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So get a sneak peek at 'Birds of Prey' #7 by clicking below, right here, right now!
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Read An Exclusive Preview of 'Birds of Prey' #7!
Posted 3/15/12 5:30 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, DC Comics
Playboy Magazine Exclusively Reveals the Origin of 'The Walking Dead's' Michonne
Posted 3/15/12 5:02 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, Image Comics
Photo Credit: Playboy
"I never should have tried to make it home that day..."
On Friday, March 16, exclusively in the April issue of the legendary and much beloved Playboy Magazine we'll get our first peek into the secret origin of The Walking Dead's elusive Michonne! The tale is written by Dead creator Robert Kirkman and drawn by series regular Charlie Adlard. About the reveal, Kirkman said, “I'm thrilled to share The Walking Dead with the magazine’s readers, especially such an important story like the origin of Michonne.”
The comic will be available on both newsstands and digitally at i.Playboy.com!
Read on for the full press release: Read More...
MAD Magazine Exclusive Preview: Kanye West's Most Ridiculous Tweets!
Posted 4/22/11 1:01 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books
Good ol' Kanye West is a master of the absurd when it comes to Twitter. The always-reliable MAD Magazine has whipped up some of the most ludicrously ridiculous Tweets that the hip-hop superstar "could have" said for its newest issue and were awesome enough to send us an exclusive peek! Be sure to pick up MAD Magazine #509 when it hits on Wednesday, April 27!
Oh, Kanye...these might as well be real...
Exclusive Preview: The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth #10
Posted 4/22/11 11:02 am EST by Eddie Wright in Boom Studios, Comic Books
BOOM! Studios has sent over an exclusive extended preview of Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez's epic, mystical, science fiction saga The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth #10!
From BOOM!:
Claudio cannot deny his prophecy any longer. His team has arrived at Si-Revody, ready to do battle with The Red Army. While Claudio looks for his friend Cecil in this warfare, it may be his companion Al the Killer who is the true menace… From Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez and comics legend Peter David!
Click the image below to read the exclusive preview and grab the whole issue for yourself on April 27th! Read More...
Video Interview: MTV Geek Launches ACT-I-VATE's All-Ages Fantasy 'Farseeker'
Posted 4/21/11 12:00 pm EST by Eddie Wright in ACT-I-VATE, Comic Books, Fantasy
Writer Dirk Manning describes he and Len O'Grady's ACT-I-VATE series, 'Farseeker' as a Bone-esque, all-ages fantasy story featuring an ensemble cast of diverse and exciting characters that is more than your typical sword-and-sandal tale.
It tells the story of a rollicking adventure set in a mystical world featuring eight quirky characters made up of humans and creatures alike. Among the group are Aed Farseeker our "defacto leader," a pair of zany, wise-cracking "Bug Brothers," a possible robot, a Dragoness and others.
Manning and O'Grady waste no time plunging the reader into 'Farseeker's' rich world, "We jump right into the action," Manning said, "the first page, you'll meet the eight characters, one panel each to give you some information on the characters, and then we go, by page four they're fighting a giant living mountain!"
One of the elements of 'Farseeker' that Manning is truly proud of is the fact that series is all-ages friendly, but he does not want potential readers to confuse that with "just for kids."
A Chat With 'Cartoon Boy' Creator John Kerschbaum
Posted 2/10/11 11:32 am EST by Eddie Wright in ACT-I-VATE, Comic Books
John Kerschbaum's Cartoon Boy is an absurdist slice of cartoon craziness. Shirking the standard, one-and-done formula of traditional comic strips, Kerschbaum's series is a continuing tale of a hapless, tie-wearing hero who stumbles through a number of silly adventures featuring mole-men, invisible grandmothers, "stalagfights" and much, much more zaniness. MTV Geek is featuring Kerschbaum's The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour over the course of five weeks. The first three parts are currently available and the next two will roll out over the next two weeks. You can read the first three parts below.
John Kerschbaum took some time to answer a few questions about his influences, his career, his involvement with the indie collection Act-i-Vate and his future plans.
