I should have done one of these yesterday, but I didn’t and now I’m paying for it. So this one is going to be extra long. In this addition: a Pop Candy meet-up, Entertainment Weekly’s awesome panel schedule, Dark Horse signing schedule with extra Whedon, Electronic Arts, 007, Michael Golden, the BBC, free WiFi, Knight Rider and much more!
As always, you can send me your con activities any time between now and when it starts, and I’ll post them here.
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The Comic-Con website says the show will offer free WiFi this year, sponsored by the movie Eagle Eye:
Free Wi-Fi at Comic-Con!
Dreamworks Pictures’ Eagle Eye, starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan, is proud to be the official sponsor of Comic-Con Free Wi-Fi. Be sure to see Eagle Eye, in theaters September 26th.Free Wi-Fi is available in all areas of the Convention Center except the Exhibit Hall.
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Whitney Matheson at USA Today’s Pop Candy blog is hosting a meetup in San Diego on the Saturday of the con. You can find more details on the meetup — as well as the really sweet promotional artwork Keith Simmons painted (pictured above — over on Pop Candy.
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Dark Horse Comics sent over their signing and panel schedule, which includes several ticketed events with Mike Mignola, Joss Whedon, Gerard Way and more:
Dark Horse Comics – Booth #2615
2008 Signing Schedule!WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 (Preview Night)
Domo raffle! Come to our booth to win one of our San Diego Exclusive Domo Figures!
THURSDAY, JULY 24:
11:00 – 12:00 Rick Geary: The Adventures of Blanche
12:00 - 1:00 Joshua Dysart: B.P.R.D., Conan and the Midnight God
12:00 – 1:00 Bernie Wrightson: Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein
1:00 - 2:00 Gabriel Ba & Fabio Moon: Umbrella Academy, Myspace Dark Horse Presents
2:00 – 3:00 Nathan Fox: Pigeons From Hell
2:00 - 3:00 Dean Motter: Mister X
3:00 – 4:00 Greg “Stainboy” Reinel: Vicious Intent
3:00 – 4:00 Gilbert Hernandez: Speak of the Devil
4:00 - 5:00 Jim Hardison: The Helm
5:00 – 6:00 Eric Powell: The Goon
FRIDAY, JULY 25:
11:00 - 12:00 Matt Wagner: Grendel
11:00 – 12:00 Mike Kennedy: Aliens Vs. Predator
12:00 – 1:00 Jim Hardison: The Helm
12:00 - 1:30 Yoshitaka Amano: Vampire Hunter D; Shinjuku (*ticketed event: See Dark Horse employee for details)
1:00 – 2:00 Scrambled Ink: Dreamworks Animators – Ken Morrissey, JJ Villard, Ennio Torresan, David Pimental, Keith Baxter, Jenny Lerew
2:00 – 3:00 Mike Mignola: Hellboy (*ticketed event: See Dark Horse employee for details)
3:00 – 4:30 Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: Joss Whedon, Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day (*ticketed event: See Dark Horse employee for details)
5:00 – 6:00 Yasuhiro Nightow: Trigun (*ticketed event: See Dark Horse employee for details)
6:00 – 7:00 David Lloyd: Kickback
ALSO, FRIDAY, JULY 25TH IS STAR WARS DAY! STAR WARS CREATOR SIGNINGS ALL AFTERNOON:
1:00 – 2:00 Travis Charest: Star Wars cover artist
2:00 - 3:00 Matt & Shawn Fillbach: Star Wars – The Clone Wars
3:00 - 4:00 Jeremy Barlow & Dan Parsons: Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
4:00 – 5:00 Dustin Weaver: Star Wars: Rebellion, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
4:00 - 5:00 Travis Charest: Star Wars Legacy
5:00 – 6:00 Dustin Weaver & Michael Atiyeh: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
6:00 – 7:00 Dave Filoni & Henry Gilroy: Star Wars: Clone Wars
SATURDAY, JULY 26:
10:00 - 11:00 Stan Sakai: Usagi Yojimbo
11:00 – 12:00 Larry Marder: Beanworld
11:00 – 12:00 David Malki: Wondermark
12:00 – 1:00 Nicholas Gurewitch: Perry Bible Fellowship
1:30 – 3:00 Bruce Campbell: My Name Is Bruce (*ticketed event, see Dark Horse employee for details.)
