Con News: Boat Show: Paul Dini Interview
Con News: Jeph Loeb Talks Ultimates

Con News: 300 and Blade Runner: The Final Cut -- A DVD Extravaganza
Con News: 30 Days of Night Site Launched
Con News: A Look at the Bionic Woman CC Panel
Con News: Kidwell Enters Frazetta's Dark Kingdom
Con News: At A Place Called Vertigo
Con News: Spider-Man and His Amazing New Creative Team
Con News: Amazing Spider-Man LIVE
Con News: The Mist a Hard R-Rating
Con News: Interview With Sina Grace
Con News: Judd Winick talks Titans East
Con News: Indiana Jones and the Celebration of Popular Arts
Con News: Kevin Smith to Direct Heroes Episode
Con News: The IDW Panel

Con News: The Jokers Attack
Con News: The Incredible Hulk website is live
Con News: CBR Boat Show: The Tour
Con News: The World Premiere of Beowulf Footage

Con News: Heeerrrre's Iron Man
Con News: Warner Animation Part One -- Legion of Super Heroes
Con News: Warner Animation Part Two -- The Batman
Con News: Marvel Studios Panel
Con News: Watch the Indy Comic Con Panel
Con News: Dark Horse Panel at the San Diego Comic Con
Con News: Marvel Spider-Man Panel
Con News: DC Super Heroes, Super Friends and the JLU
Con News: Amazing Spider-Man x3 creators unveiled
Con News: The 2007 Eisner Awards

Con News: Images Comics: The Founders
Con News: Bringing Comics to the Big Screen at Comic-Con
Con News: The Mean Streets of Rucka's Stumptown
Con News: Doctor Who, Speed Race and More at IDW Panel

Con News: New Spidey Creators Roundtable
Con News: Interview With Dabel Brothers' Leviticus Cross
Con News: LionsgateL Jessica Alba in a bathtub and more
Con News: Last Day of Comic-Con Sells Out

Con News: The DC Nation finds Salvation and Crisis

Con News: The Dream King: Neil Gaiman on Beowulf, Stardust and Sandman

Con News: Hasbro Star Wars
Con News: Starz Media: Hatchet and Harryhausen

Con News: Get Your Halo On

Con News: Grant Morrison, JG Jones ignite Final Crisis

Con News: Dan Jurgens: Back on a Tangent

Con News: Legendary Comic Book Heroes

Con News: Monk Dark Mystery

Con News: Indiana Jones
Photos: All the Rage: ATR at SDCC
Photos: Fanboy Planet's Thursday Gallery

Photos: About.com Comic-Con Photo Gallery

Saturday Coverage: Comics Continuum Saturday Rundown
Looking back on Friday: Comics Continuum Friday Rundown
Looking back on Friday: CBGxtra San Diego 2007 Day 2 Highlights

San Diego Comic-Con International: Day Four

July 30th, 2007 - Today we're looking back at Sunday at Comic-Con. San Diego may be a wrap for 2007, but our coverage continues. Today we'll point you to a few straggler story pointers still popping up over on our news page [link]. We'll also see what the bloggers had to say about the con. Later this week, we'll take a look at the G4 television coverage. For now, let's jump right into our Sunday coverage to what was hot at Comic-Con...

DC Big Guns: DC returned with their Big Guns panel, an all question and answer session which was to focus on the trinity of the DCU; Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. Heading up the panel were Paul Dini, Geoff Johns, Mark Verheiden, Bob Shreck, Dustin Nguyen, Ivan Reis, Carlos Pacheco, Matt Idelson, Mike Marts, Grant Morrison, Kurt Busiek and Gail Simone. Some interesting tidbits coming out of the panel include upcoming details on the evolution on Wonder Woman implicating her lasso as one of the "most dangerous weapons in the DCU". Talk of the Teen Titans movie indicated the film will center on the Wolfman/Perez run and Nightwing will be in the film. Here's Kurt Busiek's take on the big three...

"They're the nucleus, everything that happens revolves around them. With characters like the Metal Men, you can have them or not, it's a matter of preference, but they really work best together, they're the core of the Justice League. If Zatara had been a big success in 1938, it would be a very different DC Universe. But with DC, they're a foundation, whereas with Marvel, they have foundations that don't have to do with one another. Spider-Man's not a part of the Avengers, not a part of the Fantastic Four, and the Hulk is somewhere else."

In other discussion, Grant Morrison called Final Crisis the Lord of the Rings for the DCU. This proved to be one of the more detailed though sometime meandering (what Q&A session doesn't meander through) DC panels of Comic-Con. For more on this panel, please visit the coverage on Comic Book Resources [link] and Newsarama [link].

