When we found out that Dark Horse Comics Senior Editor Randy Stradley was taking a tour of Lucasfilm and the Skywalker Ranch, we immedietly begged him to let as many of us as possible stowaway in his luggage. He wasn’t down with that (damn airline fees!) but he did snap a few photos for this weeks Star Wars Friday! It’s almost like we’re there! Enjoy!
As promised, we have returned with yet another announcement related to the upcoming relaunch of the legendary Dark Horse Presents! Frank Miller’s new comic series, Xerxes, will storyboard the events leading up to the epic struggle at Thermopylae, the setting of Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s beautifully landscaped graphic novel turned film, 300.
Following up on the announcement made in July at Comic-Con International, Dark Horse and TNT are set to launch the all-new biweekly webcomic series Falling Skies this coming Monday! Not only will this give fans something to tide them over until the highly anticipated TV series debuts in summer 2011, but it also will follow the exclusive twelve-page comic book distributed at New York Comic Con last month!
German technical death metal outfit, War from a Harlots Mouth, is proud to announce the release of their third studio album, MMX, out today on Lifeforce Records. The haunting full-length, which combines elements of tech metal, grind, hardcore, and jazz is available for purchase through the Lifeforce webstore
Abyss Records is proud to announce signing Norwegian nihilists HINSIDES. The band’s recently self released Universe Aspire In Mysticism (limited to 500 copies) is now available exclusively through Abyss Records. HINSIDES has signed to Abyss Records with plans to release their 3rd, as-of-yet-untitled album in late 2011.
If you’ve been following us on Twitter or Facebook, you’ve probably noticed that there’s been a huge outpouring of press in reaction to the shocking conclusion of BATMAN AND ROBIN #16. It all started early yesterday, as THE ASSOCIATED PRESS broke the news that (stop reading now if you haven’t picked up the issue) Bruce Wayne had been secretly funding Batman for years, and would expand his funding and launch BATMAN INCORPORATED in an interview with the man behind it all, writer Grant Morrison. With that, we were off to the races. DC Comics Editor in Chief Bob Harras did a number of interviews, including chats with USA TODAY, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, CNN’s MARQUEE BLOG, TIME TECHLAND, AOL COMICS ALLIANCE,...
Marvel is pleased to announce Doctor Strange: From The Marvel Vault #1, a new story about one of the most important missions of the sorcerer’s career! Written by legendary creator Roger Stern and penciled by artist extraordinaire Neil Vokes, this lost work chronicles the Sorcerer Supreme’s first night in his Greenwich Village brownstone…and his first mystical encounter there!