MTV Geek Launches John Kerschbaum's 'The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour'
Posted 1/27/11 7:32 pm EST by Eddie Wright in ACT-I-VATE, Comic Books
An accidentally sexual innuendo-fied game of Cat's Cradle, the disembodied head of Inspector Casaba, a whole lotta holes and trouble with The Mole are just the beginning for John Kerschbaum's hero Cartoon Boy in the Act-i-vate series, The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour.
Kerschbaum's delightfully silly comic strips tell the often random and always absurd tale of Cartoon Boy, a goofy fellow who stumbles from adventure to adventure blissfully unaware of...well anything.
Be sure to check into Cartoon Boy's world every Thursday at Noon EST over the next five weeks. Read More...
IDW Launches Templesmith Comics For The iPad and iPhone
Posted 1/26/11 4:08 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, Digital Comics, IDW
IDW, who was the first company to offer the ability to purchase from storefronts that are within its app has launched a Ben Templesmith-specific app for the iPad and iPhone. The Templesmith Comics app joins IDW's other "in app storefronts" Star Trek, G.I. Joe and Transformers.
The Templesmith Comics app comes with 3 free comics and offers the ability to purchase over 30 titles for either $.99 or $1.99.
Official Press Release:
San Diego, CA (January 26, 2010) – Introducing another great addition to the company’s growing line of digital comics, IDW Publishing is proud to announce Templesmith Comics, a collection of comics by one of the industries most unconventionally brilliant creators, Ben Templesmith. A free storefront application offering in-app purchases, Templesmith Comics is now available exclusively for the Apple iPadTM, iPhone® and iPod touch®. Read More...
Michel Fiffe's Drunken, Dreamlike 'Zegas'
Posted 1/6/11 12:00 pm EST by Eddie Wright in ACT-I-VATE, Comic Books, Digital Comics, Interviews
Michel Fiffe's Act-I-Vate comic, Zegas tells the story of Boston and Emily Zegas, a brother and sister who are quite literally lost in a void-like world. Michel Fiffe's surreal and delicate art and humane dialogue creates a unique and breathtaking environment to tell a deceptively simple story of an optimistic young woman and her nihilistic but sensitive brother.
In Zegas, Boston and Emily, live in strange, seemingly post-apocalyptic, Road Warrior-like desert world that consists of Cronenberg-esque living wishing wells, threatening guards who appear from the ground and lonely bars where potential love blooms alongside the sad-sack regulars who drink away the apocalypse-blues. The humanity and sincerity pulses from every page in Zegas. Fiffe's world is fully realized though yet intentionally unrealized. It's a fragile environment and it's a world that is formed to support the plight, aimlessness, neuroses and uncertainty of the characters. Boston and Emily feel very real as they interact as brothers and sisters often do, with a hearty mix of animosity and admiration. Fiffe has created a real-fake reality and thanks to his ability to create real-real characters, the story pulls you in to a place that, if handled by a different artist could feel cold, and impenetrable.
MTV Geek will be featuring Zegas in its entirety beginning today, January 6th and will continue each Thursday at noon over the next three weeks. Read More...
Celebrate Buffy Turning The Big 3-0 Early With 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Tales'
Posted 1/4/11 6:00 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, Dark Horse
Before he continued his groundbreaking and totally awesome television series in comic book form in "Season 8," Joss Whedon led a brilliant team of talented writers and artists including; Amber Benson, Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard, Gene Colan, Time Sale, Paul Lee and Steve Lieber, in the creation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales.
Dark Horse Comics is now set to release a collection of "Tales" on January 12, 2011 in a 296 page, hardcover edition as well as digitally. This announcement comes just in time for the big celebrations of Buffy's 30th birthday and the end of "Season 8."
Find out more in the official Dark Horse Comics press release:
Before Season Eight, Joss Whedon brought generations of Slayers and vampires to comics with the help of his acclaimed TV writing team and some of the best artists to ever grace the comics page. Now all those stories, plus selected stories from Season Eight, are collected in one deluxe hardcover with a new cover by Jo Chen. Read More...