Joss Whedon Panel: Make mine Whedon!! Two amazing announcements for Buffy fans came out of yesterdays Joss Whedon Panel. First, it wasn't a huge surprise that there will be a Season 9 comic to follow the runaway success of the Buffy Season 8 series at Dark Horse. It was revealed though that Oz will play a role in upcoming comics/episodes of the series. That was great news, but wasn't a complete shocker. What was a shocker was the possible return of Ripper, the prequel story of Rupert Giles which may take the form of a 90 minutes Buffy spin-off film for the BBC. Plans are still being ironed out on that front. Whedon will play a part in the new Dark Horse presents series and, as reported previously yesterday, Angel: After the Fall will continue that television series in comic book form. For more on this panel, please visit the coverage on Comic Book Bin [link], Pulse News [link], Wizard [link] and Cinema Blend [link].

Marvel Studios Panel: Might Marvel film goodness as the panel covered the upcoming Hulk film and Iron Man. For the Hulk film, we had producers Gale Anne Hurd and Avi Arad, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, director Louis Leterrier and Liv Tyler (Betty Ross) and Edward Norton (Bruce Banner). On the Iron Man side, we had Avi Arad and Kevin Feige, director Jon Favreau, Terrence Howard (James Rhodes), Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts) and Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark). A star studded panel to say the least. As Norton and Downey Jr. are two of this fans favorite actors in Hollywood today, I couldn't be more pleased with the line-up for these two films.

For the Incredible Hulk presentation, we learned that production is underway. As reported previously, the film will ignore the Ang Lee version of the Hulk and blaze a new trail. Ed Norton actually wrote the screenplay for the film and he was influenced by the Bruce Jones run on Incredible Hulk. Fans of Doc Samson will be pleased to hear that he will be included in the film along with several references to the broader Marvel Universe. Nice!

Over on the Iron Man side of the fence, they unveiled (for the second time so far this weekend) a rough trailer for Iron Man. In the presentation, fans got a better feel for Downey Jr as Tony Stark and saw more of the overall cast. Favreau, in the early sequences presented, bragged about the lack of CGI used in much of the footage explaining the suits actually exist! Stan Lee joined the panel for a time and there was even talk of the Avengers film!

For more on this panel, please visit the coverage on Comic Book Resources [link] and Wizard [link].

X-Men: Endangered Species: Talk about your rough few year for mutants... It appears life is about to get even rougher as the Marvel X-Men Panel shared all the latest details on the X-titles. Here we have a new 12 issues series (X-Man: Emperor Vulcan) focusing on the X-Men left behind in space. There were details on the upcoming Messiah Complex storyline building in a few of the titles and the panel hinted that the X-Men will be more like and army and less like a family when this story is done. It seems, like most sides of the Marvel coin, the X-titles are in a time of upheaval as they tear everything down, do the unexpected and build the books back up from the ashes. Ed Brubaker said it best when he explained, "I feel like Marvel right now is more like Marvel in the '60s when you never knew what would happen month-to-month." Good news for comics and comic readers. For more on this panel, please visit the coverage on Newsarama [link] and Comic Book Resources [link]

In Other News: Running through some of the other items from Sunday rapid-fire style... DC Vertigo announced that John Bolton will be the artist on The Green Woman. The Simpson's panel basked in all the newly released film goodness. The Fables panel gave away a one page Fables story starring Jack of Fables that would never be reprinted. Wildstorm offered fans a glimpse into the future of their titles. Oni celebrated it's 10 year anniversary and discussed upcoming titles. Image unveiled plans for some Jack Kirby / Silver Star, Captain Victory updates. New Harry Potter swag (aka new merchandise) was unveiled. Nicolas Cage and Weston Cage talked Voodoo Child. A Spaceballs Animated series bus offered an artwork preview of the new G4 show and much, much more. We're just touching on things here in a shotgun fashion. For all the details, please visit our news page [link].

News Links for Sunday 7/29/07
San Diego Comic-Con: Day Four

Since we couldn't be there this year, here's all the news from around the web for Sunday at San Diego's Comic-Con International.

Con News: DC Big Guns
Con News: Joss Whedon's panel at San Diego Comic-Con
Con News: Marvel's X-Men Panel
Con News: Post-apocalyptic tale from Dark Horse Comics
Con News: Artist announced for Vertigo's The Green Woman
Con News: Clamp is publishing a new original manga series
Con News: The Simpsons Panel
Con News: DHP Returns with New Joss Whedon Story
Con News: Marvel Studios – Making Marvelous Movies
Con News: Vertigo's Fables Panel
Con News: Video - Cup O' Joe
Con News: Smallville preview of the new season
Con News: DC/Wildstorm gives a glimpse into the future