3:00 – 4:00 John Landis: Groundbreaking filmmaker
4:00 - 5:30 Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba: Umbrella Academy (*ticketed event, see Dark Horse employee for details.)
6:00 - 7:00 Bryan Talbot: Celebrating 30 years of Luther Arkwright!
6:00 – 7:00 Matt & Shawn Fillbach: Roadkill
SUNDAY, JULY 27:
11:00 – 12:00 Emily The Strange: Creative team Rob Reger, Buzz Parker, Nix Turner, Jessica Gruener
12:00 - 1:00 Yasuhiro Nightow: Trigun (*ticketed event: See Dark Horse employee for details)
1:00 – 2:00 Steve Niles: Criminal Macabre
1:00 – 2:00 Tara McPherson: Lonely Heart
1:00 – 2:00 Frank Kozik: Plasticland
2:00 – 3:00 Eric Powell: The Goon
2:00 – 3:00 Greg “Stainboy” Reinel: Vicious Intent
2:00 – 3:00 Rich Black: Futura
3:00 – 4:00 Keith Knight: K Chronicles
ALSO, Weta WILL HAVE SIGNINGS ALL WEEKEND!
Martin Baynton – Jane & the Dragon, Richard Taylor/Paul Tobin – Crafting of Narnia, Greg Broadmore – Dr. Grordbort’s Dingus Directory
*See a Weta employee for details!
And check out these Dark Horse Related Panels and Events!
THURSDAY JULY 24
Robert E. Howard Panel
1:30 – 2:30 Room 3Dark Horse Horror Panel
4:00 – 5:00 Room 2FRIDAY JULY 25
Joss Whedon Panel
1:30 – 2:30 Ballroom 20Larry Marder’s Beanworld Panel
6:00 – 7:00 Room 2Eric Powell’s Goon Panel
6:30 – 7:30 Room 30ABFree Premiere! Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: Join Joss Whedon and the cast for the big screen premiere!
10:45 PM – Rooom 6BSATURDAY JULY 26
Mike Mignola’s Hellboy Panel
11:00 – 12:00 Room 8The Dark Horse Publishing Panel (Featuring a surprise guest!)
12:00 – 1:00 Room 2Gerard Way with Grant Morrison
2:15 – 3:15 Room 6BSUNDAY JULY 27
Emily the Strange Panel
12:30 – 1:30 Room 2
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Entertainment Weekly has several panels they’re sponsoring, as well as a special issue of their magazine dedicated to the con. Their press release:
Entertainment Weekly is preparing to invade Comic-Con this year with a fully-loaded arsenal: a three-part series of star-studded panels, a photo and interview studio and an exclusive Comic-Con event co-hosted by SCI FI. In addition, Entertainment Weekly is publishing its inaugural Comic-Con preview package jam-packed with exclusive first looks at highly anticipated TV shows, comic books, video games and movies such as Watchmen, which will be featured on the cover of this special issue. Set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, Watchmen follows the story of Rorschach (played by Jackie Earle Haley) and his investigation into the murder of an ex-superhero. The movie, which will be distributed by Warner Brothers in 2009, is an adaptation of Alan Moore’s comic book series, and stars Haley, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino and Patrick Wilson.
Also new this year is the three-part panel series called “Entertainment Weekly Presents: The Visionaries,” which will bring together some of the best and brightest creators in comics, television and movies to openly discuss the work that’s being done in their respective fields. Footage from each of these panels will be available on EW.com. The first of these panels will be the Comic Creators Visionary panel, moderated by Entertainment Weekly staff editor Nisha Gopalan. It will feature writers and artists who are blazing a path into the future of comics including Jim Lee (All-Star Batman & Robin), John Cassaday (The Astonishing X-Men), Matt Fraction (Casanova), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil) and Grant Morrison (Final Crisis). Coming from both the mainstream and the independent worlds, these men and women will provide unique insights into the comics landscape. This panel will take place at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 24.
