GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) If Seattle needs a hero to help its downtown emerge from a pandemic-induced funk, that person might just be wandering around Emerald City Comic Con this weekend. Cosplay is always a big attraction at Comic Con, and Friday was no exception. Emerald City Comic Con runs through Sunday.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 1, 2021

Dark Horse Comics has started Dark Horse Games as its new gaming and digital division. Johnny Lee is running the division. Read More.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

From 1991 to 2014, Dark Horse Comics churned out more than 100 different Star Wars titles. It adapted novels, helped define the Old Republic era, emblazoned much of the universe both before and after the movies, and helped define what used to be called the Expanded Universe. Now it’s going to tackle series’ canon ,… Read more.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 29, 2022

Last year, DC Comics ran its first Round Robin tournament, which wasn’t about an eating contest between Batman’s various sidekicks (although I would definitely read a comic about that). Instead, it was a March Madness-style bracket where DC allowed fans to vote on which six-issue, digital-first series they wanted,… Read more.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 11, 2020

New York Comic Con 2020, meant to take place in October in Manhattan, has been canceled because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Instead, ReedPop will be partnering with YouTube to move the convention online, similar to what San Diego Comic-Con did last… Read more. The stretch of sad (but predictable) convention news continues.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 13, 2021

We just got DC doing its own continuation of the classic 1989 Batman movie in comic form, and now the company’s going a step beyond to cater to fans of the Burton era of the Dark Knight : one of his greatest on-screen nemeses is teaming up with the publisher for a new anthology special. Read more.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The novel coronavirus pandemic has devastated the comic book industry. So it seemed too good to be true that one publisher was not only hiring en masse, it was recruiting new talent. But it could come at a price: the company would keep half of their pay until 90% of Americans were vaccinated against covid-19. Read more.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 12, 2021

José Delgo, a former DC and Marvel comics artist, used to be best known for his run penciling Wonder Woman back in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. Now, he’s probably most famous for making $1.85 million dollars by selling NFTs—or non-fungible tokens —of his drawings online, many of which featured Wonder Woman and other… Read more.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Last year, political cartoonist Matt Bors —founder of The Nib and creator of thousands of comic strips you’ve almost definitely seen online at some point across his 18-year career—shocked the cartooning world by announcing his retirement from the realm of political comics. But now, Bors is ready to return to the… Read more.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 18, 2021

But now, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, the novel is becoming a new comic series. In 2001, Hellboy’s second novel, The Bones of Giants , took us on an adventure of Nordic mythological mayhem, as everyone’s favorite paranormal investigator found himself on the trail of giant’s corpse and a certain mysterious hammer. Read more.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

DC Comics and Fortnite developer Epic Games are joining forces on a new Batman and Fortnite- themed crossover comic book. It seems the Zero Point will play a key role in this comic miniseries, according to this plot summary : A crack splits the sky above Gotham City. a tear in reality itself.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Swedish video game company known as Embracer Group has purchased Dark Horse Comics , the third-largest publisher of American comics behind Marvel and DC. The acquisition was announced earlier today, but don’t expect any major changes to come to the company anytime soon. Apparently, the Embracer Group has… Read more.

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Gizmodo

JULY 17, 2020

And now, Keanu Reevers—movie star, cultural icon , genuinely cool dude—can add “comic book writer” to his enviable resumé. He does dramatic readings. He plays guitar. Hell, we wouldn’t be surprised if he still goes surfing sometimes. Read more.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 21, 2022

When you talk about the all-time most valuable comics, a few instantly come to mind. Superman’s first appearance in 1938's Action Comics #1 , Batman’s first appearance in 1939's Detective Comics #27, and Spider-Man’s first appearance in 1962's Amazing Fantasy #15 are probably the most well-known.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 12, 2021

As long as the original Superman has had counterparts like Steel and, more recently, Final Crisis ’ Calvin Ellis of Earth-23, there have been comics fans who struggled to comprehend—and often pushed back against—the idea of a Black Superman. Read more.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In the buildup to the Fantastic Four’s 60th anniversary this year, the classic team’s actually been alive, well, and prominently featured throughout some of Marvel’s notable comics. Though Marvel could have closed the year out by simply doubling down on boosting the team’s profiles within its core comics universe, the… Read more.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 6, 2022

While it’s not officially a comic, per se, CRC Payne and Starbite’s Batman: Wayne Family Adventure s is currently my favorite DC Comics series. Hell, the publisher’s first WebToon is my favorite Batman anything of the past decade or so. Now, DC will finally follow up the hit series by releasing three new series to the… Read more.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

One area hit hardest overnight was DC Entertainment, with reports of huge swathes of staff at both DC Comics and DC Universe laid off. The merger between AT&T and Time Warner into another monolithic media megacorporation has seen a massive wave of layoffs targeted primarily at Warner Bros. Read more.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When George Pérez announced that he was largely retiring from the comics space back in 2019, the much-acclaimed artist took the time to open up some of the personal reasons behind his decision, understanding that fans were bound to have questions. At the time, Pérez acknowledged how a number of ongoing health… Read more.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The families of iconic Marvel comic book writers and artists Stan Lee , Steve Ditko , Don Heck, Gene Colan, and Don Rico have filed termination of copyright notices on the superheroes they helped create. Marvel—which Disney has owned since 2009 —unsurprisingly, disagrees and has filed lawsuits against all five to keep… Read more.