Marvel Entertainment Promotes Axel Alonso To Editor-In-Chief
Posted 1/4/11 1:30 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Announcements, Comic Books, Marvel
Today, Marvel announced the promotion of Vice President, Executive Editor Axel Alonso to Editor-in-Chief, replacing Joe Quesada, who will stay on as Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment.
Alonso oversaw popular and cutting-edge runs of such acclaimed Marvel titles as Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men, X-Statix and Rawhide Kid. He also shepherded the collaboration between Marvel and ESPN to meld the comic book world with NBA superstars for ESPN Magazine's NBA Preview issue, which we spoke to Axel Alonso about in October.
Quesada will now focus more fully on the development of Marvel Entertainment-oriented film, television, and digital media, as well as publishing. Read More...
John Layman Takes a Bite Out Of 'Chew'
Posted 12/20/10 5:21 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, Image Comics, Interviews
"When I was growing up, in the 80's, everyone wanted to do their Cerebus and not many people pulled it off," Chew creator, John Layman said, referring to Dave Sim's exceptionally long-running, independent fantasy series about an ill-tempered aardvark. "This is the closest thing to my Cerebus, which is a finite series, that if I'm not known for anything else ever, that's fine."
Chew, which is illustrated by Rob Guillory, is set in a world where a bird flu outbreak has caused the government to outlaw chicken, resulting in the F.D.A. wielding a similar amount of power as our real-life, post-9/11 Department of Homeland Read More...
Karl Altstaetter's Multiple Metaphors In 'Me2'
Posted 12/17/10 3:00 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, Interviews, MTV Comics, New York Comic Con
Things are...complicated for Crystal, the main character in Karl Altstaetter's Me2. The future series for MTV Comics tells the story of a girl with multiple, superpowered personalities, each with an agenda of its own. Crystal soon learns not only that the personalities exist, but that they can occasionally leave her body and head out on their own.
According to Altstaetter, when we spoke with him at the 2010 New York Comic Con, the multiple personalities are a metaphor for the identity issues that plague so many teenage girls. "Most of your life is about identity," he said. "Defining your identity through clothes you wear, the music you listen to, and in this case, each one of those identities that she's dealing with internally, manifests itself as a person, so I'm able to play out that drama in a very different way." Read More...
Mezco Donates The Green Hornet Prototype Action Figures to Museum of the Moving Image
Posted 12/16/10 3:15 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Mezco Toyz, Movies, Toys
"Green Hornet" buzz gripped Museum of the Moving Image yesterday as Mezco Toyz donated two action figure prototypes from the upcoming movie to their collection. MTV Geek was there as Mike Drake, Mezco's Director of Special Projects, donated prototypes depicting Green Hornet and Kato from the highly-anticipated film to Dr. Barbara Miller, the museum's Collection Curator.
We chatted with Drake and Miller about the donation, The Green Hornet, and the Museum's "Behind The Screen" collection.
MTV Geek: Tell me about how this donation came about.
Mike Drake: We first began donating to the Museum of the Moving Image around 5 years ago and we've been fans of the Museum of the Moving Image for many, many years. It's a wonderful museum and we love their behind-the-scenes displays, and we saw that though they were doing a lot of licensed toys based on movie properties, they didn't have any prototypes. So we thought: when we're done making a toy we just lock the prototypes in a vault and no one ever sees them. But if we gave them to the museum they'd be enjoyed by thousands of people -- well millions of people. So we contacted the museum and at first they didn't understand what we were talking about! [Laughs] But after trying for a while and going to visit with them, they realized what it was that we were offering them and they've been happily accepting it ever since. And what's interesting is that we're the only toy company that's agreed to provide them with the prototypes for the action figures. Read More...
First Look At Spider-Man's Spider-Armor
Posted 12/14/10 6:48 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Comic Books, First Look, Marvel
We've seen the classic red and blue. We've seen the symbiote-y black. We've seen cloned-out, mutated, futurfied, and more! As we can tell, Spidey likes to change it up. And now we've got a first look at ol' Web-head's newest Spider-Armor debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #656 ! Souped-up suit for a souped-up battle? Heck yes!
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