Next up, Entertainment Weekly’s senior writer and resident Lost expert, Jeffrey “Doc” Jensen, will moderate a TV Showrunners Visionary panel featuring producers who are changing the face of television with deeply immersive entertainment marked by cutting-edge storytelling. They are Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (Lost), Josh Schwartz (Chuck, Gossip Girl), Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) and Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles). These showrunners have been at the forefront of bringing “genre programming” or “cult TV” to the mainstream and will have a candid conversation about creative integrity in a commercial medium and the future of broadcast TV in a digital world. Spoiler alert—upcoming plot developments may be teased! The TV Showrunners panel will be at 1:45 p.m. on Friday, July 25.
To close out the series, senior editor Marc Bernardin from Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, will moderate a Filmmakers Visionary panel featuring Kevin Smith (Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Clerks), Frank Miller (The Spirit, Sin City), Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300) and Judd Apatow (Pineapple Express, The 40-Year-Old Virgin). These filmmakers are redefining what it means to have power in Hollywood because their power is derived from both delivering high-profile entertainment to a hungry mainstream audience and by cultivating a rabid, pseudo-religious fan following. They will engage in a freewheeling conversation on the movie business, their upcoming projects and what it means to them to be a geek. This panel will take place at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, July 25.
On Saturday, July 26, Entertainment Weekly and SCI FI will partner again for the second year in a row to celebrate all things pop culture at Comic-Con 2008 with an exclusive event on the roof deck of Hotel Solamar. Comic book masters, industry insiders and Hollywood elite will enjoy a night of revelry under the stars with great music, food, cocktails and spectacular views of downtown San Diego .
In addition to these events, Entertainment Weekly’s inaugural Comic-Con issue will be packed full of first looks at highly anticipated movies such as Watchmen, Star Trek and Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, as well as exclusives from more upcoming movies, TV shows, games and comic books including Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, Chuck, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Friday the 13th, The Day the Earth Stood Still, DC Universe Online, Land of the Lost, Fringe, Max Payne, RocknRolla, Drag Me to Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. III): Century, The Spirit and Ender’s Game. 17,000 complimentary copies of this special issue will be handed out to Comic-Con visitors in Warner Brothers’ goody bags and at the Warner Brothers booth in honor of the Watchmen cover. Guests at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, Hotel Solamar and The Ivy will also receive copies of EW’s special Comic-Con 2008 issue.
To satisfy Entertainment Weekly readers’ bottomless appetite for fresh Comic-Con content, EW.com will ramp up its online coverage of the event this year by providing constant online blog updates, video interviews, exclusive first looks and exclusive image galleries from the EW Photo Studio at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego.
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NBC will have a new version of KITT from their upcoming Knight Rider series at the show:
WHAT: Comic-Con International 2008 fans will be the first to see exclusive footage from NBC’s new series “Knight Rider.” Fans will also get the chance to watch the filming and unveiling of the new KITT “Attack” car. Debuting this Fall on September 24th on Wednesdays at 8-9 p.m. ET, “Knight Rider” has been reinvented as a super-charged action series showcasing the new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand).
WHO: Moderated by Television Week deputy editor/columnist Joe Adalian, fans can also participate in a Q&A panel with executive producer/showrunner Gary Scott Thompson (The Fast and The Furious, Las Vegas); executive producer David Bartis (Heist, The OC); and the entire cast - Justin Bruening (All My Children, Cold Case), Deanna Russo (The Young and the Restless, NCIS), Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Veronica Mars), Paul Campbell (Battlestar Galactica), Yancey Arias (Kingpin), Bruce Davison (X-Men), and Smith Cho (Blades of Glory).
On the following day, there will be an unveiling of the newly remodeled KITT “Attack” car with Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo and Gary Scott Thompson on 5th Avenue and L Street (near The Tin Fish restaurant). Please note that the unveiling will be filmed for online and DVD purposes so space is limited.
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Thursday, July 24th
–11:45 – 12:45 PM Screening/Q&A in Room 6A
Friday, July 25th
–11:00 – 12:00 PM “Attack” KITT Reveal with Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo and Gary Scott Thompson on 5th Avenue and L Street (near The Tin Fish restaurant)
–12:00 – 3:00 PM Photo Opportunity with “Attack” KITT
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Michael Golden will have a sketchbook on sale at the con:
San Diego, CA — The long awaited “Michael Golden: Heroes & Villains Sketchbook” from award-winning creator and artist Michael Golden will indeed be debuting at this year’s San Diego Comic Con! AND Golden will be on hand at the West Coast show to sign ‘em all!
