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Meet celebrities from film and TV at this year’s Planet Comicon in Kansas City

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February 10, 2018

Never been to a comic book or pop culture convention?  Always wanted to go to San Diego Comic-Con but you don’t have the vacation time available or the funds?  Planet Comicon is next weekend in Kansas City and it’s the sixth year of the show at downtown Kansas City’s giant convention center at Bartle Hall.  Planet Comicon is a great way to get a complete three-day convention experience centrally located in the Midwest, ideal for a last-minute road trip for the family or a car full of friends.  Kansas City is less than 8 hours by car from Dallas, less than 7 hours from Minneapolis, a little more than 7 hours from Indianapolis, and a little more than 8 hours from Denver.  And you don’t need to buy advance tickets–you can purchase them at the door.

So why make the trip?  How about meeting Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Firefly star Alan Tudyk?   Also from Firefly, as well as Doctor Who, Supernatural, Chuck, Leverage, Star Trek Voyager (and one of borg.com‘s actors we can’t get enough of), Mark Sheppard?  Want to get a photo with Michael Rooker (“I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!” Yondu) and Pom Klementieff (Mantis), stars of last year’s biggest superhero hit Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2?  Are modern classics your thing?  How about seeing the star of fan-favorite movies like Say Anything, High Fidelity, and Eight Men Out?  Yep, John Cusack is returning to the Midwest for this year’s show (you can even bring your prized Rooker and Cusack Eight Men Out baseball cards for autographs).

Do you want to compare notes on The Walking Dead with stars Khary Payton, Rooker, and  Sonequa Martin-Green (also star of Star Trek Discovery)?  Maybe you’re a Game of Thrones fan.  You can meet both Jerome Flynn and Jason Momoa (also Aquaman in the DC Universe movies).  And speaking of fantasy, Planet Comicon is featuring a rare appearance by Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis, who played the beloved hero Neville Longbottom.  Want to meet the actor who has played the toughest badass characters you’ve ever seen?  Sling TV barista and Machete himself, Danny Trejo will be in the house.

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Batwoman re-takes center stage in DC Comics Rebirth universe

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January 19, 2017

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One of the most popular characters and series to emerge from DC Comics’ New 52 reboot in 2011 was J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman’s Batwoman.  Not only was the series popular, it received critical acclaim for Williams’ gritty storytelling and the stylish and spectacular, ethereal, and surreal artwork by Blackman.  The classic B-level superheroine of the 1950s had been reintroduced as Kate Kane with a new Alex Ross-designed costume in 2006.  In the DC Comics weekly series 52 the character became the most memorable legacy of the series–ex-military, a lesbian, of Jewish descent, with her ex, Renee Montoya, a Gotham police detective—rare constructs for any character in comicdom.  In the best of ironies, the character created to combat accusations of Batman’s sexuality in the 1950s became a symbol of the very thing she was made to deflect.

Beyond the symbolism of the modern character and success as a new iconic character, Williams and Blackman wrote a great Bat-book.  But after several successful months as a New 52 series, editorial decisions and creator ideas crossed streams and the series fizzled out.  Happily for fans of the character, DC is bringing Batwoman onto center stage once again.  Beginning this month in Detective Comics Issue #948 and continuing in February with Issue #949, the two-part “Batwoman Begins” arc forms the prologue for the monthly Rebirth continuity one-shot Batwoman: Rebirth in February and the series Batwoman, beginning in March.

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Writers Marguerite Bennett and James T. Tynion IV are co-writing the initial story with Bennett to take over the series later in the year.  Artwork will be provided by Steve Epting and Ben Oliver.  Jae Lee will be creating a variant cover for the series’ first issue.

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Josie and the Pussycats get new monthly series with plenty of variant covers

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September 21, 2016

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Next week Riverdale’s most famous band is getting back together.

Archie Comics is releasing a new Josie and the Pussycats monthly series.  Much like its release of its hit Betty & Veronica series this summer, Josie & Co. is getting a premiere with plenty of cover variants with works by J. Scott Campbell, Derek Charm, Colleen Coover, Veronica Fish, Francesco Francavilla, Jessica Garvey, Robert Hack with Steve Downer, Gisele Lagace with Shouri, Alitha Martinez with Kelly Fitzpatrick, Wally McNair, Sam Payne, and Marguerite Sauvage.  The standard cover was drawn by Audrey Mok.  Andre Szymanowicz is providing the colors.  Archie Comics will also release a blank sketch cover version.

Marguerite Bennett and Cameron Deordio are scripting the series.

Josie, Valerie, and Melody make their current debut after Afterlife With Archie’s dark look at the band in the haunted parallel universe of that title’s October issue.  Plus, the CW Network has its own new Archie series premiering in only a few weeks–Riverdale stars K.J. Apa as Archie, Cole Sprouse as Jughead, Camila Mendes as Veronica, Lili Reinhart as Betty, Ross Butler as Reggie, Casey Cott as Kevin, and Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom.  And of course, the band is in the series as well, with Josie played by Ashleigh Murray, Valerie is played by Hayleau Law, and Melody is played by Asha Brom.  Luke Perry, Lochlyn Munro, and Madchen Amick will also star in the series.

