By Staff Reports VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, announced home media rights for the ACCEL WORLD: INFINITE BURST movie during its official panel event held this past weekend at Anime Central 2018. The film is a sequel to the 2012 ACCEL WORLD animated series, which are […]
By Staff Reports Ready for history to come alive? Experience U.S. history like you’ve never seen it before when the epic docuseries The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen arrives on DVD July 31 from Lionsgate. Executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, this long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning miniseries The Men Who Built America spans the first 75 years of U.S. history […]
By Staff Reports BOOM! Studios is proud to announce HOTEL DARE, an all-new original graphic novel (OGN) written by Terry Blas (Dead Weight) and illustrated by rising talent Claudia Aguirre (Kim&Kim). Arriving in stores April 2019, this world-hopping fantasy follows Olive and her adopted siblings, Darwin and Charlotte, as they spend their summer with their estranged grandma Mama Lupe at […]
By Staff Reports Eric Shanower (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland) will release all-new full-color editions of his acclaimed historical fiction series beginning this September with AGE OF BRONZE, VOL. 1: A THOUSAND SHIPS. Helen runs off with Paris. Agamemnon declares war on Troy. Achilles hides among girls. Odysseus goes mad. And that’s only the beginning. […]
By Staff Reports Orion Classics has relaunched and will focus on multiplatform and specialized releases as well as acquisitions utilizing emerging and innovative alternative distribution strategies worldwide. The label will release between 8-10 films per year across genres starting with Mike P. Nelson’s The Domestics, starring Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush, 21) and Tyler Hoechlin (Everybody Wants Some, “Teen Wolf,” “Super […]
By Staff Reports Universal Pictures, Screenvision Media, a national leader in cinema advertising, and Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, announced today the return of Scarface to movie theatres nationwide, in celebration of its 35th anniversary. Additionally, film fans outside of New York will have the chance to participate in a Tribeca Film Festival retrospective event on the big […]
By Nolan P. Smith Photos by Nolan P. Smith and Jason T. Smith This past weekend, Comic Con Revolution Ontario once again invaded the Ontario Convention Center and had everyone from superheroes to celebrities knowing that the Inland Empire was the place to be for pop culture in May. Expanding from one day to two for 2018, the convention made […]
By Nolan P. Smith In 2016, Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Comics shocked the world when they unleashed the rated-R anti-hero, Deadpool. Starring Ryan Reynolds, the film broke the unwritten superhero rules and held nothing back, becoming an instant hit. Now in 2018, the merc with a mouth is back, but does the sequel fall victim to the sophomore slump? […]
By Staff Reports BOOM! Studios and Saban Brands announced today the final chapters of POWER RANGERS: SHATTERED GRID, available at comic shops in August 2018. It’s the beginning of the end as Power Rangers from across time and space come together for one of the biggest battles in any of their histories. Meanwhile, the Ranger Slayer faces down the one […]
By Nolan P. Smith This weekend, the Inland Empire will see the return of Comic Con Revolution, the comic book and pop culture convention that debuted their Ontario show last year. This year aims to be bigger and better as the show has expanded to two days, running from May 19th-20th at the Ontario Convention Center. At the debut show […]
By Jesse Ramirez Image Comics’ The Gravediggers Union series continues on its enthralling journey of both excellence and wickedness! There are a lot of things that work about this series, and I find that the overall tone and scope of these comics are among the principal points of enjoyment for me. Everything comes together to form a cohesive experience for […]
By Daniel Schwartz Publisher: IDW Writers: David and Scott Tipton Artist: Marcus To If you are a fan of the Star Trek multi-verse, IDW has you covered with great stories from the Prime, Kelvin, and Mirror universes. Through the Mirror is the latest venture into the multi-verse that sends the Next Generation crew on a collision course with their Mirror […]
By Nolan P. Smith What would you do to save the one person that has been there for you since you were a kid? Would you pull off a dangerous heist? Go toe to toe with a man armed with a liquid nitrogen gun? Would you face your crazy ex-husband? If so, then you are a lot like Glory, the […]
By Adrienne Smith This year I had the opportunity to make it out to Seattle for CryptiCon 2018. For those of you who don’t know, it’s the “Largest gathering of fans of the macabre in the Pacific Northwest”! This convention is one of THE ABSOLUTE BEST I have ever attended. There is something for everyone who loves anything from Special […]
By Staff Reports New York Times bestselling writer Rick Remender (DEADLY CLASS, SEVEN TO ETERNITY, LOW, BLACK SCIENCE, FEAR AGENT) and legendary superstar artist Bengal’s high-octane new series—DEATH OR GLORY—is headed at high speed back to print in order to keep up with massive customer demand. In DEATH OR GLORY, readers meet Glory, raised off the grid in a convoy […]
By Staff Reports BOOM! Studios is proud to announce BLACK BADGE #1, beginning a new monthly series reuniting Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins, the Eisner Award-nominated dream team behind Grass Kings, in August 2018. Meet the Black Badges, a top-secret, elite branch of boy scouts tasked by the government to take on covert missions that no adult ever could. Among […]
By Nolan P. Smith One of the most iconic film franchises from the 1980’s has to be the Karate Kid. Seeing a young upstart take on the world with a wise mentor by his side was the ultimate underdog story. When the franchise was rebooted with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, it lost its magic, its sense of belonging. With […]
By Project C28 So the most anticipated Dragonball Super figure this year has finally hit: enter Goku Black. Check out my review of the S.H. Figuarts Goku Black, and let us know your thoughts on it!