The new sketchbook features an array of Golden pencils, preliminaries and finished compositions, serving as a must have package for collectors of his trendsetting heroic pieces, while also sneaking in some of his favorite machinery-heavy works, army characters, action shots, and yes, of course, a few villains to boot.
Known as one of the masters of sequential art storytelling, Golden is the co-creator of X-Men’s Rogue character, as well as “Spartan X”–due out in a trade next year, and “Bucky O’Hare”–which has just been optioned for a movie via Neal Adam’s Continuity Studios.
A plethera of retrospectives on Golden have recently hit the shelves with the “Modern Masters: Michael Golden” tradepaperback; the “Modern Masters In the Studio with Michael Golden” DVD; the upcoming “Creator Chronicles: Michael Golden” DVD and tutorial from Woodcrest Productions; and the best-selling “Excess: The Art of Michael Golden” from Vanguard Productions, which has sold out! The Second printing, in fact, will debut at SDCC as well at the Vanguard Booth, featuring a new eye-popping, sexy Vampirella cover!
To commemorate all of this activity, Golden will be on the TwoMorrows panel Thursday, and will also be signing at the Vanguard booth on Sunday. Check your SDCC schedule, the NFR booth #4601, or the Vanguard Booth for times and details.
So get in on the excitement! The new sketchbook, “Heroes & Villains,” will be signed by the popular creator while supplies last. Hardcover, Color, 48 pages, introduction by Michael Eury and bio text by Renee Witterstaetter, the book is limited to 1,000 copies. It’s also available in two versions: Signed and Numbered for $40; Or the Sketch Version for $100.
Golden will be located at the Naked Fat Rave booth, #4601, to sign his new sketchbook as well as the NFR 2008 Group Portfolio ($65). He will be appearing all days fo the convention along with other stellar comic talents Matt Wagner, Dave Johnson, Art Adams, Joyce Chin, Renee Witterstaetter, J. Scott Campbell, Jim Lee (at the annex), Bruce Timm, Tim Sale, and Amanda Conner, making NFR a true must-go-to SDCC destination!
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The BBC says they’ll have their biggest prescence ever at the con, along with guests like Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg:
The BBC is coming to Comic-Con 2008 with its first ever BBC AMERICA booth plus an army of creators and stars from international hit series Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval and Spaced. The booth on the exhibition floor will promote BBC Video, associated merchandise as well as BBC AMERICA’s Supernatural Saturdays, home of Doctor Who, Torchwood and Primeval.
To mark the event, BBC AMERICA has launched an exclusive website with up-to-date information on ticket giveaways for signings, live video updates from the floor and exclusive interviews with the stars – www.bbcamerica.com/comiccon
Thursday, July 26 kicks things off with a panel featuring Britain’s most successful sci-fi franchise. The Doctor Who panel includes the BAFTA winning executive producer and lead writer Steven Moffat and executive producer Julie Gardner. It is followed by a Torchwood panel – BBC AMERICA’s highest rated television show ever - with actors John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd and Naoko Mori and executive producer Julie Gardner.
Friday, July 27 sees a panel for the clever and edgy comedy Spaced with creator-stars Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), Jessica Hynes (Shaun of the Dead, Son of Rambow), and director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). The panel will be moderated by Drew ‘Moriarty’ McWeeny, West Coast editor of Ain’t It Cool News. Created for fanboys and fangirls, Spaced will be available for the first time in North America in a DVD set on July 22 and on sale at the BBC booth. Later that evening, there will be a special screening of three episodes as chosen by the fans, log on to www.spacedinvasion.com to get involved.
BBC AMERICA’s newest sci-fi hit, Primeval, will also be represented with a panel on Friday, July 27 featuring actors Douglas Henshall, Juliet Aubrey and Karl Theobald discussing their onscreen battle to save humanity from prehistoric creatures invading the present day world.
The Doctor Who, Torchwood and Primeval panels will be moderated by Los Angeles Times writer Geoff Boucher. Boucher, who has written about Hollywood and the music industry for a decade for the Times, is also the lead blogger on Hero Complex (www.latimes.com/herocomplex) which has insider coverage of genre films, graphic novels, science fiction and all the other heroic pursuits in pop culture.