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Gizmodo

JULY 24, 2021

That life seemingly skipped from 2019 to 2021 in a blink of an eye has been both good and bad for Netflix’s animated adaptation of the classic comic series Bone. On one hand, there’s a very good chance in the past year you may have forgotten this was even a thing. On the other hand, behind the scenes, it allowed… Read more.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Every time the DC Comics universe has gone into Crisis mode, the ramifications have been huge. So it’s genuinely refreshing to find out that Dark Crisis , DC’s next big comic event,… Read more. Crisis on Infinite Earths , Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis —all of them managed to rejigger its continuity in some way.

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APRIL 21, 2021

The Mother of Dragons conquered Westeros ; now, she’s coming for the comics industry. Actor Emilia Clarke —who just recently joined the MCU —has written a new superhero comic for Image. It’s titled M.O.M.: Mother of Madness , and it involves significantly more heroin-addicted raccoons than I would have guessed. Read more.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 1, 2021

Much like 2020 , there’ll be no crush of excited San Diego Comic-Con fans piling into Hall H come July. However, there will be another round of Comic-Con@Home in July. And this is new: SDCC is hoping to hold another, smaller comic convention in November.in-person. Read more.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

San Diego Comic-Con is about to hold its first in-person event since 2019. It’s called Comic-Con Special Edition and it takes place November 26-28 in San Diego, CA—but if you were worried that by not attending you’d be missing on big exciting news, you can breathe easy. Read more.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While 2020 posed more than its fair share of significant challenges for virtually everyone working within the entertainment industry, comics in particular stood as an example of creative teams adapting on the fly—and doing their damndest to keep telling compelling stories at a time when people needed them the most. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 5, 2020

Diamond Comics has held an essential monopoly on the distribution of mainstream comics on the biggest publishers in the industry for decades. And now, in the wake of ongoing differences between Diamond and one of the biggest of those publishers, DC Comics, the two are officially parting ways. Read more.

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Gizmodo

MAY 21, 2021

It’s been quite a while since Netflix first announced it’d be making an anime-inspired adaptation of the action-horror comic Trese at its See What’s Next Asia event in 2018. Honestly, it’s weird that it took the series, created by writer Budjette Tan and artist Kajo Baldisimo, that long to make a development deal… Read more.

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Gizmodo

JULY 23, 2020

Though I can’t imagine the media giants showcasing at San Diego Comic-Con’s online event were worried about copyright violations affecting their panels. It wouldn’t be a virtual event without a few technical difficulties. Considering, you know, they’re the ones that own the copyright. Read more.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 22, 2021

Looks like you won’t need to wait until San Diego Comic-Con ’s spectacularly ill-timed Thanksgiving event to get your in-person con on. ReedPop has officially announced that New York Comic Con will return as a physical event this October, along with several other conventions—as well as a lot of rules in hopes of… Read more.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marvel Comics has had a Punisher problem for quite some time. The murderous vigilante’s skull logo has been appropriated for years by police officers and members of the military services who seemingly admire the character’s ability to act outside of the justice system as judge, jury, and executioner and still… Read more.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 16, 2021

IDW Publishing is a master of bringing two beloved franchises together in comics form. It’s created crossovers between Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , G.I. Joe and Street Fighter, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Doctor Who, and Transformers with. pretty much everybody. Which is why I am shocked— … Read more.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It was a comics event more than 20 years in the making, but most comics fans felt it was worth the wait. Originally approved in 1979, the Justice League/Avengers crossover series never saw the light of day until writer Kurt Busiek and artist George Pérez brought the first issue out in 2003. This Marvel/DC epic has… Read more.

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APRIL 2, 2022

Set your mind back to Marvel Comics in 2015, during their “ All New, All Different Marvel ” period, wherein several legacy heroes were being replaced by younger, more diverse counterparts after the universe-altering events of Secret Wars. While many of those characters managed to make it off the ground, like Riri… Read more.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Pop culture fans missing the chance to geek out in person will have to wait another year, as Emerald City Comic Con announced Tuesday that the Seattle event is now scheduled for Dec. (ECCC Image). “The safety and the well-being of all those that come together for this show will always come first.”

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Here are the pop cultural lowlights of 2021, from across comics, movies, and TV. We discovered some amazing new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror , and we rewatched a few old favorites. But the world of genre entertainment let us down quite a bit, too. Read more.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 15, 2022

New comic books are on the way featuring everyone’s favorite time-traveling rock stars , and this time they’re going back to hell. For any Bill & Ted fans who think it’s bogus the franchise has come to a close, we have some excellent news. Read more.

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