By Ralph Simbulan It is through a beheaded horse’s trachea that Barrier #1 begins, a book by Brian K. Vaughn, Marcos Martin, and Munsta Vicente. Originally offered as a digital-only book via Panel Syndicate, the first issue is now available through Image Comics. Given the serious climate of recent days (that kind of “World War” serious), this is fitting. It […]
By Jesse Ramirez This first issue from IDW Publishing, written by Jim Zub and illustrated by Dean Kotz, chronicles a return to Baldur’s Gate by a group of heroes led by Minsc the Mighty and his thirst for justice! The issue strikes me as something a non comic reader would expect from a comic, in a good way! Comics have […]
By Nolan P. Smith This is it, Marvel fans. The film we have been waiting for. The one that unites our heroes from the past ten years of cinematic heroics to combat a threat they have never faced. Enter the turning point in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: enter the Infinity War. This is a spoiler-filled review, if you haven’t seen […]
By Nolan P. Smith As I was going through my local comic shop, trying to catch up on weeks of missed books, I realized that AfterShock Comics’ Her Infernal Descent had been released. I immediately picked it up, as I have been waiting on this book since it was first announced. Let me say right off the bat, I am […]
By Nolan P. Smith It’s the biggest game to come out so far this year, and it’s exceeding all expectations. Santa Monica Studio brought back Kratos in a brand new God of War game for the PlayStation 4. With this art book from Dark Horse, we get to see the detail and beauty that went into making this modern-day epic. […]
By Nolan P. Smith With these last two episodes, we reach the end of the epic miniseries, Ninjak Vs The Valiant Universe. The product of a partnership between Valiant Entertainment and Bat in the Sun, the series spanned six mini-episodes and showed the MI-6 operative Ninjak (Michael Rowe) take on the heroes of the Valiant Universe with the fate of […]
By Kevin Hoskinson One of the latest offerings in the modern Hollywood reboot craze is a Netflix reimagining of the 1965 series Lost in Space. For those unfamiliar with the series, it follows the adventures of the Robinson family, who are, well, lost in space. In the year 2046, an object known as “The Christmas Star” crashes into earth and […]
By Kevin Hoskinson Almost 20 years ago, Super Troopers was released in theaters. The comedy, starring members of the Broken Lizard comedy team, wasn’t initially a hit, but it eventually found its audience when it was released on VHS and DVD, becoming a cult classic. The troopers finally return to theaters this year in Super Troopers 2, a crowd funded […]
By Kevin Hoskinson Even after all these years, the X-Files still knows how to do it. Whether it’s hunting down mysterious monsters, unraveling government cover-ups, or going after aliens, it still knows how to bring humanity and humor into the mix. On those fronts, this first issue of Mulder and Scully’s latest adventure does not disappoint. Agents Dana Scully and […]
By Daniel Schwartz Publisher: BOOM! Studios Writer: Kyle Higgins Artist: Daniele Nicuolo The epic crossover event “Shattered Grid” continues in Power Rangers #26 from BOOM! Studios. A comic event so big Jason David Frank starred in an online trailer as the fallen Ranger Lord Drakkon. Warning: Spoilers for issues 25 and 26 below. Issue 25 (the first in the Shattered […]
By Nolan P. Smith With the next two episodes of NInjak Vs the Valiant Universe now online, we get to see one of the coolest fight scenes in the series and the introduction of a popular supernatural hero. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Thanks to Valiant Entertainment and Bat in the Sun, the Valiant heroes and villains have made […]
By Nolan P. Smith I know, nobody was impressed with the Venom teaser that hit awhile back. But it was just a teaser. This? This is the trailer we wanted. Sony brings the lethal protector to the big screen in an all-new way, with a new Eddie Brock, this time being Tom Hardy. Hardy, no stranger to the world of […]