BBC AMERICA’s booth (#3629) on the exhibition floor will host various signings on Thursday and Friday related to all four programs. Fans will be able to purchase DVD sets from BBC Video and merchandise from a range of licensees – see booth numbers below.
Official BBC AMERICA Comic-Con Panel and Signing Schedule
Thursday, July 24
10:00-11:00am Doctor Who: Executive Producer and lead writer Steven Moffat signing at the BBC AMERICA booth (#3629).
12:00-1:00pm Doctor Who: Executive Producer and lead writer Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Executive Producer Julie Gardner (Torchwood) discuss their creative process and experience on working on the BBC’s Doctor Who - Britain’s most successful sci-fi franchise - with exclusive clips and a Q&A session. Ballroom 20
1:00-2:00pm Torchwood: Join Executive Producer Julie Gardner (Torchwood), actors John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd and Naoko Mori to discuss their creative process and experience on working on BBC AMERICA’s highest rated show ever – Torchwood – followed by a Q&A session. Ballroom 20
2:00-3:00pm Doctor Who/Torchwood: Executive Producer and lead writer Steven Moffat, Executive Producer Julie Gardner and Actor Naoko Mori official Comic-Con signing. Autograph Area 2.
4:00-5:00pm Torchwood: Actor Naoko Mori signing at the BBC AMERICA booth (#3629).
Friday, July 25
12:30-1:15pm Spaced: Join Actor/Creator Jessica Hynes (Shaun of the Dead), Actor/Creator Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) and Director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz) as they recall the clever and edgy comedy series that started it all for the award-winning team behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz followed by a Q&A session. Room 6A
1:15-3:00pm Spaced: Actor/Creator Jessica Hynes, Actor/Creator Simon Pegg and Director Edgar Wright official Comic-Con signing. Autograph Area 6.
1:15-2:00pm Primeval: Join Actor Douglas Henshall to hear firsthand about his leading role in BBC AMERICA’s all-new U.S. premiere sci-fi series along with Actors Juliet Aubrey and Karl Theobald. When evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter (Henshall) discovers prehistoric creatures alive and well in the present day, the natural world is turned on its head and humanity faces a threat to its very existence. Followed by a Q&A session. Room 6A
2:00-3:00pm Primeval: Actors Douglas Henshall, Juliet Aubrey and Karl Theobald official Comic-Con signing. Autograph Area 3.
10:15-11.45pm Spaced: To close the day, Simon, Jessica and Edgar are asking fans to pick three episodes for a special Comic-Con screening event in Room 6A. Log on now to spacedinvasion.com to cast your vote.
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Alan Porter will be on hand to sign copies of his new 007 book:
‘James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007′ Preview At Comic-Con
Meet author Alan J. Porter and view advanced copies of the forthcoming book at HERMES PRESS (Booth #506) on FRIDAY JULY 25th from 2:00 to 3:00pm.
Now for the first time, the complete history of the illustrated James Bond is chronicled by pop culture historian Alan J. Porter in James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007. Porter’s new book examines James Bond’s adventures in newspaper strips and comic books. Before Bond became world famous with his movie series, the character was the subject of successful English newspaper strips and later in comic books. With the explosion of Bond on the screen the character and his exploits become even more popular in comic strip and comic book versions all over the world. James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007 examines it all, and covers Bond’s newspaper strip and comic book appearances from the 1950s to the present.
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Cartoon Network is launching their own MMORG — one of those big multiplayer role-playing games like Worlds of Warcraft — and will show it off at the con:
This fall, Cartoon Network will be launching its most exciting online game yet, Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall. Geared toward kids ages 8-14, it features popular Cartoon Network characters from Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Ed, Edd n Eddy and more.
Members of the FusionFall team will be at Booth #3645 showing off the latest version of the game. Community Director Richard Weil and other members of the FusionFall team representing Customer Support, Engineering and Marketing will be at the booth for questions and interviews.
MMOGs for kids have been an emerging trend and we’d love for you to see and play FusionFall before it launches!
FusionFall is a AAA MMOG set in a re-imagined, futuristic Cartoon Network universe. After creating a custom cartoon avatar, players team up with buddies and their favorite Cartoon Network characters to visit more than 60 different playable areas to defend the universe from an alien invasion of epic proportions.