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While you’re waiting for the TV series, check out these covers to Josie and the Pussycats: 

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Ant Lucia’s megahit DC Comics Bombshells to launch monthly series in July

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May 16, 2015

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Artist Ant Lucia’s stunning cover work for DC Comics featuring his DC Comics 1940s era Bombshells was selected as the borg.com comic book event of 2014 here.  If you missed the gallery of art for that cover run check out a few of them here.  Now DC Comics is going to do it again, but even better, the publisher has announced it is launching a new series featuring Lucia’s characters.  Like Superman and Captain America conquered Hitler in the comic books pages in the real 1940s, this new series has alternate world versions of Batwoman, Wonder Woman and Supergirl, plus many other DC characters, in a World War II-era story.

A new month of variant covers will also take over this August, including at least 21 new covers, many by Ant Lucia, the creator of the DC Comics Bombshells.  New statues are on their way, too, plus some other tie-in products.

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Digital chapters of the DC Comics Bombshells Issue #1 will be available starting in July with the first print collection available August 12, 2015.  Written by Marguerite Bennett and art by Marguerite Sauvage, the full line of Bombshells characters will be introduced as the story unfolds in the months ahead.

“DC Comics Bombshells is one of the wildest things I’ve ever had the pleasure to create–a story of the DC heroines, all the DC heroines, in a crisis that defines themselves as well as their generation,” said series writer Marguerite Bennett. “The series will explore war stories, romances, mysteries, heists, action adventure, and horror in a way that only these characters could do.”

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Artist Marguerite Sauvage will provide interior artwork for the monthly. “I spent a lot of time searching for references to be as accurate as possible to the story and habits of this time period, but keeping in mind it’s a parallel universe, so I can take some freedom on details,” she said in the press release announcing the series yesterday.

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DC Collectibles is adding DC Comics’ Cheetah and Killer Frost characters to the Bombshells line.  Designed by Ant Lucia and sculpted by Sam Greenwell and Tim Miller respectively, these new statues will hit stores in Spring 2016.  Also look for apparel and accessories from Bioworld, collectible buttons from Diamond Comics, stylized posters from Quantum Mechanix, stickers from At-a-Boy, and PVC figures from Cryptozoic.  DC Universe Online can also expect to see playable Bombshells Legends characters, in addition to a unique new Episode.

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We’ve collected a sneak peek at all 21 cover variants coming in August, shown above and below.  Look for them in Aquaman #43, Flash #43, Justice League of America #3, New Suicide Squad #11, Batman/Superman #23, Grayson #11, Secret Six #5, Superman #43, Green Lantern #43, and Harley Quinn #19. 

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Preview–BOOM! Studios releases new Sleepy Hollow tie-in series

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October 15, 2014

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Sleepy Hollow is one of the best returning series of the fall TV line-up.  Fox has it bundled with the new series Gotham on Monday nights, giving the other networks some real competition.  Created by Star Trek talents Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Sleepy Hollow expands Washington Irving’s story into a modern supernatural mystery-adventure.

Tom Mison is Ichabod Crane, who finds himself in the town of Sleepy Hollow more than 200 years after his death.  He partners with a local police lieutenant, Abbie Mills, played by Nicole Beharie.  In its second season, Crane’s wife Katrina (Katia Winter) has been kidnapped by the Headless Horseman, and Crane’s son turns out to be a psychopath, played by John Noble (Lord of the Rings, Fringe).

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Sleepy Hollow is great Halloween season TV watching, and it now has a new comic book tie-in series arriving at comic book stores today.  We have a preview of Issue #1 after the break, courtesy of BOOM! Studios.

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Previews–New Big Trouble, RoboCop this week and Sleepy Hollow coming soon

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July 1, 2014

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One independent comic book publisher drew our attention this week more than the others.  BOOM! Comics has two new comic issues out tomorrow for sequel stories to classic films–Big Trouble in Little China and RoboCop–and it made an announcement about a new series coming our way based on the television show Sleepy Hollow.  We’ve got previews of Big Trouble and RoboCop after the break and first images from Sleepy Hollow.

John Carpenter and BOOM! Comics’ Big Trouble in Little China monthly is so much fun you’ve got to be adding it to your pull list at your local comic book store.  Following the adventures of Jack Burton after the events of the original 1980s film, it’s a sequel that might as well be titled “The Sequel” with the same spirit, humor, and visuals as the original.  Big Trouble is co-written by the great John Carpenter with Eric Powell and art by Brian Churilla of (the awesome) The Secret History of D.B. Cooper fame.

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The other sequel-that-might-as-well-just-be-called-a-sequel is BOOM!’s new RoboCop series.  Written by Joshua Williamson with art by Carlos Magno, the new series is far different from other recent RoboCop monthlies including Frank Miller’s version, and will be a welcome relief for fans of the classic movie who couldn’t or wouldn’t check out the reboot.  That means look for plenty of the ugliest view of Detroit you’ve ever seen, lots of violence, crime, and over-the-top bullets flying.  Too bad all the big baddies were killed in the original movie as they’d feel right at home here.

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