By Nolan P. Smith-Pastrami Nation Yeah, you stay over there. Many of us remember the internet sensation known as Homestar Runner. It had the animated shorts, it had games, and it had the amazing Strong Bad emails. Well, now is the time to relive those moments with Homestar Runner, in three minutes. Check out Brock Baker, The Man of a […]
By Jason R. Smith- Pastrami Nation Developer: Crytek Publisher: Microsoft Studios Platform: X-Box One (Victorville, CA)—When Microsoft released their next gen system, the X-Box One, late in 2013, they released games that could show off the power of their new system. One of those games was Ryse-Son of Rome. A game that captured our attention since it was first announced, […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)– Dark Horse Comics is turning pages for the Children’s Cancer Association with its digital comics. The entire Dark Horse Digital collection, which features over three thousand comics, will be made available for CCA’s program. The Children’s Cancer Association partners with six Portland-area health care providers, including Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, […]
By Staff Reports (San Diego, CA)– Rovio Entertainment’s worldwide multimedia sensation Angry Birds™, is the newest property to join the IDW Publishing family! Beginning in June, the playfully fun adventures that took the world by storm will explode onto the page in the boundless world of comics. The immense success of Angry Birds began in2009 when the mobile game debuted. […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Victorville, CA)– I often look to the crowd funding website Kickstarter for amazing new projects, and I have found some gems out there. Book of Da, God Hates Astronauts, Hex, 19XX; and that is only naming a few. Well, I think I found another massive hit waiting in the wings with Icarus. What is […]
By Staff Reports Marvel is pleased to present your first look at X-FORCE #1 – the exciting new series from innovative creative team Si Spurrier and Rock-He Kim! Every sovereign nation in the Marvel Universe makes use of superhumans to protect national interests and pursue a covert national agenda. The stakes are high, and the prizes are intelligence, security, resources […]
By Staff Reports Frequent collaborators Rick Remender (BLACK SCIENCE) and artist Greg Tocchini (Uncanny X-Force, Last Days of American Crime) will bring readers on another high-octane science fiction adventure, this time to the lowest depths of Earth after it has been ravaged by the sun’s radiation. LOW is set in the distant future, after humanity has relocated to radiation-shielded cities […]
By Staff Reports This May, Kyle Higgins (Batman, Nightwing), Alec Siegel (Captain America, Avengers), and Rod Reis (Justice League) take readers back to 1960s Chicago, in a time when the once-celebrated superhero labor union C.O.W.L. struggles to maintain their public image and regain the confidence of the people. A rise in “super powered” individuals dates back to the closing days […]
By Staff Reports What if every 90 years the gods were reincarnated? Coming this 2014, Kieron Gillen (THREE, PHONOGRAM, Young Avengers) and Jamie McKelvie (PHONOGRAM, SUBURBAN GLAMOUR, Young Avengers) team up to infuse new life into the old mythological characters in THE WICKED AND THE DIVINE. The new ongoing series will feature guest creators and surprise arcs with alternate endings […]
By Staff Reports The fan-favorite series TECH JACKET, returns with an all-new three-issue digital miniseries. Written by Joe Keatinge (GLORY, HELL YEAH) and drawn by Khary Randolph (Spider-Man, Hellboy), this miniseries is the perfect introduction to Kirkman and EJ Su’s exciting superhero. “Tech Jacket has always been near and dear to my heart and I’ve been dying to do more […]
By Staff Reports Starting with the new ongoing series THE FADE OUT, Brubaker and Phillips will have complete freedom, creative control, and ownership Ed Brubaker (Batman, Captain America, FATALE, CRIMINAL) and Sean Phillips (FATALE, Sleeper) and Image Comics have signed an unprecedented deal in comics publishing, a five year deal to do anything they want with total freedom, total control, […]
By Staff Reports In 2014, Brandon Graham (PROPHET, ELEPHANTMEN) will team up with four different creators to bring a series of science-fiction/fantasy miniseries set in a world ruled by eight houses to life. The first of the series will be 8HOUSE: KIEM, written by Graham and drawn by Xurxo Penalta and follows a soldier who must project her mind into […]
By Staff Reports Marvel Knights: Hulk and Glory writer Joe Keatinge teams up with artist Leila del Duca for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining urban fantasy and globe-spanning adventure, SHUTTER. Kate Kristopher, once the most famous explorer on Earth—an Earth that’s far more fantastical than the one we know, filled with demons, gorgons, phantom ninjas, […]
By Staff Reports Scott Snyder (Batman, Superman Unchained, SEVERED) and Jock (Batman, Wolverine, SNAPSHOT) will team up for a new, ongoing horror series called WYTCHES. Everything you thought you knew about witches is wrong. They are much darker, and they are much more horrifying. WYTCHES takes the mythology of witches to a far creepier, bone-chilling place than readers have dared […]
Review by Jason R. Smith-Pastrami Nation Writer: Tim Siedel Artist: Gabriel Guzman Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Released: December 2013 Website: www.darkhorse.com The first issue to Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows takes place a few months before and a few months after the events we know as Star Wars: Revenge of The Sith. It is a story […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Victorville)– There is a disturbance in the force. Today, both Disney/Marvel and Dark Horse announced that the Star Wars franchise of comics will be leaving Dark Horse in 2015, and going back to Marvel Comics. This move was anticipated when Disney purchased Marvel, and now we know the official time frame of when it […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (California)– This February, bring home one of the best releases of 2013 with the next chapter for Marvel’s God of Thunder, Thor! Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World arrives on 3D Combo Pack, Single-Disc Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand February 25th and will be available on Digital 3D and Digital HD on February 4th! Bonus […]
By Staff Reports (New York)– This April, the Marvel Universe’s two craziest psychos go toe-to-toe in bombastic DEADPOOL VS. CARNAGE #1 – from blockbuster writer Cullen Bunn and red-hot artist Salva Espin! And you better believe it’s gonna be bloody! Carnage is on the warpath – moving across country, butchering as he goes! The authorities are powerless to stop the […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (California)– AMC revealed the poster for the 2014 return of The Walking Dead today. The poster features Rick Grimes and his son Carl, as well as the line Rick told his son at the end of the mid season finale: Don’t Look Back. The Walking Dead returns with all-new episodes Sun., Feb. 9 at […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (California)– James Avery, the head of the Banks family in the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has passed away at the age of 65. Avery, best known for his role on The Fresh Prince, passed away at a Los Angeles hospital on December 31st, according to reports. His wife was with him at […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Victorville)– Disney and Marvel Studios released new stills of three of the films slated to hit this year: Captain America-The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and Big Hero 6. The photo of Guardians of the Galaxy shows the first official photo of the cast, which to me looks pretty amazing. Check out the […]