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Jim Steranko will be at the Radical Comics booth:
July11th, 2008, LOS ANGELES – With the recent addition of Yoshitaka Amano to their signing schedule, Radical Publishing is now extremely proud to announce that award winning comic book writer-artist-historian, graphic artist, publisher and film production illustrator Jim Steranko will be at the San Diego Comic-Con 2008, exclusively for Radical Publishing. In addition to signing both Friday and Saturday, Jim Steranko will also be part of the Radical Publishing Comic-Con panel on Friday, July 25th from 2:30 P.M. to 3:30 P.M. in Room 10.
“I don’t think it gets any bigger than having Jim Steranko along with Yoshitaka Amano on board for Comic-Con 2008” states Radical Publishing’s President and Publisher, Barry Levine. “I’m also excited over the fact that Steranko is part of our Comic-Con panel, and I greatly encourage everyone to attend. We are going to have some big announcements during Comic-Con week in addition to our FREE raffle and soon to be released signing schedule. “
In addition to providing covers for issue #1 and #2 of Hercules: The Thracian Wars, Steranko also designed the Hercules character and provided the title logo. Besides signing issue #1’s and #2’s, Radical is providing a special sketch cover of Hercules: The Thracian Wars #1 which is limited to 500 copies, a limited edition Hercules t-shirt, and a large poster size print of his cover for Hercules issue #1.
“I’ve been fortunate over the years to have worked for many publishers and been in a position to pick and choose,” says Jim Steranko. “My prime criterion is quality, for which there is no substitute, and that’s one of the key aspects that impressed me about Radical’s production, and then, there’s the material. When they revealed their plan to reinvision Hercules, the quintessential hero, I knew they had to generate a treatment that breathed new life into the character—and that treatment was delivered by Steve Moore. It’s an extraordinary moment in comics history and I’m pleased to have played a small part in it.”
Jim Steranko will be signing on Friday, July 25th and Saturday, July 26th at the Radical Publishing booth.
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Hasbro has a sketchbook they’ll be offering at the con:
Per Hasbro, “the book is an amazing collection of works from designers here at Hasbro. 80 pages of design, sketches and concept art.”
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And finally, Electronic Arts will be showing off some of their upcoming games at their booth. I dug the first Mercenaries, so I’ll be checking out the sequel:
Games to include:
* Battleforge: Build the perfect army and lay waste to your foes in an amazing new fantasy RTS. Combining strategic cooperative battles, the community of MMO games, and trading card gameplay, BattleForge is set to take the RTS world by storm.
* Battlefield Heroes: An all-new Play 4 Free cartoon-style shooter that brings classic Battlefield gameplay to an all new mass audience. It is easy to pick up and play but with robust character customization and a deep online meta-game, gamers can spend hours building up their characters and conquering the world.
* Crysis Warhead: The follow up to the Best PC game of 2007, Crysis Warhead is a parallel story that takes players through the fierce battles of Psycho, one of the most memorable characters from Crysis.
* Dead Space: Play through the story of engineer Isaac Clarke, in EA’s brand new third-person survival horror game.
* Dragon Age: BioWare’s next gen dark heroic fantasy masterpiece!
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Play Quidditch, duel, mix potions, solve puzzles, cast spells with Wii remote.
* Lord of the Rings: Conquest: From Pandemic Studios, the creators behind the best-selling Star Wars Battlefront™ and Star Wars Battlefront™ II – grab your blade, bow or staff and ride onto the battlegrounds of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world to fight for either good or evil.
* Mercanaries 2: An explosive open-world action game set in a massive, highly reactive, war-torn Venezuela .
* Mirror’s Edge: A unique first-person action adventure that delivers players straight into the shoes of a modern day heroine, Faith, as she traverses vertigo-inducing cityscape, engages in intense combat, fast-paced chases and challenging puzzles. With a never-before-seen sense of movement and perspective, players are drawn into Faith’s world.
* Warhammer: Based on Games Workshop’s popular Warhammer® fantasy war game, WAR features next generation Realm vs. Realm™ (RvR) game play that will immerse players in a world of perpetual conflict for years to come.EA will be at Booth #5223 (far left of the Convention Center)
Hours: 9:30AM - 7PM
